Who is Tara McAlpine?

Tara McAlpine is a Registered Psychotherapist with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO). She holds a Master's Degree in Psychology from Adler Professional Graduate School in Toronto, a Bachelor of Education, and an Honours Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology from York University. She is a member of the Ontario Psychological Association, as well as the Council for Exceptional Children, and serves on the Educational Diagnostic Services, Division of Research in Special Education, and Learning Disabilities Committees.
 

What does Tara McAlpine specialize in?

For over 20 years, she has played an instrumental role guiding children, adolescents, and teens facing challenges to academic, cognitive, emotional, and social development, helping them make strides toward growth, fulfillment, and personal success. She provides individual therapy for children, adolescents, and teens, parent support and education, and family therapy, working with clients managing anxiety, depression, anger, ADHD, challenging behaviours, and self-regulation. Her approach incorporates research-based techniques including understanding of brain structures and their functions in relation to flight, fight, and freeze responses, along with mindfulness, cognitive behaviour, attachment, play & art, Adlerian, narrative, and family systems therapies, tailored to each client's individual strengths, challenges, and needs.
 

What is Tara McAlpine's background and training?

She has completed certificate training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Teaching English as a Second Language, Reading Specialist, Special Education Part One, and Dr. Ross Greene's Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS) Trainer certification, which she uses to provide training and workshops for teachers and parents on managing and supporting children with significant behaviour challenges. Her career began in education, working extensively with children and adolescents with learning disabilities, before evolving to focus on guiding teens and young adults through day and residential treatment facilities, where she supported clients managing anxiety, depression, ADHD, autism, and behaviour challenges through individual and group support, life skills training, and social skill development. Since 2012, she has worked as a Psychoeducational Consultant for an Ontario School Board, conducting psychoeducational assessments and providing program consultation and training workshops for teachers.