Dariel Cole Registered Psychologist
Welcome !
Building resilience through interactive strategies 

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Service Facility:

Welcome to our practice! We are a private mental health clinic of independent practitioners located in Sherwood Park Alberta, that is not covered by or partnered with Alberta Health Services.  

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Counselling Services:

My beliefs and values strongly influence my counselling approach. I believe that the counselling experience should be collaborative. I also believe that people are intrinsically social beings and that most difficulties arise due to miscommunications in connecting or that skills have yet to be developed. It is my goal to help support skills to bridge barriers clients wish to overcome. I offer a variety of therapeutic approaches including:

• Mindfulness strategies

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

• Narrative and Solution Focused

• Attachment

• Play-Based Interventions

• Positive Psychology

• Prolonged Exposure

• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Certified

• Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) Basic Training 

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Populations Served:

• First responders and members of first responder families (Individual basis)

• Canadian Armed Forces

• Persons involved in work related trauma

• Persons with procedural anxiety or medical trauma

• Persons navigating grief and loss 

• Persons looking to manage pain

• Persons navigating anxious and depressive symptoms

• Children 8+, Youth and Adults

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What to Expect:

First session: When we first meet we have some formalities to take care of including some forms and permissions to allow me to work with you or your child and we will go over mutual responsibilities. We will cover relevant history and develop your goals for treatment together, as well as spend time on any questions you might have.

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Session Number: The amount of sessions required varies by client, client goals and other factors such as third party policies which can be discussed further at your first session.

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Third Party Referrals: In some cases I accept Third Party referrals who designate the amount of sessions that will be covered.

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For Children:

A first parent session is booked in cases where a child is the client in order to gather relevant information, consent and applicable documentation. Across time parent update sessions are also part of the process in order to best utilize the clinical hour with the child and to provide ample time to update parents on treatment goals and practices to generalize at home.

 

When working with children I keep them as the central client but will sometimes pull parents in to help children with generalizing their therapy goals beyond sessions and to support successful practices within the family system.

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I do not work with cases of high conflict divorce or provide assessments for the courts. If you are looking for this type of support I can provide you with alternative referrals.