Find a Therapist in Pointe claire, QC

My goal as a therapist is to create a safe, nonjudgmental space where you feel seen and heard, and where you feel able to grow. Whether you’re seeking to build new skills, gain clarity, or reconnect with parts of yourself, my role is to walk alongside you on that journey. I aim to bring genuineness, humility, and safety to the therapeutic relationship. I have three years of experience working at a nonprofit mental health agency, preceded by a two-year clinical internship during my graduate training, where I did supervised, client-facing work. Most recently, I have spent two years in private practice. I take a trauma-informed and humanistic approach, integrating elements of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and an attachment-based lens, alongside a working knowledge of common evidence-based modalities, including cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and ACT. Feel free to follow up for a free 20-minute phone consultation to see if we might be a good fit. We can talk about your focus for therapy and hoped-for outcomes, and explore what therapy might look like if we decide to work together. Clinicians and authors who inspire me include Terrence Real, Janina Fisher, Pete Walker, Dan Siegel, Jack Kornfield, Pat Ogden, and Judith Herman. I offer a flexible sliding-scale fee of $100–$120 per session for clients in financial need, so feel free to reach out if that’s a more realistic option for you. Thank you.

Gabriela Gomez, Somatic Counselor Hola, I'm Gabriela, a community facilitator and counselor in online private practice based in Tiohtià:ke Montreal. In my therapeutic approach, I combine narrative counseling techniques with somatic exploration to meet your whole system with care and curiosity. I completed my master’s in Educational Psychology from McGill University and am a registered Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. Wherever you may be in your journey, I offer support with goal-setting, cultivating self-compassion, building resiliency to meet grief, exploring and remedying the impacts of trauma in the body and spirit, encountering challenging patterns and expressing authentic desires. My work is grounded in harm reduction and anti-oppression and informed by animist principles of relating (in which all beings are alive and available for connection and support). I am here to meet you with compassion and non-judgment, to hold space for what is challenging and support you in accessing your inner resources. I have particular expertise in the immigrant experience, intergenerational and developmental trauma, gender identity development and diverse sexuality. My career has taken place largely on the ground in community settings that center youth, emerging adults, and the lived experiences of LGBTQ+ and BIPOC communities. Centering my work around those most impacted by systemic oppression, my approach always strives to support the healing and support the wisdom and brilliance that lives in the bodies and hearts of all those who’ve experienced the world this way. I am consistently amazed and inspired by the wisdom and intelligence of the body and nervous system, and deeply honored to guide my clients in becoming more aware of their innate capacities and gifts through the process of somatic counseling. When I’m not supporting clients or working on community projects, I love to indulge my creativity - writing, painting, singing and playing my guitar and dancing. To learn more, check out gabrielagomez.ca.

I use an an integrated, Relational, client-focussed approach using concepts also described in: Cognitive-Behavioural Motivational work (Ellis 1997, Jacobsen 1995, Miller & Rollnick 1991), Narrative work (White 1990, Jenkins 1990, Avis-Myers 2004), Solution Focused work (De Shazer 1991, I.K. Berg 1993), Emotion Focused work (Greenberg & Johnson 1988, Greenberg & Pavio 1997) and Process-Oriented work (Shulman 1992, Teyber, 2000, Caplan, 2005). The Needs-ABC Model is distinguished by its emphasis on the emotion-focused relational needs behind maladaptive behaviours, rather than the behaviours themselves, and by its flexibility in terms of applications to clients in a range of personal and therapeutic settings.

My name is Ely (Eliahu), like everyone else I have my story, my ups my downs, my successes my failures and my doubts. My life path has taken me to many geographic locations, some changes have been easy some have been hard.  I have experienced issues of health as a patient and part of the health team. I have lived with traumas that were inherited, experienced, witnessed, and clinically studied. I have lived through the grief of loss, felt the darkness of hopelessness, and discovered the power of human resilience. I am a person of faith, who believes each person has their own form of spirituality. I believe that each one of us is made up of parts that are at times not integrated well and require outside help to reach a balance. I am a Rabbi who works at not being judgmental, a teacher who has learned that each person has his own way of learning and that one size does not fit all. I have many rolls in my life:  a husband, a father, a grandfather, a Chartered Mediator, Registered Psychotherapist. My skills and experiences are available, I do not have all the answers, what I am good at is helping people find their path.

I conceptualize therapy as a collaborative and often disruptive process in which therapist and client together determine treatment content and goals, working to create an environment of compassion, challenge and insight capable of motivating those changes which constitute so much of the meaning of therapy. In attempting to individualize treatment, I cultivate an integrative responsiveness utilizing those techniques that seem best able to serve the client's needs and promote our therapeutic goals. While these goals often include addressing pressing issues in solution-focused fashion, they also typically extend beyond mere symptom relief or problem solving to include the enhancement of psychological capacities and resources through self exploration and discovery in the context of a safe and authentic therapeutic relationship. I try never to lose sight of a person's strengths and courage in an undertaking that can prove demanding and uncomfortable as well as satisfying and enriching. And I often remind myself that as a therapist I exist to make myself unnecessary by facilitating a person's own therapeutic potential and by modeling a way of being that can inspire a person to actualize their own healing strategies and find their own paths toward growth and self knowledge. My practice is wide-ranging, both with respect to the ages, backgrounds, beliefs and orientations of the people I see as well as their reasons for seeking therapy. I believe this breadth of practice heightens my awareness of the complexity of human psychology and increases my capacity for attunement and insight, enabling me to better appreciate the difficulties, distress, hopes and abilities of those who have joined me in the therapeutic process. In addition to my training in clinical psychology with experiences in community mental health and hospital settings as well as private practice, I have a Ph.D. in cognitive neuroscience and an M.A. in classical languages and philosophy along with extensive teaching and research experience. This interdisciplinary and synthesizing background has contributed to my flexibility, openness and inquisitiveness and informs the interest I take in each of the individuals with whom I work, often proving useful in helping them achieve new perspectives, find new connections, and generate new understandings of themselves and their lives.

I allow the people I work with to influence the pace for counseling sessions, working together to determine their unique challenges, developing goals and defining how we will meet those goals. My philosophy of helping comes from a character strengths, virtues, values, total health & wellness, trauma-informed, and culturally sensitive perspective. I help people focus on what they are doing right not what is wrong with them. I believe that actions, thoughts, beliefs, and values are guided by many factors that are unique to each individual. I practice existential, mindful, cognitive, behavioral, emotional, and motivational therapies. I work with adults and adolescents in individual sessions.

Hope Forward Psychotherapy offers psychotherapy services to adults and couples to find a balance in life. The feeling of being insecure and unmotivated when everyone around you seems to have everything figured out about their life, can be discouraging and frustrating. At times, it is like no matter how much you try nothing is good enough. It doesn’t take long for you to feel insecure about what you’re doing and doubting yourself. The way you communicate is an important factor. This not only towards yourself, it also includes the way you talk to your partner, family and friends. The words you use influence your thoughts, behaviors and body sensations. It is possible for everyone to find a balance in their life. In our work together, we will identify the emotions, thoughts and behaviors that occur in stressful situations. By identifying needs and wants, it provides clarity for yourself and also the dynamics of relationships you have with others. It will help determine the path that best suits your life. With my experience working with adults experiencing anxiety, low self-esteem and communication issues, I’d like to support you in finding a balance in your life

Many people come to therapy when they notice patterns that keep repeating - difficulty managing stress, shutting down in conflict, or pushing through low mood until it becomes harder to function. These patterns often have roots that may not be immediately obvious. I offer individual therapy to adults and older teens experiencing anxiety, depression, anger, and relationship difficulties. I specialize in working with men navigating isolation, addiction, relationship difficulties, and questions of meaning and purpose. I also offer couples therapy for communication breakdown, intimacy concerns, infidelity, and separation. I'm a Canadian Certified Counsellor with over 10 years of clinical experience. I see clients at my Westmount office and online. Contact me to discuss your needs or book a free 10-minute consultation.