Using a psychoeducational model of change, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Interpersonal Therapy, I assist clients in gaining new understandings of themselves and others, improved emotional and physiological responses, and new skills and behav
I first started counseling at the Toronto East General Hospital Walk-in Crisis Centre in 1981, and have continued learning ever since. I've had plenty of academic training, at three different schools--York University in Toronto, Memorial University of Newfoundland, and Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. Much of that training involved discussing clients with senior clinical psychologists.
Shari Bender is a Vancouver psychologist. As an individual and couples counsellor and a child therapist, she works with adults and children on issues of grief, loss, trauma, early wounding, anxiety, depression and fear. She helps grown ups and kids build resiliency, a stronger sense of personal power and a more embodied sense of self.