I joined the Athabasca University GCAP team as an Academic Coordinator in 2013, but that wasn’t my first affiliation with GCAP – I graduated from the Master of Counselling program in 2007. In 2015 I completed my PhD in Counselling Psychology at the University of Calgary, and I am currently a Registered Psychologist in Alberta. I'm also a mom, a practicing family therapist, a cancer survivor, and an Ironman triathlete.
Research interests
Clinical specializations
Systemic family therapy
Narrative therapy
Addictions and recovery
Counselling youth and adolescents
Experiential learning and wilderness-based therapy
Research interests
Institutional Ethnography
Collaborative and dialogical interactions
Post-modernism in counselling and research
Discourse analysis
Narrative therapy
Family therapy
Neoliberalism
Educational credentials
Ph.D. (2015, University of Calgary), Counselling Psychology
MC (2007, Campus Alberta Applied Psychology Initiative (CAAP)) Masters of Counselling Psychology
B.A. (1998, Dalhousie University) BA Advanced Double Major in Psychology and English
Professional affiliations
Registered Psychologist, College of Alberta Psychologists (CAP)
Psychologists’ Association of Alberta (PAA)
TAOS Institute Associate
American Family Therapy Academy (AFTA)
Doyle, E. M. (2020). Making Up Clients: Critically Considering the Institutional Construction of Clienthood and Social Organization of Recovery. Palgrave Encyclopedia of Critical Perspectives in Mental Health
Mudry, T. E., Strong, T., Doyle, E. M., & Sapacz, M. (2020). Doing recovery work together: Clients’ and counsellors’ social, discursive, and institutional practices. Canadian Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy. Doing Recovery Work Together: Clients’ and Counsellors’ Social, Discursive, and Institutional Practices
Petrovic, K., Doyle, E., Lane, A., & Corcoran, L. (2019). The work of preparing Canadian nurses for a licensure exam originating from the USA: A nurse educator’s journey into the institutional organization of the NCLEX-RN. International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship, 16(1). doi:10.1515/ijnes-2018-0052
Doyle, E. & Gosnell, F. (2019). Performing social justice in family therapy: Exploring the assumptions between the *isms and the *ings. Embracing Cultural Sensitivity and Social Justice: Re-Shaping Professional Identity in Counselling Psychology (S. Collins, Editor). Counselling Concepts, Victoria BC
Strong, T., Sesma-Vazquez, M., Ross, K. H., Mudry, T., Doyle, E., & Pickering, B. (2018). Expert therapeutic discourse, practices and counter-practices across six service contexts. International Journal of Collaborative Practice, 8(1), pp. 1-19.
Wulff, D., St. George, S., Tomm, K., Doyle, E. & Sesma, M. (2015). Unpacking the PIPs to HIPs Curiosity: A Narrative Study. Journal of Systemic Therapies: Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 45-58. doi: 10.1521/jsyt.2015.34.2.45
Mudry, T., Strong, T., Sametband, I., Rogers-de Jong, M., Gaete, J., Merrit, S., Doyle, E. & Ross, K (2015). Internalized other interviewing in relational therapy: Three discursive approaches to understanding its use and outcomes. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 42(1), pp. 168-184. doi: 10.1111/jmft.12110
Doyle, E. (2015). “Recovery” in action: An institutional ethnography of Addictions Counselling Work (Doctoral dissertation). University of Calgary, AB.