Waleed Riaz

About

Do you find yourself worrying about situations that may or could happen in life and socially? Do you feel low, unmotivated, and hopeless? Do you find it difficult to cope with stress? If so, you may be in the right place at the right time! My specialty is working with males, females, and unspecified youth and adults experiencing anxiety, depression, addiction, OCD, & stress.

Biography

Waleed is a member of the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA), and a Registered Psychotherapist with the CRPO. Along with his Master's Degree in Counselling Psychology, he has received certifications in mental health from esteemed institutions like Yale, UoFT, CAMH, and UBC. Waleed has been entrusted in various settings to provide mental health support to residential, outpatient, and inpatient clients. His broad base of training and experience working with mood and anxiety disorders and stress management enables him to cater to the clients' needs empathetically and sensitively. Waleed primarily works within the Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) framework, with the ability to integrate mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), motivational interviewing (MI) and dialectic behavioural therapy (DBT), as needed to cultivate positive outcomes from the treatment. He is fluent in English, Urdu, Kutchi / Memoni, and Hindi.

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