Dr. Paulette Laidlaw, Psychologist

Dr. Paulette Laidlaw, Registered Psychologist, provides individual treatment, counselling and assessment to adults 19 years of age and older.  Models include cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), solution-focused therapy and brief psychotherapy with a special interest in depression, anxiety, and reactions to trauma/abuse. Dr. Laidlaw offers personality, intellectual and psychological assessments and the following workshops:

• Taking care while giving care: Identifying and coping with work-related stress
• Fostering resilience and post-traumatic growth
• Dealing with volatile clients or those with mental health issues
• Death notification with professionalism and compassion
• Crisis intervention and ethics in helping
• Defusing and debriefing 101
• Promoting first-responder resilience
• Suicide risk assessment/prevention
• Dealing with complicated grief and trauma bereavement
• Cumulative stress, burnout or PTSD: What is it really?
• The PTSD epidemic: Fact or Fiction?
• Living in the shadow of evil: How to survive encounters with the everyday sociopath