Michael Shaughnessy is an Individual, Couple and Family Psychotherapist at The Redpath Centre. Over the past twenty years, he has worked with adolescents and young adults with serious mental health difficulties, including depression, ADD, anxiety spectrum disorders, and OCD. He has extensive experience in working with families confronted with "parent-adolescent conflict." He is a speaker on adolescent mental health, depression and anxiety disorders, youth with psychosis and young adults with adjustment difficulties in school and university. Mr. Shaughnessy also provides clinical consultation to children's mental health centres. He is the former Clinical Director of Central Toronto Youth Services, which supports adolescents and young adults with a wide range of mental illnesses and co-morbid conditions.

Areas of Expertise: Asperger Syndrome in adolescents and adults, anxiety spectrum disorders (including phobias and panic attacks), depressive disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder, attention deficit disorder in adults, grief and loss

Professional Affiliations: Member, Ontario Association of Consultants, Counsellors, Psychometrists and Psychotherapists

Education: Masters in Education, Psychology, OISE University of Toronto

Fees: $130.00 per hour, sliding scale available, covered by some private insurance plans

Referrals: Self-referral, physician referral or mental health professional