At Arms Open Counselling, our practice is built on a shared commitment to compassionate, client-centered care. While our clinicians bring diverse professional backgrounds—including Registered Psychotherapists, Registered Social Workers, and a Family Nurse Practitioner—we work collaboratively as a unified team to support your overall well-being.
Below, you’ll find our team members grouped by their primary clinical focus so you can easily meet the practitioners whose experience, approach, and personality best align with what you're looking for.
Meet Our Team
Mental Health & Individual Counselling
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Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)
Alicia will be available for booking in January! Welcome Alicia to the team!
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Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)
Deanna provides a warm, collaborative environment for individuals navigating anxiety, self-doubt, stress, and life transitions. Drawing from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT), she helps clients slow down, feel heard, and develop practical tools for self-connection, personal growth, and emotional healing.
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Registered Psychotherapist
Janet creates a warm, research-grounded space for teens (14+) and adults navigating trauma, overwhelming stress, and relational challenges. Drawing from her background in education, she integrates EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS), ACT, and DDP (family attachment therapy) to help clients heal from past experiences and build stronger connections. Janet also offers faith-integrated counselling for clients wishing to include their spirituality in the healing process.
Dawn
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Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)
Patrick brings a calm, grounded presence to therapy, supporting individuals, couples, and groups through relationship concerns, life transitions, and addiction recovery. Integrating the Gottman Method, Solution-Focused, Narrative, and Psychodynamic therapies alongside harm-reduction care, he helps adults, teens, post-secondary students, and veterans build resilience, process underlying patterns, and create meaningful change.
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Registered Psychotherapist
Dawn offers a strengths-based, integrative approach to help clients process trauma, anxiety, chronic pain, burnout, and relationship challenges. Utilizing a versatile toolkit—including Narrative Therapy, DBT, ACT, Polyvagal nervous system regulation, and Age Regression Hypnotherapy—she tailors care to each individual, couple, or family system.
Rebecca
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Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)
Drawing from her background in education, Rebecca offers an empathetic, strengths-based space for pre-teens, teens (12+), students, and parents facing overwhelm, stress, and life pressure. She integrates Cognitive Behavioral (CBT),Emotion-Focused (EFT), and Solution-Focused strategies to help clients gain clarity and thrive.
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Registered Psychotherapist
Melissa provides a compassionate, client-centered environment to help individuals and couples navigate stress, burnout, depression, and attachment concerns. Grounded in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and Gestalt techniques, she supports clients through major life transitions to foster resilience and deeper connection.
Alyssa
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Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)
Alyssa creates a warm, welcoming space tailored to the unique developmental needs of children and teens. Incorporating play therapy techniques alongside dedicated parent support sessions, she helps young clients process emotions, build coping strategies, and foster resilience in an engaging, safe environment.
Children, Teens & Family Care
Samantha
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Registered Social Worker
Samantha creates a compassionate, trauma-informed space for children, adults, and parents navigating anxiety, burnout,life transitions, and complex trauma (including C-PTSD and high ACEs). Drawing from Play Therapy, Narrative Therapy,and Emotion-Focused approaches, she gently guides clients to heal past patterns and reconnect with their authentic selves.
Rebecca
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Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)
Drawing from her background in education, Rebecca offers an empathetic, strengths-based space for pre-teens, teens (12+), students, and parents facing overwhelm, stress, and life pressure. She integrates Cognitive Behavioral (CBT),Emotion-Focused (EFT), and Solution-Focused strategies to help clients gain clarity and thrive.
Deanna
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Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)
Deanna provides a warm, collaborative environment for individuals navigating anxiety, self-doubt, stress, and life transitions. Drawing from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT), she helps clients slow down, feel heard, and develop practical tools for self-connection, personal growth, and emotional healing.
Janet
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Registered Psychotherapist
Janet creates a warm, research-grounded space for teens (14+) and adults navigating trauma, overwhelming stress, and relational challenges. Drawing from her background in education, she integrates EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS), ACT, and DDP (family attachment therapy) to help clients heal from past experiences and build stronger connections. Janet also offers faith-integrated counselling for clients wishing to include their spirituality in the healing process.
Angela
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Registered Psychotherapist
Angela provides a warm, non-judgmental space for couples and individuals looking to strengthen relationship dynamics,resolve conflict, and improve communication. Combining the Gottman Method with emotion-focused and solution-focused techniques, she helps clients achieve practical, lasting, and meaningful relational growth.
Couples & Relationship Counselling
Dawn
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Registered Psychotherapist
Dawn offers a strengths-based, integrative approach to help clients process trauma, anxiety, chronic pain, burnout, and relationship challenges. Utilizing a versatile toolkit—including Narrative Therapy, DBT, ACT, Polyvagal nervous system regulation, and Age Regression Hypnotherapy—she tailors care to each individual, couple, or family system.
NEW** Menopausal Care
Nicole
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Family Nurse Practitioner
Nicole brings nearly a decade of women’s health experience and a background in education to empower clients through midlife health transitions. Specializing in menopause assessments and treatment, she combines clinical expertise with a warm, educational approach to help women make informed decisions and feel confident in their body’s care.