Our Counselling Team Leads Team
Counselling Team Leads
Our Team Leads are registered mental health professionals who support Master’s-level interns through virtual and on-site guidance, helping ensure safe, ethical, and high-quality client care.
Our Team Leads are registered mental health professionals who support Master’s-level interns through virtual and on-site guidance, helping ensure safe, ethical, and high-quality client care.
Welcome to Momentum!
My name is Janet VanCaeseele, and I am a Mental Health Therapist and licensed Canadian Certified Counsellor.
I am honored and privileged to have this opportunity to walk alongside others as they work through the challenges they face within their lives. Regardless of everyone’s background and past, I strive to focus on the individual’s potential, strengths, and resilience
to improve their well-being.
My goal as a therapist is to create a safe environment where the client feels valued and understood, that can instil hope. I am passionate in applying a trauma informed approach to empowering individuals to heal from their adversity.
I apply a variety of modalities within my practice including solution focused, somatic experiencing, client centred, attachment based, emotion focused, humanistic, CBT, DBT, ACT, MBCT, and I am certified in EMDR trauma treatment.
I look forward to this opportunity to assist others in seeing their potential and growing within their mental health journey.
My name is Shereen Singh, and I am a Canadian Certified Counselor. Prior to therapy, I have 12 years of experience working in the human services field (group homes, shelters for youth & women, as well as
Children Services). I completed my undergraduate degree in Child & Youth care at MacEwan University, followed by my master’s degree in counselling at City University of Seattle. In my fulltime work, I work with pregnant and parenting teens this includes individual therapy, therapy for co-parenting families, and couples therapy. I also teach/coach at MacEwan university part time, and run my private practice out of Sherwood Park, AB. In my free time, I enjoy spending time with my son and family as well as cooking, reading and creating art!
I am a certified EMDR and DBT therapist, and also provide couples therapy using the Gottman (level 1) method. I strive to build a therapeutic relationship with all of my clients using an attachment focused lens, where you feel safe to explore the impacts of past and present experiences of your life!
Gina has been working in the mental health field since 2012 and holds a Master’s degree in Counselling Psychology. As a Counselling Therapist and Canadian Certified Counsellor, she brings a solid clinical foundation along with years of meaningful experience supporting people through life’s challenges and celebrating the wins, big or small.
Her approach is solution focused and client-centred, grounded in the belief that people are the experts in their own lives. Gina’s style is genuine, down-to-earth, and collaborative, creating a space where clients feel comfortable, supported, and free from judgment. She believes that sometimes a bit of humour and authenticity can make the hard stuff a little easier to tackle. Gina meets clients where they are, with understanding, support, and compassion. She has experience working with individuals from a wide range of backgrounds and is committed to creating an inclusive environment where people feel safe to show up exactly as they are. Outside of work, Gina enjoys spending time with animals, listening to music, and running (usually toward a coffee shop). She appreciates the simple comforts of good coffee, a good nap, and spending time in nature.
Gina is grateful to be a Team Lead at Momentum Counselling, supporting clients and students in Edmonton and surrounding areas to discover solutions together and feel seen, heard, and supported along the way.
Jennifer Thomson is a Registered Clinical Social Worker and Canadian Certified Counsellor. Jennifer’s education includes social work (diploma and BSW) and a master’s degree from the University of Alberta (counselling psychology). To advance her clinical and supervision skills, she is currently attending Yorkville University to complete her doctorate in counselling and psychotherapy (DCP). She has trained and supervised volunteers and graduate students since 1999, and is known for her love of solution-focused, single-session therapy.
Jennifer’s years of experience with walk-in counselling, and its necessity for trauma-informed, strengths-based, and non-judgmental interventions have been central to her practice. Jennifer’s therapeutic approach is creative and practical to promote insight and next steps to change. Counselling can include gaining perspective, setting boundaries, energizing coping and developing skills. When supervising, Jennifer is collaborative, using her expertise to inspire and guide supervisees’ confidence, capacity, and success as professionals. As the co-founder of Momentum, Jennifer is committed to valuing each person’s unique cultural context and identity in order to actively support their solutions.
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