The Willow Centre is proud to announce the introduction of our new services: Creative Arts Therapy Groups. A creative and supportive space to explore emotions, build resilience, and reconnect-through art, movement, and storytelling. See our Facebook announcement.
Dr. Garri Hovhannisyan honored with 2025 Sigmund Koch Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology
The Willow Centre is thrilled to announce that Dr. Garri Hovhannisyan has been honored with the 2025 Sigmund Kock Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology from the American Psychological Association (APA). This prestigious award recognizes outstanding scientific contributions in
Dr. Holloway’s article on digital media and child/adolescent therapy sessions published in Psychoanalytic Study of the Child journal.
Dr. Robin Holloway has recently had an article on the pros and cons of working with children and adolescents virtually, published in the prestigious Psychoanalytic Study of the Child. Congratulations, Robin!
20 Years of the Willow Centre
On October 15th, 2019, The Willow Centre celebrated its 20th Anniversary. Below are some remarks presented by Dr Rex Collins. Welcome. 20 years of The Willow Centre. Wow! I think it was also around twenty years ago that I attended
How Anxiety Leads to Disruptive Behavior
Caroline Miller from the Child Mind Institute has written a good article for parents and teachers about how Anxiety Leads to Behaviours. An excerpt: Anxiety manifests in a surprising variety of ways in part because it is based on a
Lonely, Isolated, and Misunderstood’: Some comments on Asperger’s disorder, by Dr. Holloway
Some of Doctor Holloway‘s comments on Asperger’s disorder were published in the June 2017 edition of the journal of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy – Children and Young People. Lonely, isolated, unwanted, mocked, shunned, rejected, denigrated, despised, ostracized,
Spring Updates
We’ve updated or Assessments Section. The updates include the addition of ADHD, Gifted, and Developmental Assessments, the inclusion of price ranges, and a few other changes.
Asperger’s Children: Psychodynamics, Aetiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment by Robin Holloway
Congratulations Robin! Although we don’t know how he found the time to do it, given his busy practice, Dr. Robin Holloway has recently published an important book on the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of children with Asperger’s, a book which has grown out of his extensive experience with these children. As his colleagues at the Willow Centre, we have always been impressed by his dedication to these troubled, often painfully unhappy, youngsters and are delighted that he has distilled his clinical wisdom in this book. The book is entitled Asperger’s Children: Psychodynamics, Aetiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment
Once again, congratulations Robin, from your colleagues at The Willow Centre!
This book is now available:
Congratulations Dr Cotler!
The Willow Centre team is delighted by the news that our colleague, Dr. Tanya Cotler, gave birth on November 22nd to an adorable baby girl, Arya Eden. Congratulations to Tanya on this special addition to her family and we look
Welcome Back Tamara
Six years ago, Tamara Libfeld helped out as a volunteer at our centre and seems to have caught the psychology bug. Now, after completing a Psy.D. at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology and a year of post-doctoral training at