Lois Sapsford, MSW, RSW,
Registered Clinical Social Worker
Juno Counselling and Consulting Ltd.
 Lois is the founder and director of Juno House. As a specialist in adolescent girls’ and young women’s treatment, Lois has developed a reputation as the ‘girl’s specialist’ in Calgary. With over 25 years experience, Lois specializes in providing therapy to adolescent girls and young women, and their families.
Over the past 10 years, Lois has developed a therapeutic model based on 3 lines of important research: outcomes in psychodynamic psychotherapy, attachment theory, and current research in brain development and affective neuroscience. Bringing these three research areas together has resulted in new ways of delivering therapy to adolescent girls and young women.
At Juno House, therapy is provided by applying attachment theory as the primary assessment tool in understanding the girl’s basic capacity for emotional health. Disrupted secure attachment bonds at critical phases of a child’s development are seen as the cause of problematic self- regulation of their emotional states.
Lois works with adolescent girls and young women to help them learn to ‘regulate their emotions.’ This includes working with girls experiencing eating disorders, self harm behaviors, anxiety, addictions, self esteem issues, relationship problems, body image, sports performance enhancement and parent/child conflict. Lois’ playful and highly relational approach to therapy is warmly received by girls looking for this connection and honesty.
Lois has completed her EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) Levels I and II. EMDR is a core treatment modality used at Juno House to help our clients move through early developmental patterns.
Lois has also developed and taught a Feminist Practice graduate level course at the Clinical Social Work Program, U of C; a Women & Addictions course at Mount Royal College, and has taught several specialized week-long training programs for psychotherapists throughout North America in working with girls and self-harming behavior through the American Association of Suicidology.
Lois Sapsford
Phone: 403 209-0997
Email: juno@haywirecreative.ca
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