Deana Slack, CCAC, MATS, HSW

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 Deana Slack, CCAC, MATS, HSW, is a certified Drug and Alcohol Counselor, Medication-Assisted Treatment Specialist, and pre-social work graduate dedicated to supporting individuals on their healing and recovery journeys. With formal training in suicide and crisis intervention and experience as a Crisis Line Responder, she brings a calm, grounded, and trauma-informed presence to every interaction.

As the founder and director of a non-profit organization that raises funds for individuals in active addiction, Deana is committed to expanding access to compassionate, culturally informed care. She prioritizes diversity and inclusion within her practice and offers confidential, non-biased, and authentic support. She believes that trust is the foundation of meaningful connection and works to create a safe space where clients can share openly without fear of judgment.

Deana’s ancestral bloodline to the Coast Salish peoples has given her a deep spiritual connection to land, culture, and community. These roots guide her healing philosophy and strengthen her belief that recovery is most powerful when both clinical practices and Indigenous traditions are honored. She recognizes that blending evidence-based treatment with cultural teachings, ceremony, and land-based healing offers clients a greater chance to succeed and reconnect with their whole selves.

Deana’s professional expertise is deeply informed by her lived experience. Having spent many years using substances to cope with trauma, grief, mental health challenges, and crisis, she understands firsthand the complexity of addiction. Through dedicated work, therapy, a twelve-step program, and a relationship with Creator, she learned that substances could not lead her out of darkness. Her recovery journey taught her to accept life on life’s terms and to find peace and joy even in the face of adversity.

This personal transformation shapes her perspective as a practitioner: clients often feel more comfortable knowing their journeys are relatable. Deana believes that every person holds the answers within, her role is simply to guide, support, and walk alongside them.

In recovery, she has discovered an abundance of love, light, and connection. She is honored and humbled to share that hope, strength, and experience with others, helping them reclaim their lives and reconnect with their own inner wisdom.

My name is Evan Haukedal, CCAC, MATS, and I am a certified life coach as well as professional counsellor, accredited with the C.A.C.C.F. I was first motivated into the field of addiction due to my own life experiences. Addiction had burned my life to the ground, alienated me from friends and family, and ultimately robbed me of a will to live. After completing an inpatient treatment program, with the support and guidance of my counsellors I was able to build my life up again. 

This inspired me to give back what was given to me. I left treatment and went on to school to study the many facets of individual and group counselling. My extensive schooling has equipped me to guide clients through trauma and abuse, addictions, family and relationship problems and more. I am trained in many techniques such as CBT, trauma informed care and motivational interviewing to encourage clients’ mental, physical, spiritual, and emotional wellness. I use this knowledge to help people save their own lives by showing them how to take there life back from the grips of addiction. It is my belief that every person has a purpose. 

What I offer to my clients, is support and guidance to their own sense of purpose. In my experience, purpose is the best defense against drug addiction and alcoholism. The goal is to create a life you don't want to run away from. 

 Stacy Bishop, AAC, is a former nurse and current counsellor with a background in forensic mental health, corrections, behavioural support, and trauma-informed care.

Stacy is a survivor of abuse, and like many who carry unresolved trauma, she turned to addiction as a way to cope with pain she did not yet have the tools to process or overcome. Addiction slowly took hold of her life, and for a time, she felt trapped in cycles she could not break on her own. What ultimately changed her path was surviving a coma and waking up alone. What truly saved her life, however, was connection—people who saw her beyond her behaviours, refused to reduce her to her lowest moments, and helped her believe that healing was possible.

Those relationships saved her life.

Stacy’s early career in nursing provided her with a strong clinical foundation and a deep understanding of the connection between physical and mental health. Later, while working in correctional settings with individuals struggling with trauma, addiction, and complex behaviours, she saw reflections of her own story in many of the people she supported. She understood their survival patterns, defence mechanisms, and shame because she had lived them herself.

Through both professional training and lived experience, Stacy has developed the clinical skills and compassionate understanding necessary to walk alongside people during some of the darkest seasons of their lives. She believes addiction is not a moral failure but is often an attempt to survive unprocessed pain. In her experience, real change begins with connection, accountability, and purpose.

Stacy’s passion is helping individuals rediscover their strength, reclaim their identity, and build lives they no longer feel the need to escape from. She believes every person has purpose, even when they cannot yet see it themselves. When people reconnect with that purpose, recovery becomes more than abstinence—it becomes transformation. Her role is to support, challenge, and guide individuals as they reclaim their identity and build fulfilling, meaningful lives grounded in hope and lasting recovery.