PLAYBACK PSYCHOLOGY
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Something on your mind? Let's play it back.
Trauma Therapy, EMDR, and Feminist Narrative Inquiry
Playback Psychology offers individual therapy services. By harnessing imagination, energy, enthusiasm, poetry, and humour we strive to understand your story and elevate your voice. Whether you are considering the past, the present, or the future, we believe that therapeutic conversations can expand the options, responses, and actions we have available to us and help us to recognize our opportunity to be active agents in our own lives- or the protagonist of our own story. The therapist's role is to ask you thoughtful questions that help to provide clarity and make meaning of your experiences.
We practice various interventions including Contemporary Feminist Narrative Therapy, which means our work is focused and targeted. We consider contextual factors that can contribute to our distress. We practice the art of paying attention, which means what you say is extremely important. We will work hard during our time together to listen, to understand, and to help.
Crys Vincent (she/her) MC, CCC,
Registered Psychologist
(not currently accepting new clients)
I am a Canadian Certified Counsellor with the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA) and a Registered Psychologist (R.Psych) with the College of Alberta Psychologists (CAP). I am EMDR Certified (EMDRIA) and a clinical supervisor with Athabasca University and St. Stephen's College. I am currently completing my Doctorate in Counselling and Psychotherapy (YU). My research is on identifying patriarchal power processes in couples' therapy. I identify as a Queer woman and use she/her pronouns.
**Crys is not currently able to welcome new therapy clients.
Tara Luhtanen (she/her) MSW RSW
Registered Social Worker
Clinical Specialization
I am a Registered Social Worker with a Master of Social Work (MSW) in Clinical Specialization, a Bachelor of Social Work (BSW), and a BA Honours. I am licensed with the Alberta College of Social Workers (ACSW) and with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers (OCSWSSW). My therapeutic approach is eclectic and anti-oppressive, trauma-informed and grounded in contemporary feminist Narrative therapy. I work alongside you to create the change you long for, to feel at ease in your own voice and values, and shift to living in more empowering, genuine ways.
I work with individual adults 18+, in-person or virtually in Calgary, and virtually throughout Alberta and Ontario.
Dallas Loewen (he/him)
Graduate Intern
I am a current student at St. Stephen's University, completing a
Masters in Spirituality and Psychotherapy. With a background in theology and training in psychotherapy and spirituality, my approach is collaborative, trauma-informed, and rooted in Internal Family Systems, Polyvagal Theory, mindfulness, and somatic practices.
Tasleem Sarwar (she/they)
Graduate Intern
I am a current master's student in counselling at Athabasca University. With a professional history in mental health and crisis response, I value feminist and narrative perspectives and deeply care about relational-cultural approaches. I am inspired by evidence-based interventions such as mindfulness, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and I hope to work with queer people of colour.
tasleem@playbackpsychology.ca
Jenessa Greer (she/her)
Mental Health Therapist
I am a mental health therapist, currently a student at Athabasca University, completing a Masters in Counselling. I draw from mindfulness, somatic practices, collaborative approaches, and evidence-based modalities like Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Narrative Therapy and parts work.
Partner Practice- Jade Lee Counselling
A note about safety. Playback Psychology is an enthusiastically affirming space. Your name, pronouns, and identity will be respected, supported, and cherished here. You will not be required to force yourself into any checkbox or binary based on your identity. We are continually working towards making therapy a safer place for those who have been excluded from, denied, or been the victim of harmful practices in our profession. We welcome feedback on any of our practices or language that requires more learning, but will not rely on the communities we serve to educate us. We remain humble and committed to the work of Queer and trans rights and celebrate the beauty of diverse expressions of gender, identity, and relationships.
We acknowledge that we live and work on Treaty 7 territory—the traditional and ancestral territory of the Blackfoot Confederacy: Kainai, Piikani and Siksika as well as the Tsuu T’ina Nation and Stoney Nakoda First Nation. We acknowledge that this territory is home to the Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3 within the historical Northwest Métis Homeland. We acknowledge the many First Nations, Métis and Inuit who have lived in and cared for these lands for generations. We acknowledge that we are not rightful owners of this land, but as settlers, descendants of thieves. We acknowledge the systematic attempted genocide of Indigenous people across this country, our role in the continued racism that exists in Canada, and our responsibility as Treaty people to begin the work of returning land, resources, governance, autonomy, culture, and children back to their traditional communities.
Get in Touch
609 14 St NW Campana Place
unit 208
located in The Gestalt Group Clinic
403-998-0863