Melanie Adamsons (she/her) is a Registered Psychotherapist with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO). She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Toronto and a master’s degree from the University of Northern British Columbia.
Melanie is passionate about providing person-centred and trauma-informed care to those with complex mental health needs. She has experience providing compassionate support to those who struggle with depression and anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), self-esteem issues, life transitions, stress management, borderline personality disorder (BPD), relationship difficulties, academic stress and achievement demands, and difficulties with emotion regulation. She has a special interest in working with self-harm behaviours. She believes that people are doing the best they can, given their current level of skills and experiences to date. At the same time, she believes that people can always exceed their best in the next moment.
Her clinical interests are in working from a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) approach, and she has pursued intensive training through Behavioural Tech for DBT. She is experienced in providing DBT-informed therapy, comprehensive DBT, and facilitating DBT skills groups for adults. She tailors evidence-based approaches to fit people’s needs and circumstances and values drawing on people’s unique strengths and wisdom in their lived experiences.
Melanie has an ongoing commitment to principles of anti-racism and anti-oppression in her clinical practice and values the diversity in client’s religious and spiritual beliefs, relationship models, gender identities, and sexual orientations and practices. She is experienced in working with 2SLGBTQ+ clients.
She provides clinical services in English.
Outside of the therapy space, she can be found in theatre and performance art spaces, finding fluffy dogs to play with, and reading different memoirs.