Care for the whole person, at every stage of life.
Compassionate, evidence-based therapy and assessment for children, adults, couples, and families.
Sessions available online, by phone, and in person. Equine Assisted Psychotherapy offered May through October.
You deserve to live your best life. Start with good mental health.
Specialized support, tailored to each person.
Our clinicians bring a range of orientations and skills to meet you where you are, from a child's first big worry to the complex dynamics of a whole family system.
Children & Adolescents
Children's stresses and worries are as big to them as adults' challenges are to us. We see children from 4 to 12 with overwhelming anxiety, whether social, separation-related, or tied to intrusive thoughts, compulsive behaviours, or academic performance. We assess and treat a wide range of concerns, working closely with parents so the tools learned are used outside the clinical session.
Teens face a unique mix of brain development, social demands, personality, mood, and family dynamics. We assess anxiety, depression, attention deficits, learning disabilities, behavioural and impulse-control issues, eating and body-image concerns, and family relational issues, with individual or family therapy as indicated.
Adults
Adults who reach out often live with mood disorders such as anxiety and depression, anger-management challenges, addictions, or trauma that interfere with enjoying life. Sometimes work stress has grown too great, or there is ongoing frustration with meeting personal goals.
Our skilled clinicians help you understand the problem, your contribution to it, and the path forward, building practical skills along the way. Orientations include cognitive-behavioural, energy psychology, psychodynamic, systemic, client-centered, and solution-focused approaches.
Couples
Our preference is to see couples together, of any sexual orientation, to observe how they communicate and respond to each other in a safe, non-judgmental setting. We help slow the interaction down, understand the patterns where couples get stuck, and surface the behaviours that undermine the relationship.
We support each partner in expressing their perceptions and needs. Sometimes more attention is needed on one partner to heal old wounds. We practice in a balanced, respectful way with every partnership we have the honour to assist.
Families
Families are complicated. There are individual needs, parental issues, and whole-family dynamics to address. We assess the family system to identify the best steps forward and the combinations of people most likely to help reach the goals the family identifies.
While children gain confidentiality rights in therapy by age 15, we work hard to keep parents involved in their children's care and in the solutions. Sessions often include parents so new skills transfer to daily family life. We love our client children and families, and welcome the chance to help. This is why we do what we do.
About Dr. Wendy LeDoux
Ph.D., C. Psych. · Registered Psychologist
Dr. Wendy has practiced as a Registered Psychologist in the Durham Region for more than 25 years, providing psychological services to children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families. Whether you are looking for counselling or assessment, Dr. Wendy and her clinical associates, all doctoral and master's level graduates, have the expertise to assist you across a range of clinical orientations, fees, hours, and locations.
Dr. LeDoux provides clinical supervision to her associates who are members of a regulatory body, assuring the highest level of care and full compliance with professional practice standards and ethics.
The kinds of issues we address
Television, teaching & public conversation.
Over the years Dr. Wendy has worked to make seeking help feel ordinary and approachable. A few highlights from television and educational work.
The people you will work with.
Psychologists, psychotherapists, social workers, and the warm administrative team who help you get started. Select any profile to read more.
Reach out for an appointment.
Tell us a little about what you are looking for and the best way to reach you. Our office manager will follow up to match you with the right clinician and find a time that works.
Fax 905-493-7899
Pickering, Ont. L1V 7G5
Pickering, Ont. L1V 2R2