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Dr. Genevieve Vrana, Ph.D., C.Psych.
Registered Health, Clinical, and Counselling Psychologist
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Dr. Vrana works with adults experiencing a range of emotional and psychological concerns. She supports individuals navigating depression, anxiety, grief and loss, low self-esteem, trauma in childhood and adulthood, relationship difficulties, life transitions, and challenges associated with living with chronic health conditions or disabilities.
Using a warm, empathic, and non-judgmental approach, she strives to create a safe space for clients to explore their emotions, so that they can heal from past wounds, become more self-accepting, and make meaningful changes in their lives. Her work is grounded in a trauma-informed, Neurodiversity-affirming, and LGBTQ+ positive stance. She aims to create an inclusive and empowering therapeutic environment for individuals of diverse identities, including differences in sexuality, gender, race, neurotype, ability, and body size.
Dr. Vrana’s therapeutic orientation integrates Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT) with interventions from Cognitive-Behavioral, Dialectical Behavior, Relational, and Trauma-Informed Stabilization models, in order to best meet the needs and goals of each client. Dr. Vrana obtained her PhD in Clinical Psychology from York University in 2022. Since 2009, she has also trained and held positions in various hospitals and private practices, such as in the Women’s Trauma Program at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Science, Roncesvalles Psychology Clinic, and Solasta Psychological Services.
Additionally, Dr. Vrana has conducted in-depth research into the process of emotional change in Emotion-Focused Therapy under the supervision of Dr. Leslie Greenberg, one of the primary developers of this approach. Her doctoral research examined how clients resolve self-interruption, or the avoidance of emotions. She integrates her knowledge of research into her clinical decision-making, in order to provide evidence-based services to her clients.
Dr. Vrana is a registered Clinical, Counselling, and Health Psychologist with the College of Psychologists and Behaviour Analysts of Ontario. She offers services both in person and virtually.
