Jourdan Tymkow

Jourdan is a Registered Provisional Psychologist residing in Treaty 6 territory in Amiskwaciy Waskahikan, the traditional name of Edmonton, Alberta. Her path to becoming a space holder and therapist was a long, meandering one inspired by curiosity, community care, and their own ongoing becoming. After pursuing a BFA in Critical and Cultural Practices, Jourdan held a greater understanding of the complexity of humanity, a love for storytelling, imagination, and myth, and a deep interest in decoloniality all through the lens of playful artistic endeavours, but was compelled to know more about her soul, the great mysteries, and their belonging in the world through studying Jung, Buddhist teachings, Indigenous knowledges, tarot and astrology, as well as psychedelic journeying, pilgrimages, contemplative practices, and participating in ceremony.

Through this wandering, Jourdan became one of the first cohorts of peer supporters at Fireside Project, an international peer support line for psychedelic journeys and integration, while pursuing their MA in Counselling Psychology with an interest in transformative and holistic modalities. As a counselling psychologist, Jourdan values being a companion that can support individual's innate healing capacity through a highly relational, embodied, and experiential approach. In sessions, this can often look like processing emotions or stuckness through the body, using imaginative practices to envision your internal landscape in new and unique ways, creating alternative narratives of meaning, providing mindfulness tools for a greater capacity to be with difficulty, supporting an increased felt experience of joy and calm, and encouraging increased self-leadership and your intuitive wisdom.

Jourdan's passions lay in striving toward neurodecolonization and transformative frameworks rooted in intimate connection that support humble, small steps in re-envisioning what is possible for individual and collective liberation. She is inspired by the likes of Bayo Akomolafe, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Ram Dass to name a few, and in their personal life, enjoys nerding out with video games, making ceramics, and exploring the River Valley with their dog, Rumi.

Professional Background

Jourdan is a practitioner of Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, play therapy, and parts work (Internal Family Systems and Jungian informed). Jourdan also draws from expressive arts, neurobiology, transpersonal psychology, liberation psychology, and post-humanist frameworks in her work, and is passionate about ongoing learnings in Indigenous Cultural Safety, decolonial methodologies, and cultural care. In addition to her clinical work, Jourdan supported the licensure and programming process of one of Edmonton's first psychedelic-assisted therapy clinics, Edgar Psychological, during her internship. She has also led the application process for folks accessing the federal Special Access Program for psilocybin and MDMA assisted therapies and co-facilitated psychedelic integration circles.