Dr. Teela Tomassetti is a Registered Provisional Psychologist through the College of Alberta Psychologists and is a Doctor of Psychology (PSYD). Teela is excited to share that she also holds the Canadian Certified Counsellor (C.C.C.) designation and can offer therapy online across Canada! When booking in with her, if you are in Alberta, she will bill you as a Registered Provisional Psychologist, and if you are seeing her outside of Alberta in any other province, she will bill you as a C.C.C. Keep in mind when booking in outside of Alberta, her times are in Mountain Time when you are converting it to yours.
Teela’s Doctoral research 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.
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 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 were released this year.
She offers consultation to other providers and organizations on trauma-informed care, and you can book in with her for this as well as presentations and trainings.
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 and online therapy across Canada as a C.C.C.
You can follow her @theteaonbirthtrauma, where she has worked hard to build a safe community for over 45, 000 birth trauma survivors.
