Dr. Adi Aviram, C.Psych.

Dr. Adi Aviram is a registered Clinical Psychologist with the College of Psychologists and Behaviour Analysts of Ontario. Her area of specialization is adult mental health, and she is committed to providing a safe and collaborative environment for her clients, in order to foster growth and change in healthy, meaningful ways.

Dr. Aviram’s approach is empathic and highly attuned to the experiences of the individuals with whom she works, while deeply rooted in the recognition that each individual is the best expert on their own experience. She strives to create a safe space for clients to explore, confront, and work through difficult experiences and emotions, in an environment that emphasizes individual strengths and autonomy. Dr. Aviram seeks to promote clients’ contact with their inner experiences and personal values, with the intent of improving clients’ self-awareness and understanding, resolving internal conflict, developing resiliency, and facilitating personally meaningful therapeutic change. Her goal is to help clients improve their emotion regulation, nurture their strengths and self-image, improve the quality of their relationships, and their ability to cope with life stressors.

Dr. Aviram works collaboratively with a diverse range of client concerns, including mood and anxiety disorders, trauma, grief, interpersonal/relationship difficulties, emotional ambivalence and/or dysregulation, as well as difficult life transitions and adjustment-related issues. Her therapeutic approach is inherently client-centered and integrative, drawing on her extensive experience in evidence-based treatment approaches, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Motivational Interviewing (MI), Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT), and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. She firmly believes that treatment should be tailored to the client and not the other way around, and actively seeks to evoke her clients’ perspectives, preferences, and ideas with respect to accomplishing their therapeutic goals.

Dr. Aviram completed her Master’s and Doctoral degrees in Clinical Psychology at York University in Toronto. She undertook her pre-doctoral internship at SUNY Upstate Medical University in the Adult Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic, with rotations in the Inpatient Psychiatry Unit, Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit, and Dialectical Behavioural Therapy Unit. She has also held positions at North York General Hospital (Branson and Leslie sites) in the Adult Mental Health Unit, as well as at the York University Student Counseling Centre. Dr. Aviram has authored several peer reviewed publications and presented at both national and international psychology conferences. Her research focus is on mechanisms of change in psychotherapy that help predict positive outcomes, with particular focus on client engagement and therapist responsivity in the treatment of anxiety disorders. Her research regularly informs her practice, making her particularly skilled in assessing client engagement on a moment-to-moment basis during the session and moving flexibly to meet clients where they are.

Dr. Aviram continues to engage in regular professional development activities and is a member of the Canadian Psychological Association, the Ontario Psychological Association, the Society for Psychotherapy Research, and the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration.