Lara Kalaf
Offers
In-person and virtual appointments
- Psychologist
- Woman
Accepting new patients
Provider information
Description
I help adults, children, adolescents, families, and professionals navigate emotional, relational, and personal challenges. If you're feeling overwhelmed or disconnected and seek a genuine, supportive conversation, we may be a good fit. My approach is eclectic and culturally sensitive, drawing from humanistic, existential, CBT, positive psychology, and art therapy. I support clients facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, acculturation issues, or eating disorders, and tailor each plan to foster comfort, healing, and balance.
Conditions
- Abuse
- Addiction
- ADHD
- Adjustment disorder
- Adoption
- Aging
- Alcohol Abuse
- Anger
- Anger Management
- Antisocial Personality disorder
- Anxiety
- Asperger's Syndrome
- Autism
- Behavioral Issues
- Binge eating disorder (eating disorders)
- Bipolar Disorder
- Body Image
- Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
- Bullying
- Chronic Pain or Illness
- Codependency
- Communication
- Compulsive gambling
- Conduct Disorder (CD)
- Conversion disorder
- Delirium
- Depression
- Dissociative Disorders
- Divorce
- Domestic Abuse or Violence
- Drug Abuse
- Dual Diagnosis
- Eating disorders
- Elderly Persons Disorders
- Emotion Regulation
- Emotional Abuse
- Excoriation disorder
- Family planning
- Fears / Phobias
- Gambling Addiction
- Geriatric Counselling
- Grief, loss, bereavement
- Histrionic personality disorder
- HIV/AIDS
- Impulse Control Disorders
- Infertility or Adoption
- Infidelity
- Insomnia
- Intellectual Disability
- Internet Addiction
- Learning Disabilities
- Loneliness
- Medical Detox
- Men's Issues
- Mental Disorders
- Mood disorders
- Narcissistic Personality Disorder
- Obesity
- Obsessive- Compulsive (OCD)
- Oppositional Defiance (ODD)
- Panic disorder
- Paranoid personality disorder
- Parenting
- Persistent Depressive Disorder (Dysthymic Disorder)
- Personality Disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Pregnancy, Prenatal, Postpartum
- Psychosis
- Quiet Borderline Personality Disorder
- Racial Identity
- Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria
- Relationship Issues
- Schizophrenia
- Seasonal Affective Disorder
- Self Esteem
- Self-harming or suicidal behavior
- Sex, sexuality, intimacy
- Sexual Abuse
- Sexual Addiction
- Sleep Disorder
- Social Anxiety Disorder
- Social Isolation
- Somatic symptom disorder
- Spirituality
- Stopping Smoking
- Stress
- Substance Abuse
- Substance Use
- Suicidal Thoughts
- Suicide
- Thinking Disorders
- Trauma
- Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
- Video Game Addiction
- Weight Loss
- Women's Issues
- Workplace stress
Provider's hours
Sunday
By appointment only
Monday
8:00 am
-
8:00 pm
Tuesday
8:00 am
-
8:00 pm
Wednesday
8:00 am
-
8:00 pm
Thursday
8:00 am
-
8:00 pm
Friday
8:00 am
-
8:00 pm
Saturday
By appointment only
Services
- Acceptance and commitment therapy
- Attachment-based therapy
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Compassion-focused therapy
- Culturally sensitive therapy
- Dialectical behavior therapy
- Educational assessments
- Emotionally focused therapy
- Existential therapy
- Family counselling
- Family systems therapy
- Feminist therapy
- Group counselling
- Humanistic therapy
- Integrative therapy
- Interpersonal psychotherapy
- Marital counselling
- Marriage and family therapy
- Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy
- Motivational interviewing
- Multicultural therapy
- Parent-child interaction therapy (PCIT)
- Person-centered therapy
- Play therapy
- Psychodynamic therapy
- Psychological testing and evaluation
- Psychological therapy
- Relational therapy
- Relationship counselling
- Solution-focused brief therapy
- Strength-based therapy
- Structural family therapy
- Trauma-focused cognitive behavior therapy
Clientele
- Adults (18+)
- Children (under 12)
- Couples
- Families
- LGBTQ2+
- Pediatrics
- Seniors (65+)
- Teens (13-17)
Languages spoken
- English
Education
- UQAM | Université du Québec à Montréal Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Clinical Psychology. 2012 – 2016 Thesis : Art therapy as a resilience building tool for refugee children and teens. • University of Leeds MA, Masters in HRM/Organisational Psychology. 2009 – 2010 Dissertation (Distinction): Online social networking enabling knowledge development through social capital amongst disparate workers? • Concordia University B A, Business Studies. 2006 – 2008 • Université de Montréal BA, Psychology. 2004 – 2006
Facility: Mindsession Intercultural Psychology
Summary
At Mindsession Intercultural Psychology, we offer culturally competent psychotherapy rooted in humanistic values. We aim to create a safe, inclusive space where cultural sensitivity and respect guide care. Our diverse team provides services in French, English, Spanish, Arabic, and Portuguese. We support individuals across the lifespan—children, adolescents, adults, and older adults—tailoring our approach to meet unique needs in a strictly confidential environment.
Business hours
Sunday
By appointment only
Monday
8:00 am
-
8:00 pm
Tuesday
8:00 am
-
8:00 pm
Wednesday
8:00 am
-
8:00 pm
Thursday
8:00 am
-
8:00 pm
Friday
8:00 am
-
8:00 pm
Saturday
By appointment only
Services & supplies
- Acceptance and commitment therapy
- Attachment-based therapy
- Career counseling
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Cognitive rehabilitation
- Compassion-focused therapy
- Culturally sensitive therapy
- Dialectical behavior therapy
- Educational assessments
- Emotionally focused therapy
- Existential therapy
- Exposure and response prevention
- Exposure Therapy
- Family counselling
- Family systems therapy
- Feminist therapy
- Group counselling
- Humanistic therapy
- Integrative therapy
- Interpersonal psychotherapy
- Life Coaching
- Lifestyle counselling
- Marital counselling
- Marriage and family therapy
- Mental health reactivation
- Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy
- Motivational interviewing
- Multicultural therapy
- Narrative therapy
- Parent-child interaction therapy (PCIT)
- Person-centered therapy
- Play therapy
- Prolonged exposure therapy
- Psychoanalytic therapy
- Psychodynamic therapy
- Psychoeducation
- Psychological testing and evaluation
- Psychological therapy
- Rational emotive behavior therapy
- Relational therapy
- Relationship counselling
- Schema therapy
- Social recovery therapy
- Solution-focused brief therapy
- Strength-based therapy
- Structural family therapy
- Teen mental health
- Trauma informed care
- Trauma-focused cognitive behavior therapy
- Workplace facilitation/mediation
Amenities
- Close to public transit
