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Alison Epp, MACP, RD, CCC
Counsellor & Registered Dietitian
Alison Epp’s passion to support and advocate for women who have experienced violence comes from personal experience. Alison comes to When Love Hurts and the field of counselling with a deep interest in walking with individuals through their experiences with a trauma-informed (more specifically, violence-informed), client-centered approach, creating safety, connection and support. As a survivor of violence herself, Alison brings empathetic understanding and hope for healing and continued resilience.
Alison has a Master’s of Counselling Psychology and works in a counselling practice providing individual and group counselling. Alison continues to co-facilitate a WLH support group through MCC Saskatoon and is passionate about continuing to support and advocate for individuals who are and have experienced abuse. Alison is re-married to her partner Derek, is a proud mother of 2 young children and loves to stay active, adventure with her family.
Podcast episodes
Episode 8: Understanding the healing journey
In this episode, we explore the healing journey for women who have experienced abuse.
Episode 7: Mothering, post separation abuse, and the legal system
How men’s abuse profoundly impacts mothering and how that abuse so often continues after separation through the legal system.
Episode 5: Why abusive men are abusive
In this episode, we take on the question women ask again and again: Why is he abusive?
Welcome to Episode 4: The impacts of abuse for women
We want to thank you for joining us for this heavy, but essential, conversation. Be gentle with yourself as you listen; grab your coffee or tea and give yourself the space and time you need. Why we need to shift…
Episode 3: Understanding the power and control wheel
In this episode of the When Love Hurts podcast, we unpack the realities of power and control in abusive relationships.