Five Vines

Karen Cinq-Mars

Psychotherapist, BA, BSW, MSW, RSW

Karen has over 20 years experience working with clients from a wide range of different cultures, spiritualities, ages, genders, and sexualities. She offers a deep appreciation and respect for a client’s own journey, experience, culture, and values. Clients describe Karen’s presence as calming, which provides a sense of safety within the therapy setting. She works from a strengths perspective, as she looks towards the client’s inner strengths and builds on them to create an individualized therapy plan. She uses an eclectic approach, which includes aspects of solution focused therapy, cognitive behaviour therapy, attachment theory, family systems theory and narrative therapy. 

Her focus has been helping people who are experiencing the effects of:

• Anxiety

• Life Stress/ burnout

• Vicarious trauma/ first responders/ frontline crisis services

• Depression

• Unhealthy or abusive relationships

• Sexual assault

• Traumatic grief and loss

• Life transitions

• Parenting issues

• Anger management

• Assertiveness skills

Fees are $115+ per individual session, and $130+ per two-person session (couple or parent/child). Karen does direct bill to Non-Insured Health Benefits (NIHB) for treaty status, Indigenous clients. She also direct bills to Blue Cross and MPI (Highway Fatality Grief Counselling).

Karen's contact information:

Cell: 204-805-2423

Email: karen.cinq-mars@outlook.com 

Judith (Judi) Heppner

Psychotherapist, BA, BSW, MSW, RSW

Judi brings warmth and humour into therapy, and has high regard for her clients. She often hears people say they are surprised with how comfortable they feel talking to her. In her 30 years of experience she has become familiar with conditions that can be challenging for individuals and their caregivers, such as ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and Fragile X.  She has an integrative approach, with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy and Attachment Theory being the frameworks she uses the most.

Some of the issues Judi works with are:

• Negative emotions, like depression and anxiety

• Relationship difficulties, such as parenting problems, couple conflict and separation and divorce

• Illness and chronic pain

• Experiences in unhealthy environments, such as toxic workplaces and faith communities

• Reaching life goals, such as healthier lifestyles and education

Fees are $110+ per individual and $135+ per two-person session (couple or parent/child).  She can take a limited number of clients on a sliding scale if they do not have insurance and are lower income. Clients with treaty status can be covered through Non-Insured Health Benefits, and Manitoba Blue Cross and Green Shield  can be billed directly. 

Judi’s contact information:

Cell: 204-619-0923

Email: judiheppner@fivevinestherapy.com

Andrea Mckenzie

Psychotherapist, BSW, MSW, RSW

Andrea has over 25 years of experience working with people grappling with a variety of issues and challenges and/or seeking to improve their lives. She knows that it can be difficult to reach out for therapy, and that each person has strengths and stories beyond any challenges they are facing. She brings a warm and caring presence, with a twist of humour into therapy that clients have expressed makes them feel comfortable and understood, and able to share whatever they want or need to. She has a genuine appreciation for client’s experiences and willingness to reflect on themselves in therapy.

While working primarily from a narrative perspective, Andrea incorporates aspects of other approaches to best meet client needs, including but not limited to solution-focused and cognitive behavioral, within an attachment-based and trauma informed model. She works with people to express their story, consider the problem story’s effects on their life and relationships, and to open up space for strengthening what is currently working, while developing new ways about thinking about or responding to the problem(s). This results in reducing feelings of distress the problems may be creating and ultimately allows one to feel better and live the life they prefer for themselves.

Some of the issues Andrea works with are:

• Trauma (current/past)

• Life goals

• Relationship challenges

• Anxiety

• Depression

• Life stress/burn out

• Life transitions

• Grief and loss

• Feelings and symptoms related to sexual abuse/assault (self-blame, other blame, flashbacks/ reoccurring thoughts, anxiety, shame, confusing feelings, anger, fear, difficulty with trust of self and others, intimacy issues both sexual and non-sexual)

• -Emotional regulation (includes anger management)

• Parenting issues

• Developing healthier communication/assertiveness/ boundary setting skills

Fees are $120+ per individual and $135+ per two-person session (couple; parent-child). Those with insurance coverage will be provided with a receipt to submit a claim through their provider.

Andrea’s Contact information:

Cell: (431) 341-4113

E-mail: andreamckenziefivevines@outlook.com

Tim Plett

Life Coach, BA 

Tim has been helping people move through complex seasons in their lives for over three decades. He finds humans endlessly fascinating, and feels honored to be invited into the deep places of other’s lives. Tim believes we all know more than we think we know about how to move toward our best future, and that sometimes a careful listener can help us hear our own solutions. We don’t need to stay stuck.

Tim specializes in coaching people through transitions of all sorts, and especially enjoys helping folks become aware of their values so they can live with deeper personal integrity. He has also spent several years concentrating on coaching people whose spirituality and/or faith are shifting, and finds that terrain very intriguing and hopeful.

Life Coaching typically emphasizes outcomes, while therapy often leans toward process. Tim is “process inclined” and “outcome committed”. In other words, he believes that sometimes you have to spend some time talking about how you got here (process) in order to figure out how to go on from here (outcomes). Let’s get started…

Fees are $70.00 per one hour session; $75.00 per two person session.

Tim’s contact Information:

Cell: 204 232 4574

Email: timplett.5vines@gmail.com