Grit, Grace and Gratitude
Talk your way to freedom.
Providing virtual psychological services to individuals in need throughout Alberta, with in person sessions available to Canmore, Calgary and Okotoks residents.
Piekenbrock Psychological Services is where you can begin your journey towards mental wellness. Myka's integrated approach uses individually tailored supports to assist with your individualized treatment. EMDR, Cognitive Behavioural Trauma Informed, Bibliotherapy, Internal Family Systems as well as Somatic therapies (please scroll down for explanations of therapies) are integrated to provide effective support for adults, teens and children.
Take the next step and call or email to book a telephone or virtual complimentary 20 minute meet and greet.
How do we help?
The Next Step: Call or email Myka Piekenbrock to book a 20 minute
virtual complimentary meet and greet.
Step 2: Book a 50 minute session with an additional 10 minutes
of goal setting and schedule building. Design an individualized
plan that is covered by your health benefits, and
fits with your daily commitments.
Step 3: Stick with the plan.
This is your moment.
Psychological Services
Work Place Physical/Emotional Injury
We work with individuals who have been injured physically/emotionally and are experiencing symptoms of situational trauma, PTSD, or adjustment disorder by providing individualized EMDR and Cognitive Behavioural Interventions.
Early intervention is imperative. We will work with you using EMDR, Somatic Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to develop a treatment plan which responds to your traumatic experience, guiding you on your healing journey.
Some groups of people are disproportionately affected by PTSD because of the nature of their work. Among those at higher risk of PTSD are public safety personnel, including paramedics, firefighters (career and volunteer), police as well as Indigenous emergency managers, search and rescue and public safety communications personnel (911 operators, dispatchers), correctional services officers, border services officers, flight attendants and operational intelligence personnel.
Adult
Clinical Therapy and Assessments
Navigating changes in life can instigate a range of new emotions and experiences which can cause feeling of cognitive dissonance. We can help you face these changes with confidence and self efficacy whether you are told your emotions are too big, or you feel like an outsider or suspect there is something bigger happening, we will work with you to provide assessments and/or therapeutic interventions aimed at getting answers so you can begin to believe that this life is yours to seize.
Adult mental health challenges can be overcome with or without a diagnosis combined with effective "gold star" interventions including EMDR and Cognitive Behavioural, Therapy allowing you to move forward with the life you want to live.
Child - Psychoeducational Clinical Assessments
Is your child struggling in school? Are you struggling with life's demands? We have a wealth of information to share. This journey can be overwhelming and we want to ensure our children and adolescents receive the supports necessary to achieve. We can take you through the process one step at a time providing you with a strategies based assessments for your child's education team. If you are seeking information on Educational Psychological Assessments, please call or email for a private consultation. As each child's needs and gifts are unique, the proper assessments and booking schedules must also be individually tailored. This is an in person service that is best accessed during the summer when children won't miss school to participate.
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Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology
Watching your child/adolescent struggle is admittedly one of the more challenging times in a parent's life. With the constant availability of social media and the forever swipe our youth have new was to judge and be judged that they may not be prepared for. Using EMDR, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Bibliotherapy we tailor make specific interventions for your child. Teenagers in particular can distance themselves from parents and may need psychological supports to assist their personal growth and mental wellness. With grit, grace and gratitude, we will work with your child to develop a plan towards building the skills and obtaining the life they desire. Reassure your child that they do have a web of support that is cheering them on through this life. They do have the ability to find their way to their best life.
Adult Vocational Transitions
Are you starting out after post secondary schooling? Have you been injured at work and need to re-train? Or have you been working and want to make a career change? Unsure of what to do next?
Using EMDR, & Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Interventions we can work with you to set up short and long term goals to help you reach your aspirations and design the life you desire.
If you are feeling stuck and know that there is more to your potential, contact us today for a complementary 20 minute meet and greet online.
As a WCB provider and Medavie/BlueCross provider PPS approach focuses on your future... starting now.
Divorce Counselling & Parenting plans
Using EMDR and cognitive Behavioural Interventions, and providing skills to empower your children protecting them from the influences of alienation and manipulation, Myka Piekenbrock can help them navigate the unfamiliar waters of changing homes, new partners and blended families.
Parents can design a parenting plan that is court supported and in the best interest of their children.
Talking to a neutral third party who is confidential can help children and adolescents move through conflicts and unavoidable changes with grit, grace and gratitude.
Pre Book the upcoming What to expect in a Blended Family and The Divorce Kid Advantage
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Therapeutic Interventions Explained
One or more of the below interventions will be employed to tailor make personalized support for adults, teens or children. Interventions will be selected based on personal effectiveness, preference and client responsiveness.
How is EMDR used?
EMDR is an acronym that stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy. Clients come to treatment for support on existing concerns. The psychologist will help the client identify the dynamics of the present concerns and how to adaptively manage them. An overall treatment plan will be developed that will align with the client’s goals.
EMDR is an eight-phase treatment method. History taking, client preparation, assessment, desensitization, installation, body scan, closure and reevaluation of treatment effect.
How does CBT work?
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is based on the concept that your thoughts, feelings, physical sensations and actions are interconnected, and that negative thoughts and feelings can trap you in a negative cycle. CBT aims to help you deal with overwhelming problems in a more positive way by breaking them down into smaller parts. What Are the 7 Steps of CBT? Identify the problem. Set goals. Identify obstacles. Challenge automatic and intrusive thoughts. Identify and challenge core beliefs and assumptions. Enact lifestyle and behavioural changes. Employ problem-solving skills.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
IFS is a transformative tool that conceives of every human being as a system of protective and wounded inner parts led by a core Self. We believe the mind is naturally multiple and that is a good thing. Just like members of a family, inner parts are forced from their valuable states into extreme roles within us. Self is in everyone. It can’t be damaged. It knows how to heal. IFS is frequently used as an evidence-based psychotherapy, helping people heal by accessing and healing their protective and wounded inner parts. IFS creates inner and outer connectedness by helping people first access their Self and, from that core, come to understand and heal their parts.
Bibliotherapy
Bibliotherapy (also referred to as book therapy, reading therapy, poetry therapy or therapeutic storytelling) is a creative arts therapy that involves storytelling or the reading of specific texts.
During the bibliotherapy process, there are four stages that children must experience: identification, catharsis, insight and universalization (Stamps, 2003, Jackson, 2006).
Somatic Therapy - Guided Drawing
Guided Drawing encourages bilateral, rhythmic repetition of movements and applies particular, archetypal shapes as intervention tools in order to structure the experience, if necessary. (Elbrecht 2018) During the Healing Trauma with Guided Drawing online training the question how to apply this modality with children arises on a regular basis. Children benefit from Guided Drawing just as much as adults, however, the facilitation has to be adjusted to match their age-specific needs and learning style.