Peter Sammet

Peter offers Counselling/Psychotherapy services, as well as Supervised Psychological Counselling under the supervision of a Registered Psychologist or Psychological Associate.

Areas of Practice:
Over the 40 years of my career as a therapist, I have worked in a variety of counselling environments, dealing with different populations of people and client issues such as skill acquisition, problem solving, parenting, marriage and couple conflicts, grief, addictions, anger management, infidelity, communications, domestic violence and sexual abuse. The key element of my practice is my ability to build therapeutic relationships with my clients in order to promote healing, learning and change that supports their goals and encourages increased wellness in their lives.

Population Served:
It has been my privilege to work with a wide spectrum of client populations, cultures, age groups and their presenting concerns. I have provided direct service to children and adolescents, families, couples and individual adults dealing with the challenges of maintaining healthy and meaningful relationships and lives. My career has also included work with special populations such as men, women and children dealing with aggression in primary relationships, individuals and their support networks managing the impact of conditions such depression, problematic anxiety, and schizophrenia or supporting and treating victims and perpetrators of sexual inappropriate behaviour.

My experience with clients has taught me to honour and respect the particular experience and resources of each individual as they confront issues in the unique context of their lives.

Services Offered:
I have training in a number of counselling methods; cognitive behavioural therapy, emotionally focused therapy, suicide prevention, family therapy, marital and couple therapy, client focused therapy, anger management, mood management, relaxation and mindfulness therapy, behaviour therapy, psycho-synthesis and Adlerian theory.

Biography:
I am the 65 year old son of immigrants, born in Calgary, Alberta but I have lived most of my life in the Toronto area. I have two daughters from two marriages. I am presently in my second marriage of 15 years.

I have been providing counselling in Halton / Peel for 20 years both in supervised practice, as a private practitioner, corporate consultant and as a member of a team in a community agency. As an associate in Dr Dalton’s practice I am supervised by a Registered Psychologist or Psychological Associate who are members of the College of Psychologists in Ontario. Working under supervision allows clients to gain the added clinical benefit of a treatment team working to meet their needs.