Meg Grudeski, MACP, C.C.C., Registered Provisional Psychologist
mgrudeski@ignitecounselling.ca
She/Her/Hers
Salutations! Where to start the ol’ biography? At the beginning, I suppose!
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 the process to become a Provisional Registered Psychologist (CAP, 2021), 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 the process to become a Provisional Registered Psychologist (CAP, 2021), 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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