Dr. Amanda Cox
Psychologist (Supervised Practice)
Locations:
< Cambridge >
< Milton >
< Virtual >
Dr. Amanda Cox provides therapy for children, adolescents, and parents. She adopts an integrative therapeutic approach to best meet the unique developmental needs of her clients. Regardless of which evidence-based intervention is used, Dr. Cox grounds her work in a person-centered framework, prioritizing the connection and relationship with her clients. She believes that providing a non-judgemental space that fosters acceptance and trust is a steppingstone for positive growth and healing.
Dr. Cox can support children, adolescents, and parents with a range of difficulties, including anxiety and mood challenges, behavioral issues, emotion dysregulation, relational challenges, self-esteem, school difficulties and life transitions. Dr. Cox has a special interest in supporting youth and families who have experienced grief and loss.
Dr. Cox has experience with Play Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT), and compassion, mindfulness and acceptance-based approaches to care. She provides parent coaching using an Emotion Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) perspective, and when relevant, incorporates Executive Functioning Skills Coaching strategies into her work.
Dr. Cox also provides psychoeducational and giftedness assessments. Her approach to psychological assessment emphasizes collaboration among families, schools and community supports, in order to ensure the results and recommendations help children and adolescents to reach their full potential.
Dr. Cox completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology at the University of Guelph, where she also completed her Master’s and Undergraduate degrees. Her research involvement focuses primarily on parent and child relationships, pediatric health, grief and loss, as well as adolescent mental health and well-being. Dr. Cox’s previous clinical experience includes a variety of school, rehabilitation, hospital, community mental health and private practice settings.