Victoria sees individuals age 16+

Victoria Duff is a Registered Nurse-Psychotherapist. She is registered with the College of Nurses.

Victoria has over four years of experience as a Registered Nurse and a strong background in mental health, Victoria has honed her skills in crisis intervention, prevention, and counselling. She is highly experienced in building therapeutic and empathetic relationships with clients managing both acute and chronic mental health concerns.

Victoria’s approach to therapy focuses on client well-being and empowerment. She draws from evidence-based practices such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Motivational Interviewing (MI) to provide individualized, client-centred care tailored to each person’s unique background and needs. Victoria works with individuals aged 16 and older.

Outside of work, Victoria enjoys spending time outdoors with her dog, Olive, golfing, and connecting with her friends and family.

Victoria is now accepting new clients for in-person sessions in Haliburton, Ontario, and virtual appointments.

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Kelsey Donald is a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying). Kelsey holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology, a Graduate Certificate in Addictions and Mental Health and a Master’s Degree in Counselling Psychology. She is a member of the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario in good standing.

Kelsey has 5 years of clinical psychotherapy and counselling experience supporting children, youth, and adults with anxiety, depression, mood and/or personality disorders, behavioural challenges, body focused repetitive behaviours, and trauma and general stress.

Kelsey has additional training in Cognitive behavioural therapy, Dialectical behavioural therapy, Solution-focused therapy, and Narrative Therapy.

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Ruth-Ellen Baker, Registered Psychotherapist, has graduate and post-graduate training in Individual, Couple, Family and Play Therapy. She began her work as a therapist focusing on adult individuals and couples, and for the last decade has expanded her focus to include children, youth, parents/caregivers and families. She strongly believes that, wherever possible, caregivers need to be consistently involved in their child’s therapy, in order to make long-term change possible outside of sessions. She is also committed to strengthening attachments in family relationships, as another important factor in creating positive change. She assists people who have experienced trauma, abuse (physical, sexual, verbal/emotional), anxiety, depression, grief and loss, low self esteem, attention deficits, parenting/family-related concerns and the strong emotions which accompany these and other issues in life. Upon request, faith-based (Christianity) work can be provided. Also, upon request, indigenous concerns can be addressed.

Ruth-Ellen uses an experiential/interactive approach using the following therapies: Family, Play, Cognitive Behavioural, Dialectical Behaviour, Brief/Solution-focused, Narrative, and Emotion Focused. She says that children generally don’t use “talk therapy.” Instead, they use toys to represent people and situations and proceed to role play/process real-life experiences in this way. Therefore, when seeing children, Ruth-Ellen might use story telling, puppetry, role play, games, visual art, music, movement and fun attachment activities.

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Nicole Is a Registered Psychotherapist. She is a member in good standing with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario. She has been practicing clinical psychotherapy for 13 years and has almost 30 years of experience working in the mental health field with children, youth, and families. Nicole brings a client centered approach to therapy She has a passion working with children and youth, families and couples.

Nicole holds a Bachelor of Arts in Social Development Studies with a concentration in Social Work. She is Certified in Trauma-Informed Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Nicole brings an eclectic approach to therapies that are based on your specific needs and individualized for you. Nicole is also an experienced couples therapist.

When Nicole is not in the office she enjoys spending time with her husband and three children. She also has a passion for health and fitness, enjoys being in nature and watching (cheering sometimes loudly) at her children’s sporting events.

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Danielle will be completing the practicum portion of her Master’s in Clinical Counselling at our clinic! She is currently completing this degree at Tyndale University.

Danielle is not new to the helping profession as she is a Certified Trauma Recovery Coach with the International Association of Trauma Recovery Coaching and has helped over 100 women on their healing journeys. She currently volunteers her time as a missionary in developing countries to support people who have experienced trauma.

Danielle is also a published author and international public speaker. She wrote the book ‘The Other Side of the Struggle’ which is a resource for those who are supporting loved ones with mental health issues. She has had the opportunity to speak all over the world on the topics of mental health and trauma. She also has a podcast about trauma recovery. Danielle is interested in working with a diverse clientele which includes children, youth, and individual adults. Danielle will be supervised in this capacity by Forest Lane’s Clinical Supervisor Nicole Mee RP.

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