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please Google my name, CHRIS CHMIELEWSKI, London,ON. (MA,MSW,RSW, Family, Marital and Individual Therapist, also under Psychology Today, 411, and NetworkTherapy).
I have 40 years of extensive psychotherapy and counselling practice experience. And a background of training in a wide range of methods and perspectives.
I have developed expertise in many areas, focusing especially on all relationship/family concerns, and on emotional hurts/ trauma particularly endured in early life/childhood. Social anxiety; anger; addictions; moods-emotional disturbance; dispositional/'personality' issues; self-care/esteem; youth pressures; stress management and personal success achievement difficulties generally, are matters for which I most frequently provide therapy.
Fee: $130-- $50; I have a sliding scale to accommodate personal circumstances.While focus is specific to your concerns, overall orientation is 'whole-person wellness': emotions, ways of thinking, lifestyle, work/school, important relationships.
For 15 years, I have applied research-informed Neuroscience to enhance effectiveness of helping methods (e.g., interpretive 'therapeutic processing', relational and family-oriented interventions), resulting in unique solutions. Because distress 'lives' in our bodies besides thoughts, I emphasize expressive, emotion-based, stress-reducing approaches. Appointments are available in the evenings and weekends; in your home or elsewhere to accommodate access difficulties. Fee is negotiable.more...See more text
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Very caring and knowledgeable about needs of children and teens (and their parents!)Helped this family a lot!
Merci beaucoup, Chris!
Super smart, focused, tuned-in. Kind and caring, straight-up therapist.
Helped my kids, saved marriage and probably my life (back a while ago now).
Multiply the 5 stars by that.
A.V.S.
Chris is a valuable resource as I try to navigate that which is called Life. Strongly recommend adding this service to your life. Cognitive behaviour therapy has significant benefits.
Chris is an amazing and compassionate therapist. He was more helpful than anything else I tried. I was able to work out a price that was affordable and I am thankful to have met him. I highly reccomend him. -Laura
I visited with Chris for fifteen years, and his counselling turned my life around. I was dealing with divorce, childhood abuse, motherhood. Chris guided me through the emotional quagmire of post-divorce life and helped me to get my life back on track. With his help I was able to complete my Masters degree, and become a successful career woman, artist, mother. Without his help I'd likely still be struggling with the turmoil. I highly recommend him: supportive, kind, great listener, results!
Chris was the best therapist I ever had! He was the first person who truly listened/cared/understood/ me, and had a HEART. He was kind, respectful, & treated me like a PERSON, instead of a number/label/illness. All the many others I’d seen seemed book-smart, but not “life-smart”, like Chris. Who cares if a therapist can read a book, if he can’t unravel my crazy life and keep me from falling apart? I highly recommend Chris if you have abuse/PTSD issues and want a safe person to explore them with.
He is a nice and polite person. But, if you're looking for a psychologist who can actually understand and help you, then he might not be a good fit.
I saw him for two weeks total, plus an initial meeting ( which he later charged me for). He would just ask something like " how are you" to get me talking, and just continuously nod as I talk. I didn't feel like we had much of a connection, and he only provided some feedback which felt very general and memorized from a textbook:(
This post, to the reader please note: My practice, in every case, is to provide clear information about all fees upfront and entails a formal "Fee Agreement" contract with signatures.
