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Meet Our Founder
Dr. Jaclyn Nofech-Mozes (she/her) is a Clinical Psychologist licensed to practice in Ontario, Canada with children, adolescents, adults, and families. Dr. Nofech-Mozes works with individuals with anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, infertility, pre and post partum issues, disruptive behaviour, developmental trauma, parenting challenges, emotion regulation difficulties, and coping with life transitions or stressors. She has extensive experience assessing and treating difficulties with parent-child attachment from infancy to adolescence. Dr. Nofech-Mozes takes a trauma-informed, strength-based, and client-centered approach. She has a genuine interest for her clients’ experiences and it would be her privilege to work with you on your journey.
Dr. Nofech-Mozes completed her M.A. and PhD in Clinical Psychology at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU, formerly Ryerson University). Dr. Nofech-Mozes has trained at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), St. Michael’s Hospital, Integra, and the Child and Parent Resource Institute (CPRI), and completed her doctoral residency at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada.
Our Services
Dr. Nofech-Mozes provides individual therapy to children, adolescents, and adults with a wide range of mental health conditions, including obsessive compulsive disorder, anxiety, depression, infertility, pre and post partum issues, disruptive behaviour, trauma, emotion dysregulation, attachment challenges, and difficulty coping with life transitions or stressors. Her treatment approach integrates components from evidence-based therapies including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) within an attachment and family-based model.
Individual Therapy
It can be challenging to know how to effectively support your child, adolescent, or young adult to manage their mental health symptoms. You may also need some support yourself. Dr. Nofech-Mozes provides parent coaching services to build upon your parenting strengths and help you develop skills to support your child, improve your parenting confidence, and foster a secure attachment.
Parent Coaching
OrKid Psychology Clinic offers family therapy to help family members better understand and support each other, and address attachment-based interaction patterns. Dr. Nofech-Mozes’ approach to family therapy integrates attachment and emotion-focused techniques within the evidence-based McMaster Model of Family Functioning.
Family Therapy
Dr. Nofech-Mozes conducts psychological assessments for the purposes of diagnostic clarification and treatment planning. Assessments typically involve a combination of a clinical interview and self-report measures.
Psychodiagnostic
Assessment
*This service is coming soon!
A psychoeducational assessment involves examining an individual’s strengths and weaknesses across a variety of areas, including cognitive ability, academic achievement, processing variables, attention, and language. The assessment includes standardized testing, interviews, observations, review of previous reports and educational documents, and questionnaires. The assessment can be used to investigate possible learning or intellectual disabilities, or ADHD
Psychoeducational
Assessment
The Attachment Intervention Service at OrKid Psychology Clinic helps parents improve the security of their attachment relationship with their child. This is accomplished using the Emotional Availability (EA) System and video feedback. This service uses a strengths-based approach where both positive components and areas for growth and change are highlighted in your video to improve your attachment security with your child.
Attachment
Intervention Service
As a psychologist, people often ask me “why is this impacting me so much?” or “why am I overthinking this?”. Parents often ask me “why is my child so caught up in this?” or “why can’t my child just get over it like his peers did”? It might be because they are “orchids”. Orchids struggle more than the average person when life gets tough. “Dandelions”, on the other hand, are “resilient” people who do well regardless of what happens around them. Research used to stop there. Studies said, “hey, we know that orchids struggle the most after a setback. They are the most at-risk. It's better to be a dandelion”. It was all too easy to lose sight of the upside – the orchids’ strengths!
Fortunately, recent research has shown time and time again that the same orchids who are “at-risk” when life gets tough actually benefit more than dandelions when provided with the right supports. In other words, orchids are often underestimated and labelled as “too sensitive”, when, in reality, they develop beautifully and thrive within the right environment. Orchids are extra sensitive to all experiences, both positive and negative. Orchids might do the “worst” when life gets tough, but they also do the “best” under ideal conditions!
There is so much blame put on orchids, or on their parents, when they struggle. But knowing that orchids are just going to react more strongly to all situations shows us that a) it’s not our fault, and b) there is also good news – we have control over many aspects of our environment, and we can use this to help ourselves and our children thrive! At OrKid Psychology Clinic, it would be an honour to help you on your journey to thriving!
Whether you are a child, adolescent, or adult, and whether you are an “orchid” or a “dandelion”, we all share the same basic human need for connection. Beginning in infancy, we need a primary caregiver to function as our secure base (someone from whom we can confidently go out and explore our world), and as our safe haven (someone to whom we can confidently go to when we need support). A secure attachment relationship means that someone can consistently rely on their caregiver to be both a secure base and a safe haven.
Our experiences within our first attachment relationships shape our physiological stress system, as well as the lens through which we view future relationships (what we expect from others and how we perceive ourselves within relationships). As we grow older, this lens shapes our interactions within relationships with peers, teachers, romantic partners, and our own children. Our attachment lens, or “style”, can make relationships difficult when it is not secure. The good news is that attachment styles can change to become more secure. And when this happens, individuals not only experience more positive relationships with close others, but their physiological stress systems shift and protect them from adverse mental health symptoms.
Orchids show the best outcomes (compared to dandelions) and are the most protected against psychological disorders when their attachment relationships improve. At OrKid Psychology Clinic, we will consider your attachment history when creating a formulation and treatment plan to address your goals. We also offer the Attachment Intervention Service, which directly targets the parent-child attachment relationship, in order to improve attachment security and protect against psychological disorders.
What is "Attachment"?
Why OrKid Psychology?
Currently accepting new clients for virtual assessment and therapy sessions.
Please reach out to schedule a free 10-minute consultation call to learn more about our services. You do not require a referral in order to make an appointment.
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