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Colin Perrier

Dr. Colin Perrier is a clinical psychologist who is skilled at assisting individuals and couples with working through the barriers and struggles that prevent them from fully enjoying life. His approach is compassionate, non-judgmental, and accepting, while creating a safe therapeutic environment that fosters healing and recovery. He has training and experience in helping individuals and couples overcome stress, trauma, and tragedy, including addressing the problems that often accompany trauma (e.g., posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety, fears, substance abuse, and intimacy and attachment problems). He will help with strengthening your capacity to cope and assist you to move beyond suffering, so that you may thrive. Colin will work with you to identify treatment goals and will assist you in achieving these goals. He has training and experience in the administration, scoring, and interpretation of a variety of clinical and cognitive assessments that inform diagnoses and treatment planning. He provides clinical services that incorporate multiple evidence-informed therapies and techniques, including cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), motivational interviewing (MI), emotionally focused therapy (EFT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), Seeking Safety (SS), Solution-Focused therapy, and the good lives model of treatment. Colin has also published and presented research related to trauma, addiction, intimacy, attachment, ethics, and positive psychology, among other areas. He has also lectured on these topics. He is also registered as a forensic psychologist and has experience completing a variety of risk assessments related to violent and sexual offending, and has worked in the correctional system in Ontario, assessing and treating individuals who had been incarcerated for a variety of offences.