Michelle’s Main Specializations
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Psychological Assessments
Michelle specializes in conducting a variety of clinical assessments for children, teenagers and adults, including ADHD Assessments, psychoeducational assessments, gifted assessments, autism assessments and social emotional assessments.
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Individual Counselling
Michelle has significant experience in providing individual counselling for children, teenagers and adults across their lifespan. She has experience working with anxiety, depression, ADHD, anger, stress, low self-esteem, academic issues, behavioural issues, life transitions, sleep problems and more.
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Anger Management
If you are living with uncontrolled anger that impacts every part of your life, Michelle can help by offering effective anger management and emotional regulation techniques.
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Anxiety Disorders
Michelle can help people of all ages cope with and reduce symptoms of generalized anxiety, social anxiety, performance anxiety, panic disorders, and separation anxiety.
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Michelle has years of experience assessing and helping people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) improve focus, organization and planning.
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Autism Spectrum Disorder
Michelle has years of experience assessing and providing effective strategies to help children, teenagers and adults on the spectrum live full and potentially independent lives.
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Communication
Learn to better communicate with your spouse, coworkers, family members, classmates and friends by developing better active listening skills, emotional control and expression.
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Depression Disorder
Michelle provides a safe and compassionate space where children, teenagers or adults with depression can understand and challenge the thoughts that cause depression.
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Learning Disabilities
Michelle has several years of experience in diagnosing and treating children, teenagers and adults who have learning disorders.
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Life Transitions
Michelle can help children, teens and adults process and prepare for life transitions such as divorce, loss of a loved one, chronic illness, and transition to a new school or college.
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Parenting
Michelle can help parents develop effective skills and coping mechanisms to help make the parenting experience more positive for both the parent and the child.
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Self Esteem Issues
Therapy can help people of all ages living with low self-esteem challenge the negative thoughts and beliefs they have about themselves, and nurture feelings of self-care.
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Sleep Issues
Anxiety and stress keeping you up at night? Michelle offers helpful relaxation strategies while also recognizing and addressing the underlying cause of the sleep issues.
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Stress Management
Counselling helps a person manage stress by identifying the causes of the stress while also understanding and challenging the internal dialogue that fuels feelings of stress.
More About Michelle
Michelle enjoys time with her husband and three teen and young adult daughters. Most weekends you will find Michelle hosting Soup Saturday and she has been serving up soup to family and friends for the last 18 years. She loves cooking and hosting family and friends whether that be for soup, craft, or game night. She loves being active and she is happiest spending time with loved ones.