https://www.mountaintherapy.ca/news daily 0.75 2023-11-28 https://www.mountaintherapy.ca/news/uxs63i9udnz1u5fr6oepibk0tbbn5s monthly 0.5 2023-11-28 https://www.mountaintherapy.ca/news/get-out-there-rs64g monthly 0.5 2020-02-20 https://www.mountaintherapy.ca/news/why-deserts-matter-too-s4wla monthly 0.5 2019-08-21 https://www.mountaintherapy.ca/news/new-hope-in-old-appalachia-jb5sl monthly 0.5 2019-08-21 https://www.mountaintherapy.ca/home daily 1.0 2026-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e86621ce425c07b1b01e193/1630003117230-M5JV8HWQJEOYN9G4YZ0E/Janet_Spring_2021-7.jpg Home - Meet Janet Learn more about the face behind Mountain Therapy and what makes her and her practice so unique. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e86621ce425c07b1b01e193/1632080464985-P1A4BJV7TTGG19XQAFOC/Janet_Spring_2021-9.jpg Home - The Approach Janet approaches your exploration, discovery, and healing with several mindfully-curated practices, methods, and schools of thought. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1589847833743-F4ZNTSBG6SV6QOKKH98U/image-asset.jpeg Home - “Tell me and I will forget... involve me and I will learn.” — Benjamin Franklin https://www.mountaintherapy.ca/community daily 0.75 2021-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e86621ce425c07b1b01e193/1588689594396-XDDTVTA9TH27JBABE8B0/Muskox+101.jpg Community https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e86621ce425c07b1b01e193/1588608031930-HEKBVK0PO0YZZ7FSA9WN/Community+pic+1.jpg Community https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e86621ce425c07b1b01e193/1588607082996-4JIHZLFBS0XEXRZSH1G6/Community+Pic+2+.jpg Community https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e86621ce425c07b1b01e193/1588533108024-BJ9BJ7A7AU8539ZP2PJ4/Shame+Session.jpg Community https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1589847833313-2HPZ43HXTKBN41JIE37I/image-asset.jpeg Community - What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured — Kurt Vonnegut https://www.mountaintherapy.ca/offerings daily 0.75 2026-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e86621ce425c07b1b01e193/1631821552666-LP266L4WY77IZ12WDTMV/Janet_Spring_2021-48.jpg Offerings - Individual Co-discovering new health strategies that connect to your greater life purpose. Individual therapy does not mean you are embarking upon your journey alone. Rather, it means you are inviting Janet to join your tribe. Janet always says “if a horse is left in the field by itself, it will die of loneliness.” Therefore, she holds fostering a sense of connection and safety as essential in her healing practices. At Mountain Therapy, your care is unique, like you. With several offerings for individuals, your path to discovery and healing begins right where you are today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e86621ce425c07b1b01e193/1631820219686-3730OKO2CFKCDRLEIAL3/Janet_Spring_2021-3.jpg Offerings - Relational Janet’s healing approach expands beyond people’s automatic “stories.” More than words, creating health relationships takes a holistic approach…. Transform old patterns that no longer serve you; reconnect to your emotional intelligence and reignite your spiritual spark! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e86621ce425c07b1b01e193/1588689594396-XDDTVTA9TH27JBABE8B0/Muskox+101.jpg Offerings - Community Going public with community psychology to change the dialog around mental health. Janet’s unique psychology practice and methods are explicitly in support of community psychology. While honouring confidentiality, she is committed to providing others with exciting new opportunities to speak about their experiences. Within the confines of psychology, Janet is passionate about shifting the dialogue surrounding mental health, trauma, and healing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e86621ce425c07b1b01e193/6bbbb1cb-d02a-41e6-a7eb-de1a6e7d62d5/IMG_6429.jpeg Offerings - Astrology GoinDiscover the Stars Within You Since the dawn of time, humans have looked to the heavens not only for guidance, but for meaning. The stars have always whispered that our lives are not accidents, but threads in a vast cosmic tapestry. Astrology, with its ancient symbols and celestial rhythms, is one of the languages through which the universe speaks to us. The psychologist Viktor Frankl taught that to live fully, we must root ourselves in a meaning greater than ourselves. Astrology offers such a starry tapestry— a reminder that our lives unfold within a cosmic story, where even our struggles hold purpose. Carl Jung, too, saw the movements of the heavens as mirrors of the soul. He called astrology the “sum of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity,” suggesting that the patterns above are reflected within, guiding us toward deeper self-understanding. Here, you are invited to move beyond the surface of horoscopes and into the mysteries of your soul. Your sun, moon, and rising signs are not mere labels, but gateways to transformation — archetypal keys that unlock your unique place in the universe’s great design. Step into this sacred dialogue with the cosmos. Let the constellations be your teachers, the planets your companions, and the infinite sky your reminder that you are part of something eternal, radiant, and profoundly meaningful. g public with community psychology to change the dialog around mental health. 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With several offerings for individuals, your path to discovery and healing begins right where you are today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e86621ce425c07b1b01e193/1631649951533-VJ4HQ9BDZFER7QEBV3EU/Janet_Spring_2021-7.jpg Individual - Relational-Based Mindful (Experiential): Body, Mind, Spirit Psychotherapy Exploring self-awareness in your present, bodily experience while being guided with compassionate dialogue is the basis of Janet’s Mindful Experiential Psychotherapy. This Relationally-Based approach offers us the ability to investigate the deep-rooted beliefs that shape your experience, identify the childhood coping dynamics of these beliefs and fundamentally create a life with more choice and freedom. Mindfully integrating your body to relax your mind and regulate your emotions, Janet will help you create space to reconnect to your spirit and personal meaning. In partnering with Mountain Therapy for your care, Janet will help you navigate your instincts in relation to the PolyVagal Theory (Fight, Flight, Freeze), your attachment styles, your dispositions, and your gifts. Training and influences: M.E.T.A. Experiential Attachment Therapy and Experiential Trauma Therapy, Dr. Peter Levine, Dr. Gabor Maté, Dr Viktor Frankl, Certified Hakomi Therapist. https://www.mountaintherapy.ca/contact daily 0.75 2026-03-18 https://www.mountaintherapy.ca/relational daily 0.75 2021-09-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e86621ce425c07b1b01e193/1630025954770-8ZOJB76JE34FTD8MF6CQ/Janet_Spring_2021-18+%281%29.jpg Relational - Navigating the complexities of interpersonal relationships from familial to romantic can feel impossible from within. Further, parsing out our inherited traits and tendencies is paramount to both self-understanding and healing. Partnering with Janet brings a compassionate, unbiased perspective along with a wide repertoire of techniques, tactics, and teachings for dynamic, personalized care. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e86621ce425c07b1b01e193/1630026763584-YAMZX2ORJKS6CBI58JQR/Family_Constellations.jpg Relational - Relational Counselling Janet’s healing approach expands beyond people’s automatic “stories.” More than words, creating health relationships takes a holistic approach. It includes: safely regulating your survival reactions, compassionately transforming old patterns that no longer serve you, reconnecting to your emotional intelligence, and reigniting your spiritual spark. Joining all parts of you together creates space for new solutions to old challenges. Training and Influences: Rob Fisher, Mark Wolynn and John Gottman. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e86621ce425c07b1b01e193/1630027123430-RH79AIC01Q0WCXFK0YW0/Janet_Spring_2021-30.jpg Relational - Family Constellations Why repeat patterns that began before you were born? Inheriting our dad’s brown eyes is easy to see, but emotional patterns, such as anger or depression, are more difficult to identify. Janet assists clients with untying the knots that bind us to gain insight, choice and freedom from these inherited “lineage maps.” By understanding your unconscious inheritance, transmission to the next generation can stop with you. Training and influences: Certified Family Constellation Therapist, The Core Language Approach with Mark Wolynn. https://www.mountaintherapy.ca/janet-mcleod daily 0.75 2026-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e86621ce425c07b1b01e193/1629999096931-N5FGCHRU4B82APG8U7O0/Janet_Spring_2021-43+%281%29.jpg Janet S McLeod - Janet S. McLeod Transformation with Kindness, Caring and Compassion. Janet McLeod is a well known “psych guide” specializing in Clinical, and Astrological Psychology. She is a Registered Psychologist, a Certified Hakomi (Somatic) Therapist, a Family Constellation Practitioner who focuses on Clinical, and Health Psychology. For those interested in expanding and clarifying their Creative and Personal Meaning, Janet has studied Astrology since 2018. Presently, she is in a an Embodied Astrology Practitioners Program with Jason Holley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e86621ce425c07b1b01e193/1629999289758-7AEIY7CC4MM3YU66JPAO/Janet_Spring_2021-24.jpg Janet S McLeod - Focusing on realistic and attainable goals, you will be in an atmosphere that is collaborative and relaxed as you travel through this therapeutic journey. Your care is specifically suited for you and your needs. You will likely find her in jeans and a T-shirt, maybe even sporting her trusty finger puppets. Foundational to her practice, Janet values approachability and the community-building nature of the shared human experience… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e86621ce425c07b1b01e193/1622170351447-ERGURWH4V3ZK1BTNP7SU/kym-mackinnon-8vaby9JFuNA-unsplash.jpg Janet S McLeod - “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.” — Carl Gustav Jung https://www.mountaintherapy.ca/theapproach daily 0.75 2021-09-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e86621ce425c07b1b01e193/1631743804361-0TRIZDDVUCMA3Y118PL2/Janet_Spring_2021-15-X2.jpg The Approach - In a relaxed, collaborative atmosphere, Janet’s “Learn-by-Doing” approach allows you to reconnect to your inner wisdom. This creates space to identify and focus on realistic and attainable goals that are right and true for you. Janet uses experiential psychology to help transform “issues in your tissues” by mindfully integrating your body (calming your nervous system); relaxing your mind (understanding limiting thoughts/beliefs) and regulating your emotions (recognizing them as a key form of intelligence) you are able to reconnect to your spirit and personal meaning. The therapeutic method is very active, integrating lots of movement for holistic healing. Drawing upon a diverse range of methodology and teachings, Janet’s offerings are mindfully-crafted to suit your needs, goals, and values while taking into account the communities you belong to and your unique circumstances. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e86621ce425c07b1b01e193/1631818831348-0JLYR1006NWS0R8NDVLN/Janet_Spring_2021-37.jpg The Approach - The PolyVagal Theory and Trauma Informed Peer Support are foundational in Janet’s practice, along with countless other tools, methods, and creative solutions. With the confines of psychology, Janet is passionate about expanding boundaries and starting conversations to help communities shift the dialogue surrounding psychology and mental health. The three main pillars that Mountain Therapy is built upon are: individual, relational, and community approaches. Janet believes that critical incidents can not be carried by an individual alone. It takes a tribe, a community to remind us of our resilience and recovery. When you work with Janet, you become a welcome member of her tribe. https://www.mountaintherapy.ca/scott-heathcote daily 0.75 2026-01-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e86621ce425c07b1b01e193/e46c3521-da32-42b7-a920-35a9faff4a0b/SH_2026.jpg Scott Heathcote - Scott Heathcote I am a Registered Psychologist and a Canadian Certified Counsellor. I hold a Master of Counselling Psychology degree and a Bachelor of Science. I recently retired as an Advanced Care Paramedic and firefighter to pursue my passion for helping people recover and improve their mental health. https://www.mountaintherapy.ca/karly-sovereign daily 0.75 2025-12-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e86621ce425c07b1b01e193/b13de1ca-0ec6-49a6-b474-2ce7f0eabe27/Karly-84.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e86621ce425c07b1b01e193/209fdda1-cde4-4914-93f0-8bd0af880e23/Karly-75.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e86621ce425c07b1b01e193/1677966913697-Z70CZ4LBJA11Y4X5BLNK/unsplash-image-1VSK9Rk1wiQ.jpg https://www.mountaintherapy.ca/new-page-1 daily 0.75 2026-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e86621ce425c07b1b01e193/534b3969-cb68-4033-9af4-2ea37951f7d3/IMG_3267.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/2b138b19-e39b-4aaa-bfe4-ee168dac9208/20140301_Trade+151_0124+1.jpg https://www.mountaintherapy.ca/greta-heathcote daily 0.75 2026-01-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e86621ce425c07b1b01e193/9ea50b9a-22e5-4c72-8b95-1352d225ef81/IMG_5867.jpg Greta Heathcote - Greta Heathcote Neurodiversity & ADHD Coach I’m a neurodiversity researcher, advocate, and collaborator passionate about advancing neuro-inclusion in education and research environments. Over the past 20 years, I’ve supported students and learners explore their potential and their own unique learning journeys. I am currently pursuing a Doctor of Education in Learning Sciences at the University of Calgary and my research is focused on creating neuro-inclusion in the classroom. 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