Sydney McKenzie-Hougestol

MC
Registered Psychologist, Clinical Director
New clients:
Counselling: Waitlist
Assessments: Accepting

Sydney currently is not able to accept new counselling clients. Sydney is taking new assessment clients. If you are a new assessment client please contact admin@solastacounselling.ca or 587 487 7015.

Counselling clients – please consider one of our other wonderful team members.

Areas of Expertise:
  • Complex Trauma and PTSD
  • Anxiety and Depression
  • Substance Abuse
  • Bipolar Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder
  • Schizophrenia
  • Paranoia
  • Hallucinations
  • Delusions
  • ADHD
  • FASD and Intellectual Disability
  • Autism Spectrum
  • Chronic Pain
  • Grief and loss
  • Suicide Bereavement
  • LGBTQIA2S+
Psychological Services Offered:
  • Adolescent Therapy
  • Adult Therapy
  • Psychoeducational Assessments (Child and Adult)
  • ADHD Assessments (Child and Adult)
  • Adult Autism Assessment
Therapeutic Modalities:
  • Narrative Therapy
  • Person-Centered Therapy
  • Mindfulness-Focused Therapy
  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

I am a Registered Psychologist with over eight years of experience working with diverse individuals experiencing complex trauma, substance abuse, homelessness, poverty, and systemic oppression. I hold a Master of Counselling from City University of Seattle in Canada.

I am deeply committed to helping every person I have the honour of doing counselling with. I believe deeply in people and want to connect each person to their truest self. I practice from a narrative, person-centered, and acceptance and commitment therapy lens.

In my psychoeducational assessments, I am passionate about assessments and appropriate diagnoses and the access to resources, accommodations, and the deeper self-understanding they can provide. I believe that a diagnosis provides a window into how we view ourselves but that a diagnosis should never become a label we box ourselves in with. I hope to help you see yourself on a powerful and intricate level, identifying both strengths and areas of challenge with recommendations to help you thrive!

I spend my time reading, cooking, talking about mental health, listening to inspirational podcasts, playing Dungeons and Dragons with my friends, thinking I should probably be meditating more, watching fun TV, and hanging out with my spouse and cats.