Helping You Remember Who You Really Are Because

YOU MATTER

Convenient, Confidential, and Experienced Online Therapy for Women

in Alberta, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec & Nunavut

MEET DR. EASTER

A highly trained psychologist, a deep listener, an honoured witness to your story

I am a Registered Psychologist (#3932) located in Alberta and serving women across Alberta, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, and Nunavut. I bring over 20 years of counselling experience, a Ph.D. in Counselling Psychology from the University of Alberta, and over a decade of postgraduate, psychology-focused training. My practice provides individual online therapy services to young adult, adult and older women (18+). I also specialize in supporting psychologists and therapists in their own growth and healing.

In my practice, I am committed to providing an ethical, caring, emotionally safe (and occasionally humorous!) space where you can explore what’s troubling you and work towards your goals. Sometimes I’m irreverent, sometimes a little salty - but always, I am real. It is a privilege to walk with you on any part of your healing journey.

Currently, I am accepting new clients. Your story matters. Your healing matters. When you’re ready, I’m here.

  • Image of a brushstroke to highlight the importance of healing through therapy for women

    “I find working with women to be extremely rewarding and privileged work. A woman who has experienced healing and knows herself is a woman who walks differently in her life. A woman who is free is a powerful woman. Powerful women change their world.”

    Easter Yassa, PhD, Psychologist

    Start Your Healing
  • Image of a HSP women who has gone to therapy and has courage and confidence

    You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "...I can take the next thing that comes along".

    Eleanor Roosevelt

    Find Your Strength
  • Image of a HSP woman who has is in therapy and has hope

    When you come to the edge of all the light you have, and must take a step into the darkness of the unknown, believe that one of two things will happen. Either there will be something solid for you to stand on -- or you will be taught how to fly.

    Patrick Overton, Author, Poet

    Find Your Hope
  • Image of a HSP woman after therapy feeling growth

    If she got really quiet and listened, new parts of her wanted to speak.

    S.A.R.K., Succulent Wild Woman

    Begin Your Growth Journey

  • She could never go back and make some of the details pretty. All she could do was move forward and make the whole beautiful.

    Terri St. Cloud, BoneSighArts

    Find Your Meaning

  • May it be a light for you in dark places, when all other lights go out.

    J.R.R. Tolkien

    Access Your Support

  • We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

    Albert Einstein

    Learn To Think Differently

  • I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

    Maya Angelou

    Kick Start Your Resilience

  • Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

    Martin Luther King Jr.

    Take The First Step

  • They worked. It hurt. It was hard. Exhausting. And when they were done they knew they had moved a mountain. Now they had space for a dance floor.

    Terri St. Cloud, BoneSighArts

    Acknowledge Your Perseverance

  • Only by recognizing and accepting his or her own wounds can the healer minister to others. It is our wounds that make us human, that bridge the gap between patient and physician. When we have done all we can to improve our situation, when we have created the best environment possible, there will still be pain that comes from meeting others deeply. At that point we can either fight against pain, and in so fighting, bring ourselves to a numb cynicism or a fragile despair, or we can accept it, become one with it, and allow it to minister to others.

    Dr. David Hilfiker, M.D., Healing the Wounds: A Physician Looks at His Work, Chapter 15

    Honour Your Purpose

Areas I Work In

The areas I work in include anxiety, worries and fear, trauma (including PTSD & Complex PTSD, single event trauma, relationship trauma, betrayal trauma, attachment trauma, childhood trauma, and labour & delivery trauma), narcissistic abuse and adult daughters of narcissistic parenting, perfectionism, infertility & fertility challenges, purpose and meaning, relationship difficulties, work stress, life transitions, grief and loss, miscarriage, self-esteem, compassion fatigue and burnout, and caring for someone with a mental illness.

Trauma

Infertility

Narcissistic Abuse

My Approach

I believe you are not merely a list of symptoms, whatever they may be. My approach to therapy is about seeing you as a whole person.

You are more than the sum of your troubles. You have strengths, challenges, underdeveloped parts, overdeveloped parts, healthy parts, a unique story, a past, a journey you are navigating and, most importantly, a path into a future that you are shaping either consciously or unconsciously. You are complex, layered and whole.

My overall approach to therapy is about creating and holding a space to explore all the parts of you and all the things you find hard to say, but yearn to express.

Let's Connect

Therapy Approaches

 

The therapy approaches I use most can be found below and reflect my belief that therapy can be a safe space for you to heal, recover, and to know yourself in ways that you may not have fully known yourself before. Therapy is a space to dive deep into what moves you, what matters to you, and reconnect to the real you. It is a space to move toward a life of your conscious choosing.

Click here to learn more about other therapy approaches that I may integrate into therapy as it meets you and your needs.

 

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  • Processing the fundamental experience of being human in this world at this time in order to consciously create a meaningful life, connection with others, freedom of your decisions, and responsibility.

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  • Using a state of deep relaxation and an indirect approach to suggestion that involves metaphors, symbols, and contradictions to access the healing and reprocessing power of your unconscious.

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  • Exploring your emotions, thoughts, early life experiences, and beliefs to support your understanding of the impact of your past on your present behaviour so you can begin tochange patterns in your life.

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  • Using bilateral stimulation, such as eye movements or tapping, to work through negative and/or upsetting memories, feelings, and thoughts until they’re not disturbing and you can let them go.

 Contact Me

 
 

DR. EASTER YASSA
REGISTERED PSYCHOLOGIST

Hours of Operation:

By appointment only

Contact Info: 

Phone: (587) 410-2610 
eyassa@IMATTER2.com