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Richard Rapoport is a psychotherapist, sex and couple therapist, and an addiction, trauma (PTSD), abuse, palliative care and EMDR counsellor with over twenty-five years of experience in private practice and in the public sector. He has worked at the CLSC in Cote-des-Neiges and has been affiliated with the Psychology Department of the MUHC (McGill University Health Centre) since 1991.
He completed studies in Psychology at McGill University, Graduate studies at Washington University, and Post-Graduate studies (certification) at the Faculty of Medicine at Laval University in Québec City.
He considers the therapeutic environment to be a very important element in the therapeutic process, and his office offers a setting that encourages a sense of safety, security, and comfort. The office and waiting room have been designed to be a peaceful, secluded, and quiet environment and access is provided only to clients by use of a coded entry. A separate door allows clients to leave the office without having to return through the waiting room. The building is located in a very pleasant neighborhood within close reach of a Metro and public transport and parking is easily and readily available.
Richard has developed highly successful couple enhancement groups for the Psychology Department at the Royal Victoria Hospital (MUHC - McGill University Health Centre), conflict resolution, anger management, weight control and smoking cessation programs for the Faculty of Medicine at St. Louis University's Department of Health Promotion, as well as programs for marihuana dependence, sex and Internet addiction, enhancing sexual desire, and "life coaching" (goal-setting and time management, thinking logically and creatively, making well-informed decisions, and boosting problem-solving skills). For over twenty years, Richard had been the Animator and/or Interim Executive Director of the l'Association québecoise d'entraide des anciens combattants de la guerre du Vietnam (Quebec Vietnam Veteran Outreach Centre) and has been a member of and worked with the Canadian Forces.
He has presented a conflict resolution training program to the Riverside School Board, has given performance enhancement training to National Hockey League players and to private organizations, created a highly effective job interview skills and social confidence training programs and has provided psychotherapy services to Veterans Canada, to the Army Drug and Alcohol Prevention and Counselling Program (ADAPCP), and for the Québec government's CSST (for work-related accidents), IVAC (for victims of criminal acts) and SAAQ (for vehicular accidents) programs.
Richard also teaches in Montreal and is an internationally-published author and lecturer. He was "ShrinkRap" for over eleven years on CJAD radio in Montréal and on CFRB in Toronto. Other television, radio and print media activities include CBC Radio One, CTV/CFCF-TV, TVA, Global Television, The Mystery Channel, MenTV, "The Gazette", and The National Film Board of Canada.
He has completed Post-Graduate clinical training in couple and family therapy at The Family Treatment Institute in St. Louis, Missouri, a two-year intensive Clinical Internship in sex and couple therapy with the Psychology Department of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC-Royal Victoria Hospital) and trained with the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard University Department of Psychiatry, and at The Menninger Institute, Topeka, Kansas in the areas of trauma, anxiety and depression.
Richard attends rounds at the Sex and Couple Therapy Service of the Psychology Department of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC-Royal Victoria Hospital) and is a member of the Washington-based Society for Sex Therapy and Research, the EMDR Interest Group of the Psychiatry Department of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC-Royal Victoria Hospital), the Montreal Study Group on Trauma and Dissociation - Department of Psychiatry, St. Mary's Hospital, EMDR Canada (Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), and the Canadian Federation of Clinical Hypnosis.
Each client's situation is seen as unique and deserves to be responded to with respect to the individual characteristics of the situation, and the needs and preferences of the client.
"In a sense, we are the authors of our lives, and we draw up the blueprints for their design. Many of us can begin by recognizing that we do not have to remain passive victims of our circumstances, but instead can consciously become the architects of who we can become.
In many situations, an important objective of therapy is to encourage clients to reflect on life, to recognize their range of alternatives, and to decide among them. Once clients begin the process of recognizing the ways in which they have passively accepted circumstances and surrendered control, they can start the path of consciously shaping their own lives". For additional information:
Therapeutic Orientation, Counselling Services and the Therapeutic Environment,
What Characteristics Make a Therapist - and Therapy - Effective?, The EMDR Technique, Experience/Training,
"The Enhancement of Love": a Valentine's Day interview in The Gazette (Montreal) and the Most Recent Journal Publication (Paris, 2009),
please refer to the "Sitemap" above
Office location: Snowdon/NDG/Cote-des-Neiges/ area
Metro: Snowdon
Bus (stop in front of the office): # 51 or # 166
Insurance coverage/sliding fee scale where applicable
Telephone: (514) 378-1836
Pager/pagette: (514) 230-7292
e-mail address: shrinkrap.r@gmail.com
N.B.: Les services sont disponibles en francais
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