Andrea is licensed to practice in both Alberta and Quebec, Canada. She earned her D.E.C. at Marianopolis College in Montreal, her Bachelors degree at Concordia University, her Masters degree at McGill University. She completed her post-graduate training at the Montreal General Hospital, completed a certification to be a specialist in Addictions, certification to practice EMDR, Prolonged Exposure Therapy, CBT, ERP and DBT.
With over 24 years experience as a therapist, she continues to research, and implement new tools from different Modalities, which include Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), EMDR, Prolonged Exposure Therapy (PE) for PTSD, Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT), and Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP). By applying complementary therapeutic approaches and techniques tailored to your needs, she will work with you to uncover long-standing behavioural patterns or negative perceptions that may be holding you back in life. Through gained insight, tools learned in the therapeutic process, psychoeducation and homework, you will continue the process yourself long after therapy is over.
Her experience includes work in an array of areas such as: depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), trauma, PTSD, eating disorders, grief, personality disorders, substance use disorders (SUDs) and more. She has experience in both the public and private sector with adolescents and adults. She has run groups for people suffering with eating disorders, borderline personality disorder, and bereavement.
Andrea accepts private clients and she is registered with several EAPs, Veterans Affairs, RCMP, Canadian Armed Forces, Interim Federal Health Program, WCB, Blue Cross, and IVAC.
