Our team includes psychologists, social workers, interns, cognitive therapists and psychotherapists Ottawa residents have come to trust. Services are offered for children, teens, and adults. We offer many efficacious treatments including CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), interpersonal and ACT, as well as therapy combined with brain biofeedback. When you book your initial appointment, we will help you find the right approach for your goals.
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Anxiety can hit us in many ways. It can cause us to worry repeatedly over daily matters. It can lead us to ruminate about past mistakes or perceived failures. It can even affect our ability to work productively, to feel comfortable in our relationships, and our ability to sleep and eat. Anxiety treatment through psychotherapy can help reduce your anxiety and worry, helping you to become calmer and more relaxed.
Our anxiety clinic, located at The Ottawa Neurofeedback and Psychotherapy Centre, offers different types of psychotherapy services including CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) and EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing to help treat your unique behavioral therapy needs.
Millions of people suffer from depression in North America. For some people, it hits them suddenly and unexpectedly and for others depression is something they have battled their entire life. The good news is that depression is treatable.
No two depression cases are alike so customizing your treatment to include Mindfulness Based Psychotherapy, Interpersonal Psychotherapy or another form of psychotherapy is more likely to result in successful treatment outcomes. At our initial intake appointment we can recommend options suited to your needs.
The Ottawa Neurofeedback and Psychotherapy Centre (ONPC) is a specialized treatment centre that focuses on brain based healing approaches in Ottawa, cognitive therapy and more. The brain plays a central role in our physical, emotional, and psychological well-being. Most symptoms are directly connected to our brain patterns and the ONPC offers multiple forms of treatment to target brain regulation and overall healing.
The ONPC offers many forms of brain based healing and cognitive therapy, including neurofeedback and individual psychotherapy Ottawa residents have come to trust. Our Psychotherapy include CBT, mindfulness, EMDR, interpersonal and psychodynamic approaches for children, adolescents, and adults. We have clinicians specializing in the areas of depression, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma, ADHD, self-esteem and grief.
The ONPC is currently offer low fee psychological services with psychological interns in the downtown area. They are under the supervision of Allison Wood, M.Ed., RSW, and Dr. Michelle Presniak, Ph.D., C. Psych. Services start at $100 per hour.
Dr. Presniak graduated with a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology in 2009. She is Board Certified by the Biofeedback Certification International Alliance (BCIA). Her areas of specialty in Neurofeedback range across children and adolescents, employing Neurofeedback to treat many conditions, ranging from those that are chronic in nature and difficult to treat (i.e., severe PTSD, OCD) or have minimal treatment options (e.g., autism spectrum, concussions) to those that may be mild in nature (i.e., attention, performance based skills, stress).
Allison has been working in the field of psychotherapy for over 21 years. She has a Masters in Educational Counselling and a Masters of Social Work. She is also a Board Certified Neurofeedback clinican. Allison specializes in working with a wide variety of conditions including anxiety disorders, phobias, PTSD and developmental trauma, depression, grief and loss and burnout. She has spent her career researching and training in a wide variety of approaches with the goal of helping people find true healing.
