Josh Fritz, MACP, Registered Provisional Psychologist
Populations: Adults, Adolescents, Children (+7)
Areas of Focus: Anxiety, Depression, PTSD, Trauma, Stress and Burnout, First Responders, Men’s Mental Health, Emotional Regulation and Identity Issues
Therapeutic Models: Solution Focused Therapy, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Narrative Therapy, Play Therapy
Location: Edmonton, St. Albert and Virtual
Availability: Monday Mornings, Tuesday Evenings, Wednesday Afternoons and Sunday Afternoons
A Note from Josh
Hello Everyone,
Do you want to understand the Why and the How? As in ”Why do I do this”; and “How did the behaviour or trait come about?”; If so, my background in genetics will help identify the interaction between your nature (DNA) and nurture (what have learned in your environment) in a well-rounded approach. Simply put, your DNA is the blueprint of you and your environment is the building materials you can access to build from those instructions. My goal is to foster an understanding of why you used which material to build each part and therefore learn how to dismantle the no longer necessary structures so that we can focus on building new ones.
Through volunteering with at-risk children and working as a 911 dispatcher, I have been toldthat my calm demeanour is fundamental in establishing stability during crisis situations. A proverbial rock in the storm that is emotional distress, whether it is on the worst day of your life or remembering the tough times you have gone through. Because of my experiences, very little will shock me and there is absolutely no judgment. My colleagues in the dispatch centre would tell me how comforting it was to hear my calm, controlled tone amid the chaos that surrounds an emergency situation.
Lastly, I understand how hard it can be to face problems head on. At my worst, I got a Job on a cruise ship thinking that distance and time would solve all my problems. I learned that they can dull the sharp edges of the some issues (not all), they can actually lead to a host of different concerns. This helped me to learn how to recognize that there are a number of different approaches, solutions, and perspectives that can be taken to deflect or solve different problems, not excluding that sometimes space is needed to understand the angles. It only took me travelling halfway across the world to figure this out leading to my new goal of helpingothers figure it out here!
Because of my experience, I have developed a love for teaching people how to understand themselves and why they developed their problem traits. Through a mixture of nature and nurture, solutions are found to problems during crisis’; that we then hold onto because they work. However, that solution can become the problem when it becomes unyielding and inflexible as we trying to force it into situations it wasn’t precisely designed for. Therefore, I find it integral to teach clients how to rebuild these processes to be more adaptive and malleable to current problems they may be facing, thus allowing them to be changed again in the future without needing as much help of guidance. With that in mind I incorporate elements of Solution Focus Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, and Narrative Therapy to help you achieve your goals! I am currently going through the process of EMDR certification and planning to incorporate it into my approach as well as play therapy.