Paige Switzer
Registered Psychologist
Available: Wed. 12-6pm, Thurs 11am-5pm, Fri. 11am-5pm
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
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Paige is a Registered Psychologist with a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology. She has been committed to her inclusive practice for the past 3 years, welcoming clients of all genders, orientations, ethnicities, faiths, abilities, bodies, and backgrounds.
The learning and living that Paige has experienced both personally and professionally through her life has culminated into a belief and trust in the powerful healing capacity of being in relationship. Paige’s evidence-based, non-pathologizing therapeutic approach builds upon this restorative capacity wherein with renewed and moment-to-moment attunement she guides clients through witnessing, understanding, and healing what challenges them. With presence, playfulness, and patience, Paige collaborates with clients to return them to their own self-attunement equipped with the skills, perspectives, and confidence needed for sustained healing and resilience.
Drawing on the same principles she facilitates and teaches to clients, Paige engages both internal and external activism in her environmental and global communities by educating herself formally and informally, nourishing her fellow humans with food and love, marinating in nature, and volunteering her energy however she can. Paige believes therapy as she has come to know and offer it, in its own small and significant way, can create a world that is safe and joyful for all life.
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Anxiety
Depression
Trauma and PTSD
Climate Change Distress & Ecological Grief
Gender and/or Sexual Identities
Life Transitions
Chronic pain
Grief/loss
Stress
Interpersonal issues
Relationship difficulties
Emotional dysregulation
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IFS (Internal Family Systems)
ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy)
Bodymind Integrative Approaches
Creative Approaches such as art, dance/movement, music/sound, ritual
Gottman Method Couples Therapy
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Certified Internal Family Systems Therapist (In Progress)
Level 2 Internal Family Systems: Shame, Anxiety, & Depression
Level 1 Internal Family Systems
Registered Climate-Aware Therapist
Level 1 Internal Family System Certification (in progress)
Certified Clinical Trauma Professional Training Level 2 (CCTPII): Treatment of Complex Trauma & Dissociative Disorders (Mar 2022)
Certified Clinical Trauma Professional Training Level 1 (CCTP): Working with the Neurobiological Legacy of Trauma (Jan 2022)
Core Skills for Effective Therapy (Jun 2021)
Telehealth for Mental Health Professionals (Jun 2020)
Level 1 & 2 Gottman Method Couples Therapy (May 2020)
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College of Alberta Psychologists (CAP)
Psychologists Association of Alberta (PAA)
Climate Psychology Alliance of North America (CPA-NA)
