I am a people person and was drawn to helping youth when I first started my career, so I began working with emotionally challenged youth at Yellowhead Youth Centre. After several years of being employed as a Youth Counsellor at Yellowhead Youth Centre, I pursued further educational training (doctoral program) and worked at the Grey Nuns Community Hospital where I was trained as a Clinical Psychologist. There I benefitted from complex psychological assessment training as well as engaged in individual and group therapy with a variety of needs presented in patients through the psychiatric ward. I believe the clinical depth of training helped me to work effectively with people in private practice where I engage in individual, couples, youth, and family therapy, along with psychological assessment services. I’ve also received training in marriage counselling and trauma therapy (EMDR).
My general therapeutic approach considers that people tend to replay templates of relationships that they have been exposed to in their early life in both functional and dysfunctional patterns with themselves and others. Our responses to circumstances, events, and people become evidence of healthy and unhealthy earlier interactions and reveal beliefs, feelings, and emotions that reflect our functioning. In my experience, I have learned that many people are disconnected from the thoughts, emotions, and feelings that are contributing to their relationship problems with themselves and others. Through the process of helping people with depression, anxiety, stress, anger, sleep difficulties, self-doubts, and relationship problems, I focus on both the current problems and how they were cultivated in one’s early life and relationships. Connecting both the present and the past with people I have worked with has released the potency of the symptoms they are experiencing, and provided new ways of thinking, relating, and expressing toward others and themselves.
I look forward to working with EPS personnel!
Specialty Areas:
- Couples
- Adolescents/Youth
- Families
- Trauma/PTSD
- Depression/Anxiety
- Stress
- Sleep
- Anger Management
Dr. Kelly Clarke
#1406 10665 Jasper Ave.
Edmonton, AB
T5J 3S9