• Dr. Ken Colosimo, PhD, C. Psych, Clinical Psychologist

    More about Dr. Ken Colosimo

    Dr. Colosimo is a clinical psychologist who provides assessment and treatment services to adults and adolescents. He is a member of the College of Psychologists of Ontario, Ontario Psychological Association, Canadian Psychological Association, and International Society of Schema Therapy. Dr. Colosimo received his undergraduate degree from Brock University and master’s and doctoral degrees from York University. Dr. Colosimo has clinically trained and worked at leading academic hospitals, including the Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, and St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton. He has published peer-reviewed research papers on topics of mindfulness, self-compassion, and therapist presence, and these concepts represent a significant part of his thinking and work as a clinician.

    Dr. Colosimo utilizes an evidence-based and integrative approach to therapy. This means that instead of using a pre-determined and ‘one-size-fits-all’ method, he ensures that the process stays attuned to the client’s particular concerns, needs, and personality style. Dr. Colosimo’s work is heavily influenced by humanistic-existential, cognitive-behavioural, and psychodynamic-attachment theoretical frameworks. Mindfulness and (self)compassion are imbued in his work as well. Dr. Colosimo also has extensive experience conducting psychological assessments of different kinds and in different contexts (e.g., psychoeducational; MVA; WSIB; medical-legal).

    Outside of the office, Dr. Colosimo keeps busy playing basketball, hiking, spending time with family, sitting still in meditation, and trying his hand at woodworking and gardening.

“  …I have found that if I can help bring about a climate marked by genuineness, prizing, and understanding, then exciting things happen. Persons and groups in such a climate move away from rigidity and toward flexibility, away from static living toward process living, away from dependence toward autonomy, away from defensiveness toward self-acceptance, away from being predictable toward an unpredictable creativity.”

— Carl Rogers (excerpt from “A Way of Being”)