Intern at Â鶹AV Couple & Family Therapy Clinic
Announcement from Dr. Heather MacIntosh Director: MScA Couple and Family Therapy/Â鶹AV Couple and Family Therapy Clinic
In these times of stress and isolation, accessibility of mental health services is more important than ever. Additionally, race based traumatic stress continues to impact the physical, emotional, and mental well-being of Black individuals and their families. Healing needs to begin with recognizing and addressing internalized racism, unhealthy relationship patterns, and re-storying the overall message shared by the dominant culture group, a task that is strongly felt and internalized by people of Colour. The Â鶹AV Couple and Family Therapy Clinic has a long history of providing low cost couple and family therapy services to community members in distress and is the training centre for students in the MScA in Couple and Family Therapy who choose to do advanced training in Developmental Couple Therapy for Complex Trauma, the approach to couple therapy developed by the Director of the MScA, Dr. Heather B MacIntosh.
This year, in the time of COVID-19 and remote internship training, we have the unique opportunity to partner with Carole Sandy, a graduate of our programme, who is the founder and director of the Invisible to Visible Project, a project based in Toronto, Ontario focused on creating opportunities to reduce stigma, expand access, and create opportunities for Black therapists to connect with members of the Black community seeking mental health services. This team effort will also involve the expertise of Shirlette Wint a Montreal based social worker and psychotherapist who will provide supervision to our intern, Myrlie Marcelin, a recent graduate of the Â鶹AV MSW degree and an advanced standing student in our MScA in Couple and Family Therapy. Myrlie will be working with couples and families with an emphasis on providing care to BIPOC couples and families with the support of myself, Carole and Shirlette.
Please do not hesitate to forward referrals to my email address at heather.macintosh [at] mcgill.ca and Shirlette Wint at swint67 [at] hotmail.com
With thanks,
Heather B MacIntosh PhD CPsych/OPQ