A Keeper of Stories, A Guide to Healing
Corey-Ann Pruden is the heart and founder of Calling Our Spirits Home. An Indigenous woman from Lac La Biche, Alberta, she is a CACCF-certified Addiction and Rehabilitation Practitioner, a ceremonial helper, a bridge-builder between worlds, and above all, a compassionate witness to her people’s healing journey. Her life’s work is dedicated to creating spaces where Indigenous individuals and families can reclaim their stories, their spirit, and their wellness through culturally rooted care.
The Path That Led Her Home
Corey-Ann’s understanding of healing was shaped long before her clinical training. Growing up within her community, she saw firsthand the profound impacts of intergenerational trauma and the inadequacy of systems that failed to honor Indigenous ways of being. This lived experience, coupled with a deep calling to serve, guided her to pursue a path in addiction and rehabilitation—not to fit her people into existing models, but to build a new one from the ground up. Her academic and professional credentials became tools to legitimize and empower the traditional knowledge she already carried.
Two-Eyed Seeing: Her Guiding Principle
Corey-Ann’s unique methodology is grounded in Two-Eyed Seeing—the gift of seeing the strength of Indigenous knowledge with one eye, and the strength of Western knowledge with the other, using both for the benefit of all. She doesn’t just add ceremony to therapy; she weaves them together into a single, coherent pathway to wellness.
How She Bridges Worlds:
Clinical Lens: She provides structured, trauma-informed psychotherapy (CBT, Narrative Therapy, Family Systems) to address mental patterns and pain.
Indigenous Lens: She facilitates access to ceremony, Elder teachings, and land-based practices to heal spirit and identity.
The Synthesis: In her guidance, these are not separate tracks. A counseling session may invoke ancestral strength; a talking circle may incorporate psychoeducation on trauma. This integrative approach is what makes healing at Calling Our Spirits Home both profound and sustainable.
Her Impact, By the Numbers
Sessions Guided
Lives Touched
“Healing begins when we remember who we are — and that we were never alone.”
— A teaching Corey-Ann carries, and lives by, every day.
More Than a Practitioner: A Visionary Leader
Corey-Ann’s role extends far beyond the one-on-one session. She is:
A Community Architect: Building networks of support and aftercare that keep healing anchored in community.
A Systems Advocate: Working to shift health and wellness policies to recognize and fund Indigenous-led, culturally safe models of care.
A Mentor: Guiding the next generation of Indigenous healers and counselors, ensuring these ways of knowing continue to grow.
A Voice: Speaking to organizations and institutions about cultural safety, historical trauma, and the power of reconciliation in practice.
Her vision is not merely to treat addiction, but to be part of a broader movement of cultural revitalization—where wellness is defined by balance, connection, and the reclamation of Indigenous identity.