Hello there! I’m Amanda Barron, a Registered Social Worker at the Centre for Psychology and Emotion Regulation (CPER). I am so excited to step into this new role as Eating Disorder Team Lead. My passion for understanding and treating eating disorders was ignited when I met Dr. Federici in 2018. I had been a social...

Hey y’all! My name is Victoria, and I am a registered psychotherapist with the CPER team.  I found out about the clinic while attending a Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) training offered by Dr. Anita Federici herself. Prior to this training, I knew next to nothing about what DBT was, and I’ll admit, in the setting...

Hi everyone, my name is Rosalyn Kieft, and I’m the new Team Lead for Clinical Consultation & Wellness! I feel quite excited about these new positions, with a little dash of anxiety (imposter syndrome anyone?). My hope is that I can create opportunities for knowledge-sharing within and outside of the Centre, and help our team...

Hello! I’m Rachel (she/her), a Registered Psychotherapist at the Centre for Psychology and Emotion Regulation (CPER), and recently, new Team Lead of our Mood, Anxiety & Wellness track. I’m really excited about our new treatment track and stepping into this new role, and I’m looking forward to supporting our team as we get this track...

Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is guided by a number of core assumptions about the nature of human behavior and about the process of treatment. Over the next few weeks, I will describe each in turn. One that is high on my list right now, however, is the treatment assumption that clients cannot fail DBT. People often...

A mother sent me the attached “holiday song” stating the following: “these are the lyrics of a song that (my grade 3 child) is learning to sing for their Christmas concert. It doesn’t sound right to me and I wanted your professional opinion.” So I read the lyrics. And then I read them again. And...

Dealing with your Self-Critic

Let’s talk about the self-critic that sits on your shoulder or lives in your head or floats about during the day. You know, the one that says: “I am not enough. I am not smart enough. I’m not thin enough. I am ugly. I am a failure. I should have known better. Everyone hates me....