Clinical Framework
At Prairie Tides Community Healing, our clinical framework blends culturally grounded, trauma-informed approaches to care. Each youth receives a personalized plan that considers their developmental history, cultural background, and emotional needs.
NMT™ Assessments
NMT™ Assessments provide insight into how trauma has affected a youth’s brain development and functioning. These assessments guide the creation of targeted, individualized healing plans that support regulation, relationship-building, and recovery. By identifying the areas of the brain most impacted by adversity, we’re able to offer the right supports at the right time in a young person’s healing process.
Therapy Services
Individuals and Families
Connect with Prairie Tides to access personalized trauma-informed therapy and consultation services for individuals and families seeking support in a safe, culturally responsive environment. Our multidisciplinary team offers counselling, assessments, and holistic supports to help create an individualized therapeutic plan that works for you.
Service Providers
Partner with Prairie Tides for contract counselling, assessments, and therapeutic services for children, youth, and families supported by Child and Family Services, Jordan’s Principle, or other service providers. We deliver coordinated, trauma-informed care tailored to your clients’ needs, promoting healing, resilience, and long-term well-being.
Community Healing Services
At Prairie Tides Community Healing, our clinical approach is rooted in a holistic, trauma-responsive framework that honours both neuroscience and culture. We recognize that healing is not one-size-fits-all. Each youth’s care plan is thoughtfully shaped by their developmental experiences, relational history, cultural identity, and current strengths, ensuring interventions are responsive, respectful, and clinically sound.
Our services include Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics™ (NMT™) assessments and direct therapeutic intervention across multiple modalities. When used together, these services create a powerful, integrated pathway—linking assessment insights to targeted, developmentally appropriate therapy. However, they are not dependent on one another. Agencies, caregivers, and families may access an NMT assessment independently to inform planning and placement decisions, or engage in direct therapy without an assessment, depending on their immediate needs and circumstances.
This flexible model allows Prairie Tides to meet youth and systems where they are—whether the goal is deeper understanding, targeted intervention, or both—while maintaining a consistent focus on safety, connection, and long-term healing.
Psychological & NMT™ Assessments
We provide comprehensive psychological assessments, including the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics™ (NMT)™, to understand developmental history, neurobiological functioning, and trauma impacts. These assessments help guide targeted, healing-focused interventions.
Individualized Treatment Planning
Each participant receives a customized plan built around their strengths, needs, goals, and cultural identity, developed collaboratively with caregivers and support networks.
Counselling
Master’s-level clinicians offer individual and group counselling using evidence-based approaches in safe, inclusive environments.
Therapeutic modalities currently offered include:
- NMT™ Assessments
- Systemic Family Therapy
- Theraplay Level 1
- Sand Tray level 1
- Trauma Focused CBT
- Therapeutic Crisis Intervention
- Therapeutic Stories
- Solution focused and Motivational interviewing
- CBT with Addictions focus
- Brainspotting