History

I was born and raised on Treaty 8 territory in northern Alberta. In 2013 I moved to the unceded territory of Coast Salish peoples to study at the University of British Columbia. I graduated from UBC with a Bachelor of Arts. I went on receive a Master of Arts at Simon Fraser University. In 2020 I moved to the traditional territory Snuneymuxw, Snaw-naw-as, and Stzuminus people to join the clinical team at an addictions treatment centre. After this I moved to the unceded ancestral lands of the lək̓ʷəŋən speaking peoples to study at the University of Victoria and graduated with a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology.

I enjoy dance, reading, hot drinks, comedy, art-making, and adventuring around town with my daughter.

My practice is organized around relationships. We will contemplate your relationship to self, others, objects, substances, processes, and even time itself. I work within a relational psychodynamic model of therapy, seeking to listen carefully to what the unconscious, body and inner voice have to say. Learning to listen in this way supports clients to see, accept and value each part of the self.

Approach

Areas of Focus

Parenting: fertility journeys, pregnancy loss, prenatal, postpartum, birth trauma and early years of parenting

Relational trauma: outcomes of childhood victimization, attachment injuries, avoidance, difficulty with intense emotions, identity questions, difficulties forming relationships

Masculinity: lovingly disrupting the patriarchy

Creative process: art-making, creative blocks, community

Career: decision-making, alignment with values, transitions

Meaning: lack of connection to meaning, alienation, uncertainty, purposelessness, stagnancy

Addiction: eating disorders, substance use, process-based addictions

Psychedelic Preparation & Integration: intentionally weaving altered states of consciousness into the everyday

Training

Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART)

Masters of Counselling Psychology, University of Victoria (Family systems, Gestalt, Tri-Phasic model for treatment of trauma)

Looking Glass Foundation for Eating Disorder Recovery Counselling Practicum, Kaela Scott, RCC (CBT, EFT, DBT, Relational psychodynamic therapy)

Men's Therapy Centre Advanced Counselling Internship, Efré Laurence Divina, RCC (Somatic attachment psychotherapy, polyvagal approach to the treatment of trauma)

Publications

Wolfe, A.T. (2024). Beyond Perfectionism and Towards Repair: Reflections for Mental Health Workers. in C. Ahenakew (Ed.) Beyond window dressing reconciliation in healthcare: a workbook for settler physicians. Beyond window-dressing reconciliation in healthcare: A workbook for settler physicians

Wolfe, A.T. (2024). Datamining Desire. in B. Gook (Ed.) Libidinal economies of crisis times: the psychic life of contemporary capitalism (1st ed.) Transcript Publishing. https://www.transcript-publishing.com/en/978-3-8376-5685-5.

Wolfe, A. (2019). Symbolic collisions: short-circuits in the Libidinal Economy. [Masters Thesis, Simon Fraser University. https://docslib.org/doc/5655598/symbolic-collisions-short-circuits-in-the-libidinal-economy.