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Clinical Practitioner & Founder
Louise McKissick
Louise McKissick is the founder and lead psychotherapist at Wellspring. She values an eclectic approach with her clients, grounded in psychodynamic, relational theory, utilizing DBT, CBT, narrative, and art therapies as she sees fit. Amidst Louise’s time in academia, she was also trained in improv at the infamous Second City Chicago where she was taught how to pull from a wide-ranging repertoire of professional knowledge and lived experience. Louise is an innovator, a traveller and a seeker, and is engaged in research with the Northern Ontario School of Medicine to find new and better ways to help her clients!
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Clinical Practitioner
Rachel Varghese
Rachel Varghese is originally from Thunder Bay, she has lived in a number of cities in Southern Ontario where she completed her Masters in Social Work at Wilfrid Laurier University. Now based out of Calgary, Rachel is passionate about working with people from a strength based approach in helping people develop skills towards reaching their goals. She holds extensive experience working with families in a variety of settings, primarily children with special needs and pediatric medicine. This has given Rachel a unique lens in which to view experiences of grief and loss. I practice using a variety of modalities (CBT, DBT , Motivational Interviewing and Solution Focused), recognizing the most important therapeutic factor is a positive and trusting relationship.
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Clinical Practitioner
Christine Galati
A lifelong resident of Thunder Bay, Christine completed her BA and HBSW at Lakehead University and her MSW from Dalhousie University, specializing in Families and Children. For the past 30 years she has had the privilege to provide social work services to adults, children and youth. She previously worked at Catholic Family Development Centre providing supportive counselling services, as well as facilitating groups. Christine has worked with individuals of all ages whom have been impacted by violence, trauma, grief and loss, and other life events that have cause emotional distress. Her focus it to provide a safe, supportive and therapeutic service that meets the individual where they are at in their life journey using trauma informed practices. The goal is to empower individuals to identify their goals and to work towards achieving them.
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