Meet Charmaine

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Charmaine McIntosh, Psy.D., R.P.

Registered Psychotherapist | Psychometrist | Certified Health and Life Coach

Charmaine is the Owner and Clinical Director at Sojourn Wellness. She provides coaching, psychotherapy and assessments to people from diverse and multicultural backgrounds. Charmaine works with children, adolescents and adult for individual, couples, and family therapy with issues such as anxiety, depression, parenting, relationship challenges, stress, trauma. She conduct psychological, psychoeducational and career assessments. Charmaine has also done crisis intervention, trauma debriefings – critical incident stress management (CISM), co-facilitated psycho-educational groups (teen mothers, children impacted by domestic violence, men who have abused their partners) and supervision of mental health counsellors. Charmaine has a holistic approach incorporating all aspects of the individual (psychological, social, emotional, physical and spiritual).

Education

Doctor of Psychology (Clinical Psychology)
Masters of Arts (Counselling Psychology)
Bachelors of Science (Psychology)


Memberships

American Psychological Association
Canadian Psychological Association
Canadian Art Therapy Association
International Association for Cross Cultural Psychology
International Critical Incident Stress Foundation
North American Society of Adlerian Psychology

Training

Trauma Psychotherapy Certificate
Certified Health and Life Coach
San'yas Indigenous Cultural Safety Training
TelePsychology Best Practices
Art in Counselling Certificate
CBT Bootcamp: Building Core Clinical Competencies
Emotionally Focused Therapy Externship
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Certification Training
Certified Integrative Mental Health Professional Training
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Training
Clinical Supervision: Providing Effective Supervision, Navigating Ethical Issues and Managing Risk
Mindfulness Certification Course
Critical Incident Stress Management Certificates

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Philosophy - Mission - Vision

Philosophy

We believe that each individual is unique and socially embedded in society with a desire to feel a sense of belonging, equal, valued and contribute to their communities.

Mission

We are dedicated to providing individuals with a holistic coaching, mental health and wellness services that empower people to have the courage to be imperfect, transform and create a life with meaning and purpose.

Vision

To create a sojourn (a temporary safe space) where people can engage in coaching or psychotherapy based on encouragement, compassion, mutual trust and respect on their journey to wellbeing.