Mental Health Services in Wallace Emerson, Toronto, ON
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807 St Clarens Ave, Toronto, M5S 3A7
(647) 405-1046
Counselor, Mental health service 
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15 Millicent Street, Toronto, M6H 1W3
(416) 801-4227
I began practicing psychotherapy in 1986, after finishing an MSW at the University of Toronto and a year of psychotherapy internship at the Toronto Institute of Human Relations. I continued as an intern at TIHR for two more years, and returned to TIHR to work as a Director of Training from 1989 until 1996. In my years as a psychotherapist and clinical social worker with the Toronto Salvation Army Family Services, I met many consumer/survivors of the mental health system. I learned from them how to listen with empathy and respect to terribly difficult life stories. I saw how this careful kind of listening can calm acute symptoms of anxiety and foster inner strength, even when the wounds of abuse and neglect run very deep. I have been in full-time private practice since 1996. I work mostly with adult individuals and with couples. Quite a few of my clients would consider themselves part of the LGBTQ community. I think of myself as a general practitioner of psychotherapy, moving comfortably between individual and couple work, both short-term and long-term, with a wide variety of presenting problems and issues. The hallmark of my work, constant across the modalities of my practice, is that I do my best to understand my clients in terms of their own experience, offering my genuine presence and empathy as we work collaboratively. In 1992, I was part of a group of therapists who founded the Toronto Institute for Relational Psychotherapy (www.tirp.ca). I still teach there, and I also supervise psychotherapists and clinical social workers in the community. In 2000, I completed work for a PhD in Philosophy of Education from the University of Toronto, linking contemporary educational and psychoanalytic theories.