Jacqueline is accepting new clients.
Jacqueline Kuefler, M.Sc. (MFT)
RMFT & Registered Psychologist
Ms. Kuefler received her BSc with Psychology from University of Alberta 2006. She then obtained a Master’s of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy at the Loma Linda University Canadian Campus in 2009 with honors. She is currently registered with both the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) and Canadian Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (CAMFT). Currently, Jacqueline is listed as a Registered Clinical Marriage and Family Therapist both in the states as well as in Canada. Furthermore, she is also a Registered Clinical Psychologist since 2014.
Jacqueline specializes in Structural Family Therapy and is qualified to use other systemic approaches to therapy including but not limited to Emotion-Focused Therapy, Strategic Family Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Systemic Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Therapy. She has extensive pre and post graduate supervision and experience to work with families, siblings, dyads, triads, couples, groups and even individual clients.
Her main role in working with family systems/couples or individual clients is to create insight by bringing the unconscious to conscious awareness during sessions by making specific dynamics explicit that cause stuckness. Stuckness is when the client or family members experience negative effects that result in boundary violations, unhealthy roles, triangulation, coalitions, increased stress and more. Both couples, families and individual clients learn to apply Gottman principles that come from various theorists in therapy are applied as clients learn turning toward, tracking, we-ness, communication, conflict resolution, sharing dreams and love maps.
Jacqueline has obtained advanced EMDR training and utilizes a sematic approach to therapy that enhances the brain’s ability to process the trauma experience(s). She has completed the clinical traumatology training offered by Dr. Anna Baranowsky in TraumaLine1, allowing her to provide services following a disaster and to also provide trauma sessions for clients diagnosed with PTSD that include individual or family counseling. She intends to complete courses offered by COCA in order to specialize in trauma care following a disaster. Furthermore, she is a qualified Compassion Fatigue Specialist and Trainer to support and assess individuals and professionals who experience vicarious trauma that potentially leads to burn out.
Jacqueline’s training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy allows her to work with trauma symptomology and or various symptoms of anxiety, phobias or food aversions.
Jacqueline aims to offer a supportive and directive approach to therapy that promotes safety, empowering opportunities and acceptance in a non-judgmental manner as needs are addressed. She is comfortable addressing biological/step family concerns, relationship problems within the family, sibling, parent or couple subsystem and individual client as well as issues that arise from depression, divorce, separation or trauma on the family. She also comfortable addressing client’s intimate concerns regarding sexual intimacy. She includes Christian counselling for clients who request a Christian approach to therapy.
Jacqueline ran the Family Care program in Red Deer, Alberta between 2007-2010 working with couples, families, dyads, groups and individual clients. Group work focused anxiety, grief and loss, anger management and couple work. In 2010-2012 she worked with clients in Edmonton,
Alberta who had PGO status and were transitioning to either foster care or adoptive parents. Most of the latter clients experienced some form of trauma. Finally, from 2012 -2018 she worked within the Alberta Health Services Mental Health and Addiction stream in Camrose Alberta providing therapy for young children, adolescents and presenting with chronic and at times, severe symptoms related to trauma, thought problems, personality disorders, adjustment issues and more.
