DR. NIKI NOROUZIAN, PH.D., C.PSYCH.

CLINICAL and counselling PSYCHOLOGIST

SUPERVISOR IN CLINICAL AND COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGY

(She/Her)

Dr. Niki Norouzian is a registered clinical and counselling psychologist who provides therapy to adults and couples. She obtained her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from York University and completed her predoctoral residency at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH).

Dr. Norouzian's therapy style is warm and empathetic, and she personalizes therapy to the unique needs of each client. She emphasizes safety and nonjudgement while challenging clients to gain insight into themselves and change patterns that interfere with their goals and values. She collaboratively works with clients on their goals, which can include processing painful emotions connected to trauma, attachment/relationship experiences in childhood or adulthood, or other difficult events. She strives to understand the nuances of each person’s experience with thoughtful consideration of intersecting issues of race, gender, sexuality, class, and power.

She has extensive experience helping individuals with anxiety (e.g., stress, panic, worry, social anxiety, perfectionism), trauma (e.g., posttraumatic stress disorder, complex trauma), depression, and personality disorders (e.g., borderline, obsessive-compulsive, narcissistic). This has included supporting clients with emotion regulation difficulties, relationship issues (e.g., breakups), life stressors/transitions (e.g., moving), low self-esteem, and problems with control or impulsivity such as disordered eating (e.g., binge eating) or alcohol/substance use difficulties.

As a client-centred and integrative therapist, Dr. Norouzian flexibly draws from evidence-based approaches including Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Motivational Interviewing, self-compassion, and a three-phase trauma treatment that involves gaining stability before working on processing trauma and reconnecting to life.

For couples, Dr. Norouzian is trained in Emotion Focused Couples Therapy (including Emotion Focused Therapy for Resolving Emotional Injuries) and DBT-informed couples intervention. She is passionate about helping couples build their capacity for emotional and physical intimacy through improving communication, effectively navigating conflicts and transitions, and repairing past wounds (e.g., betrayals such as affairs; past breakups or abandonment experiences; breaches of trust such as secret alcohol/substance use).

Dr. Norouzian has trained at various settings including a CAMH service for individuals with concurrent psychosis and substance use disorders as well as a Toronto Western Hospital program for individuals undergoing bariatric surgery. She also worked at a DBT program at CAMH and delivered a DBT-informed couples intervention for Borderline personality disorder as part of a clinical research trial. 

Please note that our associates work with many presenting issues, some of which are not listed in this biography. Please speak to our intake team at 647-496-0457 for more information.