Marie Jakalicia Guignard, MC, RCC, RP
Experienced Trauma Therapist | EMDR and IFS Therapist
Marie has more than 10 years of clinical experience supporting adolescents and adults. Before practising in Ontario, she established her career as a Registered Clinical Counsellor in British Columbia, where she remains registered. She brings extensive experience in trauma therapy, grief, emotional regulation, addiction recovery, anxiety, and depression.
In person in Ottawa and virtually across Ontario, virtual appointments for clients in British Columbia.
Individual Therapy Age 13+
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$180 for 50 minutes
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$270 for 80 minutes
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Sessions available in English, French, and Haitian Creole

You may find Marie helpful if:
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Trauma or a difficult experience continues to affect your life
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You are grieving a death, relationship, identity, or significant change
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Anxiety or depression is making it difficult to function or feel like yourself
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You feel overwhelmed by strong emotions or have difficulty regulating them
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Addiction or recovery is part of your experience
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You want to understand patterns that seem difficult to change
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You are looking for therapy that respects your culture, identity, and lived experience
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You are interested in EMDR or Internal Family Systems therapy
What therapy with Marie is like
Marie offers a warm, compassionate, and culturally responsive approach. She believes that people have an inherent capacity to heal when they feel safe, understood, and appropriately supported.
She helps clients process difficult experiences, understand the patterns that developed around them, and reconnect with their strengths. Therapy is collaborative and adapted to each client’s needs, comfort, culture, and goals.
Depending on what brings you to therapy, Marie may incorporate EMDR, Internal Family Systems, the Safe and Sound Protocol, emotional-regulation strategies, and trauma-informed conversation.
Marie has also facilitated workshops in addiction recovery and emotional regulation and has contributed published work related to trauma and mental health.
Areas of Practice
Trauma and PTSD; grief; anxiety; depression; emotional regulation; addiction and recovery; difficult life experiences; identity; and major life transitions.
Therapeutic Approaches
EMDR, Internal Family Systems, the Safe and Sound Protocol, and
Languages
English, French, and Haitian Creole.
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