Caroline Chassé, Barrie
Caroline is a bilingual (French English), registered Social Worker/Psychotherapist with Family TLC.
Caroline holds a Bachelor of Social Work with Honors from Laurentian University and graduated in 2014 Caroline is a Master of Social Work student with a project of creating an equine assisted psychotherapy program for survivors of trauma. Caroline is regularly clinically supervised by a MSW therapist.
Caroline’s desires to help others came from helping herself. Already as a teenager, Caroline was adamant about understanding herself and others. She would spend all her lunch time at the library studying psychoanalysis Freud and psychoanalysis.
Caroline is a very compassionate and understanding with the core belief that there is always a solution for everything. with 7 years of counselling experience with highly vulnerable and marginalized population. Caroline has experience with helping people who have experienced childhood sexual trauma, developmental trauma, relational trauma, narcissistic abuse, intimate partner abuse, addictions, eating disorders, Dissociation, ADHD, BPD.
Caroline’s first goal is to create a space of trust and safety in the therapeutic relationship so that the client’s work can be efficient, healing, transcending and life changing. What Caroline loves the most in her work with people is to see them flourish as therapy progress.
To Individuals: Maybe you feel stuck, depressed with no sense of the future? Emotionally overwhelmed or anxious? You feel like your creativity is stifled or maybe you live in fear? Caroline can hold the light on your path of recovery and healing so you can live fully.
To families &Children: Does your children behaviors changed recently? Do you wonder where the child you knew went? Maybe your child needs help with ADHD? Or social skills?
To Couples: Maybe you have lost each other in this fast, furious, and busy life? Let’s face it, those past years weren’t the easiest. Come and rediscover and reconnect with your twin flame.
The theories that Caroline draws from are Attachment theory, Systems Theory, Trauma Theories, Neuroscience, Polyvagal Theory. The modalities that help Caroline conceptualize her work with clients are DBT, Motivational Interviewing, Internal Family System, Structural Dissociation Model.
Caroline is a trained Trauma-Focused Equine Assisted Psychotherapist & Equine professional, Level II (2022) and a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (2020-21)
Services available in French and English
- Individual Counselling
- Child Counselling
- Couples Counselling
- Relationship Counselling