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Our Mission<\/h2>\n<\/div>
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The Oala Psychology Center is a private psychotherapy clinic founded by Dr. Monica Oala, Ph.D., licensed psychologist. The Center\u2019s mission is to provide leading-edge psychotherapy services to individuals, couples and families struggling with a diverse array of life difficulties and emotional distress. The center also offers clinical supervision to both novice and experienced psychologists. Trauma-informed and certified interventions are available to both clients in therapy and clinicians in supervision. Therefore, our specialties include Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Internal Family Systems (IFS). The Oala Psychology Center welcomes clients in a warm, nonjudgmental and confidential online setting. Its vision is to help people transform their personal upheavals into life-enhancing opportunities from the inside out. Hence, its mandate is to provide high-quality mental health services and clinical supervision available in English, French, and Romanian. The Oala Psychology Center has a strong commitment toward diversity, equity, and inclusion. We strive to hold appropriate space for the exploration of every client\u2019s lived experience so that they may find solace and healing.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Our Team<\/h2>\n<\/div>
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Dr. Monica Oala, Ph.D. (she\/her)<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Psychologist & Director<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>

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Dr. Monica Oala is a licensed psychologist and member of the Order of Psychologists of Quebec. She has worked in both the public and the private sectors for over 20 years to date. Prior to obtaining her doctorate degree in Counselling Psychology from McGill University, she was trained as a Family Life Educator where she began her career creating and leading psychoeducational groups. Since the onset of her graduate studies, Dr. Oala\u2019s affiliation with the Allan Memorial Institute of the Royal Victoria Hospital provided her with specialised training and experience in sex and couples therapy, group therapy, assessment in psychiatry and clinical supervision.<\/span><\/p>\n

Her profound interest in helping and empowering others through life suffering then lead her to obtain her Basic Training in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) from the Fraser Institute. The integration of EMDR into her clinical practice was pivotal as she increasingly encountered more cases of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD), for which EMDR has been scientifically shown to be an effective treatment. She has worked with first responders, police officers, and sexual\/physical abuse survivors among many more. She is currently a certified EMDR clinician and a member of both EMDRIA and EMDR Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Monica Oala\u2019s clinical dedication and expertise in helping clients and especially trauma survivors continued to evolve. She received certification in working with complex trauma and dissociation. This process brought her to Internal Family Systems (IFS), another scientifically proven approach shown to be effective in the treatment of PTSD & CPTSD, among many other presenting issues. She obtained her Level 1 Internal Family Systems Training from the IFS Institute as well as her Level II IFS Training in Intimacy From the Inside Out (IFIO) that emphasized the use of IFS in interpersonal relationships. She is currently a certified IFS clinician and active in the IFS community as a Program Assistant in the training of clinicians. <\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Monica Oala\u2019s professional profile not only consists of diverse clinical experiences, she also has extensive academic experience teaching masters and doctoral level psychology students at McGill University. She has many years of experience teaching in the areas of Family Life Education, Group Therapy, and Family Therapy. Her clinical and academic experiences now both serve to inform and enrich the clinical supervisory services that she also provides. She takes a caring, collaborative, comprehensive, curious and compassionate approach to clinically supervising both novice and experienced clinicians. Overall, she works in three languages (English, French and Romanian) and with a diverse clientele including adolescents, adults, couples and families. She encourages a shared, co-constructed, and open dialogue where her clients are empowered to take an active approach in their healing journeys.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>

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Mrs. Sofia Spariosu (she\/her)<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Clinic Receptionist & Coordinator
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Ms. Sofia Spariosu is the receptionist at the Oala Psychology Center. She manages all requests for information, makes all appointments and processes all financial transactions associated with the Center’s operations. She is dedicated to the administrative needs of the center and its overall management.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Psychotherapy<\/h2>\n<\/div>
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Psychotherapy is the process of helping an individual change behavior and overcome problems in desired ways. Its essence is to resolve or mitigate troublesome behaviors, beliefs, compulsions, thoughts, or emotions, and to improve relationships and social skills. The term psychotherapy is derived from Ancient Greek psyche (\u03c8\u03c5\u03c7\u03ae meaning \u201cbreath; spirit; soul\u201d) and therapeia (\u03b8\u03b5\u03c1\u03b1\u03c0\u03b5\u03af\u03b1 meaning healing; medical treatment\u201d).<\/p>\n

Clinicians conduct psychotherapy from a variety of scientifically informed theoretical and technical approaches. Traditionally, there are six major theoretical approaches in psychotherapy: humanistic, cognitive, behavioral, psychoanalytic, constructionist and systemic. The Oala Psychology Center offers an integrative form of psychotherapy and also includes EMDR and IFS, techniques that have been proven to further help individuals in distress. Each client is thoroughly assessed to determine the most suitable clinical intervention.<\/p>\n

The following list includes some of the difficulties we treat:<\/p>\n<\/div>