Natasha Penney has worked with the NTHSSA since 2015, providing long service dedication as the Mental Health and Addictions Counsellor in Fort Liard, NT, with the Community Counselling Program. Natasha is a Certified Counsellor with the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association, as well as a Play Therapy Intern with the Canadian Association for Play Therapy. 

Natasha initially fell in love with the NWT when she was posted to Yellowknife with her military family as a teenager.  Natasha has fond memories of learning to drive on the Dettah ice road with her dad and travelling across the NWT and is grateful to be able to call the NWT “home” again.

Natasha draws on a variety of therapeutic approaches that promote positive evidence-based mental health treatment with children, adolescents, adults and Elders. Natasha holds a passion in the creative arts – interior design and is a Canadian Football League Cheerleader alumni - and she is inspired daily by the traditional arts and crafts and community of Fort Liard.