Denis Vaillancourt
Denis Vaillancourt views his clients from a whole-person, humanistic lens to individually tailor treatment to best serve their needs and goals. He strongly believes in using the therapeutic alliance to help clients feel seen, understood, and cared for in their treatment. Denis primarily utilizes a Cognitive Behavioural (CBT) approach to individual therapy while integrating supportive counselling and mindfulness techniques. He holds a special interest in working with individuals from the queer community, and those struggling with mental health concerns related mood, anxiety and trauma. Denis also provides couple therapy using an emotion-focused framework (EFT). He believes in the power of human adult attachment as a pre-cursor to healing, growth, and connection, both in individual and couple’s therapy settings.
Denis provides in-person and virtual sessions for individual therapy. He provides in-person services to couples.
About Denis
Denis received his M.A. in Applied Psychology from Laurentian University in 2020 and is on track to complete his doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of Saskatchewan in 2025. He is currently a clinical psychology resident completing his full-time, 12 month internship year at the OICBT and uOttawa’s CPSR.
- Depression
- Anxiety (Social anxiety, generalized anxiety, phobias)
- OCD
- Trauma/PTSD
- Grief/Loss
- Diversity informed care
- Sexuality/sexual health
Denis works from an integrative perspective, relying on evidence-based, research backed therapeutic modalities tailored to specific client needs:
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Mindfulness and Compassion based approaches
- Graduate Fellowship, Laurentian University – 2018-2019
- Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canadian Graduate Scholarship – Master’s – 2019- 2020
- Ontario Graduate Scholarship – 2019
- Dean’s Scholarship, University of Saskatchewan – 2020-2022
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship – 2022-2026
Doctoral Training
- Psychology Services Centre, University of Saskatchewan (Area of focus: CBT for individuals)
- Dr. Michel A.S. Lariviere & Associates. Private Practice, Sudbury ON (Area of focus: CBT/EFT for individual therapy, psychoeducational and psychodiagnostics assessments for neurodevelopmental and mental health presentations [e.g., mood, anxiety, trauma, OCD])
- SASK Operational Stress Injury Clinic (Area of focus: Assessments and treatment of PTSD)
- Clinical Health Psychology Department, Royal University Hospital, Saskatoon SK (Area of focus: Long-term psychodynamic individual therapy for individuals dealing with depression, anxiety, and trauma concurrent with physical health issues)
Current
- OICBT: Mood and Anxiety program
- CPSR: Adult stream: Intervention (CBT/EFT) and assessment