About
MK Psychology
-Brené Brown
About
MK Psychology
-Brené Brown
Michelle Kropp
BEd, MACP, CCC
I bring with me over 29 years of experience working in education, mental health, and social work. I continue to work as a school counsellor and am an advocate for children, parents, and teachers. I enjoy working with teens, adults, and seniors who seek help with issues such as depression, anxiety, stress, trauma, and life transitions.
I am passionate about career counselling, workplace bullying and harassment, addictions, and working with parents/teens of blended families, or those experiencing high conflict divorces. Whether you seek to clarify values, address specific concerns, or examine decisions, therapy can help.
I offer Solution-Focused, Narrative, and Art therapy perspectives. I offer Cognitive-Behaviour therapy, somatic and mindfulness-based tools, and strategies. I utilize an integrated framework, and draw from attachment, psychodynamic, gestalt, trauma-processing, and cognitive-behavioral therapies.
I believe authentic therapeutic relationships are critical to clients feeling safe and supported on their journey of discovering while activating inner resources and developing new coping skills. I use empathy, honesty, humor, and creativity in sessions and create a safe and non-judgemental space for clients to explore their potential.
Treatment Methodologies
Combining psychotherapy with creativity, Art Therapy uses colour, shape, images, and textures to feelings that would otherwise be challenging to verbalize.
Attachment theory believes that the relationships that we form with others, in particular with our caregivers as young children, can have profound effects on our relationships and world-view later in life.
Coaching is a collaborative process in which dialogue is used to help clients identify their core values, set goals, be accountable, and realize their potential.
A common type of psychotherapy, this evidence-backed method is goal-oriented and time-limited. It’s used to help people manage unwanted emotions or behaviours by teaching them how to change their thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes.
This is a subset of Cognitive Bahaviour Therapy that is used specifically to treat PTSD. It teaches clients to evaluate upsetting thoughts which allows them to modify their thoughts and how they feel.
Compassion towards self and others is at the centre of Compassion Focused Therapy. This method can be particularly helpful to those who struggle with distressing thoughts and actions, especially those of a self-destructive nature.
Eclectic therapy is a type of psychotherapy in which the clinician employs more than one methodology, approach, or technique to suit their client’s needs.
This approach to psychotherapy prioritizes emotion and emotional regulation as the key component in an individual’s life that guides their worldview and relationships. This technique is commonly used in couples and family therapy but also have applications in individuals, especially in the treatment of symptoms of depression and anxiety.
This is an active and expressive approach to therapy that involves the use of experiences (like role-playing, recreational therapy, animal therapy, play, music) to explore internal feelings, beliefs, and attitudes.
This approach focuses on the family as the central unit of a person’s life. It views the family unit itself as its own emotional and reactive entity in which an individual family member’s behaviour can influence. Likewise, the behaviour of an individual can be viewed through the perspective of their family relationships.
This approach celebrates the individuality of the client and focuses on guiding them to reach their maximum potential. With the client as the lead, the therapist helps guide the process, listening attentively and asking thought-provoking questions designed to ignite curiosity.
The primary concept behind this modality is that each person is unique and therefore may need a personalized approach to therapy. Borrowing from a variety of modalities, the clinician designs a treatment protocol unique to the client.
The goal of Interpersonal Psychotherapy is to help provide the client’s quality of life and reduce distress by improving their social functioning and interpersonal relationships. This technique is effective in the management of mood disorders as well as coping with relationship challenges and life transitions.
This is a collaborative process in which the therapist and several people close to the client attempt to improve the wellbeing of a loved one by explaining the negative effects that their behaviour is causing and imploring them to seek professional help.
Combining elements of CBT, mindfulness, and meditation, MBCT teaches clients to consciously acknowledge their thoughts and feelings in a non-judgement way. Originally designed to treat chronic depression, this technique is also effective in treating low mood, unhappiness, anxiety.
Narrative therapy emphasizes the role that our stories about our experiences can play in our lives. When events happen to us, we attach meaning to them which can impact our worldview and relationships. This technique helps the client to externalize their problems, creating distance between those and themselves, and rewrite their stories in a more healthy way.
Acting as a non-judgmental and compassionate guide, the clinician helps the client take the lead in their own process of self-discovery. During this empowering process, the client will develop their own solutions and build confidence.
Rather than focusing on problems and weaknesses, this method prioritizes identifying and enhancing strengths. The goal is to help the person move beyond a life of simple survival to actually thrive and live in joy.
This empirically validated technique strives to engage repressed emotions, experiences, thoughts, and beliefs, often stemming from childhood. The goal is then to release these unhealthy unconscious thoughts and repressed emotions to alleviate symptoms of mental distress and to help them move forward in life in a more healthy way.
Used commonly to treat a wide variety of unwanted mental health symptoms, like depression, anxiety, panic, and excessive stress, this modality focuses on the psychological roots of the client’s distress rather than simply address symptoms.
This modality posits that humans have 5 basic psychological needs including power, love and belonging, freedom, fun, and survival. When one or more of these needs is unmet, then the person experiences psychological distress. This approach is less concerned with the past and is instead focused on current challenges and developing solutions to solve them.
Relational therapy is premised on the concept that relationships with others are a key aspect of our emotional and psychological wellbeing. This approach helps clients to recognize the roles their relationships play in their lives as well as to identify any patterns in the beliefs and feelings they have about themselves.
A type of integrative therapy, Schema Therapy combines elements of CBT, psychoanalysis, attachment therapy, and more in order to help clients understand the ‘schemas’ (a maladaptive behaviour usually developed in childhood) that are affecting their lives. The goal of this therapy is to help ensure that needs are met in healthy versus maladaptive ways.
SFBT makes the assumptions that people know, on some level, what they need to change in their lives. With a focus on the present and improving the future rather than exploring past experiences, this solution-based modality helps clients as they self-determine their own strategy and the skills and resources needed to achieve their goals.
As a form of positive psychotherapy, Strength-Based Therapy focuses on identifying and enhancing internal strengths and abilities as opposed to a more problem-based approach. The goal of this modality is to improve the general mindset of the client so that their self-perception becomes more focused on their strengths than their shortcomings. This mindset change can extend into their worldview and that of their relationships.
This cognitive-behavioral therapy-based modality specifically treats the unique emotional and mental health needs of children, teens, and adults who have experienced trauma. It is often short-term and is appropriate for those who have developed PTSD, depression, or anxiety as a result of exposure to trauma.
The Gottman Method is a form of couples’ therapy that aims to develop skills and understanding to encourage intentional loving thoughts and actions towards one’s partner, especially in times of pain and conflict. A central tenet to this philosophy is that negative emotions have more power to hurt a relationship than positive emotions have to help a relationship. By learning problem-solving, understanding, and relationship-building skills, couples can foster a sustainable, loving environment conducive to a lifetime of happiness.
Fees
Individual therapy, in-person or online 50-minute session: $189/$220
Individual therapy, in-person or online 100-minute session: $378/$440
Family therapy, in-person 50-minute session: $199 +
Family therapy, in-person 100-minute session: $389
As a Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC), Michelle can see clients across Canada via online sessions.
Payments will be via credit card. Alternative payment can discussed with MK Psychology.
MK Psychology is able to direct-bill some insurance companies. Please discuss direct billing with MK office administrators. You will be provided detailed receipts for submission to your insurer if we are unable to direct-bill. We highly recommend that you check your coverage with your provider.
A sliding scale fee schedule is available for individuals with limited or no insurance coverage.
48-hour cancellation fee policy *
Please note payments not made within 7 days and after a gentle reminder will be charged to the credit card on file with a $4 late fee added to the outstanding amount.
Fees
Individual therapy, in-person or online 50-minute session: $180
Individual therapy, in-person or online 100-minute session: $360
Family therapy, in-person 50-minute session: $190
Family therapy, in-person 100-minute session: $370
Couples therapy, in-person intake 100-minute session: $380
Couples therapy, in-person 50-minute session: $190
Prices do not include GST – GST will be added
As a Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC), Michelle can see clients across Canada via online sessions.
Prices do not include GST.
Payment can be made by Email Money Transfer, Cash, & Cheque.
MK Psychology does not direct bill. You will be provided detailed receipts for submission to your insurer.
A sliding scale fee schedule is available for individuals with limited or no insurance coverage.
48-hour cancellation fee policy *
Please note payments not made within 7 days and after a gentle reminder will be charged to the credit card on file with a $4 late fee added to the outstanding amount.
Fees
Individual therapy, in-person or online 50-minute session: $189
Individual therapy, in-person or online 100-minute session: $378
Family therapy, in-person 50-minute session: $199
Family therapy, in-person 100-minute session: $388
Couples therapy, in-person intake 100-minute session: $399
Couples therapy, in-person 50-minute session: $199
As a Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC), Michelle can see clients across Canada via online sessions.
Payment can be made by Email Money Transfer, Cash, & Cheque.
MK Psychology does not direct bill. You will be provided detailed receipts for submission to your insurer.
A sliding scale fee schedule is available for individuals with limited or no insurance coverage.
48-hour cancellation fee policy *
Please note payments not made within 7 days and after a gentle reminder will be charged to the credit card on file with a $4 late fee added to the outstanding amount.
My Location
By Appointment Only – 160-363 Sioux Road Sherwood Park, Alberta
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