Raquel Charal has a BA in Youth and Family Counseling and has extensive training in Experiential Learning, Transtheorical Model of Change, Motivational Interviewing and Solution Focused Therapy. She presently is an Addiction and Mental Health Counselor with Alberta Health Services focusing on all aspects of family and client centred work. Raquel also enjoys Motivational speaking, Life coaching and corporate team build and training.
With over 23 years’ of field experience, Raquel has been blessed to practice in a variety of roles supporting people on their life’s journey. Recently, Raquel spent 4 years as a facilitator with the Health Canada funded, In Roads Program. Her role was to train and mentor frontline staff throughout Calgary from over 30 agencies in the human services field, including Calgary Police Services, and equip them to be more effective and impactful Addiction and Mental Health supports for the youth and families they were working with.
Other professional opportunities include youth residential care, facilitating parent skill workshops and support groups, youth group therapy and treatment, facilitating Cognitive Behavioural Therapy groups, street outreach, PSECA (Protection of Sexually Exploited Children’s Act) work, crisis intervention, outpatient counseling, day treatment addiction rehabilitation, youth detox, and youth experiential and wilderness treatment.
Raquel`s facilitation style is one that guides with deep passion, humour, connection and her desire to awaken people to their own self-reflection on ``why they do the things they do``. Her extensive repertoire of experiences, her years in the field of youth and family work, her clinical guidance and mentorship and her humanitarian approach is evident in every presentation she facilitates.
