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      <image:caption>The name Rome Counselling and Consulting was inspired by a 1953 écrit by the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, entitled in English, “The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis”. However, my clinical practice was also inspired by a more radical intent: to truly elevate the standard of care for people making informed decisions to seek private talk therapy treatment and/or mental health consulting. I am dedicated to building meaningful relationships with clients, to being the very best at my work, and to using my language skills to empower client change, and for these and other reasons I hold myself to very high standards, including i) using my practice as a form of active, integrated theory, ii) ensuring I embrace and do justice to client narratives, iii) having a deep rather than facile understanding of relevant knowledge bases, iv) ensuring I am as affordable and accessible as I can be to my clients, v) ensuring continuous emotional and relational attunement to my clients, and vi) providing personalized care without neglecting the conventions of treatment.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>In my spare time I practice boxing, Krav Maga and Kali de Leon. I am also an intrepid long-distance walker, a runner and a learned mindfulness practitioner. You can check out my personal webpage here (active and prospective clients, however, should be gently informed that it is not clinically advisable to connect with me outside of regular therapy sessions, and that my other pursuits may not be relevant to their needs).</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Paul Betito, MSW RSW I graduated with distinction from Wilfrid Laurier University with a degree in psychology in 2014 and I am a 2018 graduate of the Master of Social Work program at the University of Toronto. I specialize in solution- and emotion-focused therapies, cognitive and cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT), mindfulness-based therapy (MBT), Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis and the therapeutic alliance, which is the working relationship I build with clients. My psychoanalytic specialties, which are traditionally practiced and espoused by physicians, are rather uncommon in social work; however, I am an expert in the subject matter and clients may find this very helpful. I also have expertise in clinical phenomenology, consciousness (including its psychological and philosophical extensions), psychosis and schizoprenia-spectrum disorders, compassionate breathing and body scanning, somatic integration and somatization, conversion and related disorders such as hypochondriacal anxiety. I have written four short books you can check out here.   Email — Twitter — LinkedIn</image:caption>
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