Amy Quintal, IMSW RSW

11/10/2025

Self-Acceptance

🩵 From a neurodivergent therapist, learning right alongside you.

11/05/2025

Boundaried Empathy and Burnout Prevention.
Just because you feel it, doesn’t need you need to fix it. Space can still be held for others without taking it on as your own.

10/21/2025

10/09/2025

Ni Natoohtaan (I Listen) - Psychology Benefit Program –

In partnership with Alberta Blue Cross, the Psychology Benefit Program, Ni Natoohtaan, provides funding to Métis Citizens in accessing 12 sessions with a Psychologist or Social Worker for complex mental health needs.

If you are currently seeing a licensed Psychologist or Social Worker, you may be eligible to receive financial coverage for 12 sessions. Applications will open on Oct. 20th and close once the first 100 applications have been approved.

PLEASE NOTE: Our eligibility criteria have changed. To review your eligibility and apply please go to albertametis.com/psychology-benefit-program

09/26/2025

Men’s group October 5.

Join us Sunday Oct 5 @ 1pm for Pass the Feather Men’s Talking Circle and Support Group.

Registration required. Contact Don at bremmaexteriors@hotmail.com or 780-619-7891

08/29/2025

Yesterday I had a visioning session with someone I have the pleasure of working with. I did the exercise alongside them and started with employment. Under a 5 year plan I began to write PhD and doodle around it which ended up looking like a fence or roadblock of some kind. It felt awful so I moved to what I am doing and working toward now. It felt like it had flow and a lightness. I went back to where I started at the top and after looking at it, I changed PhD to “PhDon’t”
Interesting where that small parallel activity took me while giving someone else space to do their own.
Takeaways:
Honouring the process as it unfolds. Reflecting and making meaning of it.
Noticing when it feels like something you are supposed to do rather than what’s meant for you.

08/11/2025

This is an excellent lived example of the autistic gift of pattern recognition, and why the valuing of sameness is so essential for regulation

07/24/2025

07/03/2025

06/28/2025

Indigenous Psychological Services offers culturally and trauma-informed counseling and psychological support, with services led by Indigenous psychologists or professionals trained in Indigenous counseling. We provide specialized Indigenous training and workshops to enhance cultural competency and u...

05/28/2025

We don’t call it a flashback. We call it “time visiting.”

It’s when something from the past suddenly returns—through a sound, a smell, a feeling in the body. You’re still in the present, but a part of you has gone to another time. A memory arrives without warning, and you feel it with your whole being.

Western systems might call it a flashback.
In our way, it’s something different.

We say time is visiting.

Because time doesn’t move in one direction. It loops, lingers, circles back. The past walks with us. It lives in our bones, in our breath, in our dreams. And sometimes, it comes close again—not to take us down, but to speak.

Time might visit to remind us: What hasn’t been fully seen, what still needs care, what part of us is still carrying something we never meant to carry alone…

There’s nothing wrong with you if this happens.
It doesn’t mean you’ve failed, or gone backwards.
It means your spirit remembers.

When time visits, move gently.
Breathe.
Notice where you are.
You’re not alone.