In terms of professional experience, I have served both as the Lead for Newcomers Mental Health at the Toronto Catholic District School Board and Clinical Director for Delisle Youth Services (a provincially funded mental health centre), published academic articles on emotional and psychological well being and accumulated over 20 years experience in counseling individuals, couples and families.
Such professional experience is anchored in complementary clinical degrees in psychology and social work: Doctorate of Clinical Psychology and Master of Social Work. This background provides distinct perspectives for understanding emotional and psychological challenges as well as solutions. My approach is further distinguished by expertise in family therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and psychoanalysis. I understand these integrative approaches as well fitted to the full continuum of issues and challenges brought to therapy as both episodic and chronic problems benefit from informed solutions.
Individuals
In working with individuals, my counseling is primarily focused on the psychological and emotional territory of the client’s experience. Here the primary imperative is to explore and…
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In working with couples much of the above perspective is also relevant since successful couples typically possess a shared language for communicating on matters of psychological or emotional experience…
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Family work also prioritizes interpersonal dimensions of psychological and emotional material. Like couples, families are unique systems of psychological and emotional expression and communication…
MorePsychoanalysis
Psychoanalytic treatment is based on the clinical observation that the meanings of personal experiences often remain unacknowledged. These meanings contribute greatly…
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