About
At Amethyst Therapy, we believe that it is possible to improve your mental health, experience healing, and feel more at peace. With the guidance of one of our therapists, you will learn strategies for coping, dealing with unwanted thoughts and feelings, and improving your relationship with others and importantly, yourself.
The amethyst stone is traditionally believed to bring groundedness, tranquility, and a sense of calm. These properties represent what we aim to bring to our therapy sessions with the individuals we work with.
Kirsten Harding
MSW, RSW, EMDR Certified Therapist
(she/her)
Location:
#205A 11010 101 Street NW
Hys Centre
Edmonton, AB
T5H 4B9
Phone:
587-881-4387
Kirsten Harding
MSW, RSW, EMDR Certified Therapist
Kirsten is an experienced and compassionate therapist who holds a Master of Clinical Social Work from the University of Calgary. Kirsten has been supporting adults and teens in Alberta and British Columbia for over fifteen years. She provides therapy to individual clients and couples. Kirsten works with clients across the lifespan with diverse sexual and gender identities. Kirsten strives to create an open, safe and non-judgmental environment for all of her clients in which to explore their thoughts, feelings, and needs. Her therapeutic style is warm, accepting, collaborative, and inclusive.
Kirsten has specialized training in counselling clients of all ages impacted by trauma (including symptoms of PTSD), sexualized violence, childhood abuse, and domestic/intimate partner violence. She is an EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) Certified Therapist. Kirsten is also trained in Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy. Both EMDR and IFS are highly effective therapies to help clients find healing from painful experiences.
Kirsten has extensive experience working with individuals dealing with anxiety, depression, grief and loss, compassion fatigue and burnout, low self-esteem, relationship and family issues, chronic or sudden illness (including cancer) or disability, or experiencing feelings of being ‘stuck’ or ‘lost’ in their lives. She frequently works with health care workers, member of Canadian Armed Forces and RCMP, as well as educators and teachers.
Kirsten also has a heartfelt interest in working with individuals and couples impacted by infertility and perinatal/pregnancy/postpartum mental health, aiming to compassionately support them in their journey and to reduce their feelings of isolation. She has completed post-graduate training in infertility and perinatal/pregnancy/postpartum counselling. Kirsten is an active member of the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society (CFAS), American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM), Postpartum Support International, and Fertility Matters Canada.
Kirsten tailors her therapeutic approach based on each client’s therapeutic needs. In addition to EMDR and IFS therapies, she is also trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Trauma-Focused CBT, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), grief counselling, Gottman Method, Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) for couples, and feminist counselling theories.