Racquel

About Racquel

Racquel Vivero-Chong is a Registered Psychotherapist (CRPO) and a Registered Social Worker (MSW, RSW) with over 20 years of experience in the field of mental health services. She is guided by the principles of recovery, hope, empowerment, compassion, inclusion, and resilience.

Her goal is to assist and collaborate with clients in exploring and rediscovering their capacity to function positively in the face of adversity — managing life's struggles based on their own strengths, creativity, and courage. Racquel has had the privilege of working with clients from various diverse backgrounds and unique needs in both hospital-based and community settings.

She specializes in providing individual psychotherapy to adults facing challenges related to depression, anxiety, emotional distress, self-esteem issues, trauma recovery, relationship and interpersonal issues, and grief and bereavement. Her approach to psychotherapy is integrative and eclectic, drawing from multiple evidence-based treatment modalities including CBT, DBT, Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), mindfulness-based approaches, Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), and trauma-informed counselling.

She is currently a Psychotherapist and Social Worker at Michael Garron Hospital – Toronto East Health Network in the Adult Outpatient Mental Health Department, where she has been providing comprehensive psychosocial assessments and psychotherapy services since 2012.