Personality and physical illnesses
Sarah-Claude Provençal-Landry, Psy.D since 2018
As part of her doctoral career, Sarah-Claude has studied the use of hypnosis for the relief of pain and anxiety during endorectal brachytherapy at the Jewish General Hospital. She has completed a meta-analysis on the efficacy of hypnosis during dressing changes in severely burnt individuals, which was the subject of her doctoral essay. On the clinical level, her internships were focused on couples and borderline personality disorder. Currently, she works for the CISSS de Lanaudière with families with young children and in private office.
Personality and couple
Evelyne Charron Smith, B.A., M.A., Ph.D/Psy. D since 2019
Evelyne studied the correlates between dyadic adjustment and personality traits, including self- and partner-ratings of the Big Five and maladaptive personality traits, and the interdependent effects of personality on dyadic adjustment. Her clinical interests include the assessment and treatment of anxiety, depression, and neurodevelopmental disorders in children and adolescents. She was also a volunteer at Suicide Action Montréal. She completed her final internship at the Childhood Disorders Day Hospital at the Jewish General Hospital. Evelyne currently works in private practice.
Personality and addiction
Elie Rizkallah, B.Sc, M.Sc., Ph.D/Psy.D since 2019
Élie Rizkallah holds a doctorate degree in psychology from the Université du Québec à Montréal (Psy.D./Ph.D.) and is a member of the Ordre des psychologues du Québec. His clinical training was carried out at the Fernand-Séguin Research Centre of the Louis-H Lafontaine Hospital, obsessive-compulsive disorder clinic, at the Federal Training Centre (Correctional Service Canada), as well as in private clinics specialized in the treatment of personality disorders and substance use disorders. Élie is a consulting psychologist at the Centre de Psychologie Béhaviorale and is a post-doctoral fellow at the CHUM research center.
Tianna Loose, Psy.D since 2017
Tianna’s thesis was about three levels of determinants of the problematic use of alcohol: personality traits, temporality, and motivation. She studied mediation relations between those variables and compared students from Quebec to those from France. She has been involved in research projects on many themes, including the efficacy of preventive action, temporalities, biopsychosocial complexity, modified states of consciousness, virtual reality, and immigration. Clinically, she has gained experience in a hospital environment at the CHU of Nantes (Psychiatrie de Liaison; Transplantation thoracique).
Personality and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Delphine-Émilie Bourdon, B.Sc., Ph.D/Psy.D since 2020
Delphine-Émilie’s thesis focused on core beliefs and coping strategies in adults with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) during a cognitive behavioral therapy. Her clinical interests include cognitive behavioral therapy for anxiety disorders, PTSD, depressive disorders, as well as obsessive-compulsive disorder in adults. She completed her internships at the Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Montréal. Delphine-Émilie currently works at the Trauma Studies Centre.
Catherine Fredette, B.Sc., Ph.D/Psy.D since 2021
In her thesis, Catherine was investigating the effect of social/marital support on the severity of post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms and their evolution during a cognitive behavioral therapy intervention. Clinically, she is interested in anxiety disorders, OCD, PTSD, and mood disorders. Catherine did her first internship at a CLSC in Richelieu in the adult mental disorder department. She then pursued her second internship at the Douglas mental Health institute in the anxiety disorder clinic. She also worked at the Psychofamiliale Solution Santé clinic from fall 2017 to fall 2019 with adult and adolescent clients. She now works in a private clinic with adolescents and adults. She also works at her local CLSC since july 2019.
Personality and anxiety disorders
Véronique Palardy, B.Sc., Ph.D/Psy.D since 2021
Véronique’s thesis was about social and conjugal support and personality factors in individuals who have a panic disorder with or without agoraphobia (PD/A) or an obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Clinically, she is particularly interested in Anxiety Disorders, OCD and PTSD. She also has an interest in mood and personality disorders. Véronique worked at the Centre de Services Psychologiques at UQÀM. She was also an evaluator at the Center for Trauma Studies for a randomized controlled trial on the treatment of PTSD. She completed her internship at the Clinique Laval and at the Anxiety Disorders Clinic at the Douglas. She currently works at the Anxiety Disorders Clinic at the Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur in Montreal, as well as at the Clinique Laval and at the Centre d’Étude sur le Trauma at IUSMM.