Carlisle Lance

Carlisle completed her Master of Counselling through City University of Seattle. Carlisle’s practice currently focuses on various primary concerns including complex trauma, anxiety, depression, and substance abuse. Carlisle has experience working with many populations including queer and 2SLGBTQIA+ identifying humans. She takes a person-centered approach (often incorporating humour), and draws from dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT), solution-focused therapy (SFT), narrative therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). Carlisle is trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and she has also incorporated equine assisted therapy and nature assisted therapy into her practice.

Although much of Carlisle’s current practice involves trauma-based work with adults, she has experience working with individuals of all ages. Carlisle has worked in group homes, classrooms and agencies, with a wide range of children, adolescents and adults with intellectual and developmental impairments. She has also spent many volunteer hours acting as a mentor through Big Brothers Big Sisters and sharing her passion for horses with disabled clients through the Little Bits Therapeutic Riding Association.

In her free time, Carlisle enjoys hanging out with her friends, family and puppy “Otis”, singing and playing her guitar. She has a passion for event planning and loves bringing people together. Carlisle loves to run in the river valley and is working on her tennis game. A life-long Edmontonian, Carlisle takes great pride in her city and loves living here – but she is also usually half-planning her next travel adventure.