
About Me
My name is Amy Spencer and I am a Registered Social Worker with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers (OCSWSSW) since 2017. I hold a Master of Social Work degree from Carleton University. I have an undergraduate degree in criminology from Nipissing University and have worked for over 15 years in community mental health, employment and training, education, community justice services, and in healthcare institutions.
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Life transitions such as: fertility, pregnancy, birth, and the transition to parenthood can be full of both joy and challenges. Other changes in employment, grief, loss, trauma, health status, ageing, and relationships can uncover and create additional stress.
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Our relationships with those around us and our identity and roles can shift and change over time. As you navigate changes difficult emotions, uncertainty, fear, overwhelm, anger, guilt, shame, and self-doubt can be part of the journey. Loss of the familiar and adapting to new roles and expectations can create worry, rumination, and self-criticism.
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I work alongside you to offer non-judgmental compassionate support in these transitions, to build skills and strategies to manage mood and anxiety symptoms and the experience of overwhelm and work to build confidence in new pieces of your identity. I work in a strength-based approach to highlight your resiliency and build therapeutic goals for growth, learning, and new opportunities.
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As a person with lived experience with fertility challenges, perinatal loss, and postpartum anxiety, I am empathetic and passionate about shining a light and building awareness of this experience and bringing meaningful services and opportunities for growth and healing during your fertility journey, pregnancy, birthing, and postpartum experiences.
Areas of Practice
I have specialized training in:
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Perinatal Mental Health: Fertility, Pregnancy, Postpartum
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Grief and Perinatal Loss: Miscarriage, Termination for Medical Reasons, Neonatal Loss, Stillbirth, Loss of a child. Including Traumatic grief, complex grief, and anticipatory grief.
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Birth and Reproductive Trauma: Fertility trauma, loss, termination, birth trauma, NICU trauma, feeding trauma, and birth story processing.
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Life transitions: Transition to parenthood, Perimenopause, Menopause, grief, return to work, retirement.
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Anxiety: Generalized Anxiety, Social Anxiety, Health Anxiety, Panic Disorder, Post-traumatic Stress
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD): Treating Youth 12-17, and Adults 18+
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First Responders: Compassion fatigue, workplace stress, vicarious trauma, and burnout
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Insomnia and Sleep Disturbances
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Interpersonal and relational challenges
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Emotional Regulation Challenges
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Depression and Low mood
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Therapy Modalities
My practice in psychotherapy uses evidence-based approaches to support building skills, distress tolerance, managing triggers, navigating relationships, identity building, and emotional regulation. I also offer trauma processing and integration support.
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Motivational Interviewing (MI),
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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for anxiety, depression, perinatal anxiety and depression, insomnia, and OCD
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Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) for distress tolerance, emotional regulation, interpersonal challenges, and mindfulness.
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Mindfulness, CBT for mindfulness of thoughts, and emotions, managing worry and rumination, and self-compassion.
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Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) for Trauma, PTS, PTSD, and Grief (in training)
Contact
Please reach out to connect to schedule an appointment or a free 20 min consultation.
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