Our Staff

Tricia Porter, MSW, RSW

Registered Social Worker

Tricia Porter is a caring social worker with over 25 years of experience helping children, youth, and adults in a variety of settings. She practices psychotherapy with an integrated approach, and aims to apply the modalities best suited to meet her clients? unique needs. These modalities include Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), but may also include EMDR therapy, Internal Family Systems, and somatic-based therapies.

Tricia now works with adolescents and adults, addressing a variety of issues such as anxiety, perfectionism, disordered eating, self-harm, and families in transition. She is an experienced trauma therapist with areas of focus on unhealthy or abusive relationships, child abuse, and sexual violence. With her background working with children, Tricia is ideally suited to support parents in learning new skills, healing old wounds, to change patterns so they can feel confident in their parenting and meet the needs of their children.

The first step in therapy with Tricia is understanding your needs, experiences, and goals, so together you can create a plan that works towards your desired outcomes. During the process, Tricia focuses on her clients? emotional safety and equips them with the resources to take on each step. Our clients appreciate her direct approach, wealth of experience, use of humour, and genuine commitment to you and your therapeutic process.

Tricia is committed to providing a safe space for everyone by embedding a trauma-informed, feminist, gay-affirmative, gender-identity-positive, and anti-racist/anti-oppressive framework to her work with clients.

Education: Bachelor of Social Work, Master of Social Work, RSW with OCSWSSW