Registry of CASC/ACSS Certified Professionals

Registry of CASC/ACSS Certified Professionals in Private Practice. This registry includes Certified PsychoSpiritual Therapists and Certified Spiritual Care Practitioners of the Canadian Association for Spiritual Care/Association canadienne de soins spirituels (CASC/ACSS) who offer their services to the public in private practice.
The use of this Referral Registry by the public is voluntary, at the user’s discretion, and the user accepts the risks related to the use of the Referral Registry and waives any and all claims against CASC/ACSS.

Newfoundland & Labrador

Peter Barnes, Rev. Dr.

• Grief and Bereavement, Trauma, Spiritual Direction, Palliative Care, Mental Health Support.
• Psycho-Spiritual Therapist, Spiritual Care Practitioner, Spiritual Care Educator
• Eastern Health, 18 Pleasantville Ave., St. John’s Newfoundland and Labrador, A1A1K8
• 709-747-1107 [email protected]
• www.spiritualpathways.ca
• English, Accepting new clients.

Nova Scotia

Jody Clarke, Rev Doctor

• Grief, Trauma, character disorders, Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy
• Specialist, CASC/ACSS
• Atlantic School of Theology, 660 Francklyn Street, Halifax, NS  B3A 3B5
• 902-425-5315 | 902-492-4048  [email protected]
• English. Accepting new clients.

Quebec

Erin LeBrun

• Accepting new clients
• Certified Spiritual Care Practitioner
• www.spirituaire.ca
• Master’s degree in religion and modernity from Queen’s University as well as a Master’s degree in practical theology, with a specialization in health, spirituality and bioethics from the University of Montreal. 
  Erin practices a holistic approach that places the clients own innate wisdom at its core. She has 10 years of experience working as a spiritual care professional in various public hospitals in the Montreal area. She has spent much of her career accompanying people through important life transitions. She specializes in working with people coping with major disease, living with chronic illness, end-of-life, loss and bereavement, perinatal loss, survivorship, care giver fatigue, spiritual and existential crisis. She focuses on helping clients find, develop and nurture their inner resources to navigate change. Erin works with individuals and families in her private practice in the Monteregie.
• Areas of Specialization: Anxiety; Chronic Illness; Chronic Pain; Grief and Loss; Life Coaching; Life Transitions; Pregnancy, Prenatal, Postpartum; Self Esteem; Stress; Women's Issues; spiritual discernment
• Modalities: Acceptance and Commitment (ACT); Clinical Supervision; Humanistic; Person-Centered; Narrative; Internal Family Systems (IFS); Emotionally Focused; Existential ; Relational
• Adults
• English and French
  
  

Martin Vaillancourt

• Accepting new clients
• Contact: 1-514-834-8563; [email protected]
• Certified Spiritual Care Practitioner / Intervenant en Soins Spirituels Certifié (ISSC); Guidance Counsellor / Conseiller d’orientation (c.o.) membre de l’Ordre des conseillers et conseillères d’orientation du Québec (OCCOQ)
• About: More than 23 years of experience in spiritual and psychosicial support et intervention. Spiritual care practitionner in a university hospital environment since 2007. Guidance counsellor since 2022. Mandated for two years in an ecclesial environment. More than five years as a psychosocial worker in a community setting with marginalized clienteles.
• Areas of specialization: Spiritual guidance, career guidance, life transitions, life project, psychosocial adaptation, coping skills, stress, anxiety & emotional management, grief, loss, chronic illness & pain, Men's issues, spiritual, psychosocial and career counselling. 
• Approaches: Strategic Interactionist Psychosocial Intervention (IPIS), Development of Power to Act (DPA), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Humanistic / Existential and Faith-based counselling.
• Languages: French and intermediate English
• Montreal

Ontario

Gordon Alton

• Spiritual Direction, Psychospiritual Therapist (PST)
• PST Provisional Supervisor-Educator, student of the Diamond Approach (sacred psychology) for 13+ years. Training certificate in Spiritual Direction.
• Employer: Mannheim Mennonite Church, Private Practice 1494 Bleams Rd. Petersburg, Ontario, N0B 2H0
• Telephone: 226-791-2239 [email protected]
• https://innerjourneyblog.weebly.com/
• English, Accepting new clients

Robert Bond, Rev.

• Grief, trauma.
• Specialist in Pastoral Counselling, CASC/ACSS.
• Niagara Health System – Welland Site 65 Third Street, Welland, ON  L3B 4W6
• 905-378-4647 ext. 32385  [email protected]
• English.

Desmond Buhagar, S.J., Rev.

• General counselling for individuals, couples and families. Specializing in work with distressed couples, poor communication, substance and behavioral addictions, complex grief and trauma, mental health and spirituality.
• Full Teaching Supervisor, Canadian Association for Spiritual Care (CASC/ACSS). Full Clinical Member and Approved Supervisor, American Association for Marriage & Family Therapy (AAMFT).
• University Instructor: Regis College, University of Toronto; Training Supervisor: Toronto Centre for Pastoral Counselling Education (TCPCE); Private Practice in Pastoral Counselling & Family Therapy. Regis College, University of Toronto.
• 100 Wellesley St. West., Toronto, ON  M5S 2Z5
• (647) 366-9052  [email protected]
• English. Accepting new clients.

Dr.Vicki Cousins, Rev.

• M.Div & MRE in United Church of Canada
• Spiritual Director, Labyrinth Facilitator, Soul Midwife.
• Certifications: CASC/ACSS Specialist, CRPO Registered Psychotherapist.
• Self Employed.
• 3 Glenview Drive, Aurora, ON  L4G 2G7
• [email protected] | 905-727-7211 | www.spiritualknapsack
• English. Accepting new clients.

Cindy A. Elkerton, Registered Psychotherapist

• Individual, couple and family psychotherapy, Psycho-Education’ Retreat facilitation, spiritual direction.
• Specialist, CASC/ACSS Certified, Associate Teaching Supervisor, CASC/ACSS.
• Private Practice, Yonge St., Toronto, ON
• GTA Toronto, ON
• [email protected] | 416-806-1800 | papillonpsychotherapy.ca
• English. Accepting new clients.

Tracey Hand-Breckenridge, R.P.

• Certified Psycho-Spiritual Therapist and Provisional Supervisor-Educator
• EMDR Therapist, Neurofeedback Trainer, Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy (Level ll Clinician)
• Trauma and attachment focused therapy, depression, anxiety, grief and loss, spiritual concerns, first responders, relationship therapy, chronic and palliative illness
• Lord Dufferin Centre, 32 First St, Suite M3, Orangeville, ON L9W 2E1
• Cedar Creek Counselling:  individual, couple and family therapy.
• 519-940 4357  
  
• www.cedarcreekcounselling.ca  [email protected]
• Carley Rawes Centre: flexible fees for young adults living with depression and anxiety   [email protected]
  226-641-6805   www.carleyrawescentre.ca
• English. Accepting new patients

Mary Jackson

• Specializations: Trauma, Crisis, Deep Loss
• Certification: College for Registered Psychotherapists #004642, Certified Psycho-Spiritual Therapist, CASC/ACSS
• Employer: The Healing Oasis Program, 320 Paling Ave., Hamilton, ON,  L8H5J8
• Telephone: 905 966-0468  [email protected]
• www.thehealingoasis.org
• English, Accepting new clients

Sharon Konyen

• Life transitions, grief, loss, despair, emotional wounds, relationship and vocational struggles
• Registered Psychotherapist CRPO; Certified Supervisor Educator CPE and PCE
• Private Practice, TS Medical Centre 692 Euclid Ave. Toronto M6G 2T9 / Church of the Holy Spirit of Peace 1170 Tynegrove Rd. Mississauga, ON, L4W 3B2
• 647-897-6984 | [email protected]
• English, Accepting new clients

Kristine Lund, Rev. Dr.

• Individual and couple therapy, supervision
• CASC/ACSS Psycho-spiritual therapist and Supervisor Educator, RP
• Martin Luther University College, 75 University Ave. W., Waterloo, ON  N2L 3C5
• 519-884-0710 x2246     Fax:519-725-2434   [email protected]
• English, Accepting new clients

Kelvin F. Mutter, Rev. Dr.

• Couple & Family Counselling, Grief Counselling, Inter-cultural Counseling, Family Violence, Sexual Addiction.
• Specialist Pastoral Counselling (CASC/ACSS), AAMFT Clinical member and Approved Supervisor.
• Family Counselling and Support Services.
• 109 Surrey Street East, Guelph, ON  N1H 3P7
• www.familyserviceguelph.on.ca | 519-824-2431 | Fax 519-824-3598
• English, Spanish. Accepting new clients.

Jane Pekar, Rev.

• Marriage, family and individual therapy, mental health issues, spiritual support for individualized rituals of life celebration.
• Specialist PCE.
• Independent consultant associate with Christian Counselling Services.
• 17 Glenfield Cres. Brampton, ON L6S 1W1
• [email protected] | 647-242-6352
• English, French. Accepting new clients.

Victoria Pollock MA RSW

• Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis, Clinical Supervision, Consultation.
• CASC/AAPC Teaching Supervisor.
• AAMFT/OAMFT Clinical Member and Supervisor – Member of Toronto Society for Contemporary Psychoanalysis.
• Adjunct Faculty, Toronto School of Theology, University of Toronto.
• 204 St.George St., Toronto, ON  M5R 2N5
• [email protected] | 647-262-9740
• English. Accepting new clients.

Kristine Ridler

• Professional Credentials: Registered Psychotherapist, CRPO; Certified Psychospiritual Therapist, CASC/ACSS, Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner in Training
• Accepting new clients: Currently accepting new clients.
• Virtual/Telephone/In-person practice: Virtual/Telephone
• Therapeutic modalities: I approach my work from an attachment perspective and trauma-informed lens. I use an integrated approach that incorporates Emotionally Focused Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Polyvagal-Informed Therapy, SFBT, CBT, Spiritually-Integrated Psychotherapy, and Somatic Experiencing® techniques.
• Clients: Individuals 16+, Couples
• Areas of specializations: My experience includes providing support to people who are navigating the wounds of emotional and early developmental attachment trauma, PTSD, relationship issues, loss and grief, chronic pain, depression, anxiety, dissociative identity disorders, and personality disorders.
• Language: English · Contact: email: [email protected]
• Location: Offering virtual therapy at this time

Derek Strachan MDiv, RP

• CASC/ACSS Specialist
•  Registered Psychotherapist, College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario
•  15 years experience helping people improve their emotional and spiritual health
•  Anxiety and coping, Life transitions – relationship, job, death
•  Sexuality and sexual orientation, coming out
•  Health and illness
•  Grief, bereavement and loss
•  Trauma
•  Spirituality
•  Located at College and Jarvis in downtown Toronto · Please contact me directly to arrange an appointment [email protected] · www.derekstrachan.com
•  English. Accepting new clients

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Brian Walsh, B.A. M.Phil. RP

• CASC/ACSS Specialist and CRPO Registered Psychotherapist.
• Enhancing resilience and growth for care-givers and helping professionals.
• Improve awareness of your emotions, beliefs, and experiences; and how they shape you.
• Explore burnout, compassion fatigue, and secondary trauma.
• Life transitions and trauma recovery.
• Identity and how we story ourselves.
• Presentations, Retreat facilitation, and education on the link between Spirituality, Wellness, Sacred Stories, and our own Narratives.
• Office near Christie Station, Toronto, ON
• www.brianwalsh.ca | 416-657-2220
• English. Accepting new clients.

Mi-Weon Yang, Rev.

• Education of Pastoral Counselling, Individual and Family Therapy, Spiritual Integration.
• Specialist of CASC/ACSS, Clinical Member of AAMFT.
• East Faith Presbyterian Church, 1126 Invicta Drive, Oakville, ON  L6H 6G1
• [email protected]   |  905-845-2336 | 416-550-7566 | Fax 905-338-0193
• English, Korean. Accepting new clients.

Alberta

​Nicole Imgrund

• Specializations:depression, anxiety, grief, life transition, trauma, couples counselling, self-esteem, mindfulness, stress, spirituality.
• Certification: Certified Spiritual Care Practitioner and Certified Psycho-Spiritual Therapist.
• Employer: #204-14 Mission Ave. St. Albert, AB  T8N 1H1
• [email protected] | 780-460-0022 | www.riversedgecounselling.com
• English. Accepting new clients.

British Columbia

Augustine Parattukudi BA, ThM, PhD (Cand) RP, RCC

• Complex trauma, PTSD, Relational issues, Couple Therapy, Anxiety-Depression, Grief, Personal discovery, Chronic Pain
• Registered Psychotherapist (RP) College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO) Registered Clinical Counselor (RCC) British Columbia Association of Clinical Counselors (BCACC) Certified Psychospiritual Therapist, Canadian Association of Spiritual Care (CASC)
• The Compassion Center: Counselling and Psychotherapy (self employed)
• #200-15387 104 Ave Surrey, BC  V3R 1N5
• [email protected]| 604-773-6319 | www.compassioncentrecounselling.com
• English, Hindi, Punjabi, Malayalam. Accepting new clients.