About Marci

   
My professional journey began with a degree in Education from the University of Alberta. After only a year as a teacher, I met a clinical social worker helping children and families with life’s emotional and social challenges and realized that was exactly what I wanted to do. I pursued a Bachelor of Social Work from the University of Calgary then went on to complete the Master of Social Work program. In addition to counselling individuals, couples and families, I have worked as a crisis counsellor and group facilitator in the area of family violence, as a mediator in youth justice and as a hospital social worker in mental health and in cancer treatment.

It is my belief that we have been created with unique potential & purpose… I enter the counselling relationship, where all experiences, including those involving personal heritage & history, religion, sexual orientation and gender identity, can be explored. There is room for everyone here, regardless of how you have come to see yourself. My approach is Client-Centered and anchored in Systems and Attachment theories. I am a student of the following approaches:  Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Ego Development Theory, Compassionate Inquiry, Emotion-Focused Therapy, the Gottman Method, Internal Family Systems Theory and Narrative Therapy. I have an avid interest in Energy Psychology and the integration of the mind and body in healing, and am a trained EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) practitioner.
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Marci Copes-Genereux, BEd, MSW, RSW

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