Associate Faculty
Annie Ahmad
MPS Teaching Faculty
Annie Ahmad holds a Master’s degree in Creative Arts Therapies from Concordia University. She is a Registered Member of the Canadian Art Therapy Association and a Professional Member of the Canadian Counseling and Psychotherapy Association. Annie has over 13 years of experience working coast to coast in Canada with a variety of populations in diverse community settings. Annie lives in Calgary and works in private practice with the Blackbird Healing Arts Collective and facilitates art therapy groups with the Pregnancy and Infant Loss Support Center and Wellspring Cancer Support. Annie’s approach to art therapy is deeply rooted in a person-centered, strengths-based framework that is grounded in cultural sensitivity, connection and inclusivity.
Blaine Allan
CPE Supervisor-Educator
Blaine J Allan, BA, MDiv, is a Certified Spiritual Care Practitioner at Grey Nuns Hospital, Edmonton. He is also a CASC/ACSS Provisional Spiritual Care Supervisor-Educator. Blaine studied Philosophy at the University of Alberta, Theology at Newman Theological College in Edmonton, and Interfaith ministry at All Faiths Seminary in New York. Having a special interest in grief and loss, Blaine also completed multiple grief and loss programs from The Centre of Loss and Life Transition in Fort Collins, Colorado. A lifelong learner, he is currently pursuing doctoral studies at St. Stephen's College.
Gail Allan
MTS and DMin Teaching Faculty
Gail Allan, MA, MTS, ThD, has a doctorate in Ethics from Emmanuel College of the Toronto School of Theology. Her academic and professional interests have included feminist theological and social ethics, ecclesiology, and ecumenical and interfaith relations. From 2004-2020 she was Coordinator for Ecumenical, Interchurch and Interfaith Relations in The United Church of Canada, representing the church in national and international ecumenical and interfaith groups, and supporting people engaged in dialogue and action in their local communities. She is an active member of the North American Interfaith Network. Her doctoral thesis focused on the World Council of Churches’ Ecumenical Decade of Churches in Solidarity with Women as it was lived out in Canada; she is a member of the World Council of Churches Gender Advisory Group, which has been developing gender justice policy guidelines for the WCC and member churches. A member of the United Church, she has worked for many years on issues of global and social justice, bringing a commitment to integrating theological reflection, critical social analysis, and collaborative models of education and action.
Maryann Amor
MTS Teaching Faculty
Maryann Amor, BA (UBC), MDiv and MATS (VST), MTh and PhD (New College, University of Edinburgh), is an Anglican priest in the Diocese of Edmonton, currently based at St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church. She holds a PhD in Hebrew and Old Testament Studies and loves studying the Scriptures through a narrative lens that takes into account the social world of the texts. Her research is primarily centered on King David and the roles of biblical women. In addition to her academic work, she is passionate about ministry and enjoys supporting others as they develop their gifts.
Gillian Breckenridge
MTS Teaching Faculty and DMin Committee
Gillian Breckenridge has a MA from the University of Edinburgh, an STM from Union Theological Seminary, and a PhD from the University of Virginia. Her work engages the theology of Karl Barth, contemporary Christian conceptions of sin, and critical social theory. Gillian has particular interest in the impact of sin on the practice of theology; the study of feminist thought in an interfaith context; and in critical theological hospitality. Gillian is active in the Anglican Church and works in the graduate school at the University of Lethbridge.
Marie Butler
UAlberta Teaching Faculty
Marie Butler is a Creative Arts Psychotherapist who operates her own private practice, The She Shed Studio, in Edmonton, Alberta. Her business motto, 'where soil meets with soul' speaks to Marie's passion in life and work. Nature's ever-present offerings connect her to both the physical and mystical aspects of Creation, where she finds her most authentic expression. Her passion to co-create with the land, especially the willow tree, takes her outside of the studio. For years, she visited schools as the character of 'Grandma Willow' offering story-telling and creative projects with the willow tree. She also performed at The International Children's Festival in St. Albert. Recently she began working for the Northern Counseling and Therapy Services. She is a grateful alumni of St. Stephen's where she completed her MPS-Art Therapy specialization. She began her professional career as an Art Therapist at the Cross Cancer Institute where she supported children and their families who were faced with a cancer diagnosis as well as facilitating the Arts in Medicine Program.
Kayla Cardinal
MPS Teaching Faculty
Kayla Cardinal is an art psychotherapist, clinical social worker, supervisor, researcher, teacher, and advocate who “firmly believes in living life through decolonization, intention, inclusivity, and connection.” She brings more than a decade of experience working as an Art Therapist, holding professional credentials as both a Registered Canadian Art Therapist (RCAT) and a Registered Social Worker with the Manitoba College of Social Workers. In 2011 she founded and has since worked as an art psychotherapist at Winnipeg Art Therapy Inc; she has also served on the Board of the Canadian Art Therapy Association and as a member of the Registration Committee for the Manitoba College of Social Workers. Her academic training includes a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Concordia University, Montreal), a Graduate Diploma in Art Therapy (Toronto Art Therapy Institute), a Bachelor of Social Work (University of Manitoba), a Master of Social Work (University of Calgary), and she is currently completing her PhD in Social Work (University of Manitoba). Kayla’s doctoral work focuses on intergenerational trauma among indigenous peoples. Over the course of her career, she has worked in academic and clinical contexts, including private practice, social services, and healthcare.
Philip Carverhill
MPS Teaching Faculty
Philip Carverhill, PhD is an independent Registered Doctoral Psychologist based in Saskatoon. He is Past Chair & Fellow of the International Work Group on Death, Dying & Bereavement, co-founder of Prairie Hospice Society, and a member of the National Consultation Committee for the Canadian Grief Alliance. Phil's varied 'past-lives' include Accredited Music Therapist, neuroscience researcher, and hospice volunteer (Toronto, Vancouver), as well as having lived in five provinces from Newfoundland to BC. He has 38 years of counselling experience and joined St. Stephen's College in 2001, teaching Psychopathology for many years. Phil is an active ally and community-clinical psychologist with indigenous communities in Saskatchewan. He is passionate about promoting grief literacy in Canadian society and advocating for the bereaved as well as for culturally appropriate end-of-life hospice and palliative care. Phil's research with bereaved parents and widowers encompasses both phenomenology and discourse analysis, with a particular interest in the language of loss. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine, University of Saskatchewan and facilitates "Ice Cream Rounds" with post-graduate medical Residents.
Mark Chiang
UAlberta Teaching Faculty
Mark Chiang (he/him), MDiv, DMin, is an ordained minister with the Presbyterian Church in Canada. He currently serves as Regional Minister in an experimental form of ministry providing online resources for small or rural congregations. His ministry practice has been with the queer and trans communities of Edmonton, and his academic focus is in queer theology.
Margaret Clark
MPS and MTS Teaching Faculty, and DMin Committee
Margaret B Clark, DMin, is an Instructor in Practical Theology at St. Stephen's College. She is a CASC/ACSS certified Spiritual Care Practitioner and former Spiritual Care Supervisor-Educator. Margaret studied Theology at both Newman Theological College (MDiv eq) and St. Stephen's College (DMin) in Edmonton, and has trained in spiritual direction through studies at Creighton University (MChSp) in Omaha, Nebraska. Margaret enjoys opportunities to serve others through teaching, mentoring, spiritual care, and spiritual direction.
Peggy Clarkson
MPS Teaching Faculty
Peggy Clarkson holds an MA in Art Therapy, a BA in Psychology, and is a registered clinical counsellor, approved clinical supervisor, trauma informed therapist and registered art therapist. Peggy has 20 years of direct experience spanning all aspects of care, including both acute and community health contexts. She is currently an art therapy professor at Adler University, St. Stephens College, and the Vancouver Art Therapy Institute, and a consultant, specializing in resilience and vicarious trauma. Peggy worked in an Indigenous health leadership capacity for over a decade, and utilized a variety of trauma-informed clinical care support and art therapy paradigms in both urban and rural contexts. In her capacity as clinical supervisor, Peggy has specialized in training and supporting staff, teams and survivors of relational violence, sexual abuse, and critical incidents-including those in recovery from addictions and post-traumatic stress disorder. Peggy studied art and art history and works out of her art studio in North Vancouver, BC, where she strives to ensure balance through an active painting practice.
Colleen Deatherage
MTS Teaching Faculty and DMin Committee
Colleen Deatherage, DMin MSW RSW calls the unceded Ktunaxa Territory (aka the BC Kootenays) home. Her interests span diverse topics including: folklore/religious folklife (especially Northern European spiritualities), material culture (especially textiles), ethnography, social work, critical reflection, and cræft. Those interests are reflected in her dissertation, her ongoing research, and the classes she teaches. When not teaching or researching, she works as a medical social worker primarily in oncology and palliative care.
Megan England
MPS Teaching Faculty
Megan England, M.A. is a doctoral candidate at the University of Alberta. She graduated with her MA in Counselling Psychology from Trinity Western in 2018. Over the past eight years, Megan has supported children, teens, and adults in individual, couples, and group therapy. In more recent years, Megan has worked in private practice in Edmonton. Megan’s main areas of foci are trauma, shame, anxiety, interpersonal issues, life transition and depression, working from a strengths-based and emotion focused lens. Megan is passionate about multicultural counselling, especially understanding how therapists can approach their work with cultural humility.
Leslie Gardner
MPS and MTS Teaching Faculty, and DMin Committee
Leslie Gardner, PhD, is on the Doctor of Ministry Program Committee at St Stephen's College, and teaches the course 'Inquiry, Research and Evaluation'. She has over 20 years experience in program evaluation, assisting public sector and voluntary organizations in process and outcome evaluation.
David J. Goa
MTS Teaching Faculty
David Goa is the Director of the Chester Ronning Centre for the Study of Religion and Public Life. He studied history, philosophy and the history of religions in Chicago. He counts the eminent philosophical theologian Paul Tillich, the scholar of religion Mircea Eliade, the historian Zenos Hawkinson, the political philosopher Hannah Arendt, and Jaroslav Pelikan, Sterling Professor of History, Yale University, among the scholars who have most influenced his work. David has been involved in various research and documentation and communications projects in Canada and abroad. He built the program for the study of culture through his field research work over 30 years at the Royal Alberta Museum. He lectures widely and is the author of numerous books and scholarly articles and is a regular contributor to the media. His work focuses on religious tradition and modern culture, culture and the civil life, and on public institutions in service to cultural communities and modern civil society.
Ross Gordon
DMin Teaching Faculty and DMin Committee
Ross Gordon, PhD (Cultural Anthropology, University of Alberta 2013) is on the St. Stephen’s College Doctor of Ministry Program Committee and facilitates the course ‘DMin Online Collegium 2’. Inclusive of a fellowship at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, his research vitalizing an oral Indonesian language through an ecological lens blends ancient and modern spiritual perspectives. Research outputs include academic publishing, film, and community education resources. Ross also works as an Energy Advisor supporting residential energy upgrades and air quality improvements in buildings in Canada, a vital process to address climate change.
Brian Greenwood
CPE Provisional Supervisor-Educator
Brian Greenwood, BTh, MDiv, is Certified as a Spiritual Health Practitioner with the Canadian Association of Spiritual Care (CASC). He currently serves patients, their families, and staff at Grey Nuns Hospital, Edmonton. Brian studied Pastoral Theology at Vanguard College before moving on to complete his Master of Divinity Degree at Taylor Seminary. Half his career was as clergy serving churches in the US, and the other half was as a Spiritual Health Practitioner in the palliative care, hospice, and acute care settings. While appreciating the contributions of formal spirituality to society, he endeavored a study of the human spirit in earnest during a year-long residency in Spiritual Care at St Luke’s Hospital in Boise, Idaho. Brian is passionate about spiritual care, the art of the Story, the interconnectedness of the human experience, and all things fly fishing.
Sherri Guenther Trautwein
UAlberta Teaching Faculty
Sherri Guenther Trautwein, BTh, MTS, ThD Cand, currently serves as a pastor in the Anabaptist tradition. Her academic studies have focused on social memory theory and the challenges of reading the stories of women in ancient texts. Sherri has taught in both academic and congregational contexts, with experience in Introductory Greek and a wide range of New Testament literature. She has published in the areas of feminist biblical criticism and recovering the obscured voices of women scholars of the 19th century.
Nicole Imgrund
MPS Teaching Faculty
Nicole Imgrund, MPS, MDiv, teaches and supervises practicum students in the MPS Program. She is the Founding Director of River's Edge Counselling Centre in St Albert. In her psychotherapy practice, she works primarily from a psychodynamic perspective with adults and couples. As an ordained minister with the United Church of Canada, Nicole has worked as a hospital chaplain and congregational minister. As past-president and longstanding board member of the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association's AB/NWT Chapter, she has devoted her efforts to promoting the counselling profession in Alberta and supporting colleagues in practice. She is also an active member of the Canadian Association for Spiritual Care.
Adrian Jacobs
DMin Teaching Faculty
Adrian Jacobs is Ganosono, Turtle Clan, Cayuga Nation, Six Nations Haudenosaunee Confederacy, Grand River Country in Southern Ontario, Turtle Island. He is a single father of five and grandfather of four. An artist, writer, indigenous advocate, entrepreneur, and public speaker he founded an Indigenous church on his home reserve. For 45 years he trained Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in spiritual and social service in various venues throughout the United States and Canada. His personal and professional studies include Indigenous worldviews, cultures, and health, through a culturally affirming approach. Previously he was Keeper of the Circle at Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre, the national Indigenous ministry training centre of The United Church of Canada. He serves NAIITS An Indigenous Learning Community as Elder Liaison for the NAIITS Elders Circle. Currently he is Senior Leader for Indigenous Justice and Reconciliation for the Christian Reformed Church in North America in Canada.
Rakshanda Khan
MPS Teaching Faculty
Rakshanda Khan, MA, DTATI, RP is an Art Therapist and Registered Psychotherapist practicing in Tkaronto Kanata (Toronto, Canada) on the traditional territories of the Wendat, the Haudenosaunee, and the Anishinaabe peoples. She strives to maintain a critical self-consciousness in her work, practising from a client-centered, strengths-based, anti-racist and anti-oppressive framework that recognizes that we all embody creative resources that we can access for personal growth. Her scholarly interests include graphic medicine, digital and online creative processes, as well as traditional arts practices to guide healing.
Sheila Killoran
UAlberta Teaching Faculty
Sheila Killoran, MA, MTA, FAMI, is a Certified Music Therapist and educator with a Masters in Creative Arts Therapies (Music) from Concordia University in Montreal, QU. She provides clinical music therapy services to patients and families at the Grey Nuns Community Hospital in Edmonton, where she specializes in palliative care and bereavement. She is a trained Fellow with the Association of Music and Imagery and has a special interest in the use of guided imagery and music at end-of-life.
Norbert Krumins
MPS, MTS and UAlberta Teaching Faculty
Norbert Krumins, DMin, is the former Chair of the Department of Theological Studies at St. Stephen's College. His background includes prison chaplaincy, social service project management, and journalism. Norbert is passionate about the arts and is interested in the relationship between creativity and spirituality. His arts-based doctoral dissertation was in the field of contemplative education.
Jenny McAlister
MPS Teaching Faculty
Jenny McAlister is a registered psychologist in Alberta. She provides therapy to individuals, couples and families in her private practice in Edmonton, AB. Jenny also enjoys the opportunity to provide clinical supervision to Registered provisional psychologists as they complete the requirements of registration in Alberta. She is an active member of the mental health community and sits as a public member on the province's Mental Health Review Panel and is a past member of the Oral Ethics Committee of the College of Alberta Psychologists.
Cayley McConaghy
UAlberta Teaching Faculty
Cayley McConaghy, MA, is a Certified Canadian Counsellor and a Creative Arts Therapist specializing in Drama Therapy. She has been practicing in the Edmonton Area working in school settings with the full range of K - 12 students as well as with Alberta Health Services supporting parents and caregivers. Cayley is also the current practicum supervisor for Drama Therapy master’s students interning at the Centre for Arts in Human Development which offers services to adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Cayley has a special interest in trauma work and trauma informed care and offers professional development sessions on these and related topics through her work with Alberta Health Services. She also has extensive performance experience in the roles of actor, writer, director, and/or technical consult in dramatic performances.
Jasmine Nathoo
MPS Teaching Faculty
Jasmine Nathoo, MSc, is a registered psychologist in Alberta. She works in post-secondary counselling and private practice settings, providing therapy to individuals, couples, families, and groups. She is also a doctoral candidate in the Counselling Psychology program at the University of Alberta. Her research focuses on integration experiences of newcomer youth in Canada, and includes the use of arts-based participatory research methods.
Joanne Neal
DMin Committee
Joanne Neal, PhD (Theological Studies), PhD (Education, Curriculum Studies), MS (Educational Policy & Management), BEd (Elementary Education) was ordained to the Vocational Diaconate of the Anglican Church of Canada in 2007. She serves on Stephen’s College Doctor of Ministry Program Committee. She also supervises graduate students and teaches online courses with the Graduate Theological Foundation. Her current parish life is with the Anglican Diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.
Mary Norton
MPS Teaching Faculty
Mary Norton, PhD, MPS-AT, RCAT, RCT-C values creativity and art making as pathways to wellness for people and communities. As a community-based adult educator, Mary integrated arts-based approaches in programs and courses to support learning for all. These experiences drew her to study and practice expressive arts, art therapy and body-centred psychotherapies. She has integrated these approaches as an art therapist in community-based and private practice and in her teaching about art therapy. Mary is interested in integrating arts-based and reflective inquiry to build and share knowledge about art therapy practices. Mary re-settled in Mi’kma’ki (Nova Scotia) in 2019 and continues to work in private and community practices.
Kim Penner
UAlberta Teaching Faculty
Kim Penner is a settler living in Kitchener, Ontario, the traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee peoples. She holds a PhD in Theology from St. Michael’s College, Toronto School of Theology, and a Master of Theological Studies from Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo. Kim’s research interests focus especially on the intersections of power, sexuality, and gender for a life-giving theological sexual ethic. She works as a pastor of a church, an advocate for survivors of sexual abuse, and as an adjunct instructor. She highly values building bridges of peace across difference and has appreciated being able to teach theological ethics in both multi-faith and Christian specific contexts.
Darlene Pranke
Darlene Pranke, DMin, is a CASC/ACSS Spiritual Care Practitioner and a Spiritual Care Supervisor-Educator. Darlene studied Theology at both North American Baptist College (BAR) and St. Stephen's College (MTS and DMin) in Edmonton. Her specialization in the DMin studies was on Suicide Grief. Darlene currently works in the Healthcare sector (for more than 20 years) in both capacities, as a Spiritual Care Practitioner and in Supervisory Education. She also has experience in the technical sector of health care as an X-ray Technologist.
Zinia Pritchard
MPS and MTS Teaching Faculty
Zinia Pritchard, DMin, is a Contemplative Practical Theologian and leads the profession of Spiritual Care at Alberta Health Services as Practice Director, Provincial Spiritual Care. She is committed to building capacity for spiritual health care across health professions. Zinia is a CASC certified spiritual care practitioner, a seasoned palliative practitioner, and a medical educator with a prior appointment as a Research Associate within Medicine. Her specialty area is the spiritual suffering of Dark Night within the palliative and end of life population.
Amanda Radil
MPS Teaching Faculty
Amanda Radil holds an MEd and PhD in School and Clinical Child Psychology from the University of Alberta. Her research focus is on motivation and emotion in educational environments while her clinical focus is on using a strengths-based perspective to work with youth. Additional areas of interest include evaluation, mixed methodology, neurodevelopmental disorders, and positive psychology. Amanda brings over seven years of experience in a variety of research and applied settings to her work at St. Stephen's College.
Cory Seibel
UAlberta Teaching Faculty
Cory Seibel (he/him) is a counselling therapist at Cornerstone Counselling in Edmonton, where he also serves as Cornerstone’s Faith Community Liaison. Cory completed his MA in Counselling at Central Seminary in Shawnee, Kansas, and is a Canadian Certified Counsellor with the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association. Prior to entering the counselling profession, Cory spent many years serving an ordained minister for churches in Virginia, North Dakota, and Edmonton, and as a full-time professor at graduate schools in South Dakota and California. He also has served as a sessional instructor for several institutions in Canada, the US, and Australia. In addition to his counsellor training, Cory previously completed two advanced degrees in practical theology, an MTh degree from Spurgeon’s College in London, England, and a PhD from the University of Pretoria in South Africa. Cory loves to sing and explore Edmonton’s river valley and remains an active author and speaker.
Aaron Smith
MPS Teaching Faculty
Dr. Aaron Smith (PhD, Wilfrid Laurier University) has taught in counselling, psychotherapy, psychology, and social work programs at universities across Canada for more than ten years. He is also a Registered Psychotherapist (CRPO) and has worked for numerous primary health care clinics, mental health institutions, and community-based organizations. He has received advanced training in Clinical Supervision, Sex Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia, Compassion Fatigue, and various forms of Couples Therapy. Woven throughout Dr. Smith’s research is an emphasis on relationships and relational engagement. He has been interviewed by news outlets, published articles in academic journals, and presented at organizations and conferences throughout North America on various subjects related to spirituality and psychotherapy.
Miriam Spies
DMin Teaching Faculty
Rev. Miriam Spies is a crip, queer theologian completing her doctoral thesis at Emmanuel College. Her thesis uses incarnational theologies with disability/crip studies to imagine a crip incarnational theology of ministry – encouraging congregations to imagine / reflect upon being in ministry with a crip minister. Ordained in the United Church, she has served in communities of faith and in global ecumenical bodies (World Council of Churches).
Susan Spyker
UAlberta Teaching Faculty
Susan Spyker, MPS, began her path dancing in nature and still does. In her class, you will be guided to reflect on words, feelings, theory in a whole-bodied way. Susan is a creative arts therapist who has learned widely through academia, experience, workshops and personal practice. As a professional art therapist, she completed the MPS in Art Therapy at St Stephen’s College and a BA in Recreation Administration with a focus on arts, culture and special populations at the University of Alberta. Susan has connected to a diversity of people via a variety of pathways regularly including holistic therapeutic movement.
Kevin St. Arnaud
MPS Teaching Faculty
Kevin St. Arnaud, Ph.D., R.Psych, is a clinician, lecturer, and researcher. He is currently an Assistant Clinical Professor of Palliative Medicine at the University of Alberta and registered psychologist in the Department of Psychosocial and Spiritual Resources at the Cross Cancer Institute. Dr. St. Arnaud has specialized training in psilocybin, ketamine, and MDMA- assisted psychotherapies and provides psychedelic therapy in private practice. He has taught graduate and undergraduate courses on clinical psychology, the psychology of religion, ethics in professional practice, counselling theory and skills, developmental psychology, and psychopathology. Kevin's primary research and clinical interests center on the developmental function of psychedelic-assisted awe and self-transcendence in the facilitation of psychospiritual growth and well-being.
David St. Arnault
MPS Teaching Faculty
David St. Arnault, PhD, teaches two courses, Professional Ethics for Psychotherapy and Spiritual Care and Systems Psychotherapy Skills, in the MPS Program. He holds a PhD in Counselling Psychology from the University of Alberta, an MEd in Counselling Psychology from the University of Western Ontario, BEd (secondary) and BA degrees from the University of Alberta, and works as a Registered Psychologist in private practice. Dr St. Arnault maintains a diverse clinical practice, providing psychotherapy and formal assessment to various populations with a specialized focus on the healing and growing with trauma and working systemically: with couples, families and groups. He has also been a teaching assistant and sessional instructor for several undergraduate and graduate courses at the University of Alberta. Dr. St. Arnault enjoys sharing his passion for social justice and his appreciation of human development and resilience through his teaching.
Lyndsay Thompson
MPS Teaching Faculty
Lyndsay Thompson, MDiv, RP, is a Doctor of Ministry candidate at Tyndale University in Toronto. Her doctoral was qualitative research on the role of desire in spiritual transformation. She graduated from Tyndale with her MDiv in Clinical Counselling in 2018. Since then, Lyndsay continues to prioritize excellence in both practice and academia. She owns a small group practice working with kids, teens and families and individuals with presenting concerns such as anxiety, depression, trauma, spirituality and developmental and relational challenges. She is trained in modalities such EMDR, CBT, Focusing, IFS and Play Therapy. She is also a lecturer in Clinical Counselling and Thanatology at Tyndale University. She is passionate about opportunities for the integration of faith and psychology and meaningful interdisciplinarity. She writes frequently on psychotherapeutic understandings of the work of C.S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers and George MacDonald. When she’s not in the classroom, you will find her on the river fly fishing.
Haley Toll
MPS Teaching Faculty
Haley Toll, PhD Cand, CCC, RCAT, RP is the Editor in Chief of the Canadian Art Therapy Association Journal and PhD Candidate in the Faculty of Education at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. Her current doctoral research intermixes multicultural and international art therapy and arts-based research, with a focus on supporting newcomer women in Canada. Haley was the President of the Canadian Art Therapy Association from 2016-2019 and the Director of Communications from 2013-2016. She has worked with children and adults internationally and across Canada in trauma-care related to relocation, cancer diagnosis, HIV diagnosis, sexual abuse, and other psychological and emotional challenges for over ten years. As an educator, Haley has trained mental health practitioners and students in Botswana, Thailand, Edmonton, St. John’s, and Mongolia in art therapy, arts-informed counselling, and crisis intervention practices. Haley is a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships Doctoral Award Recipient (2019), Women’s Association of Memorial University Doctoral Scholarship (2018), School of Graduate Studies Baseline Scholarship (2017), among others. Delivering presentations across Canada and internationally, Haley was the invited keynote speaker at the Memorial University Faculty of Medicine Refugee Health Symposium in 2021. She will be the co-keynote speaker, along with Megan Kanerahtenha:wi Whyte, at the 2024 Canadian Art Therapy Association Conference.
Grant Wardlow
MPS Teaching Faculty
Brent Watts
CPE Supervisor-Educator
Geoffrey Wilfong-Pritchard
MPS, MTS, and UAlberta Teaching Faculty, and DMin Committee
Geoffrey Wilfong-Pritchard is a graduate of St. Stephen's College and has special interests in Narrative Theology, Interreligious Wisdom traditions, New Testament Studies, and Community Development methodologies. An adaptation of his dissertation, "Cloven Hoof, The Trials of James Evans" was mounted at the 2014 Edmonton International Fringe Festival, and he has presented his research at both national and international conferences.