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Stacey Steele Psychology

I help adults heal from CPTSD, relational trauma and loss using the art & science of psychology. Consulting available for EMDR therapists.

I specialize in EMDR, including offering multiple day intensives & am an EMDRIA Certified Therapist and Consultant. Offering the following services:

*Psychotherapy for Adults:
- Relational Trauma including childhood abuse, adult child of addiction, adult child of narcissistic parents, sexual abuse, intimate partner violence, and emotional abuse.
- EMDR Therapy for trauma and anxiety.
-Women’s Issues including burnout, co-dependency, self image & identity, "imposter syndrome", and post-divorce counselling.

* Women's Retreats & Groups

* Workplace Wellness Consultation

Stacey Steele MACP is a Registered Psychologist offering confidential counselling services to individuals, families, and couples seeking guidance with improving the quality of their lives and relationships. Stacey works with individuals to feel better about themselves, accept their situation, and make healthy and positive choices. Stacey takes the approach that one size does not fit all! Her approach to counselling is eclectic and she incorporates elements from evidence-based practices to ensure that your counselling experience is dynamic and tailored to your needs. If you are interested in learning more, or not sure if counselling is right for you, contact Stacey to book a free phone consultation.

* All psychological services are billed at $220 an hour payable prior to each session. Stacey is a Registered Psycholgoist with the College of Alberta Psychologists (registration number 7493). Coverage depends on the insurance company and specific employee plan. To find out if you are covered for services from a registered psychologist, contact your plan representative.

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12/18/2025

When harm is systemic, healing has to be too.
If your nervous system is carrying more than it should, start with regulation that actually meets the moment.

Download the free Reset Checklist https://www.relitpractice.com/resetchecklist

and get practical tools to help you build a practice you don't need a break from & be the first to know when enrollment for the Relit Pracrice opens ✨️

12/10/2025

Seven Ways Your Workplace Creates Burnout....need a reset? Go to the link in bio to download the free Reset Checklist & start to relight your practice!

Work Overload
When the demands consistently exceed your available time, energy, and resources, burnout becomes inevitable.

Lack of Control
You are held responsible for outcomes you have little to no influence over, including scheduling, caseload size, documentation time, and programming decisions.

Insufficient Rewards
This goes beyond money. It includes lack of meaningful feedback, recognition, satisfaction, and enjoyment in your work.

Breakdown of Community
A competitive workplace culture replaces collaboration, creating in-group and out-group dynamics that erode psychological safety.

Lack of Fairness
Inconsistent application of policies, unfair expectations, and inequitable treatment of both staff and clients fuel resentment and disengagement.

Values and Ethics Conflicts
When organizational demands clash with professional standards and personal ethics, moral distress develops. You are placed in impossible loyalty binds between what your workplace wants and what your profession requires.

Identity Misalignment
You reach the moment of realization that the workplace no longer aligns with who you are, how you practice, or what you stand for.

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12/04/2025

Whew! This was an emotional one for me! I want to start by saying not all systems are broken and in even the most exploitative workplace there are good people, I have met some of my best friends in the worst places.

BUT, not every workplace that provides care to people provides care to their workers.

There can sometimes be a fear of change, and the systems that are broken will discourage that change, will send the message you owe them, will use training opportunities as handcuffs, will create an in group out group culture, will take credit for innovation built by others, will weaponize staff wellness days, will create competition between teams, and will use your vulnerabilities as ammunition.

I'm here to tell you, there is a better way and you can turn these experiences into something to grow from. You shouldn't have to recover from your work and you shouldn't need EMDR to heal from a workplace (though it was an integral part of my recovery!)

Friends, if you are feeling it and don't know where to start, go to the link in bio and download the free Reset Checklist to start your journey towards a sustainable practice and life you don't need to recover from.

11/26/2025

Confession time! Drop a ❤️ if you relate to my experience with a Self Sacrifice Schema! And go to the to download your free Reset Checklist for something you can do right now to prevent burnout!

A self sacrifice schema is a long standing pattern where you consistently put others needs ahead of your own, often at the cost of your wellbeing, and feel guilty when you try to set limits. Schema therapy is an evidence based approach that identifies these ingrained patterns, then rewires them through insight, emotional processing, and behavioural change.
I am currently developing a program built specifically for therapists that blends schema therapy with the latest research on burnout, so clinicians can break these patterns instead of burning themselves out trying to serve everyone else.

11/25/2025

Sometimes when I get home I REALLY don't want to do anything else than watch TV and chill on the couch, especially on wintery days like today.

I remember how I used to think self care meant an hours long event of lighting candles, doing a yoga class, journalling about it, then chugging a green smoothie. And though it can, the thought of it felt like work so instead I did nothing.

Now I’ve learned that showing up for myself, even when I’d rather not, counts too. And on days like today it meant getting on the app and signing up for Yely's class and doing some slow flow in my living room.
Sometimes it's yoga in my bed and sometimes it's at

This is discipline with compassion by showing up when
I don’t always want to do the work, but knowing the work can look different everyday.

So I roll out the mat, I breathe, and I meet myself again.
That is self care too.

11/17/2025

Rage bait like this is at best annoying and at worst reinforces damaging stigmas and internalized beliefs that prevent people from seeking support.

Burnout absolutely exists, and anyone working with real humans knows that. Burnout is a patterned stress response, rooted in chronic overload, unrelenting pressure, and systems that demand output without restoring the human behind it.

It shows up in cognition, mood, sleep, physiology, relationships, and work. This is not vibes. It is science.

11/09/2025

Rest is human
Rest is rebellion
Rest is integrity
Rest is creative
Rest is spirit

Rest is not a reward.

11/05/2025

Maybe you are an imposter....and that’s the point.

It's not that you aren't "good enough" it's that you are in Stage 2 of learning which is the part where awareness hits and confidence dips. This can activate old schemas and scripts that keep us stuck. So instead of trying to outperform this feeling, name it for what it is! An essential part of your professional growth.

So if you feel like an imposter right now, stay there. Chdck in with peers, supervisors, get consulatation, and follow deliberate practice models to hone your skills. Those can be the bridge between who you were and who you’re becoming.
You’re not faking it, you’re learning it!

10/29/2025

We’re getting smarter about burnout, and more people in the helping profression are getting honest with each other about their experience. It used to be we had to hide and pretend, because we didn’t have support, felt alone, and felt the effects of covert and stigmatizing messages in the workplace. But that's changing, and now instead of suffering alone helpers are finding community and making their way back to the reason they got into this work!

One of my favorite resources, "The Resilient Practitioner", changed how I understand the emotional cost of caring and how to prevent it before it takes hold.

I built a Burnout Reset Checklist based on the research in that book and organized it into five categories to help you notice early warning signs and renew from the inside out:

1. Recognize & Release

2. Repair & Rewire

3. Redesign Your Practice

4. Restore Your Rhythms

5. Relight Your Passion

Because resilience needs more than self care!

📥 Download your free Burnout Reset Checklist at the link in bio.

10/23/2025

Therapists, social workers, helpers....did you drink the Kool-Aid?
The one labeled “clients first,” “we’re a family,” “this is just how the field is.” My personal favourite when asking for more resources "The reward is in the work, not the paycheque".

We’ve all heard it. We’ve all sipped it.

What’s the most unhinged thing a workplace ever said to you? Drop it in the comments, let's name the BS out loud 👇

10/18/2025

Revisiting some book this weekend for online program devleopment for therapists and burnout (ReLit Practice) & wanted to share this reading list for helpers + healers who want to stay in the work without losing themselves in it.

Help for the Helper by Babette Rothschild
Trauma Stewardship by Laura van Dernoot Lipsky
The Resilient Practitioner by Thomas M. Skovholt & Michelle Trotter-Mathison
The Grieving Therapist by Larisa A. Garski & Justine Mastin

I can’t wait to share what’s emerging from the notes, highlights, and dog-eared pages!

What's one your bookshelf this weekend?

10/15/2025

Dismantle the idea that work has to be Monday to Friday, 9-5! Most bodies don't actually function in that cycle.

In this work, you are allowed to:
- Start your day in the afternoon
- Work Saturdays and take off Tuesdays
- Do work sprints in the evenings while watching TV
- See early morning clients and be home by 11am
- Cap your clients at 3 a day
- ...and do your best work in hotel rooms on Sunday mornings 😁

Address

390 Aberdeen Street SE
Medicine Hat, AB
T1A0R2

Opening Hours

Tuesday	10am - 5pm
Wednesday	10am - 5pm
Thursday	10am - 5pm

Website

https://linktr.ee/Staceysteelepsychology, http://www.steelepsychology.com/, https://open.substack.com/pub/relitpractice?

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