Mindbloom Therapy (Christie Byvelds Social Work Professional Corporation) offers warm, compassionate, and effective mental health services to children, adolescents, and parents both virtually and in-person in Ottawa, Ontario. Please take a look around to learn more about my approach, areas of focus, services offered, and clinic space.
I offer individual psychotherapy to children and adolescents as well as parent coaching and group therapy. I have an eclectic and practical approach to therapy drawing on my experience and training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT), Dialectal Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Emotion-Focused Family Therapy (EFFT), Collaborative and Proactive Solutions (CPS), Supportive Parenting of Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE), Brainspotting, polyvagal informed interventions, and mindfulness.
I am a registered social worker who provides children, teens, and their caregivers with compassionate, trauma-informed psychotherapy. In addition to my private practice, I am also an associate at CAFCO, a member of CHEO's outpatient mental health team, and a contract instructor at Carleton University.
Services Offered
Individual
Psychotherapy
Offered to children, adolescents, and transitional aged youth
(16 - 25)
Parent
Coaching
Parent coaching can help you in supporting your child with their mental health
SPACE
Treatment
SPACE (Supportive Parenting of Anxious Childhood Emotions) is a parent-based intervention for child anxiety
Group
Therapy
Group therapy can be a great option for many reasons. Click below to learn more about available group therapy options for children, teens, and parents
Areas of Focus
My private practice focuses primarily on anxiety, trauma, emotion regulation difficulties, parent-child conflict, and giftedness. Other areas of my practice include low mood, depression, self-esteem, perfectionism, and self-harm and suicidality.
Anxiety
Trauma
Emotion Dysregulation
Parent-child
conflict
Giftedness