LAYA KAMMOUN

Compassionate, empathetic, and motivated mental health counsellor, dedicated to developing the skills and acquiring the experience needed in applying various theoretical perspectives and modalities. Provide direct counseling, outreach, and crisis intervention to help children, adolescents, and adults overcome their mental health issues and improve the quality of their life. Experienced in counseling individuals, groups, and couples and can establish rapport with clients from diverse backgrounds.

• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
• Advanced EMDR Trauma Treatment via Telehealth & In-person
• The Grief Summit: Grief Counseling and Treatment in a Pandemic of Loss
• Grief in the DSM5: The Most Recent Diagnostic Guidelines
• Grief Treatment: Current Evidence Based Approaches to Care Across the Lifespan
• From Trauma to Healing
• Play with Purpose: The Impacts of Play on Development & Incorporating Play into Learning
• CBT - Intensive Certificate
• Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training
• Evaluation of Potential Creativity (EPOC) certificate from Paris Descartes University
• Productive Thinking Skills (Gifted program) certificate from ICIE
• Leading and Managing A SEN Department certificate from Infinite Learning

• Provides psycho-therapeutic intervention, treatment, and other related mental health services to immigrants, refugees, and their families.
• Provides individual, family, and group therapy services.
• Evaluates presenting problems and develop treatment plans.
• Prepares case histories with particular emphasis on psycho-social and cultural factors.
• Provides supportive services to counselling colleagues, case management support, treatment plan development, and liaison at the client level.
• Strong leadership skills in supporting implementation of evidence-based interventions and maintaining a lifelong learning framework.
• Effective liaison with multi-disciplinary intervention teams, community resources and support networks for family assistance, enabling collaborative and effective programming and advocacy for children, individuals, and families.
• Efficient administrator of appropriate assessment tools, such as the ACE, WISC, Woodcock-Johnson, etc. while producing clear, concise reports, record keeping, leading to intervention plans.
• Well-developed interviewing, counselling, mediation, and analytical skills; able to develop understanding and rapport with children and caregivers while identifying needs and issues; establishes client comfort and security while facilitating effective intervention strategies.
• Empathetic listener with intuitive strength and effective decision-making abilities, yet flexible in approach and manner.
• Sincere, open, and honest professional able to quickly develop the trust of others; able and committed to maintaining the confidentiality of clients, willing to work flexible hours to suit the needs of clients, couples, and families.
• Mental Health Awareness Trainer