About mich
elle hamilton
Michelle Hamilton is a Registered Psychologist (College of Alberta Psychologists) and a Certified Professional Counsellor (Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association), with a Master's Degree in Educational Psychology from the University ofAlberta.
Michelle is currently working as a residential psychologist at the Thorpe Recovery Centre in residential addictions treatment. Michelle also has twenty years experience as a professional school counsellor at the Lloydminster Comprehensive High School, providing individual counselling to adolescents experiencing emotional, social, educational, family or psychological challenges.
Michelle works as a consultant to agency leaders, parents, teachers and other helping professionals, and has led many projects and committees. Michelle has been involved in developing and leading school division tragic events response teams, and has been trained in Critical Incident Stress Debriefing, Crisis Response Training, Threat Assessment and Suicide Risk Assessment.
In 2007, Michelle authored a project entitled, "A Risk Reduction Program for Compassion Fatigue: Professional and Personal Self-care for School Counsellors" in partial fulfilllment of the M. Ed. Following the extensive research and writing involved in that project, Michelle developed workshops and seminars on the topic of Compassion Fatigue and Self-care for counsellors. Michelle has since presented at many provincial,regional and conferences (see Client list on Upcoming workshops page).
In May of 2008, Michelle presented at the National Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association Conference in Moncton, New Brunswick. Her presentation was entitled, Self-Care begins with Self: How counsellor self awareness can improve resiliency of counsellors. She also presented at the same National CCPA conference in Saskatoon in May of 2009.
Michelle enjoys writing and has published three articles in professional journals:
Compassion Fatigue: What School Counsellors should know about Secondary Traumatic Stress. The Alberta Counsellor, V. 30, N.1, Winter 2008
Self Care and the School Counsellor, Journal of the Saskatchewan School Counsellor Association, V.42, N.1, Winter 2007-2008
Stop Negotiating with your Teen: A Book Review. Journal of the Saskatchewan School Counsellor Association, V.41, N.1, Winter 2006-2007)
Michelle also holds a certificate in Professional Coaching, completed in November 2002 through Erickson College, Vancouver.