Pamela Calderone, MSW RSW

Registered Social Worker
Pamela is a seasoned clinician who works with adolescents, young adults, adults, couples and parents to help develop coping skills and strategies to manage the challenges they are facing. These challenges may include anxiety, depression, stress, trauma, life transitions, grief and loss, self-esteem, marital conflict, interpersonal issues with friends, family, partners and peers, as well as in the workplace. Pamela provides a safe, non-judgmental space for the client to explore uncomfortable feelings and move forward in a healthier direction.

Meet Pamela.

Pamela has a particular expertise in the area of ADHD, providing counselling and guidance to those diagnosed individuals facing difficulties in academic and social spheres, and with family and peers. She employs very specific kinds of conflict-resolution, solution-focused treatment modalities in order to repair connections that are impacted. Her wealth of experience helps parents to better understand their neurodiverse child/teen/young adult with the goal of facilitating a resolution of interpersonal and family conflict impacted by the challenges of weakened executive functioning and emotional dysregulation. Pamela offers a psychoeducational as well as an interpersonal therapeutic approach with specific strategies and tools to help parents learn to incorporate parenting with leadership, compassion and knowledge, while understanding the complexities that ADHD presents.

With over thirty years of clinical experience, Pamela uses a variety of approaches that foster the importance of each individual’s relationship with themselves and the presenting issues. She works collaboratively with individuals, couples and parents using a strength-based client- centered focus to accomplish their counselling goals and empower the redefinition of a healthier sense of self. Pamela draws on various attachment-centered, trauma-focused, self-reflective and conflict-resolution approaches to deepen the therapeutic journey with oneself and the therapist. The emergence of the pandemic has notably given rise to a multitude of challenges that have exacerbated underlying emotions and have resulted in a marked increase in depression and anxiety, poor self-esteem and feelings of uncertainty along with grief and loss. Using clinical sessions to work through the identified feelings of vulnerability, Pamela employs mindfulness- based stress reduction to help clients gain greater agency over their thoughts and feelings with the aim to stay present and engaged.

Pamela has a rich background in the field of mental health as a clinical therapist in a variety of settings including hospitals, child and family community agencies, schools and private practice. She has extensive experience with a number of different therapeutic modalities and values the significance of tailoring therapy to meet each client’s presenting needs in her clinical approach. She has acted as a therapeutic case manager, has given numerous presentations in Canada and the United States where she has spoken about approaches to the therapeutic journey and she has facilitated various therapy groups. Pamela has also been a mentor and supervisor for Master of Social Work candidates.

• Master of Social Work University of Toronto
• Family Mediation Certification
• Teen and young adult therapy
• Individual (adult), couple and family therapy
• ADHD interventions, supportive counselling and guidance
• Parenting the child/teen/young adult with ADHD
• Bereavement counselling
• Anxiety
• Depression
• Navigating ADHD with youth, young adults and adults
• Parenting the child with ADHD to achieve improved family dynamics
• Parental coaching
• Interpersonal issues with friends
• Trauma
• Life transitions
• Grief and loss
• Stress management
• Issues around choices and conflict resolution
• Building self-confidence and self-worth
• Interpersonal issues with couples
• ADHD treatment modalities: behaviour theory, counselling and psychoeducational services
• Trauma-informed therapy
• Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT)
• Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT)
• Narrative therapy
• Mindfulness-based stress reduction therapy (MBSR)
• Bereavement counselling
• Solution-focused therapy
• Interpersonal therapy (IPT)
• Psycho-social therapeutic modality - referred to as person-in environment (PIE)

Pamela Calderone