OTTAWA. PSYCHOLOGISTS - Key Persons

Dr. Weinberger provides therapy and consultation services to adults. He also conducts assessments of adults (intellectual, memory, learning, behaviour, personality, mental health, vocational, disability, and career).

Dr. Amanda Timmers provides psychological services by video or phone to couples and individual adults in the province of Ontario. Her primary theoretical orientations are cognitive-behavioural therapy and emotion-focused therapy, though she integrates other evidence-based treatment modalities to meet clients' specific needs. Dr. Timmers takes a collaborative, supportive approach to psychotherapy, to help clients better understand themselves and make positive changes in their lives.

Dr. Arthur Braaten provides psychodiagnostic assessment and individual therapy to adults for a range of psychological concerns. He believes that psychotherapy is a collaborative process that is tailored to each individual and their unique background. His approach to therapy is integrative and is informed by several evidenced-based approaches.

Dr. Ostiguy provides psychotherapy to Anglophone and Francophone adults and young adults. She works with clients experiencing a wide range of challenges such as anger problems, low self-esteem, anxiety, and stress management. Her particular area of expertise is in the assessment and treatment of mood disorders such as depression and bipolar disorder.

Dr. Miller's theoretical orientation integrates interpersonal, cognitive behavioural, schema-focused and mindfulness-based approaches in helping clients develop an increased awareness of the factors that cause and maintain their difficulties. She guides them towards achieving their goals and making positive changes in their lives.

Dr. Scoular has been a psychologist since 2006. He has expertise in treating adults, adolescents, children, parents, military, veterans and families. Dr. Scoular believes in collaboratively forming therapeutic goals utilizing the latest psychological research. He helps his clients to realize their goals through the use of Cognitive Behavioural or Interpersonal therapies, as well as employing other well-researched therapeutic modalities.

Dr. Elisabeth Melsom provides psychological assessment services to children (age 6+ years), adolescents, and adults, including military and veterans, at Gilmour Psychological Services® in Ottawa

Dr. Dargie maintains a client-centered, evidence-based, sex-positive, LGBTQ-positive approach to psychotherapy. She provides individual and couple therapy to Anglophone adults experiencing a wide variety of challenges and circumstances

Dr. Murray provides assessment and treatment to adults and seniors. She uses a number of evidence-based treatments to address client's needs and the challenges that they are facing. Dr. Murray works collaboratively with clients to identify their goals and guide them towards making positive and lasting changes in their life. Her main goal is to help clients identify their individual strengths and overcome barriers that may be preventing them from feeling content and fulfilled.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Canadian Psychological Association

Dr. Iris Jackson is the Founding Psychologist of Gilmour Psychological Services® (1983) and over the years, she has focused her psychological practice on individual adult psychotherapy, couples counselling, and psychological assessments. Beginning in 1997, she added Independent Psychological Evaluations to her practice, being acknowledged as an Expert Witness in a court appearance that year and going forward. Currently, Dr Jackson is no longer accepting psychotherapy clients and is focused on offering Independent Psychological Evaluations. She has also supervised and taught psychotherapy and psycho-legal assessment to colleagues and supervised practice psychologists. Dr. Jackson is committed to the highest level of evidence-informed and ethical psychological practice. While she was practicing psychotherapy, Dr. Jackson employed an integrative psychotherapeutic approach because of her extensive training in behavioural, cognitive, dialectical, psychoanalytic, systems and interpersonal approaches to therapy. Dr. Jackson earned her Honours B.A. in Psychology from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, graduating Magna Cum Laude. She received her M.A. and doctorate (Ph.D.) degrees from the University of Waterloo in Ontario. She earned her Proficiency Certificate in the treatment of alcohol and substance abuse disorders from the American Psychological Association's College of Professional Psychology. She also earned her National (USA) Certification Commission for Addiction Professionals' Master's degree (MAC) in Substance Abuse Disorders Counselling. Dr. Jackson has had intern and staff experience in psychiatric inpatient and outpatient hospitals, including the Kitchener-Waterloo Hospital's (now Grand River Hospital) Child and Family Centre, the Royal Ottawa Hospital, and the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry (now CAMH) in Toronto, among others. She has also consulted to the Federal Ministry of Health, the Provincial Ministry of Corrections, and a regional centre for serious developmental delays. In addition, Dr Jackson has consulted to several drug and alcohol treatment centres, a milieu treatment centre and the Ministry of Health's First Nation and Inuit Health Branch's Mental Health Program. Dr. Jackson is a member of The Canadian Psychological Association, the American Psychological Association, the Ontario Psychological Association, and the Ottawa Academy of Psychology. Relevant to her psycho-legal work, Dr. Jackson is a member of the Canadian Academy of Psychologists in Disability Assessment and the Canadian Society of Medical Evaluators. She has received awards from the Ontario Psychological Association for her work with colleagues on the Regulated Health Professionals Act and a Lifetime Achievement Award for her pioneering efforts to develop and facilitate private psychological practices. In 1998, Dr. Jackson started a Mentorship Group for early career psychologists and continues to lead the group with two other mentors. To encourage psychologists to develop their own private practices, she published the book, The Joys of Private Practice, now in its fourth edition. To ensure her continued competence, she reads professional research journals, and attends conferences and workshops. Dr. Jackson has focused on adult psychotherapy with individuals and couples since she opened her practice in Ottawa in 1981. She also conducts psychological testing of adults including psychological-legal assessments for specific types of civil, criminal and family law matters.

Dr. Fernie has worked extensively with childhood trauma and personality difficulties. Dr. Fernie has also worked with people who needed treatment overcoming single incident traumas, interpersonal difficulties, mood disorders (including anxiety and depression), obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), self-esteem, stress and other major mental health issues. She is experienced in assessing and developing individualised treatment plans collaboratively with clients. Her therapy choices are client dependent and she uses an integrated approach.

Dr. Henry's prevailing theoretical orientation integrates cognitive-behavioural and schema-focused theories. Valuing each person's individuality, she tailors her approach to her clients' needs. Additionally, she works collaboratively with each person to assist them to develop awareness and strategies to make positive changes in their lives.

Dr. Davies provides psychological services to individual adults, couples, children, and their families. She has had her own private practice since 1989, and for seven years prior to that worked as a supervised associate in private practice. Dr. Davies' psychotherapeutic orientation can best be described as eclectic. Her clinical training has included extensive exposure to cognitive behavioural, psychodynamic and systems approaches to the understanding and treating of a wide range of psychological problems, occurring within an individual, a couple or a family. Dr. Davies' psychotherapeutic orientation can best be described as eclectic. Her clinical training has included extensive exposure to cognitive behavioural, psychodynamic and systems approaches to the understanding and treating of a wide range of psychological problems, occurring within an individual, a couple or a family. Dr. Davies completed her Honours B.A. in Psychology at the University of Waterloo, in Ontario. She received both her M.A. and doctorate degrees in Clinical Psychology from the University of Manitoba. She has had psychological staff and/or intern experience in a number of outpatient settings, including a University affiliated Psychological Services Centre, the Winnipeg Child Guidance Centre, the Children's Aid Society of Winnipeg, and the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario. She is registered as a psychologist in Ontario and with the Canadian Register of Health Service Providers in Ontario.

Dr. Leanne Kane provides individual therapy and psychodiagnostic assessment services to adults in English and in French. She obtained her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Ottawa, where she also completed her internship at the Centre for Psychological Services and Research.

Dr. Zahradnik provides psychodiagnostic assessment and psychotherapeutic services to both adolescents and adults.

Dr. Jacques considers it an honour to journey alongside individuals in their desire to experience emotional health, create life change, and rediscover a hope-filled vision for their lives. Dr. Jacques' primary therapeutic approach integrates cognitive, behavioral, emotion-focused, and psychodynamic theories. Dr. Jacques works to provide a collaborative, safe, and warm therapeutic relationship, keeping the client's goals at the forefront of the treatment plan.

Dr. Pantin's approach, tailored to her clients' needs, integrates interpersonal and cognitive perspectives to assist them in developing strategies and skills to make positive changes in their lives.

As a Clinical and Health Psychologist, Dr. Davies believes in promoting wellness and resilience, both mentally and physically. She works with adults and adolescents. Her primary approach to therapy is Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT), a type of treatment that has been extensively supported by research showing it to be highly effective for treating a wide variety of mental health concerns. This approach is complemented with other evidence-based tools and techniques such as mindfulness, self-compassion, acceptance and resilience building to better tailor her approach to an individual's needs.

Victoria Edwards is currently an intern in clinical psychology entering her supervised practice under the supervision of Dr. Deanna Drahovzal (C.Psych). She provides family therapy services to families of all compositions.