Hello and Welcome! My clients tell me my thoughtful, calm manner helps them feel safe to open up and put vulnerable feelings and concerns into words.
Edna (Teddie) Knowlton Fussell
Areas of Practice AbuseADHDAnxietyBlended FamiliesDepressionGrief/LossLife Adjustment/TransitionParentingPersonal Development/GrowthPre-Marital CounselingPTSDRelationship ProblemsSelf-Esteem/Self-CompassionSeparation and DivorceSexualityStress/BurnoutTraumaHealth/Medical ConcernsWomen's Health Counseling
|Anger Management||Career/Vocation|Communication|Infertility|Infidelity|Loneliness/Isolation|Panic Attacks|Phobias|Post-Partum Adjustment|Pre-Marital Counselling|Sleep problems|
Approach
I believe in working in a collaborative manner and helping clients utilize their internal strengths as well as connecting them with valuable community resources.
As an approved provider with many employee assistance programs, I readily use brief therapy approaches. However, I draw upon many therapeutic modalities, as well as life experience from my personal roles as a spouse, parent, sibling, child, employee, volunteer and others. I also draw experience from working in education, mental health, corrections, not-for-profit settings and am familiar with the culture of several workplace industries, including first responder and military service.
Teddie’s approach integrates:
Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART)
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Gottman Method
Narrative
Person-Centered Therapy
Trauma-Informed
Background
Teddie has been Registered as a Psychologist in Alberta since 1997. She currently works with individuals, couples, families and organizations. Her years of experience in mental health and program development span areas including mood-related concerns (depression, anxiety and stress, acute or recent trauma, adjustment to illness or injury, critical incident debriefing, hoarding); life cycle changes (separation and divorce, new parenting, job loss or relocation, aging parents, grief/bereavement); and conflict and communication (marital infidelity, other marital conflict, work-related conflicts).
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How Edna (Teddie) works with…
Couples
My approach to working with couples is grounded in research on the communication and interaction patterns that have helped long term couples be successful in their relationships. I believe mutual respect, acknowledgment and negotiation are at the heart of any healthy partnership and I assist each member to examine the attitudes, feelings and behavior that might be getting in the way. Therefore, I help people shift from focussing on the shortcomings they perceive in their partner or themselves to negotiating the strengths, preferences, values and associated behavior they want to assert as individuals and as a team. In this manner I have helped couples work through the following issues: establishing a committment, managing relationships with extended family, new parenting, discipline of pre-school, school-age and adolescent children, work/home/recreation balance, job loss/relocation, different approaches to spending and managing finances, hoarding or cluttered homes, coping with physical or mental health concerns, breaches of trust from deceit, infidelity, or abusive behavior ( a special interest of my practice), relationships with adult children, becoming empty-nesters, retirement, caring for aging parents, grief and loss.Trauma/PTSD
My approach to working with couples is grounded in research on the communication and interaction patterns that have helped long term couples be successful in their relationships. What feels ‘traumatic’ to someone may be a single overwhelming incident or an accumulation of experiences that drain our emotional energy and tap out our resources for developing and functioning in a healthy lifestyle. These effects can show up immediately after or years later. Often our rational mind can think one way and our emotions and body reactions be different. Trauma counselling can help make sense of such experiences so that body, mind, and soul work in an integrated fashion, making us more aware of ‘post-traumatic growth’ and able to access ‘post-traumatic resiliency’ to help us navigate life’s inevitable ups and downs in a healthy way. I have many years’ experience helping individuals work through personal traumatic situations but also have extensive background working with those impacted by critical incidents through their employment or public disasters. I am a recognized provider and have the workplace cultural understanding for assisting 1 st responders, active & veteran military personnel,corrections workers, health care or social service workers and environmental wardens recover from operational stress injuries and compassion fatigue using brief but evidence-based approaches. If you want a safe and understanding place to start, please feel free to reach out.We’ll help you find the right fit.
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