Millicent holds a Master of Social Work degree as well as a Bachelor of Psychology degree. She is also a Canadian Certified Perinatal Mental Health Therapist. 

Millicent is a wife and a mother of 3 beautiful children. Millicent enjoys spending time with her family and going on little adventures with them. has over a decade of experience working with the perinatal population. Before entering into private practice, Millicent began her career supporting families who experienced physical, sexual and emotional abuse, neglect, domestic violence, addictions and mental health challenges. 

As a dedicated social worker and mental health therapist, Millicent specializes in perinatal mental health and birth trauma, offering therapeutic support to birthing individuals and their families who are navigating the emotional and psychological challenges associated with conception, pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period. She has a strong understanding of the interconnectedness between maternal mental health and child mental health.

Millicent’s approach to mental health is client-centered and solution-focused, ensuring that every individual’s voice is heard and their needs are addressed with compassion and empathy, especially during the most empowering yet most vulnerable times. She prioritizes empowerment, collaboration and holistic care while meeting clients where they are at. Furthermore, Millicent uses a strength-based approach, an Anti-Oppressive lens and cognitive behaviour therapy to support clients in their healing journey as they navigate complex trauma, systemic barriers and relational conflicts. 

Through her own experiences of reproductive trauma, Millicent was able to channel her struggles into a passion for women’s health.A strong belief in social justice and advocacy has driven Millicent. She fiercely advocates for equitable and culturally affirming resources for the BIPOC community.  Millicent believes in creating safe spaces where birthing people are seen, heard and valued. 

Millicent Asiedu is the Founder and Executive Director of Mesh of Mothers (MOM) Foundation Inc., a not-for-profit organization. Millicent started M.O.M during the height of the pandemic as she recognized the disparities experienced by black mothers in the perinatal period. Through MOM, Millicent has brought awareness to maternal/mental health. She has helped create a community of mothers, annual workshops and conferences, access to culturally affirming resources and community engagements in Alberta. She has been recognized for her passion, dedication to service and advocacy in Canada and the United States. 

“I am excited to join the RPTC because this is the type of support I needed early on in my maternal journey. My vision is aligned with RPTC as we all commit to improving mental health services for expectant and new parents, and their families while fostering resilience, ensuring that each clien’s unique needs are met and that mental health care is an integral part of perinatal care.”

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Jennifer Benson is a Registered Psychologist with a Masters in Counselling Psychology. Jennifer excels in supporting those struggling with fertility, pregnancy loss, birth trauma, paternal and perinatal mental health, and parenting.

Jennifer shares: “As a parent, I deeply empathize with others in similar roles. I understand firsthand the challenges that come with parenting, which allows me to connect with and support other parents in a meaningful way. My personal experience drives my passion for helping others navigate the complexities of parenthood.

I am deeply committed to supporting new parents, driven by my own experiences with birth trauma following the birth of my first son and prenatal and postpartum depression with my second. I am passionate about providing the support, guidance and understanding that can make a meaningful difference for other parents during this critical time. My goal is to offer emotional, practical, and educational support, ensuring that my clients feel empowered and understood as they build confidence and resilience.”

Jennifer has had the privilege of helping and supporting individuals for almost twenty years. She is compassionate, relatable, empathetic, and genuinely cares about her clients. Her counselling style is trauma-informed, collaborative, engaging, and feedback-orientated. She helps clients develop self-awareness and insight while exploring new strategies, skills, and behaviours to facilitate positive change. Mindfulness is a cornerstone of her practice, enhancing self-awareness and emotional regulation while fostering a deep sense of safety and trust in the therapeutic relationship.

Jennifer adopts a strengths-based approach to therapy, rooted in her belief that everyone possesses the potential to grow and thrive. She works with clients ages 15 and older, addressing a diverse range of presenting concerns. Jennifer is trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), advanced EMDR techniques, and integrating somatic approaches into EMDR as well as Emotion-Focused Individual Therapy.

At the beginning of her career, Jennifer held various leadership roles in the health and fitness industry, giving her a broad knowledge base of health and solidifying her holistic view of well-being. Her interventions and techniques are tailored, comprehensive, and evidence-based. She looks forward to connecting and working together to create meaningful change.

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Megan is a Registered Psychologist with the College of Alberta Psychologists. Over the past ten years, Megan has worked alongside children, adolescents, and adults who have experienced various forms of trauma, particularly sexual abuse. Although she began her career as a Child and Youth Care Worker, she was quickly inspired to return to school and complete a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology. Now working as a Psychologist, she deeply appreciates the courage and strength it takes to ask for help. She values the power of human connection as a vital foundation for healing. After becoming a mother and navigating her own challenges with postpartum anxiety and rage, Megan felt a strong calling to pursue specialized training in this area. Through both personal experiences and professional development, she discovered how many parents were struggling in silence. She understands firsthand the sting of shame that can accompany postpartum rage and the overwhelming intensity of emotions that often arise during this period. These insights have shaped her belief that society must have more open conversations about perinatal mental health and the stigma surrounding it. She advocates for providing new parents with the support they need during what is often one of the most vulnerable times in their lives. Megan recognizes the challenges and feelings of overwhelm that can occur during the transition to parenthood and believes people deserve to be met with safety, empathy, and compassion.

In her therapeutic work, Megan strives to create a space where all emotions are welcome—especially the ones that feel the heaviest. She believes that individuals should feel safe and free from judgment when discussing sensitive topics. As a Psychologist, Megan is committed to equipping her clients with tools to regulate their emotions in order to move towards healing. Her dual perspective as both a clinician and a parent fuels her passion for advocating for perinatal mental health and challenging the misconceptions that often surround it. This passion ultimately led her to join the team at RPTC, where she works alongside other dedicated service providers.

At RPTC, Megan is passionate about supporting individuals who have experienced pregnancy and infant loss, birth trauma, perinatal mental health challenges, and IUD trauma. She works with adolescents (ages 12 and up) and adults, using an integrative approach tailored to each client’s unique needs. She is trained as an EMDR therapist and incorporates techniques from Solution Focused Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Compassion Focused Therapy in her practice. In addition to this, Megan is currently completing training through Canadian Perinatal Mental Health Trainings (CPMHT).

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Aliya Manji is a Registered Psychologist with 10+ years of experience. She has worked with women fleeing domestic violence, children who have experienced trauma, and couples who have gone through infidelity and other life changes. Aliya supports individuals and couples who have experienced perinatal trauma, women’s and men’s health issues, and grief and loss.

Aliya’s approach includes various trauma-informed and client-centred therapeutic interventions such as EMDR, Gottman Method and Internal Family Systems. Aliya is set to take the Postpartum Support International training in the new year.

Aliya will meet you where you are in your journey and support you to grow at your own pace and level of readiness. She aims to provide you with a safe and non-judgmental space to express your thoughts and feelings.

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Katelyn Mayer is a Mental Health Therapist awaiting registration from the College of Alberta Psychologists as Registered Provisional Psychologist. Until that occurs, Katelyn can offer a reduced session rate of $100.00 per session.

Katelyn is a Mental Health Therapist in Edmonton with a Masters degree in Counselling Psychology from City University of Seattle. Her capstone research focused on understanding how experiences of grief are impacted by ambiguous loss when a loved one goes missing. This work led her to become passionate about supporting individuals who are experiencing grief and loss and has provided her with a unique understanding of how to support those who feel that their grief has been misunderstood, minimized, or dismissed. 

Her approach to sessions is based on collaboration, connection, and authenticity. She believes that each of us has the capacity for healing and that this journey looks different for everyone. Her goal within each session is to create a space that feels safe enough for you to show up as your true self, feeling seen, heard and welcomed. She truly believes that you are the expert in your own life and that her role is to walk beside you as you learn to nurture your inherent strengths, healing, learning, and growth. To support this, Katelyn draws on several different approaches based on the unique needs of her clients, primarily Internal Family Systems (IFS), Polyvagal Theory, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). Additionally, Katelyn has completed basic training in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) for the treatment of trauma. She has also pursued training through the Hakomi Institute of Edmonton to integrate mindfulness-based somatic interventions into her practice.

Katelyn is passionate about supporting individuals who have experienced pregnancy loss, birth trauma, fertility struggles, health complications such as endometriosis, and perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. She also provides support for partners and their mental health as they navigate the pregnancy and postpartum period. To support this area of her practice, she has pursued additional training in perinatal mental health through Canadian Perinatal Mental Health Trainings (CPMHT).

Katelyn genuinely believes there is a place in the counselling space for everyone, and genuinely thanks you for taking the first step in showing up for yourself by being here! 

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Dr. Teela Tomassetti is a Registered Provisional Psychologist through the College of Alberta Psychologists and is a Doctor of Psychology (PSYD). Her Doctoral research was recently completed and was a qualitative study utilizing semi-structured interviews with therapists’ experiences supporting birth trauma, the fawn trauma response and mistreatment by providers.

Teela has been a counsellor since 2005, supporting those with sexual assault, domestic violence, tragic losses and addiction concerns before becoming a registered provisional psychologist in 2021. For the last few years, Teela has specialized in birth trauma and identifies as a birth trauma survivor of midwifery violence and an excessive hemorrhage that threatened her life.

Teela works from a trauma-informed lens and believes in client-centered therapy. She walks alongside her clients, and her approach sets out to empower those she works with while providing a warm, safe, compassionate space. Teela has also acquired her Perinatal Mental Health training through Postpartum Support International. She has also sought out additional training on fertility struggles, endometriosis, PCOS, pregnancy and infant loss.

Her primary modality is Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), she is also trained in Advanced EMDR, which means she can offer the Recent Events Protocol, Group EMDR and Couples EMDR. She also recently completed another EMDR training on Integrating Somatic Approaches in Trauma work.

However, she shares that her heart will always be with Narrative Therapy, which views “the problem is the problem, the person is not the problem.” The social justice lens that often shows up in Teela’s works is Narrative Therapy. Her other primary modality is Compassion-Focused Therapy, which she believes is central to working with trauma.

Teela is an international conference speaker and has offered workshops to providers in-person and online on incorporating trauma-informed care into their roles and systems. She is also a published author, and chapters on birth trauma from both books she was asked to write will be released this year (stay tuned!). You can also see her as a keynote speaker at the Museum of Motherhood Conference in March in Florida and the PSI Conference in Washington, DC in July of 2024!

Teela offers support to those struggling with fertility, IUD trauma, pregnancy and infant loss, paternal mental health, endometriosis, PCOS, and perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. She receives direct supervision from a primary supervisor. She offers individual therapy in person and online support for all of Alberta.

You can follow her @theteaonbirthtrauma, where she has worked hard to build a safe community for over 35,000 birth trauma survivors.

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