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ALMUTH WEIGELDT

I have nearly 20 years experience helping my clients with a variety of life challenges, including:

• Body image issues and disordered eating
• Depression and anxiety, 
• Carefully revisiting traumatic experiences from childhood and throughout life while fostering healthy integration in the present 
• Fostering healthy relationships in the family and in your social circle 
• Separation and divorce
• Meeting health challenges

I offer time-limited and short-term counselling and psychotherapy as well as open-ended, longer term psychotherapy, depending on the your needs and preferences. Frequency of sessions negotiated on an individual basis. 

I work with individuals, couples or families.  I have experience working with families with smaller children as well as teenagers.

I use an integrated approach 

•     psychodynamic/psychoanalytical thinking
•     a client centred and gender conscious approach
•     cognitive behaviour therapy skills    
•     a relational framework 
•     Marriage and Family therapy
•     EMDR  and trauma therapy (for more information: www.emdria.com)
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Hours:  Monday evenings between 6:15 p.m. and 9:15 p.m.  and every second Saturday,  by appointment

Fees: $ 85.- per hour. 

Individual psychotherapy and counselling

In a caring, supportive setting the therapist assists the individual to

• Build on their strengths to foster adaptive ways of coping and resilience
• Promote personal growth
• Affirm the individual's control over his or her own healing

Marriage, Family and Relationship Counselling

The therapist establishes a forum for opening the lines of communication helping each party to

• Build more effective ways of relating
• Get past hurdles and old hurts
• Exchange old learned relational patterns for new ones

Some facts about me:

With nearly 20 years experience and training in psychotherapy, I have incorporated valuable insights and a number of approaches and tools into my practice of psychotherapy.  I completed a 6-year graduate degree in Clinical Psychology in Germany, evaluated as equivalent to a Master's Degree by the University of Toronto, emigrated to Canada and completed further training and internships in various approaches to psychotherapy.  In 1995, I founded the Port Credit Psychotherapy Centre as my private practice.

I have presented numerous workshops and conducted groups on stress management, body image and disordered eating, healthy relationships and conflict resolution.  I am trained in family mediation and marriage and family therapy.

As and immigrant I am sensitive to issues facing all newcomers to Canada.  I speak fluent German as well as English and a little French. I have worked in non-profit agencies, running women's groups and providing supervision to the front-line staff in a women's shelter.  I have served on the Board of the Ontario Association of Interval and Transition Houses, advocating for services for abused women and their children.  I have also been a long-standing member of the Ontario Association of Counsellors, Consultants, Psychometrists and Psychotherapists (OACCPP) and am now a certified member of this organization, which represents Master's level psychology graduates and advocates for broad and ethical professional services to the wider public. Since 1998, I  work full-time as a psychotherapist in a major Toronto hospital, continuing my private practice on a part-time basis.

As a certified member I follow the ethical guidelines of OACCPP   www.oaccpp.ca

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