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I am a Clinical and Rehabilitation Psychologist who has been assessing and treating individuals, couples, and families for over 40+ years.
I deal with a wide range of mental health concerns which include: anxiety and mood disorders; relationship issues; dissociative disorders; impulse control disorders; personality disorders; psychosis and other types of thinking disorders; employment difficulties; adjustment-related concerns; posttraumatic stress disorders; chronic health and pain concerns; obsessive/compulsive difficulties; substance use issues; and life development difficulties including deteriorating health and changes in brain functioning as a result of a brain disorder or injury.
I conduct clinical assessments and psychotherapy. I will be the one seeing you for your evaluation and treatment. My clinical work is longer-term, insight-oriented, solution-focused psychotherapy. My theoretical approach focuses on helping you better understand the underlying sources of your concerns and on developing concrete strategies to manage them more adaptively. Our work together is designed to enable you to become more aware of your inner strength and resilience. We do this by creating a safe space where you can describe your concerns and understand them as your best attempt to manage challenging aspects of your life. While this best attempt may have been useful in the past, it may be less so now. These difficulties can subside if more effective ways of reacting are realized and implemented.
I have been recognized as an Expert in Clinical Psychology by the Ontario Courts of Justice. I hold a CMLE designation, a specialty certification in medical-legal expertise. My training and experience enable me to provide assessment and consultative services to the general public, the medical and rehabilitation communities, and the Plaintiff and Defence Bar in Psycho-Legal matters. I have decades of experience conducting Independent Examinations in personal injury, employment law, and medical malpractice matters. I conduct assessments for lawyers, Insurance companies, the College of Psychologists, and the Physicians' Health Program of the OMA. I have offered opinions on a range of civil litigation matters. My reports have been well-received and have facilitated file resolution.
Years of experience in conducting Psycho-Legal assessments have equipped me to assist lawyers with their trial preparation. This work is done behind the scenes and can help lawyers identify vulnerabilities in their own and the other side's psychological positions. I also provide psycho gical testing consultation to forensic psychiatrists. My work has helped resolve difficulties arising from adversarial psychological assessment opinions that may distract and confuse the Court. I focus on ensuring that those experts who have conducted and interpreted psychological and other mental health assessments and psychological testing did so appropriately, thoroughly, and judiciously.
More recently, I have begun to provide a Documentation Analysis and Review Service [DARS]. This work involves conducting a detailed, meticulous file review to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the medical-legal brief on which you and others rely—the process comprises two distinct components. A complete review of the documentation typically yields a series of outstanding questions. Attempting to address these questions may add to the robustness of the findings. An additional component may include direct consultation with the lawyer and team regarding what was identified in the analysis and synthesis of the medical brief.