Hello! My name is Priya Bains (she/her)
Priya Bains offers Psilocybin-Assisted Psychotherapy
I have been working as a Registered Psychologist in Alberta for close to 20 years, primarily in a private practice. Majority of my experience has been working with individual adult clients and some couples. Generally, my clients have come with 3 main concerns: depression, anxiety, and trauma, and its impact on their mind-body well being and relational well being. I have always worked somatically so I predominately conceptualize problems from the bottom-up versus top-down. What that means is that I turn to the body to help find answers that perhaps the cognitive mind hasn't quite figured out yet.
Despite working from this bottom-up approach, some clients continued to be stuck in their patterns of being, which is where my interested in psychedelics began. Psychedelics gave me another tool to help clients be in their body and emotional spaces in a way that my existing tools belt couldn't allow for.
I am a Certified Hakomi Therapist, trauma trained, and psychedelically trained. The combination all of these influences have provided me the ability to hold space well, track my clients inner experiences, and help braid the cognitive meaning making back into the experience. It is really important to me that there are committed action that we focus on after medicine so that we can make change a practice.
As a fellow human on the same path, I have been exploring different healing spaces for several years now. I continue to expand my own inner landscape with a variety of experiences with the intention to keep growing towards wholeness.
My services would offered at a licensed medical clinic based in Edmonton, AB.