Canmore Counselling

Canmore Counselling Welcome to Canmore Counselling | Trauma-Informed Yoga Psychology School

🔹Counselling | Individuals, Families, Couples
🔹Trauma-Informed Yoga Psychology School
- 200-Hour Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher Training
- 300-Hour Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher Training
- Yoga for Kids & Teens Teacher Training
- Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training
🔹Ayurvedic Nutrition
🔹Workshops

www.canmorecounselling.com

✨ grateful ✨Our amazing team offers many forms of community care in Alberta & B.C & Beyond 🪄✨Counselling✨Workshops✨Train...
07/23/2025

✨ grateful ✨

Our amazing team offers many forms of community care in Alberta & B.C & Beyond 🪄

✨Counselling
✨Workshops
✨Trainings
✨ADHD Assessments
…. in Alberta & coming soon to BC 🪄

We’re here for you so please reach out by email if you have questions or need help finding who might be a good fit!

connect@canmorecounselling.com

❤️🧡💛💚💜💙🤍


Welcome to Canmore Counselling & Trauma-Informed Yoga Psychology SchoolWhere you CAN create MORE of the life you want. W...
07/17/2025

Welcome to Canmore Counselling & Trauma-Informed Yoga Psychology School

Where you CAN create MORE of the life you want.

We’re so glad you’re here!

✨Our Values Statement✨

Canmore Counselling is committed to supporting people who are open to personal growth, including equity deserving groups, in experiencing a sense of belonging, authenticity, and growth through community care, rooted in reciprocity, acceptance, heart-based connection, healing, learning, and unlearning.

*written by our counselling & wellness dream team*

Our incredible team (many tagged in this post) offer so many forms of care:

❤️Counselling
🧡Yoga Teacher Training
💛Yoga Therapy Cert
💚ADHD assessment
💙Pride Network🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
💜Social Justice 🍉
🤍Workshops

www.canmorecounselling.com



serving & & beyond

✨ Upcoming 2025 Trainings ✨Space is limited as our trainings are small & community-centred 💗💛 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Trai...
07/16/2025

✨ Upcoming 2025 Trainings ✨

Space is limited as our trainings are small & community-centred 💗

💛 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training ~ Sept - Dec

✨ A foundational trauma-informed training for those beginning their journey into yoga psychology!

And for those who have already completed a 200-hour YTT…

Or join us for a specific training:

💜 Yoga Nidra Certification ~ August
✨ Alongside Anne, you’ll learn, practice & embody Yoga Nidra as a therapeutic approach to care

💙 Pre & Post-Natal Certification ~ Sept & Oct
✨ Centring loving & inclusive support for parents, caregivers & birthing supports

💚 Kids & Teens Certification ~ Nov & Dec
✨ Playful, accessible practices that honour and uplift the roots of yoga

💗 Happy to share that our 800-Hour Yoga Therapy Certification is well underway, alongside such beautiful souls! Please keep in mind that applications for 2026 enrolment opens in September!

✨ An accredited program to support you on your journey to becoming a certified yoga therapist with IAYT
✨ Prerequisite: A 200-hour yoga teacher training

Whether you’re starting with our 200-hour YTT or stepping into yoga therapy, we’d love to learn & unlearn alongside you.

We’re grateful you’re here 💗

💫 Learn more & apply: www.canmorecounselling.com/yogaschool

♥️ Melissa | she/her

“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will a...
07/14/2025

“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping” ~ Mr. Rogers

we are grateful for all of you who are standing steady & unwavering in care and justice. thank you for being who you are. we need you. we need you. we need you. even when your voice shakes. ♥️

as said:
“There will come a day soon when it will be more controversial to have been silent than to have spoken out about Gaza. ❤️‍🩹”

and very grateful for this poem by today: “Someday you’ll say “I knew it!” Someday you’ll say you cared, you’ll claim you were the first to say it, before anyone else dared.
Someday when the history is written, someday when the question “where were you?” When calling a thing, a thing is no longer forbidden. You’ll say you always knew.”

🇸🇩 🇵🇸 🇨🇩



rooted in

✨ textbookI needed to take some time for deep rest before sharing this beautiful news 🥹🪄Alongside 78 beautiful souls, ov...
07/12/2025

✨ textbook

I needed to take some time for deep rest before sharing this beautiful news 🥹🪄

Alongside 78 beautiful souls, over the last 2.5 years, my dear friend and mentor, Sandra, & I created a textbook to support helping professionals leaning into decolonizing health, healing, and care ♥️

Beyond grateful, inspired & humbled by everyone who breathed this beautiful book into being... big hugs to each of you ♥️

here’s a message from Sandra as well ♥️

“I am very excited to announce the publication of this new book. Melissa and I are so grateful to the many collaborators who made this work possible. Together we centre Indigenous worldviews to offer 8 pathways and 18 practices that support a decolonial and anti-oppressive approach to theory and practice. The diversity of voices, lived experiences, and culture-centred views of health and healing add to the depth and breath of understanding of what it might look like decolonizing ourselves and our practices. We welcome you to check out the full list of chapters and co-authors: I feel very fortunate to have had the opportunity to learn from each of you. Sandra”

✨ This book will be integrated into various programs across the country… masters degrees, our yoga therapy certification, and undergraduate degrees… and we hope it will touch the hearts of helping professionals, already in the field, who are seeking support in what is possible, sacred, and oh-so needed.

What a gift to walk alongside folks in this way!

♥️ Dr. Melissa Jay

Incredible cover by the magical & loving

Book Details:

Decolonizing health, healing, and care:
Embodying culturally responsive and socially just counselling
By Sandra Collins and Melissa Jay (Editors)
Edition: 1st Edition
Published: June 1, 2025
Publisher: Counselling Concepts
DOI: https://doi.org/10.71446/ji62364753
ISBN: 978-0-9738085-6-8
Format: ePUB (with audios and videos)
Distributor: Vital Source




may we all be gentle with ourselves & each other… the world needs us to stay present and responsive. sending you love fr...
07/10/2025

may we all be gentle with ourselves & each other… the world needs us to stay present and responsive. sending you love from the 🌊 with 🙆🏽‍♂️ & 🐕

💗 it’s all messy. the hair. the bed. the heart… life. 💗
07/08/2025

💗 it’s all messy.
the hair.
the bed.
the heart…
life.

💗

✨ when you do things from your soul, other people really dig that s**t ✨
07/07/2025

✨ when you do things from your soul, other people really dig that s**t ✨

✨ Community Care ✨I am dedicated to learning & unlearning what it means to stay present to hope, grief, anger, & numbnes...
07/05/2025

✨ Community Care ✨

I am dedicated to learning & unlearning what it means to stay present to hope, grief, anger, & numbness while staying rooted in humanity.

These reflections are inspired by the wisdom and care of my teachers & mentors, the Elders & Knowledge Keepers I love, our incredible team, and our loving yoga school community. You all inspire me every day 🪄

May we keep finding ways to root into community care and remember we are never alone in this work.

💗Melissa

In case it’s helpful, here’s written content on the slides & please feel free to share with your communities:

Slide 1: Feeling the land beneath me & my hand on my heart, I repeat:
I am held.
I am supported.
I belong here.
I create safety.
I am needed.

Slide 2: We need each other because we are witnessing & impacted by harm.
Community care helps us stay engaged and connected.

Slide 3: Some of the ways we can stay engaged & connected:
Time in nature
Co-regulation
Mutual aid
Aligning with BDS
Calling elected officials

Michael & I do a roundup each night so I’m sharing a handful from last two weeks or so… and sharing this photo of our li...
07/02/2025

Michael & I do a roundup each night so I’m sharing a handful from last two weeks or so… and sharing this photo of our little family (taken in 2023 I think) and closing with ones of Lulu & the forest (taken last week) ♥️ we are so grateful you are here. please continue to lean into the people, places & practices that support you in showing up fully, so you are able to stay engaged ✨ this is also how we sustain our ability to hold both joy & pain ✨ we need you. we need you. we need you. ps: sending you big love ♥️

just a little message from from Lulu and I today… we want to send some love & invite you to practice being present…. he...
06/22/2025

just a little message from from Lulu and I today… we want to send some love & invite you to practice being present…. here and now… what do you notice, mind-body-spirit-heart?

I love practicing present moment awareness because when we’re present we are regulated and better able to respond with care & clarity.

we need each other & we’re so glad you’re here ♥️

our counselling team is here for you and we’re so honoured to be 🥹 please feel free to schedule some time for you, when you’re ready ~ first sessions available as early as this week & many of our counsellors can offer direct billing ✨

www.canmorecounselling.com

with big love,
Melissa & Lulu



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Please keep showing up with your good medicine, kind souls ✨ we need you! Love this from “Maybe it’s corny but if you...
06/22/2025

Please keep showing up with your good medicine, kind souls ✨ we need you!

Love this from

“Maybe it’s corny but if you are anxious about the state of this country I promise organizing / participating in mutual aid will make you feel better. Having a sense of purpose and making a tangible difference with your neighbors is a million times better than doom scrolling.”

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Welcome to Canmore Counselling, where you can create more of the life you want. Offering: Individual, Family & Couples Counselling. Yoga Psychology Workshops. Trauma-Informed Yoga Psychology School www.canmorecounselling.com With goodness,

Melissa, Michael, Carolyn & Amélie