Emily Doyle, Ph.D., RPsych

Email: edoyle@athabascau.ca

Emily Doyle was born and raised in Newfoundland and now resides in Alberta, Canada.  She is a
Registered Psychologist, program director for the Master of Counselling program at Athabasca
University, and occasional family therapist and supervisor of systemic family therapy at the
Calgary Family Therapy Centre. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and
English from Dalhousie University (1998), a Master of Counselling degree from Athabasca
University (2007), and a PhD from the University of Calgary in Counselling Psychology (2015).
 
Her approaches to inquiry and counsellor education draw from social constructionism, narrative
therapy, discourse analysis, systemic family therapy, and institutional ethnography. She is
currently engaged in research inviting alternative accounts of addiction and recovery, exploring
how social justice work in counselling practices is being done, considering relational ethics,
discussing the negotiation of family life, and challenging unhelpful dominant discourses and
practices in counselling. She has shared her work with others at local and international
conferences and continues to seek opportunities for professional collaboration that can push the
boundaries about what we might come to know about the work that we do.