Tami-Lee Duncan is a Registered Psychologist in British Columbia and Alberta with over 15 years of clinical experience specializing in sexual health. She is the Owner and Director of Transcend Psychological Services in Edmonton, which she founded in 2012, and Transcend Wellness in Victoria, BC, where she now practices – offering individual and couples therapy in person in Victoria and Edmonton, and virtually across BC and Alberta. She also provides interdisciplinary consultation to physicians, pelvic floor physiotherapists and other healthcare providers, and is developing a collaborative wellness space in Victoria.
Sexual health has been the focus of Tami-Lee’s clinical work throughout her career. She works with individuals and couples navigating sexual dysfunction, sexual and pelvic pain conditions, low desire, trauma-related sexual concerns, and the relational impacts of these challenges. Her practice is grounded in neuroscience and draws on evidence-based approaches including EMDR, Accelerated Resolution Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy, the Gottman Method, CBT, and ACT. She is also the developer of Sexual Pain: A Psychological Approach, a five-module online workshop for clients navigating pelvic and vulvar pain (managingsexualpain.com).
Alongside her clinical work, Tami-Lee has built an extensive and consistent record of invited teaching and professional education. She has been an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Alberta since 2017 and has been a guest lecturer in several undergraduate, Masters, and PhD-level courses in counselling psychology and couples and family therapy. Since 2016, she has been a recurring guest lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine’s Physicianship course, delivering sessions on sexual dysfunction to medical students every year. She has presented at Family Medicine Academic Day twice and delivered Grand Rounds at the U of A Department of Psychiatry on multiple occasions, covering topics from talking about sex in clinical practice to multidisciplinary approaches to vulvodynia.
Tami-Lee has been independently invited to deliver dozens of workshops on sexual health to interdisciplinary provider groups across clinical settings including the Cross Cancer Institute, the Royal Alexandra Hospital, and the Lois Hole Hospital for Women. She is a frequent presenter to psychologists, physicians, nurses, and physiotherapists on how to approach sexual health conversations in the course of general clinical practice – a topic she has refined over years of being the person colleagues turn to when these issues arise in their own sessions.
She has been a recurring invited contributor to CBC Radio on relationships and sexual health, appearing on Edmonton AM and RadioActive across more than 20 episodes including two multi-episode columns. Her ability to translate complex clinical material into language that is accessible, engaging, and practically useful – without sacrificing accuracy – is a consistent feature of both her media work and her professional presentations. Her work has been referenced in Chatelaine and Flare, and she was the author of the biweekly Sex-Ology column in VUE Weekly from 2015 until the paper closed in 2017. In 2020, Tami was named in Edify Magazine’s Top 40 Under 40- recognized for her focus on sexual health education.
Tami-Lee is a member of the Alberta Council of Professionals for Sexual Health and is registered with the College of Alberta Psychologists (#3777) and the College of Psychologists of British Columbia (#2425).
