MORE - Mia Klassen
Mia is a credentialed member of the Canadian Professional Counselling Association and holds the designation of Master Practitioner in Clinical Counselling. She is also a registered Counselling Therapist with the Alberta Counselling and Therapeutic Association (ACTA).
Mia brings both professional expertise and personal insight to her counselling practice. Her work is deeply informed by lived experience and a lifelong commitment to supporting those navigating adversity. Her initial interest in the mental health field was shaped by profound grief following the loss of her sister to sex trafficking—an experience that ignited in her a deep compassion for vulnerable individuals. The shame-based environment of her early life presented substantial challenges, yet also became a catalyst for personal growth, resilience, and the pursuit of therapeutic excellence.
As she worked through her own recovery, Mia developed a passion for learning and for helping others overcome their own emotional and psychological barriers. She has lived alongside individuals struggling with serious mental illness and addiction, which further strengthened her capacity to provide clients with authentic validation and support throughout their healing journeys.
Mia frequently collaborates with her husband, Daniel, as they both specialize in identity solidification and trauma therapy. Their combined efforts allow for a holistic and deeply integrative approach, particularly for individuals coping with complex trauma and dissociation.
She holds a diploma in Life Skills and Career Development and later completed her graduate education with distinction, earning a Master’s degree in Counselling with a focus on severe trauma. Her clinical training is extensive, with specialization in ADHD, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), grief, complex trauma, Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), sexual abuse, eating disorders, and other diagnosed mental health conditions.
Mia has undergone advanced training in a variety of therapeutic modalities, including Internal Family Systems (IFS), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Solution-Focused Therapy (SFT), and Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), also known as tapping. These, among other integrative approaches, allow her to tailor each session to the unique needs of her clients.
Her work with individuals affected by severe trauma, childhood adversity, and dissociative disorders has helped many find meaningful relief from long-standing emotional pain. Mia’s ability to foster a safe, attuned, and nonjudgmental space often allows clients to feel genuinely heard and understood—sometimes for the first time in their lives.
Certificates with Modules
- Courses denoted in bold, modules of course listed below
Undoing Shame: The Key to Trauma Healing
6-Month Online Certification EMDR Course with Dr. Arielle Schwartz and Stacy Ruse
EMDR, CBT and Somatic-Based intervention to Move Clients from Surviving to Thriving
EMDR & Parts Work for Treating Complex Trauma: Somatic Techniques to Decrease Defensiveness and Facilitate Trauma Processing
EMDR Core Skills Training 1 – 12 Mastering Differential Diagnoses with the DSM-5-TR: A Symptom-Based Approach
EMDR Trauma Treatment Workshops 1 – 8
Complete IFS Therapy Immersion
Internal Family Systems (IFS): Development, Application, and Transformational Model to Effectively Help Clients Improve Well-Being
Attachment & IFS: Healing trauma and Attachment Wounds that Befriend the Body
Treating Complex PTSD with IFS
IFS & Addictive Processes: Healing Wounds and Restoring Balance to the system of Parts
IFS & Disordered Eating: Heal the Relationship Between Food and Body
IFS Therapy Approaches to Shame, Anxiety, and Depression
IFS & Couples Therapy: Using Intimacy from the Inside Out (IFIO) to Heal, Improve, and Provide Relationship Help
IFS with Children & Adolescents: Using Parts Work to Help Young People Heal
IFS Approaches with LGBTQ21A + Clients
Healing Racial Trauma with IFS Therapy
The Future of IFS
Mastering Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS): A Revolutionary & Transformative Treatment for Permanent Healing of PTSD, Anxiety, Depression
Therapist Guide to the Psychopharmacology of Trauma and Dissociation
Trauma Research Foundations Certificate in Traumatic Stress with Bessel Vander Kolk
Understanding Trauma: Foundations
The Complexity of Adaptation to Trauma
The nature of Trauma: Developmental Neurobiology, Neuroimaging Research and Effective intervention
Neurobiology of Trauma Treatment: EMDR and New Research Directions
Adult Attachment Relationships
The Roles intersectionality & Cultural humility Play when Working with Diverse Client Populations
The Field Guide to Barefoot Psychology: Making Psychoeducation Relevant and sociable Across Cultures
Trauma Assessment of Children and Adults
Childhood Trauma: Impact and Long-Term Consequences
The Scope of Trauma Treatment: From Acute Interventions to Restoration of Self-Experience
Introduction to ARC: The Attachment. Regulation and Competency Model
ARC & Supporting Regulation in Childhood
Trauma through the lens of Polyvagal Theory
We Do Not Work Alone: implementing and Sustaining Trauma-Informed Systems
SMART: Sensory Motor Arousal Regulation Treatment
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Theory and Practice
Trauma, PTSD, and the Mind-Body Relationship
Embodied Awareness
Eye Movement Sensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy: A Model for Accelerated Change
Trauma Processing with Children
Making Connections: The Neurobiology of Sand play Therapy in the Treatment of Trauma
Use of Play and Activity to Support Trauma-informed Treatment
The Importance of Play in the Treatment of trauma
The DE-CRUIT Monologue Method: Treating Trauma Through Narrative Embodiment
Working with Problematic Sexual Behavior in Children & Youth by John Ebert & Tarah Kuhn
Internal Family Systems
The use of Internal Family systems Model in Trauma Treatment
Trauma & Altered States of Consciousness
Implementing a Trauma-Informed Approach in Community, Hospital and Low-Income Settings
Trauma-Informed, Spiritually Aware: Considering Spirituality in Holistic Self and Client Care
Caring for the Caregiver: Vicarious Trauma
Neurofeedback Training as an Alternative Non-pharmaceutical Treatment Modality for Development Trauma
The Future of Trauma Interventions
Certificate for ADHD-Certified Clinical Service Provider
Young Adults with ADHD: Navigating Academia and Adulting
Psychopharmacology: Essential Updates for Mental Health Professionals
Student-driven approach to Support Executive Skills: Empower Youth to take control of their Own Learning
Alternative Learners and “Outside the Box” Thinkers: Innovative Interventions for Kids & Teens with ADHD, Autism, and learning Differences
Russel Barkley, Ph.D., on ADHD in Children and Adolescents: Advances in Diagnoses, Treatment and Management
ADHD, Executive Functioning, and Health Outcomes: Implications in Life and Clinical Management
Comorbidities, Communities & Next Steps for ADHD Treatment: A Panel Discussion
Effectively Keep ADHD Clients On-Time & On-Task: Step-by-Step Guide to Building Accountability Relationships
Rebuilding trust in ADHD-Impacted Relationships
Mindfulness-Based Strategies for Overcoming Complex ADHD in Youth and Families
The Critical Intersection of ADHD & Addiction: Why Treating Both Matters
ADHD, Social Anxiety, and Rejection Sensitivity: Moving Beyond Hello
ADHD, Neurodiversity, and Clinical Practices
ADHD Executive Functioning and Health Outcomes: Implications for Life Expectancy and Clinical Management
Excessive Daydreaming, Mental Confusion, and Slowed Behaviour/Cognition: Current Research & Assessment for Cognitive Disengagement Syndrome