About me
Michelle J. Buckle is a doctoral candidate at the University of Alberta. Her interests include arts-based research, lived experience research, dramatherapy, homicide co-victimization, and transgenerational trauma. Michelle has 20 years of experience as a psychologist and 29 years as a dramatherapist. She runs a psychological practice in Ontario and Alberta, offering assessment and counselling services. She uses creative arts, play, and somatic therapy to work with children, teens, adults, families, and groups within institutions and unconventional learning spaces.
As an educator and counsellor, Michelle encourages students and clients to critically engage in new ways of learning and inquiry through the performing arts. She believes that embodied ways of being and knowing can inspire creative solutions to social justice issues and uses storytelling and performance to promote conflict transformation and community building. Michelle is also a member of a Playback Theatre group, where she continues to share her passion for using performance to inspire positive change.