With over 20 years of counselling experience, Trista is dedicated to helping individuals heal, grow, and thrive. As a Registered Social Worker (RSW), Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC), and Canadian Clinical Supervisor (CCS), she provides trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and person-centered counselling for adults, couples, families, and mental health professionals seeking clinical supervision. Trista specializes in trauma, PTSD, anxiety, depression, grief and loss, compassion fatigue, relationship challenges, life transitions, infertility, migration adjustment, self-esteem, and personal growth. She integrates evidence-based and holistic therapeutic approaches, including Mindfulness, EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Solution-Focused Therapy (SFT), Psychodynamic Therapy, Gestalt Therapy, Hypnotherapy, Attachment-Based Interventions, the Satir Model, and other mindfulness-based practices.

Having travelled to 75 countries and volunteered in more than 10 countries, Trista brings a unique global perspective and deep appreciation for diverse cultures, religions, and life experiences. She has extensive experience supporting immigrants, refugees, LGBTQ+ individuals, BIPOC communities, and people from diverse cultural backgrounds, creating a safe, inclusive, and culturally sensitive environment for healing and self-discovery.

Her professional experience spans private practice, family service agencies, psychiatric clinics, community mental health settings, and youth-serving organizations. She has also participated in international humanitarian and mental health initiatives, further enriching her compassionate, holistic, and strengths-based approach to counselling.

Clients often describe Trista as warm, insightful, compassionate, and supportive. She believes that healing occurs within a strong therapeutic relationship and works collaboratively with clients to build resilience, deepen self-awareness, strengthen relationships, and create meaningful, lasting change.

Supervisees frequently describe Trista as supportive, inspiring, knowledgeable, and insightful. Many report experiencing significant growth both professionally and personally through her genuine mentorship, clinical expertise, and reflective supervision style.

Counselling and clinical supervision services are available in English, Cantonese, and Mandarin. Trista welcomes individuals from all backgrounds and is committed to providing a safe, respectful, empowering, and culturally responsive environment where people can move from surviving to thriving, regardless of their race, culture, religion, gender identity, or life circumstances.

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Life transitions and expectations can be overwhelming. Maybe you are wearing many hats and feel like you have lost yourself balancing everyone else’s needs. Or perhaps the losses you have faced are feeling so heavy that it feels almost impossible to take the next step. As a trauma focused and relational therapist, Marggie’s goal is to help you feel empowered and in control of your life, to reduce the impact of all the losses you have faced, and to help you lead a life that feels meaningful. Marggie strongly believes in the therapeutic relationship and considers it an honour to walk with you on your unique journey towards wellness.

Marggie has a Master’s in Clinical Social Work and over a decade of experience supporting people from all ages and diverse backgrounds that face challenges in physical health, mental health or behaviours. Her experience includes supporting immigrants and their families as well as mixed-raced individuals from a cross-cultural lens that addresses Identity, belonging, and intergenerational healing. Marggie specializes in the following areas: Anxiety, Depression, ADHD, abuse, navigating race and cultural identities, crisis and life transitions such as the death of a loved one, separation and divorce, loss and grief, self-esteem and body image, prenatal / postpartum Issues, infertility, pregnancy and infant loss. Marggie offers a holistic approach to mental well-being and draws from modalities such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), attachment theory, Narrative, mindfulness practices, Dialectical behavioural Therapy (DBT) and Gottman Method for couples. Marggie offers online sessions in English and Spanish for Alberta and Ontario residents. In-person sessions in Cochrane, Alberta

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