My approach is trauma-informed and combines cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT), mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) and music-integrated therapy (MIT).
The basis of my work is to create a safe space for you to tell your truths, help you identify your core challenges and setbacks and discover coping mechanisms and thought and behaviour patterns you can choose to change. Change is not easy or comfortable; however, when you are working with someone you trust, it is possible, less intimidating and empowering.
I have extensive expertise in brief and long-term therapy and help children to elders and first responders with mild to severe mental health conditions, including:
Acadia University
Trinity College, University of Dublin
University of British Columbia
McMaster University
Therapy Certificates & Courses:
Trauma recovery: Processing guilt and shame (Natalie Zlodre)
Navigating the Nervous System: A Polyvagal Approach to Working with Complex Trauma (Deb Dana)
In the Know: A mental health awareness program for farmers and the agricultural community (CMHA Ontario)
Certificate in trauma counselling for mental health professionals: Level 2 (Ian Robertson)
Group Music-Integrated Therapy Training Program (Deborah Seabrook)
Certificate in DBT for eating disorders: Level 3 – Group Consultation (Anita Federici)
Supporting Indigenous clients: Understanding the neuroscience of trauma and resilience (Jennifer Mervyn and Dwight Ballantyne)
Becoming an adult attachment-focused therapist (Annette Kussin)
Certificate in DBT for eating disorders: Adolescents – Parts 1 & 2 (Anita Federici)
Certificate in DBT for eating disorders: Adults – Parts 1 & 2 (Anita Federici)
Certificate in trauma counselling for mental health professionals: Level 1 (Natalie Zlodre)
DBT Skills Training – Intensive Track (DBT House)
OSRP Mentorship Program (Ontario Society of Registered Psychotherapists)
Understanding the Fire Service for Mental Health Clinicians (International Association of Fire Fighters)
CMCBT (Certificate in Medical CBT) (Greg Dubord, CBT Canada)
Core Indigenous Cultural Safety Health Training (Southwest Ontario Aboriginal Health Access Centre)
CBT Boot Camp (Christine Padesky)
Yoga Therapy (YMCA of Simcoe/Muskoka)
The Body Keeps the Score: New Frontiers in Trauma Treatment (Bessel van der Kolk)
Overcoming Low Self Esteem: A Transdiagnostic CBT Approach to Break the Cycle of Anxiety & Depression (Melanie Fennell)
6th Annual North Simcoe Muskoka Dementia Network Conference: Whose Decision Is It, Anyway? Consent & Capacity in Dementia Care (North Simcoe Muskoka Dementia Network)
“Communicating with Patients/Clients Who Know More than They Can Say” Based on Supported Conversation for Adults with Aphasia (SCA) – Aphasia Institute (Brenda Liddle)
Anxiety in Older Adults (Cindy Grief)
Professional Practice and Jurisprudence e-Learning Module – the legal, ethical and professional obligations of a psychotherapist (CRPO)
I acknowledge that Clea Machold Mental Health is situated on the traditional land of the Anishinaabeg peoples in the area that is now Collingwood. This land is also Treaty territory of the Lake Simcoe-Nottawasaga Treaty of 1818. I acknowledge the enduring presence of First Nation, Métis and Inuit people on this land and am committed to moving forward in the spirit of reconciliation and in a relationship based on respect and cooperation. I wish to acknowledge the people who have walked this path before me, those who walk on it now and the future generations who have yet to walk upon it. I am grateful for the opportunity to live, work and play on this land.