DAVID REIZE
Profile
I am a professionally registered & insured Calgary-based counselling therapist specializing in Nature-based and experiential approaches. Fluent in a range of evidence-based, trauma-informed modalities, I provide consistent, goal-oriented care for anxiety, depression, trauma, addictions, and other life challenges. I am looking to bring that care somewhere it matters — a practice that puts people genuinely first.
Experience
- Individual and couples therapy, in-person and virtual
- Holistic, nature-based approaches with diverse clientele
- Goal-oriented treatment planning and case conceptualization
- Integrative treatment of trauma, grief, anxiety, depression, addictions and identity issues
- Individual and group counselling within holistic, trauma-informed day-treatment programming
- Contributed to curriculum design and evidence-based treatment delivery across intensive cohorts
- Provided peer consultation and clinical support to counselling team
- Monthly clinical consultation with counselling & addictions staff
- Counselling skills training and coaching for clinical team
- Providing multi-modal, experiential counselling within wilderness context; collaborated with multidisciplinary team
- Culturally safe therapeutic care with Indigenous clientele in public health setting
Volunteering
Ongoing support of Indigenous Elders in Blackfoot and Cree ceremonies — including Pipe Ceremonies, Big Smokes, Sweat Lodges, Tea Ceremonies and more. Gained songs, stories and transfers.
Providing leadership in congregational music and children's ministries at local church.
Mentoring incarcerated youth at the CYOC.
Publications
Reize, D. S. (2021). Relationality, Reciprocity and the Nature of Self: Encountering Expansive Connectedness in the Natural World.
doi.org/10.7939/r3-yk5v-2296
Reize, D. (2022). Building Relational Homes: Expansive Connectedness in the Natural World. Ecopoiesis: eco-human theory and practice, 3(1), 39–52.
tinyurl.com/bdef9bnx
