Psychologist and Clinic Director
Dr. Naomi Slonim, C.Psych.
Dr. Slonim is a Clinical and School Psychologist registered with the College of Psychologists of Ontario. She provides individual psychotherapy to children, adolescents and families, parent consultation, and psychoeducational assessment. She also provides individual psychotherapy to adults under peer supervision.
Dr. Slonim has worked in the areas of mood and anxiety, personality functioning, adjustment to life circumstances, high-functioning ASD, ADHD, learning disabilities, identity, trauma, and interpersonal problems. Dr. Slonim works primarily from a psychoanalytic approach and integrates other empirically supported approaches (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Dialectical Behavioural Therapy), tailoring treatment to the individual needs of each client. She collaborates with clients to develop awareness and understanding of self and others, work towards treatment goals and monitor therapeutic change.
Dr. Slonim received her PhD from the School and Clinical Child Psychology program at the University of Toronto and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Sick Kids Centre for Community Mental Health (formerly the Hincks-Dellcrest Centre). Her clinical interests are in the therapeutic relationship, psychoanalytic approaches to therapy, and play therapy.
In addition to her clinical practice, Dr. Slonim holds an appointment as an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, in the School and Clinical Child Psychology Program at the University of Toronto (OISE). She has supervised interns and Psychologists in supervised practice. She was a consultant subject matter expert on CBT program development to a mental health organization and was a member of the Psychotherapy Task Force for the Ontario Psychological Association in 2017-2018. Dr. Slonim has experience working with diverse clientele in hospital, children’s mental health centre, school board, and private practice settings.
Psychologist
Dr. Ilana Lockwood, C.Psych.
Dr. Lockwood is a Clinical Psychologist registered with the College of Psychologists of Ontario. She provides psychotherapy to children, adolescents, and families.
Dr. Lockwood received her PhD in School and Clinical Child Psychology at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto, and completed her doctoral residency at Eastern Health in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Dr. Lockwood has experience working in school board, community mental health, inpatient, and private practice settings.
Dr. Lockwood sees children and adolescents (ages 2-19) presenting with a broad range of mental health concerns, including challenges related to ADHD, anxiety, autism, behaviour regulation, grief, depression, identity development, OCD, self-harm, suicidality, and trauma. Dr. Lockwood grounds her practice in the therapeutic relationship—taking time to build trust and understanding with each child/adolescent in order to then properly individualize treatment (e.g., incorporating visuals and metaphors, noticing thought patterns, practicing distress tolerance, building awareness of internal and relational processes). She takes into account family functioning, life circumstances, and diversity. Dr. Lockwood has a particular interest in play-based approaches for children who would find traditional “talk therapy” challenging. She also specializes in parent consultation and family approaches to treatment, involving parents and other family members in their loved one’s care whenever possible.
Psychometrist
Shawn Brumby, M.Sc.
As a Psychometrist, Shawn collaborates with a registered Psychologist to provide detailed learning evaluations.
Shawn Brumby received her Masters of Science in Child, Adolescent and Family Mental Health at London Metropolitan University (2010), and her Bachelor of Arts in Honours Psychology at Wilfrid Laurier University (2006). She has held a position as a Psychometrist in the Child Development Program at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital since 2011, where she regularly conducts psycho-educational and developmental assessments for children and adolescents with a broad range of presenting concerns including learning disabilities, autism spectrum disorder, physical disabilities and developmental disabilities.
Her previous experience includes coordinating and providing ABA-based behavioural intervention for children with autism, and conducting assessments throughout schools in the Niagara region for the national initiative Understanding the Early Years.