About Tiffany

Welcome to Positive Breakthroughs

Tiffany is a Registered Social Worker in Ontario for approximately 2o years and has been engaging as an Individual, Marriage and Family Therapist RSW. Tiffany obtained two Bachelor degrees: BA and BSW at York University in 1994. Later in 1999 she obtained a Masters in Social Work at Barry University in Miami shores Florida. Tiffany is also dedicated to pursuing certificates in her free time and recently completed: a Counseling Techniques, Bereavement and two Cognitive behavioural therapy certificates from Laurier University. Also with her love of working with families and couples recently received a Marriage and Family Counseling certificate from the University of Calgary. Tiffany is finally a Family Mediator who completed the certificate with York University and is an associate member through the OAFM Ontario Association of family mediators. One of her specialties is also working with families who have a family member who has been diagnosed with high functioning Autism or DMDD in children. Committed to strengthening relationships, Tiffany feels privileged to work with individuals, families and separating couples while offering respectful, empathic, supportive, patient and non judgmental  therapy or mediation. Tiffany seeks to help people identify and meet their goals through the therapeutic process or the mediation process. Adoption coping strategies, facilitating family interventions are other services offered.

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Certifications

  • Counselling Techniques Certificate

    June 17, 2021 modalities covered are:  Intro to DBT, Solution focused brief therapy, Brief single session therapy, Narrative therapy, motivational interviewing, emotionally focused therapy
  • Death Dying and Bereavement Certificate

    Foundation of grief, spirituality religion and self care, palliative end life care, Traumatic Bereavement, Bereaved parents of still born and miscarried children, secondary traumatic stress, compassion fatigue and resilience, grieving children and youth
  • Cognitive Behavioural therapy certificate

    CBT level fundamentals of CBT
    CBT level 2 with CBT and mental health disorders
  • ADHD and Autism certificate

    York university Family mediation; Family mediation certificate classes are Family Mediation Fundamentals, Family Law, Assessing and Screening for Domestic Violence, Family Relations, Advanced Family Mediation

Member of Following Associations

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