Maddalena “Maddi” Genovese, M.Ed.
Registered Psychologist | Founder and Clinic Director
- EMDR Certified Therapist & EMDR Consultant in Training
- Certified Prolonged Exposure Therapist
- Approved Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD Provider
Hi, I’m Maddi.
Trauma is my specialty.
For approximately 18 years, my clinical work has centred on PTSD, complex and cumulative trauma, occupational trauma, sexual assault and abuse, childhood trauma, medical trauma, serious accidents, and dissociation.
I work extensively with nurses, paramedics, firefighters, veterans and military members, correctional and police officers, and others whose work regularly involves exposure to trauma, crisis, injury, and experiences most people are never expected to witness or manage.
I also have considerable experience helping people recover following workplace violence, critical incidents, psychological injury, harassment, traumatic injury, and other experiences that affect not only mental health, but sleep, relationships, confidence, physical functioning, and the ability to return to work.
I am evidence-based and focused in my work, but connection matters deeply to me. I want therapy to feel collaborative, personal, and real.
What Therapy With Me Is Like
I am warm, direct, active, and genuinely invested in the people I work with.
I am not the kind of psychologist who sits quietly, nods, and leaves you wondering what I am thinking. I ask questions, notice patterns, explain what I see, challenge you when it matters, and work alongside you toward something concrete.
Many of the people I work with are highly capable and responsible people who have become very good at functioning while carrying much more internally than those around them realize.
I pay attention to the beliefs, patterns, protective strategies, and parts of yourself that may have developed for good reasons but are no longer helping you.
Being seen that clearly can feel vulnerable. I approach that with care, respect, and a healthy amount of humour—but I am unlikely to pretend I haven't noticed something important.
You do not need to protect me from your experiences, find the perfect words, or worry that your story is “too much.”
I am comfortable in the difficult places.
How We Will Work Together
I have deliberately trained in several of the best-supported treatments for PTSD so that treatment does not have to rely on a single approach.
I am an EMDR Certified Therapist and EMDR Consultant in Training, Certified Prolonged Exposure Therapist, and approved Cognitive Processing Therapy provider. My additional training includes complex PTSD, dissociation, ego-state work, acute and fragmented trauma presentations, depression, and crisis intervention.
Our first appointment is about understanding what is happening, what you want to change, and what approach is most likely to help.
I will explain what I am recommending, why I am recommending it, what we are trying to change, and how we will know whether treatment is working.
Therapy with me has direction, but it is not rigid. There is room to talk, slow down, laugh, change course, and deal with life as it happens.
Sometimes we need to understand why something keeps happening. Sometimes we need to stop analyzing it and actually do something different.
Usually, we need a bit of both.
I genuinely love being a psychologist because I have seen people recover from things they once believed would define the rest of their lives.
PTSD is treatable. Meaningful recovery is possible.
