Tammy Wells-Petryna, MSW, RSW
Offers
In-person and virtual appointments
- Social Worker
Accepting new patients
Provider information
Description
Tammy Wells-Petryna is a registered social worker with the OCSSWSW who has over 13 years’ experience providing therapeutic services. She holds a Master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Dalhousie and a specialisation in trauma therapy from Wilfrid Laurier University. She has experience working with individuals, including couples and families. Specifically, Tammy has worked with a diversity of clients in numerous areas such as anxiety, abuse, depression, burnout, stress, grief, relationship and family issues, communication, and self-esteem, as well as issues with co-dependency.
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
- Munchausen syndrome by proxy
- 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
- Tourette Syndrome
- Trauma
- Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
- Video Game Addiction
- Weight Loss
- Women's Issues
- Workplace stress
Provider's hours
Sunday
By appointment only
Monday
By appointment only
Tuesday
By appointment only
Wednesday
By appointment only
Thursday
By appointment only
Friday
By appointment only
Saturday
By appointment only
Services
- Acceptance and commitment therapy
- Attachment-based therapy
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Cognitive processing therapy
- Cognitive stimulation therapy
- Compassion-focused therapy
- Culturally sensitive therapy
- Dialectical behavior therapy
- Eclectic therapy
- 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
- Positive psychology
- Prolonged exposure therapy
- Psychodynamic therapy
- Psychological testing and evaluation
- Rational emotive behavior therapy
- Reality therapy
- Relational therapy
- Relationship counselling
- Solution-focused brief therapy
- Somatic therapy
- Strength-based therapy
- Structural family therapy
- Teen mental health
- Therapeutic intervention
- Trauma-focused cognitive behavior therapy
Clientele
- Adults (18+)
- Children (under 12)
- Couples
- Families
- LGBTQ2+
- Pediatrics
- Seniors (65+)
- Teens (13-17)
Languages spoken
- English
- French
Professional designations
- Master of Social Work (MSW)
- Registered Social Worker (RSW)
Education
- RSW; MSW
Professional associations
- OCSWSSW
- OASW
Facility: Better You Counselling Services
Summary
We offer Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Virtual Exposure Therapy, Dialectal Behavioural based approaches, Biofeedback Training, EMDR, Safe Sounds Protocol and other evidence-based approaches to help clients identify how their thoughts, feelings, and behaviours work together and to develop the skills needed to overcome their personal challenges. We believe psychoeducation is an important aspect of treatment. We work with our clients to understand how their mind works to help them better understand how to monitor and control their emotions. You are one step away from your Better You.
Business hours
Sunday
By appointment only
Monday
By appointment only
Tuesday
By appointment only
Wednesday
By appointment only
Thursday
By appointment only
Friday
By appointment only
Saturday
By appointment only
Services & supplies
- Acceptance and commitment therapy
- Attachment-based therapy
- Biofeedback
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Cognitive processing therapy
- Cognitive stimulation therapy
- Compassion-focused therapy
- Culturally sensitive therapy
- Dialectical behavior therapy
- Eclectic therapy
- Emotionally focused therapy
- Existential therapy
- Exposure and response prevention
- Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy
- Family counselling
- Family systems therapy
- Feminist therapy
- Group counselling
- Humanistic therapy
- Hypnotherapy
- Integrative therapy
- Interpersonal psychotherapy
- Marital counselling
- Marriage and family therapy
- Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy
- Motivational interviewing
- Multicultural therapy
- Narrative therapy
- Parent-child interaction therapy (PCIT)
- Person-centered therapy
- Play therapy
- Positive psychology
- Prolonged exposure therapy
- Psychoanalytic therapy
- Psychodynamic therapy
- Psychological testing and evaluation
- Rational emotive behavior therapy
- Reality therapy
- Relational therapy
- Relationship counselling
- Solution-focused brief therapy
- Somatic therapy
- Sports psychology
- Strength-based therapy
- Structural family therapy
- Teen mental health
- Therapeutic intervention
- Trauma-focused cognitive behavior therapy
