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Charmaine Husum

Charmaine Husum DKATI, RTC, CT is an Artist, Certified Art Therapist, Registered Therapeutic Counsellor and Kundalini Yoga & Meditation teacher.

At her Art Therapy and Counselling practice, Centre of the HeArt she supports clients both in person and online on the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Confederacy (Siksika, Kainai, Piikani), the Tsuut’ina, the Îyâxe Nakoda Nations, and the Métis people of Calgary Alberta, Canada.

Helping people find a personalized route to healing through trauma-informed art psychotherapy, mindfulness, yoga and body focused somatic approaches is the foundation of her work. Believing that true and lasting healing lives within every individual; the work she does focuses on one’s inner strength, power and innate capacity to thrive beyond difficult experiences in life.

She specializes in working with Trauma and symptoms of PTSD, C-PTSD , Autism, depression, anxiety, eating disorders, suicidality, addiction and other mental health symptoms. Another area of focus she has been working in for some time is with Psychedelic Healing and helping others Integrate the powerful experiences that take place during Altered States of Consciousness. To support other’s journey’s she has created a self-paced online program for integration https://courses.centreoftheheart.com/p/psychedelic-integration; using Art Therapy, Dream work, Kundalini Meditation and Yoga, Somatic Processes, and Neuroplasticity that follows the trauma informed protocols outlined by Bessel van der Kolk and Judith Herman.

Her current research enthusiasms are in neuroplasticity, neuroscience, epigenetics, mystical/ psychedelic integration and intergenerational trauma.

“I feel fortunate to have had art, creativity and a strong connection to spirit be such a large part of my own journey and as an Art Therapist and Counsellor, I revel in how these modalities work to change and support the lives of others”.