Person-centred and experience-based
Placing the person at the heart of the work, recognizing their lived experience, their strengths, their needs and their capacity to grow.
Understand, get through, move forward
Choosing who to talk to about what you are living is not a small thing. Here is who we are.
Why Clinique Paradoxe
We founded Clinique Paradoxe because we believed psychosocial support could be both rigorous and deeply human — and available without waiting months.
The name comes from something we see every day: people rarely live one thing at a time. You can love your work and be worn out by it. Want to leave and be afraid to leave. Be doing fine, and not be doing fine. These contradictions are not mistakes to be corrected. They are often the heart of the matter, and that is where the work happens.
Our approaches
Four ways of reading a situation, combined according to what you are living.
Systemic and relational
Understanding difficulties by taking into account relationships, family dynamics and the interactions between a person and their environment.
Cognitive, behavioural and change-oriented
Supporting the person in understanding their difficulties and putting concrete strategies in place to bring about change.
Social, contextual and critical
Understanding individual difficulties in light of social, cultural and economic realities, and of the power relations that shape people's lives.
Our social workers
Two founders, members of the Ordre des travailleurs sociaux et des thérapeutes conjugaux et familiaux du Québec.
Justine Clermont
Founder and social worker · Member of the OTSTCFQ, licence CLEJ2403280TS
Maria Ursu
Founder and social worker · Member of the OTSTCFQ, licence URSM2411230TS
Both of our social workers are listed on the roll of the Ordre des travailleurs sociaux et des thérapeutes conjugaux et familiaux du Québec. You can check this yourself with the Order.
What the title of social worker means
In Quebec it is a reserved title, governed by a professional order. It guarantees a university degree in social work, registration on the Order's roll, mandatory professional liability insurance, a code of ethics, and a complaints process open to the public.
We offer our services in English and in French, by video, anywhere in Quebec.
First contact
Write us a few lines. We answer within two business days, with no pressure and no commitment.
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