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I believe the family doctor is the cornerstone of our medical care system. The family doctor provides the majority of care for mental health problems out of necessity. After 25 years in family medicine, it seems to me that the majority of medical problems have some root in mental and spiritual problems. My interest in addressing family doctors is to help facilitate your ongoing care for the mental health needs of your patients.

Private Therapists in Simcoe County.

How to receive training in CBT, EMDR, hypnosis, trauma and dissociation

FOR FAMILY DOCTORS:
Referral is an option. For complex cases, which may require more time than you have, another option is to receive supervision in person or over the phone, or via a Balint style group. Also a consideration is training in the long term effects of traumas and Dissociation Disorders. This covers a lot of ground not covered well in the past by psychiatry or family practice IMHO. The somatization disorders are of particular importance to family practice, I believe, and involve a form of dissociation.

Some of the local resources regarding mental health in Simcoe County are:

• Community Mental Health Center, 459 Hume Street, Collingwood, (705) 444-6600

• Consumer Survivors Project, (705) 444-1844

• New Path, Hurontario Street for children and adolescents up to age 18 (705) 445-4181

• Kinarck Child and Family Services 726-8861

Private therapists:
• Judith Smith, CSW
35, 4th Street, Collingwood 446-0786

• Lorie Walton, M. Ed.
www.familyfirstplaytherapy.ca

• Christine MacLean M.Ed.
275 First Street, Collingwood 443-8017

• Eric King, MSW, RSW
9 Elizabeth St. East, Creemore 466-5874

• Ayrlie MacEachern/Expressive Arts Therapy 705-444-0550


• Also here are some links for where to seek training or information regarding:

1. trauma and dissociation:
www.isst-d.org/

2. Developmental Needs Strategy (DMNS)
www.shirleyjeanschmidt.com

3. EMDR (eye movement, desensitization & reprocessing).
www.emdria.org


4. clinical hypnosis
www.csch.org

also available in the USA
www.asch.net

5 Focusing www.focusing.com


6. an exciting new modality of treatment for PTSD:
www.sensorimotorpsychotherapy.org/


7. articles in trauma, dissociation and memory:
http://www.trauma-pages.com

Trauma, both for the public and professional:
http://www.sidran.org


8. fabulous resource on memory and child abuse:
www.jimhopper.com


9. schema therapy, developed by Jeffrey Young. (This is the program I use to identify the long standing character problems which cause chronic depression, self-esteem and relationship difficulties.)
www.schematherapy.com

10. Expressive Arts Therapy Training www.isiscanada.org

SUPERVISION OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PROVIDED BY THE FAMILY DOCTOR

• If you wish to discuss ideas on how to receive supervision for a complicated client (a great way to learn) please contact me by phone (705-466-5013) or email dr.jody@rogers.com.

I am available for formal consultation regarding suitability for psychotherapy as well as medication consultation.

Things changed dramatically for GP Psychotherapists with the ratification of the agreement between OMA and OHIP in the fall of 2005. (see section 8.1 in Appendix E of the agreement) Effectively if a family doctor bills over 50% K codes (K004, K006, K007, K010, K011, K012, K024, K025) he or she is seen as a specialist by OHIP and those billings no longer impact access bonuses. Thus the family doctor, who is part of a FIN's or FPN's or some kind of comprehensive payment model, is not penalized when one of your patients sees a GP Psychotherapist.
To quote David Cree, "As of 1st April 2005 no family physician will have any money taken off for a GP psychotherapist seeing their patient". If there are any questions or difficulties regarding this please call Jasmin Kantarevic of the OMA Dept of Economics who is overseeing all these changes 416-623-1248 or e-mail Jasmin_Kantarevic@OMA.org.
Currently the CPSO is looking at how to define a specialist in GP psychotherapy, something which the GPPA (see our web site http://www.gppaonline.ca) has done for years, implemented and continues to work on.
Ideally a special group of billing codes for GP Psychotherapists will solve a lot of the ongoing difficulties and I am hopeful that this will occur in the near future.
The mental health needs of patients in this province continue to grow and must be properly served. I believe the service we provide is an essential service particularly serving those who, as children were hurt again and again in different ways and/or whose needs as children have been neglected, resulting in the kind of mental disorders not responsive to medication. The cost of training and supervision for those of us interested in this population is very substantial but is a worthwhile venture. It is possible for this group to make significant gains with psycotherapy.
The very patients who would benefit from the services of a GP psychotherapist are complex cases (best covered by Judith Herman's term Complex PTSD or DESNOS = disorders of extreme stress - a diagnostic term that I hope will eventually appear in the DSM-V) requiring once a week visits usually over a period of time. Adequate treatment for these cases, I believe, saves money in the long run by avoiding hospitalization and run-ins with the justice system and improves quality of life for families.		  

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