Working in the Caribbean in the field of Psychosocial Recovery and Reconstruction, post hurricanes, has afforded me the discovery of a multitude of challenges and expansions as a psychotherapist.

Along with my private practice, in Grenada I am based primarily with the Legal Aid and Counseling Clinic and also with Action for Children (formerly NCH, the National Children's Home). I have had the privilege of contributing to several community training initiatives with the Agency for Reconstruction and Development. I’ve guest lectured in the Master of Public Health program at St. George’s University, and I work alongside a number of medical doctors in the provision of psychotherapeutic care. My first connection to Regional initiatives came in the form of a conference in Nassau, Bahamas, “Creating Partnerships to Confront Sexual Violence in the Caribbean”, in which I represented Grenada via the LACC.

While my private practice continues to revolve around the principles of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, aspects of Shamanic practice, Buddhist-based mindfulness approaches and the philosophies of yoga and the martial arts, I have necessarily expanded into the realms of Ecological Psychology, an Forensic Psychology.

This provides a thorough foundation in a truly holistic philosophy of treatment for emotional and mental ills.

I have not missed out on the opportunities for self-care that present in these parts. My love for hiking, kayaking and cycling in the tropical rain forests and beaches of the Caribbean have yielded new insights into the relationship between mental health and physical wellbeing. My phenomenological approach to client care encourages my incorporation of all these elements - my clients understand that my services may be provided on-line, by telephone, on-site in a clinical/studio setting, in a classroom environment, or just as likely out in the wild.

My very close relationship with Canada, where I studied and worked for 30 years, continues strongly via various media: Membership in the Canadian Association for Psychodynamic Psychotherapy; on-going apprenticeship to Heloisa Porto in her institute for Shamanic Psychotherapy; lectures through Fanshawe College in London, and an on-going private client base.

My book, “Six Months of South”, is happily almost complete.

For further information:

hazel@hazeldabreo.com,

 416-628-2969 .