Mendable Psychology and Integrative Health

LAURELLE ST. JEAN, REGISTERED PSYCHOLOGIST My passion in counselling is forming a connection where people feel accepted and challenged to grow in new and meaningful ways. It is a privilege to be a part of the brave and vulnerable experience of unpacking struggles and working together to build new and lighter ways forward. I view counselling as an opportunity to help people cope with the normal and extraordinary challenges of life, lessen suffering, and settle more comfortably within the present moment. I hold a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology and I am a registered psychologist in good standing with the College of Alberta Psychologists.  I enjoy working with individual adults and teenagers over the age of fifteen with concerns which include anxiety, women’s issues, depression, self-esteem, body image, and relationships. While I have training as a generalist, I have advanced training in the area of trauma. I am skilled at using a variety of therapeutic approaches,...

Psychology is the scientific study of human behavior and mind. Psychology includes both cognitive and emotional aspects, perception and instinctual behavior, and memory and learning. It is a vast academic field of enormous scope. There are many subdisciplines of psychology, all related in some way to the others. Some of them are clinical psychology, developmental psychology, social and experimental psychology, clinical neuropsychology, counseling psychology, work therapy, sex therapy, and personality development and management. There are many theories on psychology. But the most popular ones are: Emotionally Driven Behavior, Neuropsychological Theory, Explication theory, and contingency theory. Emotionally driven behavior suggests that there are certain behaviors or mental processes that cause a person to feel good or unhappy. The other theory is Neuropsychological theory which suggests that a person's behavior is controlled by several areas of the brain which are separated from ea...

Psychology is the scientific study of human behavior and psychology. Psychology includes both clinical psychology and psychiatric practice. It's an incredibly vast field of academic study. Psychology also addresses such issues as motivation, learning, development, relationships and sexuality. There are numerous sub-fields within psychology and they include: developmental psychology, social psychology, experimental psychology, counseling psychology, health psychology, education psychology, forensic psychology, counseling, personality development, industrial psychology and research psychology. Psychology can be broken down into distinct areas. They include: cognitive psychology, which studies the mental processes behind individual behaviors; psychophysiology, which studies physical processes related to behavior; and neuroscience, which studies how behavior relates to the brain. Within each of these sub-fields, however, there are countless branches and sub-disciplines. Psychology can ...