Dr. Carey Anne DeOliveira Psychologist, PhD, CPsych (she, her)
As a clinical psychologist, I have worked in London, Ontario for over two decades in a variety of hospital and community settings. I now spend most of my time in private practice at West London Psychology. In my private practice work, I focus on parenting consultation and individual therapy for clients across the lifespan.
My training and clinical work draws from a variety of therapeutic approaches from cognitive-behavioural approaches to more emotion-focused and relational models. I strongly value the role of emotions, empathic understanding, and relationships in meaningful psychotherapy, and I tend to take a curious, open, and collaborative approach to assessment and treatment.
I am interested in how life experiences and events can shape the roadmap we use to navigate our lives and relationships. I focus on helping clients understand themselves, including their protective strategies, learned patterns, and deeper emotional experiences (and/or those of their teens or children). I draw from different therapeutic approaches to help clients learn skills to work with strong emotions, communicate effectively, and develop balanced ways of thinking and responding to stress. In this way, my goal is to support clients in living their lives in a way that feels meaningful, resilient, and self-compassionate, even during stressful or painful times. I also work with parents to support their children and teens in similar ways.
In addition to my private practice work, I am also an adjunct professor with the Department of Psychology at Western University. In that role I enjoy teaching, mentoring, and supervising trainees in the field of clinical psychology.
