About Megan

Founder of The Edit

I’m Megan Marie Peterson, CCC, a narrative counsellor, educator, and founder of The Edit — a studio for becoming. I have supported clients through holistic and reflective practices and guided students through theatre within a narrative framework. Today, I bring this experience into credentialed narrative counselling to help clients re-author the stories that shape identity, relationships, and possibility.

I come to this work shaped by prairie landscapes, arts education, and a lifelong engagement with storytelling in both educational and reflective contexts. I locate myself as a white, cisgender woman working within systems that influence identity, power, and access to care. My practice is informed by ongoing supervision, continuing education, and a commitment to culturally responsive, trauma-informed counselling.

“Every life is a story in progress. Healing unfolds when we reclaim authorship.”

I hold a professional membership with the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association and practice in accordance with its Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice.

Why I Founded The Edit

The Edit grew from a simple question:

What if therapy felt more like authorship?

Through my work as an arts educator and counsellor, I witnessed how profoundly people are shaped by the stories they inherit, internalize, and embody. I also saw how healing begins when those stories are met with curiosity, care, and reflection; rather than judgment.

The Edit is a living method for healing and becoming. It is a space where narrative therapy, somatic awareness, expressive arts, and symbolic reflection meet, grounded in ethical, trauma-informed practice.

“Every rewrite needs a witness — someone to hold the light steady while you move through the next chapter.”

The Approach

My work bridges the clinical and the embodied experience of story.

Rooted in narrative therapy and postmodern counselling approaches, sessions explore how identity is shaped by voice, body, lineage, culture, and context. I am interested in how stories are carried, not only in language, but also in the body, relationships, and social systems.

Drawing from expressive arts, shadow integration, biomythography, and compassion-focused practices, counselling becomes both reflective and embodied. Insight is not imposed; it is discovered. Meaning is not prescribed; it is co-authored.

This work does not erase history or promise reinvention. Instead, it widens the meanings available to you, supporting agency, coherence, and intentional becoming.

The Role of Witness

At the heart of The Edit is witnessing.

Healing often begins when a story is held without judgment. To be witnessed is to be seen, heard, and met with steadiness. Within the safety of a therapeutic relationship, shame softens, language returns, and fragmented parts begin to reconnect. The nervous system learns that it does not have to navigate alone.

My Commitment

I am committed to ethical, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive care. I honor the ways personal history, social location, and intersectionality shape lived experience. My practice welcomes complexity and invites accountability, reflection, and growth.

The Edit is a practice of compassionate revision, where each iteration of your story is met with dignity, and becoming unfolds with intention and care.