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A Greeting from Chey (she/her)
Student Counsellor supervised by Dr. Melissa Jay
Master of Counselling Student at Athabasca University
Counselling, Wellness & Community Support

Hi, I’m Chey (she/her)

I’m a student therapist offering virtual sessions across Alberta, currently completing my Master of Counselling Psychology at Athabasca University. I practice under the supervision of Dr. Melissa Jay. I’m of mixed Indigenous, Caribbean, and European ancestry, and I live in Mohkinstsis (colonially known as Calgary, Alberta).

My approach is collaborative and relational, tailored to fit your unique needs. I incorporate narrative therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), along with mindfulness, somatic techniques, and expressive arts therapies to support healing through both embodiment and creativity. My work is grounded in culturally responsive, feminist, intersectional, and social justice frameworks.

​I currently work with adults and teens (13+)

Areas of Focus
  • 2SLGBTQIA+ identities
  • Racial and cultural identity
  • Trauma, including racial trauma
  • Anxiety
  • Neurodivergence
  • Sex, sexuality, and intimacy
  • Relationship dynamics
Beyond Individual Therapy
In addition to one-on-one sessions, I facilitate psychoeducational groups rooted in Black and Indigenous knowledges and practices. This is one way I contribute to community care and collective healing, with a focus on reimagining mental health in more liberatory and holistic ways.

Canmore Location:

109-705 10th Street Canmore, AB T1W2A3
We're next to Communitea & Vermelho, 
​on the corner of 10th St. and 6th Ave.

Established in 2014.
​Copyright © 2026 by
Canmore Counselling & Trauma-Informed Yoga Psychology School is an Indigenous and Black-owned family business, co-created by Melissa Jay and Michael Yudcovitch. 

​Our team lives across Turtle Island, and we honour the Nations who continue to nurture these lands. Our primary office is located in Châ Ûpchîchîyen Kudebi (translated from Îyârhe Nakoda as “shooting at the willows”), colonially known as Canmore, on Treaty 7 territory and the current and ancestral lands of the Îyârhe Nakoda (Stoney Nakoda), Tsuut’ina First Nation, and Blackfoot Confederacy. These lands are also home to the Rocky View Métis District 4 within the Battle River Territory. 

We are grateful to be students, practitioners, and guides of yoga, an Indigenous wisdom tradition with roots in India and across South Asia and parts of Africa. We are committed to learning from and amplifying South Asian teachers and practitioners while continuing to learn alongside our own students, faculty, and alumni. We believe trauma-informed care requires an active commitment to community, social justice, decolonization, anti-oppression, anti-racism, reciprocity, and meaningful care for people and communities who have been intentionally and historically marginalized.

As a team, we are committed to uplifting Truth, language, culture, and relationship as essential to right relations and to our ongoing work of reconciliation and decolonization. Thank you for being here :)