Meet The Team
Melinda Krynen Hill
Melinda is an experienced Mindfulness Practitioner, Registered Psychotherapist and founder of Stillspace, a specialty clinic in Oakville, Ontario, Canada offering a mind body approach to rehabilitation from injury and illness.
Melinda has designed a mindfulness-based recovery approach for clients experiencing chronic and persistent symptoms. Within this therapeutic approach, clients are invited to explore the multifaceted nature of their struggles within a safe therapeutic relationship, build awareness of maladaptive habits and promote healing by integrating the mind and body through nervous system regulation and trauma-informed care.
Key therapeutic modalities in her approach include: Mindfulness Based Interventions, Somatic and Polyvagal Informed Therapies, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).
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Leanna Bissell
Leanna is a Registered Psychotherapist working with teens aged 15-18 and adults. Leanna has seven years of experience as a counsellor and therapist with a focus on injury recovery and rehabilitation support.
Her psychotherapy practice also supports substance abuse, disordered eating, body dissatisfaction, anxiety, and depression. Leanna is further trained in nervous system regulation and trauma-informed care via Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR), an empirically validated and best-practice approach for trauma and stress. She works with clients to process underlying trauma by first resourcing the client, then supporting them to desensitize and reprocess difficult memories and traumatic events. Leanna works collaboratively with clients to enhance their existing coping skills.
Key therapeutic modalites in her approach include: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Mindfulness, EMDR (trauma informed) and Polyvagal informed therapy.
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