Brandi Gruninger

M.C., Registered Psychologist

Brandi is the owner and director of Evolution Psychology, is a registered psychologist, and specializes in adolescent and women's issues. Brandi has twenty years' experience in the field and works from a primarily cognitive-behavioural (CBT) perspective to help clients modify their self-defeating thoughts to adapt to stressful environments, childhood trauma, or anxiety and depression symptoms. She utilizes Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) interventions for emotional distress and Eye Movement Desensitizing and Reprocessing (EMDR) for trauma.

She also specializes in helping clients recover from abusive relationships, disordered eating, and a negative body image using a CBT and Feminist perspective. Brandi enjoys working with adults and also specializes in older children and adolescents, with whom she helps to navigate issues such as peer relationships, self-harmful behaviour, body image issues, anxiety and depression that are common at this life stage. She enjoys working with mothers experiencing postpartum mental health issues, and women struggling with the mental health aspects of perimenopause. She enjoys doing presentations about balancing motherhood and mental health, stress management and anxiety, and general mental health issues in the school system.

Brandi also supervises provisional psychologists and enjoys mentoring student therapists. Brandi loves the genuine connections experienced in therapy and is authentic in her approach. She strives to create a beautiful, warm and comforting environment for clients and colleagues alike in Evolution Psychology.

Brandi is accepting new clients on Tuesday afternoons in St Albert.

Katelynn Couling

M. Ed., Registered Psychologist

Katelynn is a Registered Psychologist with the College of Alberta Psychologists. She has experience in both community and private practice counselling settings where she has had the privilege of supporting adolescents, adults, and couples with a diverse range of concerns. She focuses on helping clients develop personalized strategies to overcome struggles with:

· Depression

· Anxiety

· Relationships, domestic violence, abuse, and infidelity

· Disordered eating and body image

· Emotion regulation

· Grief and loss

· Women’s mental health and perinatal/postpartum concerns

· Suicide and self-harm

· PTSD

· Borderline Personality Disorder and complex trauma

Katelynn works collaboratively with clients to help them explore their emotions and unique strengths to conquer behaviour and thought patterns that no longer serve them. She strives to ensure all individuals feel heard, supported, and empowered in session, drawing on client-centred, strengths-based, and feminist perspectives. She has training in the following evidence-based treatments: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), and Gottman Therapy for couples. She also includes strategies from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Solution Focused Therapy (SFT), and Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT).

Cassandra Elliott

M.ED., REGISTERED PSYCHOLOGIST

Cassandra is a Registered Psychologist with the College of Alberta Psychologists and a Veteran of the Canadian Armed Forces. With extensive experience growing up in a military family, personal service, and the transition to civilian life, she brings a unique understanding to challenges affecting veterans and Front-Line workers such as PTSD, moral injury, chronic pain, disability, depression, grief, anger, challenges to identity, and military sexual trauma. Cassandra has training in several evidence-based modalities, which include: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), and Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT).

With a warm, relaxed, honest, and collaborative style, Cassandra approaches therapy through a biopsychosocial lens of understanding with each client. She recognizes the interconnectedness of biological, psychological, and social factors which contribute to both building and maintaining different disorders. She endeavours to build an inclusive and accepting space where individuals are safe to explore their experiences. 

Multi-disciplinary approaches to treatment are important to Cassandra. She engages in continuing education with other health professionals to help ensure all her client’s health needs are integrated with therapy as seamlessly as possible.

Stacey Jethon

M.a.c.p. B.A., Registered provisional psychologist

Stacey exudes authenticity and a natural empathy that creates a warm, judgement-free space for her clients. Her goal is for clients to feel safe and secure to share anything and everything.

Stacey has worked with children, teens, adults, and couples experiencing a range of issues, including relationship challenges, low self-worth, depression, anxiety, borderline personality disorder, stress management, perfectionism, and communication difficulties. She has a special interest in empowering teens and working with couples using the Gottman Method or emotionally focused couples therapy (EFCT).

Stacey is grounded in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) but draws from other approaches such as emotionally focused therapy (EFT), mindfulness, attachment theory, and solution-focused brief therapy. She has specialized training in personality disorders, couples work (including infidelity/ affairs), EFT, and mindfulness. She is also trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) for trauma.

Kubra Sansarlioglu

M.A.C.P.  B. A., Registered Provisional Psychologist

Kubra is a Registered Provisional Psychologist with the College of Alberta Psychologists. Kubra has experience working as a Registered Psychotherapist prior to her Alberta Registration. She has specific interest in working with anxiety, depression, personal goals, life transitions, self-esteem or self-image concerns, relationship and interpersonal concerns, grief and loss, trauma, and emotion regulation. She offers both individual and couples counselling.

Kubra mainly draws from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Emotion-Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT), Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT), and Client-centred approaches. Kubra is also currently obtaining training in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).

Kubra has a passion working with adolescents, teens, and young adults, committed to making therapy accessible for Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (BIPOC) communities. Kubra is happy to offer sessions in Turkish.

If you or a loved one is looking for a safe space with cultural competency and awareness, Kubra can provide empathetic, confidential, and accessible care in your therapy journey.