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Individual Psychotherapy & Counselling
“Healing and Harmony is not the ability to stay out of the darkness, it’s the ability to be present in the darkness, knowing the light will shine again”
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Online Psychotherapy
Depending on the person, counselling and psychotherapy can be just as effective using an online platform as it is in person, especially if folks are interested in Internal Family Systems Therapy.
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Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy
Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) is a non-pathologizing, creative, and innovative model of psychotherapy that operates within this framework. IFS provides a pathway for us to focus inward and get to know the many parts of us that exist within our internal world.
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IFS Group Consultation
In groups you will have the space to learn new techniques, fine tune the techniques you are already using, deepen your knowledge of IFS, and receive feedback on your work from myself and/or peers in the group.
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.
PSYCHOTHERAPIST
Melissa Galbraith MSW, RSW
Certified IFS Therapist
Other Offerings through the Internal Family Systems Counselling Association (IFSCA)
Stepping Stones: A comprehensive, 4-month online IFS training program
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
Stepping DEEPER : Take your Internal Family Systems (IFS) practice to the next level
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.
