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A Greeting from Michael (he/him)
Registered ​Psychologist. Owner/Director. Trauma-Informed Yoga Psychology School Faculty.
Now Offering On-Site Counselling at Chateau Lake Louise

Hello I'm Michael,

I am a registered psychologist and an independent filmmaker who is passionate about helping you be the hero in your story.
 
My Mission: To love, learn, create and inspire, everyday.
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I am a freelance filmmaker with experience in writing, directing, editing, and producing films. I am also a registered psychologist. I have years of supervision, training and experience providing individual, family, and group solution-focused therapy and cognitive-behavioural therapy to children, adolescents, and adults for mental health and addiction concerns. I, currently, provide individual counselling for adults. I identify as a bi-racial (Black and White), cis-gender, heterosexual male of Polish-Jamaican ancestry, born in Calgary, Alberta. 

As a recent graduate of UCLA’s Directing Certificate Program, I completed courses in editing, including editing documentary footage, and Vancouver Film School’s Writing for Film & Television Program. I have also written, directed, and edited short films.​

I am passionate about the intersections between film and psychology. I believe in the power of film to raise awareness, deepen empathy, and inspire change. I want to make films that raise awareness about social issues, deepen empathy for equity deserving people, animals, as well as the environment, and inspire positive change.

I look forward to meeting you!

Take good care,
Michael

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 :)