MICHELLE J. BUCKLE

Michelle runs counselling and consulting practices in Alberta and Ontario. As an educator and counsellor, Michelle uses the arts – embodied ways of knowing –  to engage and encourage students and clients to creatively and critically enter into new ways of learning and inquiry.

She is a doctoral student in Secondary Education at the University of Alberta, interested in arts-based research in dramatherapy and the experience of historical trauma in homicide survivors. With over 27 years of experience in the Dramatherapy field, as a Psychologist, she specializes in using the arts, play, drama and somatic therapy to work with children, teens, adults, families, groups and within institutions.

Interests: psychology, mental health, arts-based research, intergenerational trauma, performance inquiry, drama/theatre education, urban education, dramatherapy, multiculturalism, youth studies, experiential education, indigenous methodologies, and decolonized processes.