Dr. Scarapicchia provides assessment and treatment services to adolescents, adults, and seniors, including psychotherapy, neuropsychological assessments, and psychodiagnostic assessments. As a scientist-practitioner by training, Dr. Scarapicchia relies on evidence-based practices and treatments to meet each client’s individual needs. Whether it be for assessment or treatment, Dr. Scarapicchia works collaboratively with clients to identify their goals and offer recommendations and strategies that are tailored to their personal values, unique history, and life stage. Dr. Scarapicchia’s therapeutic approach is integrative in nature, and combines elements of cognitive-behavioural, interpersonal, schema-focused, and trauma-focused approaches.
Dr. Scarapicchia completed her B.Sc. in Neuroscience from McGill University and went on to complete her M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, with a focus in Neuropsychology, from the University of Victoria.
Dr. Scarapicchia completed her predoctoral residency at The Ottawa Hospital’s General Campus and Rehabilitation Centre, where she worked with populations with a wide range of medical, psychiatric, and neurological presentations. Throughout the years, Dr. Scarapicchia has provided psychological services across a variety of hospital and community-based settings and has experience working with individuals with a variety of presentations, including depression, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, epilepsy, neurodegenerative disorders (e.g., dementia), brain injury (e.g., concussion), trauma-related conditions, intellectual disability, learning disorders, and functional neurological disorders (e.g., non-epileptic seizures). In addition to assessments and therapy, Dr. Scarapicchia also has experience providing evidence-based cognitive rehabilitation services to individuals with difficulties following a brain injury.
As a scientist-practitioner by training, Dr. Scarapicchia has published several articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals in the areas of cognitive neuroscience and brain imaging. She is also a current member of the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) and the American Psychological Association’s Society for Clinical Neuropsychology (SCN), which are associations that promote scientific rigor and clinical best practices in the areas of psychology and neuropsychology.
Areas of specific interest to Dr. Scarapicchia include:
To reach Dr. Scarapicchia directly, please phone 613-230-4709, ext. 191,
at 430 Gilmour St..
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