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...
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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...
Clients want to improve: This is one of several central treatment assumptions in DBT and not one that is widely accepted or believed in general mental health settings. When I present the DBT assumptions in my clinical trainings, it is inevitable for some clinicians to question the validity of this statement: “I don’t think all...
We know that eating disorders (EDs) are not choices, but is recovery a choice? I spend a lot of time thinking about this because it has everything to do with how I design treatments and how I work with people in general. What you believe about human behaviour impacts how you engage with others....
Not sure if you are ready for this post, or if I am, but its been brewing….so here it is. Over the past twenty years as a psychologist I have worked with and through so much. I have spent my career studying emotion regulation, trauma, eating disorders, and personality disorders (the overlap unmistakable)...
Despite the leaps and bounds the field has made, in large part due to the life work of people like Marsha Linehan, I am still disappointed (and concerned) by the prevalent judgement and emotion dysregulation that persists among healthcare practitioners when they hear the term borderline personality disorder (BPD). Eyes roll, sighs suddenly...
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...