Lisa Pelletier (she/her)

M.Psy

As a clinician, Lisa is a warm and compassionate therapist, tailoring treatment to each person’s unique values, needs, and life experiences, ensuring that interventions are personal, practical, and effective. Lisa is currently completing her doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the Adler Graduate Professional School in Toronto. She also completed her Master’s degree in Clinical and Counselling at Adler and brings years of experience working with adults and teens to Forward Thinking. 

Lisa’s clinical focus here at Forward Thinking involves supporting adults and teens with a wide range of issues. These include anxiety and mood disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), symptoms of trauma and PTSD, life transitions, interpersonal difficulties, low self-esteem, work-related stress (including burnout) and academic struggles. 

Lisa has worked with individuals with OCD presenting with a variety of symptoms including obsessions and compulsions related to contamination, relationships, harm, religion, perfectionism and “just right feelings”. In her work with individuals with OCD, Lisa uses traditional CBT approaches as well as Inference-Based CBT for OCD and values-based interventions. This enables individuals to understand their OCD narrative and make meaningful changes to enhance their lives. 

Lisa employs a diverse array of evidence-based therapeutic modalities, tailored to each client’s goals and needs, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Inference-Based CBT (I-CBT) for OCD, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) for OCD, Mindfulness-based techniques and Dialectical Behavior Informed Therapy (DBT), as well as Solution-Focused Therapy. 

Lisa provides trauma-informed care and ensures that her evidence-based therapeutic interventions are delivered using a culturally sensitive approach. She also engages in strength-based interventions that ensure individuals build resilience and essential coping strategies. Lisa’s therapy and assessment services are available in both English and French.

In addition to therapy, Lisa has extensive experience in psychoeducational assessments. Lisa has helped individuals across all academic stages, elementary, high school, and post-secondary, understand and overcome academic challenges, learning disabilities, ADHD, and emotional difficulties that may be affecting their performance. At Forward Thinking, Lisa conducts comprehensive psychodiagnostic assessments, offering valuable insights that help individuals understand their strengths and challenges and allow for helpful treatment planning. Lisa is able to conduct assessments for adults querying ADHD and ASD.

Lisa’s clinical experiences also include crisis support in school settings and clinical work at TMS Clinics of Canada, where she helped clients with complex conditions like bipolar disorder, eating disorders, social anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Through a combination of psychotherapy and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), Lisa supported clients in their recovery, well-being, and in achieving an improved quality of life.

With a commitment to fostering an inclusive, neuro-affirming, non-judgmental environment, Lisa welcomes clients from all backgrounds, sexual orientations, and abilities. She takes pride in building collaborative, trusting relationships with clients, meeting them where they are, and supporting them as they work towards meaningful, lasting change. In using a neuro-affirming approach in her assessment and therapy sessions, Lisa ensures that treatment is modified as needed so that individuals are able to engage in treatment and make progress. 

Outside of her clinical work, Lisa is inspired by nature, quiet moments of connection, and literature. These personal passions reflect her therapeutic style, rooted in attentiveness, narrative meaning, and the power of shared understanding.