Dr. Easter Yassa, Registered Psychologist (IMATTER - Therapy for Creative and Intelligent Women)

Dr. Easter brings over 20 years experience and a PhD in Counselling Psychology to her kind, ethical and sometimes humorous approach to therapy. Using convenient and confidential online therapy she helps women (18+ years) in Alberta, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Nunavut cope with and heal from anxiety, panic, trauma, complex attachment trauma, relationship trauma, perfectionism, performance and social anxiety, grief, loss, self-esteem and self-worth struggles, self-doubt, an inner critical voice, stress, early family of origin abuse or neglect, obsessive-compulsive disorder (including pure obsessions), life purpose and meaning pain and relationship struggles. Regarding relationship struggles, Dr. Easter specializes in supporting adult children of narcissistic parents in their own healing and recovery, as well as family/friends of individuals who struggle with mental illness, such as addictions, among others. Dr. Easter also specializes in working with fertility challenges and infertility, as well as traumatic labour, and early pregnancy loss.

Dr. Easter is known as the psychologist’s psychologist and the therapist’s therapist, as she specializes in working with and supporting psychologists and other mental health professionals in recovery and healing from vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, burnout and moral burnout, work-life balance and self-care, among the many other personal and professional challenges they may be dealing with.

Dr. Easter believes that you do not need to be fixed, because you are not broken. Her approach to therapy is grounded first in building trust and connection, providing support and coping strategies, identifying your strengths and exploring how your symptoms and struggles may be ways in which you are unconsciously attempting to move towards your healing and wholeness.

Building on this, Dr. Easter integrates into therapy her extensive breadth and depth of training in various treatment modalities, including psychodynamic, flash technique, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), body-focused therapies such as Hakomi and mindfulness, expressive arts therapy, cognitive-behavioural therapy, dialectical behaviour therapy and clinical hypnosis, among others. She also completed additional training in advanced clinical supervision in psychology, and she is currently completing specialized training in existential analysis.