Tanis Dick, BFA, MAT, RCAT-S, ATR-BC®, CCC-S

Tanis has been practicing since 1993 and is a dedicated lifelong learner. As the Clinic Director and lead therapist, she brings a wealth of experience and advanced training in Art Therapy, Focusing, Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP), EMDR, Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), the Circle of Security, Sand Play Therapy, Theraplay, and Internal Family Systems (IFS). Using these evidence-based approaches, Tanis empowers individuals to access their innate capacity for healing, growth, and transformation.

Tanis works with adults, children, and teens, and provides a compassionate, supportive space for personal development. She offers parent/caregiver consultations to strengthen parent-child relationships. Beyond her clinical practice, Tanis is committed to the professional development of others. She is an approved clinical supervisor for both the Canadian Art Therapy Association (RCAT-S) and the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CC-S). She offers teaching, consultation, and clinical supervision to allied therapists, fostering growth within the therapeutic community.

Cheryl Alsop, Amazing Administrative Assistant

Cheryl has been our amazing Administrative Assistant for 13 years. Her generous and kind spirit is felt by everyone on our team, the families we support and all the community representatives that we work with. Cheryl has amazing attention to detail and her endless energy is inspiring!

Susan Eilers, BA(Adv), DVATI, RCAT

Susan is a Registered Art Therapist with over 20 years of experience who has worked in collaboration with Tanis since 2009. Susan has extensive experience using Art Therapy in her work with children, youth, young adults, and their caregivers to support them around needs associated with FASD, attachment disruption, trauma, anxiety, anger management, identity, and neurodiversity. Her client-centred, strengths-based approach is rooted in the belief that empowerment and resiliency emerge when individuals are witnessed and met with compassion in both their strengths and challenges. Susan brings playfulness, humour, and curiosity to the therapeutic environment to foster restorative healing through creative process and relational attunement.

Gabrielle Funk, MAT., CCC

Gabrielle joined the clinic in 2025. She holds a B.A. in Psychology and an M.A. in Art Therapy from Concordia University. Gabrielle collaborates with clients to discover and celebrate their inherent strengths, wisdom, and capacity for healing. Her practice is grounded in decolonial approaches that honor children’s knowledge, identities, cultures, and lived experiences. She works with thoughtful attention to systemic influences and social justice principles, recognizing the broader contexts that shape children’s lives.

Cindy Geddert, MA, DWHEAT

Cindy joined the clinic as an Art Therapist in 2023 following two years of practicum with our team. She specializes in attachment-focused work, offering individual and dyadic sessions using Theraplay©, Therapeutic Play, Art Therapy, and Expressive Arts Therapy. She draws on her background as a counsellor, foster parent, foster parent trainer, and training in the Trust-Based Relational Intervention© to support caregivers in strengthening their parenting approaches.

Cindy’s joyful and engaging presence brings warmth and positivity to the therapeutic process, helping youth and caregivers build trust and take meaningful relational risks in therapy.

Bevan Klassen, DWHEAT, RCAT

Bevan joined the clinic as an Art Therapist in 2022 and offers a specialized approach that includes video-making as a therapeutic medium. His warm, collaborative style helps children and youth build inner calm and process difficult emotions through safe, creative expression. He believes creativity fosters connection, emotional regulation, and the reshaping of personal narratives with compassion and hope. He emphasizes that healing begins with curiosity and feeling heard and understood. Drawing from Internal Family Systems, Narrative Therapy, Mindfulness, and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Bevan adapts his approach to meet each client’s needs.

Heather McDevitt, B. ED., M.ED., DWHEAT,

Heather joined the clinic in September 2025 following the completion of two years of practicum with our team. She brings extensive experience supporting children and youth through her previous role as a school counsellor, where she worked for over 20 years. Heather is a child-centered, creative therapist with strong knowledge of systems of care and a deep attunement to developing developmentally appropriate therapeutic approaches. She believes in the power of connection, play, and creative expression as pathways to healing. Her work draws on expressive arts, attachment-based, and trauma-informed approaches, and she gently integrates a connection to land and place to support each child’s sense of safety, belonging, and wholeness. Heather works alongside children and youth in a respectful and relational way, honouring their strengths, stories, and capacity for growth.

Cormack Norberg, BA, DWHEAT

Cormack joined the clinic as an Art and Expressive Arts Therapist in 2026 after completing his practicum with the team. He draws on a diverse creative background in film, acting, improvisation, and visual storytelling to cultivate a supportive, and engaging environment where youth feel comfortable, understood, and open to exploring their experiences. His thesis explored the integration of Internal Family Systems (IFS) and sequential art, reflecting his interest in using storytelling and creative expression to help clients understand their inner worlds. Grounded in a client-centred, IFS-informed approach, Cormack supports youth in building self-awareness, emotional regulation, and self-compassion while reframing their personal narratives through connection, creativity, and humour.

Lynnea Thorkelson, DVATI, RCAT

Lynnea joined the clinic in 2025. She is a Registered Art Therapist, with additional training in play therapy and sensorimotor approaches including Clay Field Therapy. Through these tools and with the foundation of a generously attuned relationship Lynnea supports children and youth to regulate their nervous system, build internal resources and nurture joy and resilience. Many youth resonate with Lynnea’s gentle spirit which support the development of strong therapeutic realtionships.