Kelly McConnan Wiltshire
Registered Psychologist
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Kelly McConnan Wiltshire is a Registered Psychologist located in Edmonton, Alberta. She is trained as a generalist - able to work with a wide range of ages and mental health concerns.
Kelly works predominantly with children, adolescents and adults. She is a Certified Play Therapist with the Canadian Association of Play therapy.
Prior to becoming a psychologist, she worked as a junior high and high school teacher and counsellor. From her previous experiences, she has an interest in helping individuals with learning disorders, ADHD, and school struggles, as well as anxiety and mood challenges.
Kelly offers both in-person and telehealth (video/phone) sessions to individuals in Alberta.
Services
Adult Individual Psychotherapy
Trained as a generalist, Kelly is able to work with a wide variety of mental health concerns and ages. The primary importance is a strong connection with focus on client-driven goals and evidence-based approaches to help each individual make sustainable change.
Kelly enjoys working with adults using a variety of approaches to help meet a wide range of therapy concerns and goals.
She has a particular interest in:
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Anxiety
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Mood Disorders
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Life Changes and Transitions
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Grief
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Parenting
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ADHD
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First Responders
Adolescent Individual Psychotherapy
Adolescence can be a particularly challenging time with a lot of life changes and social pressures. Kelly believes in helping support adolescents to increase their autonomy, self-advocacy, and using supports effectively to work towards life-long mental health.
Kelly has training in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behaviour Skills (DBT SKills), and Interpersonal Therapy (IPT) to work with adolescents in ways that support their unique personality, styles, and concerns.
She has a particular interest in:
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Anxiety
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Mood Disorders
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Supporting transitions between schools and into post-secondary
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Learning Disorders
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ADHD
Child
Play Therapy
Play therapy is a unique therapy, evidence-based method for working with children who are experiencing a wide-range of mental health concerns.
Kelly is a Certified Play Therapist with the Canadian Association for Play Therapy. She has advanced training, supervised practice, and follows ethical play therapy practices. She uses an integrative model of play therapy to support children in a variety of ways. This allows children to be the leaders of their therapy - whether they choose to talk directly about the concerns, or indirectly through play. It also allows Kelly to work in-the-moment with children on strategies to support change.
Kelly has particularly interest in working with children experiencing:
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Anxiety
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Mood Disorders
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Emotion Regulation Struggles
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Grief
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Learning Challenges
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ADHD
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School Struggles
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Family Changes
Contact
Suite 707, Princeton Place
10339-124 Street
Edmonton, Alberta
T5N 3W1
Tel: 780.974.5625
Fax: 855.256.5965