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Welcome! Hi! I’m Mel…

Mel Galbraith is a Certified Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapist and psychotherapist with over a decade of experience supporting individuals through a trauma-informed, compassionate lens. She holds a Master of Social Work from Wilfrid Laurier University.

Mel is Level 3 trained in the IFS model and has completed advanced training through both the IFS Institute and Internal Family Systems Canada (IFSCA). Over the past five years, she has been deeply engaged in teaching, mentoring, and supporting IFS trainings internationally. 

Mel currently serves as a Director and Trainer with IFSCA, where she offers training and supervision to emerging IFS practitioners. She also previously held the role of Chief Operating Officer at IFSCA for 1.5 years before transitioning to focus more fully on clinical work, consultation groups, and teaching.

Mel’s professional background spans community agencies, specialized treatment programs, and school boards. Whether working with individuals, groups, or professionals, she is dedicated to helping people reconnect with their inner strengths and cultivate greater calm, clarity, and compassion from within.

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Melissa Galbraith MSW, RSW

Certified IFS Therapist

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Comprehensive 16-week Course

The goals for this course are for you:

  • to learn and understand the IFS model and be able to apply it to your own systems, your patients/clients and one another

  • to be able to ask as many questions as you need and know where to go for further information

  • to form peer support groups so that your practice can continue to evolve

  • to be invigorated in your practice and to see remarkable and permanent changes in many of your clients

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Take your Internal Family Systems (IFS) ​practice to the next level with the Stepping DEEPER course

The goals for this course are for you:

  • Insights into IFS therapy techniques;

  • The ability to unblend and access various parts effectively;

  • Skills to work with dissociative and preverbal parts;

  • Strategies to access and heal exiled parts;

  • Proficiency in navigating therapist parts in the therapeutic process.

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Contact us

Contact us

If you would like to book an appointment, would like more information, or would like to book a free consult with me, please reach out to my assistant Jonnelle.

Email @ jonnelle@mgcounsellingoffice.com

Or simply fill out the contact form.

Thanks so much!