MAGGIE STEIN JAMIESON, MSW, RSW

Maggie holds a Master of Social Work Degree from The University of Toronto and is registered in Ontario. She completed her graduate clinical training at Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health, providing therapeutic services through inpatient, outpatient, and day-school programming. Maggie has also served individuals through community practice, transitional housing and substance use programming. During her master’s degree, Maggie specialized in working with children, adolescents, and their families/care systems. Subsequently, she has gained competencies and extensive experience working with individuals across their lifespans. 

Maggie spent 7+ years providing clinical services at a seminal and established Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) Clinic in Toronto, running group therapy services, individualized therapeutic services, parenting coaching and interventions, and consultation and training.  Maggie has comprehensive and intensive training in the implementation of DBT, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for Children (DBT-C), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for Adolescents (DBT-A), Radically Open Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (RO-DBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Prolonged Exposure (DBT-PE), and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for Eating Disorders (MED-DBT) for both adults and adolescents and families.

In addition to training in DBT modalities, Maggie has intensive training in Emotion-Focused Family Therapy (EFFT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), and Mindfulness-based approaches. 

Maggie specializes in treating eating disorders (and symptoms along the eating disorder spectrum), Borderline Personality Disorder, Mood and Anxiety Disorders, complex trauma, and behavioural difficulties associated with emotion regulation; she has extensive experience serving varying, complex, and co-occurring mental health difficulties. She draws predominantly from the theoretical underpinnings of DBT and EFFT, highlighting the inextricable interaction between the individual and their environment in shaping and influencing mental health outcomes. 

Maggie believes relationality and connectivity with the self and essential others are integral to the therapeutic process. She strongly believes in involving significant others and larger systems when providing therapeutic services, as she is keenly aware that mental health struggles do not exist in a vacuum. 

In her work with clients and systems, Maggie is radically authentic in her approach to clients. She draws from her personal and professional experiences with mental health challenges and difficulty working within larger systems that create barriers to change and healing. She works compassionately and collaboratively with and for her clients. Maggie is warm and firm in her approach to clients and seeks to strike a balance between prompting awareness regarding the problematic realities that accompany mental health struggles AND prompting awareness regarding the courage it takes to change the trajectory of our lives in services of healing. 

Maggie holds practicing from a trauma-informed, strengths-based perspective in high regard. She feels it is paramount to provide neurodiverse and gender-affirming care by placing the client’s unique lived experiences, values, needs, and goals at the forefront of each session.