Leanne Stinn

Leanne completed her Masters of Counselling degree from City University of Seattle, and is working towards becoming a Registered Psychologist. Her areas of focus include complex trauma and PTSD (with specialization and training for sexual violence), burnout, depression, and anxiety. Leanne strives to provide evidence-based, trauma-informed, anti-oppressive, queer affirming, and inclusive interventions. She takes a systems lens, and believes that healing for individuals involves seeing people in context and strengthening their networks of support. Her therapeutic approach is trauma-informed, client-centered, and feminist, grounded in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT), narrative therapy, ecopsychology, and solution-focused therapy (SFT). Leanne believes in meeting people where they are at, using humour, and being her offbeat self to just be one real person engaging with another on their healing journey.

Counselling is Leanne’s second career. Previously she was a structural engineer, and has been delighted to find that many of the things she enjoyed in this career, including being creative, thinking outside the box, and finding ways to connect and communicate with others, are also becoming a part of her counselling career. Leanne is also an adult counsellor at the Sexual Assault Centre of Edmonton, and loves witnessing humans triumph on their own terms!

In her free time, Leanne enjoys getting up to crafting shenanigans, especially crochet, beading, and painting. Her projects are also lovingly adored by her two cats, who seem to enjoy contributing their touches, whether it’s accidental paw prints or cat hair. She can be found outside in all seasons with her partner, whether it is snowboarding or snowshoeing in the winter, or hiking, canoeing, or painting outdoors in the summer.