Meg Grudeski, MACP, C.C.C., Registered Psychologist
mgrudeski@ignitecounselling.ca
She/Her/Hers
Salutations! Where to start the ol’ biography?
I began my work in the mental health and counselling field ages ago, working with street-level outreach teams and in youth shelters. My harm reduction approach was honed in that work, and continues to grow and inform my core belief of meeting folks where they're at in their lives and helping people identify and utilize their own strengths.
Since moving with my partner to the Yukon, I have made tonnes of great connections, and I’ve completed my formal graduate studies in counselling psychology (Yorkville University, 2016), adopted two "Yukon Special" rescue dogs, completed my accreditation as a Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCPA, 2017), got a bunch of new tattoos, began and then completed the process to become a Registered Psychologist (CAP, 2023), and joined the Ignite team as a partner! I am excited to continue to work with folks in the territory, and to further expand my professional abilities serving Yukoners.
I am an integrated therapist, working primarily from feminist, positive psychology and humanistic lenses, with significant clinical experience in solution-focused, harm reduction, and narrative therapy models. This just means I’m interested in how individuals make sense of their own strengths and challenges, how they navigate social context and the other people in their lives, and that I prefer to emphasize the ways in which things are working (or not working) for folks, and then figuring out what might work better for them in their situations, rather than fitting them into a prescribed system. I work with individuals of all genders and ages (over 16), couples, families, and groups.
I began my work in the mental health and counselling field ages ago, working with street-level outreach teams and in youth shelters. My harm reduction approach was honed in that work, and continues to grow and inform my core belief of meeting folks where they're at in their lives and helping people identify and utilize their own strengths.
Since moving with my partner to the Yukon, I have made tonnes of great connections, and I’ve completed my formal graduate studies in counselling psychology (Yorkville University, 2016), adopted two "Yukon Special" rescue dogs, completed my accreditation as a Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCPA, 2017), got a bunch of new tattoos, began and then completed the process to become a Registered Psychologist (CAP, 2023), and joined the Ignite team as a partner! I am excited to continue to work with folks in the territory, and to further expand my professional abilities serving Yukoners.
I am an integrated therapist, working primarily from feminist, positive psychology and humanistic lenses, with significant clinical experience in solution-focused, harm reduction, and narrative therapy models. This just means I’m interested in how individuals make sense of their own strengths and challenges, how they navigate social context and the other people in their lives, and that I prefer to emphasize the ways in which things are working (or not working) for folks, and then figuring out what might work better for them in their situations, rather than fitting them into a prescribed system. I work with individuals of all genders and ages (over 16), couples, families, and groups.
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While I am passionate about therapy, I’m keen to continue to complement my counselling practice with my other clinically-focused support services, including: workshops, seminars and trainings, consultations, and supervision. Through a relationship built with The Northern Institute of Social Justice at Yukon University, I’ve been delivering psychoeducational training on a range of subjects: suicide intervention, communication, boundary setting and enforcing, and am keen to do more! Also alongside Erin, I facilitate suicide awareness and education workshops, tailored group seminars, and other psychoeducational trainings. I have been fortunate to travel the territory and learn alongside heaps of fellow Yukoners, and I appreciate the opportunity I’ve been given to benefit from my work in communities outside of Whitehorse.
When I’m not in professional mode, I like to spend time on adventures with friends and puppers - mostly canoeing or on sight-seeing hikes - hanging out with cool folks from Yukon Roller Derby, reading, watching documentaries, having debates, making puns, laughing, learning new things, and trying to be a better version of a human.
When I’m not in professional mode, I like to spend time on adventures with friends and puppers - mostly canoeing or on sight-seeing hikes - hanging out with cool folks from Yukon Roller Derby, reading, watching documentaries, having debates, making puns, laughing, learning new things, and trying to be a better version of a human.
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