The Rooted Heart Team
Angela Larmer
RN, BScN, MACP, RP
Angela Gagne is a Registered Psychotherapist and Registered Nurse with more than 25 years of experience supporting people through health challenges, change, loss and difficult life experiences.
She has a particular interest in working with nurses and healthcare professionals, first responders, and people experiencing grief, loss and significant life transitions.
Her approach is trauma-informed, grief-informed, culturally sensitive and context/person-centred, drawing from evidence-informed psychotherapy while also incorporating mindfulness, somatic awareness and whole-person approaches to care.
Karen Melnechenko
MScN, RN Psychotherapist, Certified Emotional Health Practitioner
Karen is a Registered Nurse Psychotherapist certified as an Advanced Grief Counselling Specialist, Gerontological Nurse (C), and Health Executive (CHE). She draws on over 25 years of clinical and leadership experience helping individuals navigate life's challenges and transitions.
Karen is passionate about accompanying individuals through grief in all its forms, whether arising from loss, health changes, death, shifts in careers, relationships, or identity, or cumulative losses over time. Her practice centres on the complexities of caregiving, life transitions, generational trauma, and reproductive loss or infertility. She also supports individuals who are experiencing stress, anxiety, and depression.
Nalaina Funk - Practice Coordinator
Nalaina is a psychology graduate with a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and currently working on her master’s degree in counselling psychology.
She has a strong interest in mental health and enjoys being part of a supportive, welcoming environment for clients.
Nalaina helps with the day-to-day running of the practice and aims to make each interaction a positive and comfortable experience.
She is passionate about continuing to learn and grow in this field, with the long-term goal of helping others through meaningful, compassionate work.