Jeremy Fonteyne
Registered Provisional Psychologist
Supporting individuals with depression, emotion-regulation, and ADHD. Helping couples and families to feel more connected.
Availability: Accepting New Clients
In-person (Calgary) or Online (Alberta).
*Currently No Waitlist - Evening and Weekend Availability
Jeremy Works With:
Kids (10+), Teens, Adults
Individuals, Couples, Families
Jeremy strives to live in the mold of something he rarely saw growing up: emotionally open and sensitive men. Since culturally this is often punished, he knows the pain and confusion associated with finding one’s genuine identity.
With women, he aims to provide an alternative and healing alliance that counters the all-too-common scary and chaotic relationships with men that many women experience, facilitating change on a nervous system level. With men, he wishes to explore emotion in a greater depth in a way that actualizes and explores the many sides of masculinity. Jeremy also likes to work with teens, and has extensive experience with those with ADHD, ODD, and complex behaviours, with ADHD for both teens and adults discovering it later in life, as one of his primary knowledge areas.
A natural progression to emotion work with individuals in a family system is work with couples and families. Here, he utilizes emotionally focused therapy to identify problem cycles and patterns that lead to disconnection, often rooted in an inability to find the right words at the right time. He aims to orient loved ones against the problem cycle, not each other.
Special focus areas: Endometriosis, medical trauma, phone/tech addiction leading to disconnection.
Jeremy’s Approach.
Jeremy primarily practices Narrative therapy, a lesser-known modality, but one that honours a person’s creativity and uniqueness, discussing problems as stories that are rich with context waiting to be explored. Jeremy believes there is always something in your story that will make a behaviour make sense, and he wishes to uncover it. He also takes influences from emotionally focused therapy, mindfulness, and uses cognitive techniques as needed.
He additionally practices Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET), an evidence-based model for C-PTSD that shows strong symptom reduction and presents as an alternative to EMDR for those in which it may not have been a fit.
What it’s like to work with Jeremy.
Curiosity and warmth are two traits that Jeremy values the most in his work. He believes no-one should go into therapy and leave without feeling accepted and understood, with his sessions facilitated with a spirit of compassion, recognizing and sitting with how hard life can get.
If life feels directionless, he will work with you to find structure, but at the core, he sees therapy as fluid and instead of telling you what to do or change, he will work with you, putting your values in the driver’s seat.
Personal Note
I grew up in Medicine Hat but since I moved to Calgary for school, I have always been drawn to the big city. I appreciate the opportunities to engage in my many hobbies including soccer, snowboarding, and my recent obsession, salsa dancing.
I am passionate about my work and I love to learn and to be challenged, and when I am not talking about video essays or horror movies with my two sisters, they are pushing me to reflect on life from alternative perspectives.
I put myself in many categories: a recovering overthinker, a hopeless romantic, and a person overwhelmed by everything that life is and can be, sometimes struggling to pinpoint what identity truly is. But I love that complexity and revel in the chance to explore the magnitude and heaviness of life with my clients.
Education.
Masters of Arts in Counselling Psychology (City University of Seattle)
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology (University of Alberta)
Specialized training in Narrative Exposure Therapy, Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, and Behavioural Addictions.
Jeremy Helps With.
Depression • Anxiety • ADHD • Autism • Grief • New Fatherhood • Family Conflict • Couples Issues • Medical Trauma • Endometriosis Support • PTSD • Phone & Behavioural Addiction
A note on endometriosis and medical trauma
Endometriosis affects roughly 1 in 10 women, and the experience of getting diagnosed and treated is, for many, a long history of being dismissed, minimized, or told the pain is in their head.
Jeremy works specifically with clients living with endometriosis, chronic pain, and medical trauma, using narrative and emotion-focused approaches to help process the toll the diagnostic journey takes, and to support clients in rebuilding trust in their own experience.