EMPOWER YOU
Discover new ways to find happiness, fulfillment, and peace within yourself and your relationships.
Welcome!
Embodied Empowerment is dedicated to guiding individuals along their healing and wellness journey.
Compassion and empowerment are the values that drive our counselling approach. These values aim to foster a space that encourages people to explore their emotions, acknowledge their fully-lived embodied experiences, and cultivate their inner resilience. We prioritize a collaborative, (w)Holistic approach while using the best in clinical modalities to meet your needs and help you build your inner resources. We focus on a combination of individual and group options to enhance your healing experience, as we recognize the power of combining group and individual wisdom.
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Counselling and Wellness Services
Individual Therapy
After an initial session, you have the option of Virtual, In-Person, or Walking session.
Mental Health
Support & Coaching
Don't know what you need but looking for a change? You're in the right place.
Trauma Therapy
EMDR is a modality best used to treat trauma. After the initial session, we can determine if this is the best fit for you!
Individualized
Addiction Treatment
After a compreshensive assessment, we review recommendations and tailor your treatment plan to your needs.
Embodied Empowerment for Helping Professionals
Many helping professionals are told to manage their self-care. Unfortunately, the practice is often vague and lacks empathy when faced with structural barriers or systemic challenges. As a result, many of us attempt to manage self-care through extracurricular activities, taking time off, and adjusting expectations. These strategies can certainly be helpful. However, helping professionals don't have many spaces to share our own struggles and human experiences.
Embodied Empowerment Group for Helping Professionals seeks to cultivate a space for various helping professionals to reflect, ground, and connect. Providing the space to help transform emotions that have become stuck, re-connect to our bodies, and validate the heavy work we all do. Join us as we use reflective journaling, sharing, movement, and meditation to nurture our mental, emotional, and spiritual selves.
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The Empowerment Circle
The Empowerment Circle is a semi-closed, in-person group focused on supporting people's recovery victories and struggles. Using trauma-informed best practices, we support both abstinence and harm-reduction strategies to strengthen individual recovery goals. We meet weekly, blending process and psychoeducation through the lens of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), focusing on various recovery themes.
Values-Driven Mental Health Support
Changing behaviour through compassion and empowerment leads to beautiful transformation and unlocks life's potential.
EMPOWERMENT
Facilitating groups and providing mental health education have been at the core of my career, rooting my commitment to empowerment. I've witnessed the power of the group experience and the encouragement it can provide when you truly experience you're not alone. Empowerment through education, balancing the right combination of knowledge and skills, can be foundational in a person's growth and healing. But, the most transformative component of empowerment, is the belief in oneself; the belief you are capable! Empowerment respects resilience and self-efficacy, helping everyone feel capable and accomplished. Therapy infused with empowerment can help you face the barriers that are limiting your growth while believing in your capacity to address what you need to change, confront, or leave behind.
COMPASSION
Compassion is also central to my practice. It embodies the kindness and wisdom needed to serve others while maintaining healthy boundaries. My spiritual journey reminds me that compassion is courageous in a society that often prioritizes individuality over community. Compassion is said to be the antidote to shame and is therefore, crucial when facing hard truths to make necessary change. Embracing failure through the lens of compassion invites safety to explore our actions and provides an opportunity to recognize and embrace accountability for where we need to grow for ourselves and in our relationships.
"The healer you have been looking for is your own courage to know and love yourself completely."
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Christie Mellan
Master's of Social Work, RSW #16344
Clinical, Trauma-Informed Care Specialization
Master's of Arts
Bachelor of Psychology
Therapeutic Certifications
EMDR Trained Clinician
Motivational Interviewing
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Mindfulness
Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training – Facilitator
American Society for Addiction Medicine Assessment
Since 2007, I’ve dedicated myself to the field of Addiction and Mental Health. I've worked in roles that span mental health education and health promotion, advocacy, research, and front-line outreach. Early on I found a passion for group facilitation and fostering connection to support mental health. These experiences have deepened my understanding of how people navigate suffering, change, and life experiences. My education and personal experiences taught me the importance of intersectionality and cultural humility when working with people, especially in this field. The individuals I’ve had the privilege to work with and learn from shaped my belief in a collaborative approach to care and counselling. More recently, in 2023, I moved to Edmonton, AB to pursue a job opportunity and fulfill a dream to launch my private practice with Embodied Empowerment. I fully believe in values-driven mental health care and try my best to live my values of empowerment and compassion daily.