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Stéphanie Dion
Stéphanie Dion is a psychologist working with adults. She graduated from the Clinical Psychology Ph.D program at the University of Ottawa (Ontario) in 2002. She is a retired Member of the College of Psychologists of Ontario (2003 to 2019) and a Member of l'Ordre des Psychologues du Québec since 2008.
She offers bilingual services in individual therapy for Adults.
Her main fields of expertise include interpersonal and emotional difficulties, anxiety disorders, depression and other mood disorders, low self-esteem, adjustment difficulties to life transitions, separation, losses and grief, stress management, burnout and other occupational difficulties.
Her approach to psychotherapy is based on research evidences and integrates interventions from Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Schema Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
In her interventions, Stéphanie strives to establish a trusting alliance with her clients by creating a safe, empathic, and nurturing therapeutic environment. She works collaboratively with them and believes in offering an integrative and flexible treatment that respects and prioritizes their needs and objectives. Stephanie's work is guided by her desire to build on her clients' strengths and resiliency.
Valérie Leblanc
Dre. Valérie LeBlanc (D.Psy), psychologist, has been a member of the Ordre des psychologues du Québec since 2009. She holds a Doctorate in psychology from Université Laval.
She offers individual psychotherapy services to adult clients.
She specializes in the treatment of anxiety disorders and depression. More specifically, the reasons for her clients’ consultations are: depression, adjustment disorder, professional burnout, stress management, social anxiety, performance anxiety, panic disorder, agoraphobia, generalized anxiety, phobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, excessive fear of having an illness, bereavement, and perfectionism.
She offers you a benevolent, dynamic approach, where the customer is at the heart of her interventions. She offers you an approach that promotes interactions and exchanges between the practitioner and the client.
Cognitive behavioral therapy, along with acceptance and commitment therapy, is the foundation of her intervention. You will be able to learn to identify your perceptions, beliefs, and attitudes that may fuel your discomfort. You will know how to work on change, in a gradual and individualized process.
Mélanie Dixon
Dr. Melanie Dixon, Ph.D., psychologist, holds a doctor’s degree in clinical psychology from Laval University since 2018.
Her practice is inspired by her interest in psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapy. Thus, she participates in continuing education activities in this field, notably with the Institut psychanalytique de Montréal and the Canadian Institute of Psychoanalysis - Quebec English Branch.
She practices long-term individual psychotherapy with adults for various issues, including mood disorders and depression, anxiety and phobias, the fear of having or developing an illness, obsessive- compulsive disorders, disordered eating behaviours and concerns relating to weight and body image, psychosomatic afflictions, relational difficulties, self-esteem, perinatality and parenthood, sexual orientation and grief.
She offers her consultation services exclusively in person, in English and in French. She welcomes people of all sexual orientations and gender identities.
When recommended, the psychotherapeutic process aims to support you in your desire to deepen your understanding of yourself through personal exploration and insight in an effort to shed light on the unconscious issues that may be contributing to the impasses, repetitions and symptoms that you experience. As an understanding of the unconscious meaning of one’s difficulties is pieced together in psychotherapy, it becomes possible to cultivate a greater sense of inner freedom, which in turn can enable one to live one’s life in a more authentic and fulfilling way.