About Us

Dave Canfor BA,BSW,RSW is a licensed,insured Social Worker engaged in private practice within Simcoe County. Dave brings over 20 years experience in all areas of mental- emotional health and rehabilitation including; Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Behavior Modification, Conflict Mediation and Resolution, Couple and Marriage Counseling, Crisis Intervention and Abuse\Trauma Recovery. Dave also has a keen interest for application potentials in the areas of childhood milestones as well as nutrition and environmental toxicities.

Through Therapeutic Collaboration, we will seek and find solutions to issues that may have overwhelmed a person or group within a particular context. Using a strengths-based, problem solving process, our purpose will be to establish and build insight with the goal of accessing human potentials to overcome burdens that are currently unmanageable. Via a safe, respectful and confidential process, we shall work together, regardless of the challenges, towards fulfillment and reestablishment of effective and long lasting positive change.

Sincerely, David R. Canfor, BA.BSW.RSW

Individuals,Families,Communities,Society

Dave has worked at a variety of settings across Southern and Central Ontario including but not limited to:The Youthdale Treatment Centre for Children and Youth in Crisis, The Hospital for Sick Children - Eating Disorder/Mental Health Inpatient Unit, The Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, Chedoke McMaster Hospital Network, The Crisis Team of Barrie-Simcoe via The Canadian Mental Health Association and others. Experience and Practical Knowledge of Traumatic Brain Injury is at an Advanced Level. Further Training and Experience includes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Trauma Recovery, Crisis Prevention and Intervention, Dialectic Behavioral Therapy, along with extensive training in Couple/Marriage Counseling, Life Stage Transition Family Conflict Mediation, Parenting and Child/Adolescent Behavior Modification as well as Substance Misuse. Benefits of this service include the therapist attending your home or other choice of agreed upon location for your comfort and privacy. Achievement will include an expanding knowledge of interpersonal psychosocial dynamics, functional awareness of the causes, effects and treatments in stress reduction and management, accessing and developing intellect within the bounds of problem recognition and solution as well as exploration of the cognitive, physical and emotional effects of poor or inadequate coping skills.