Nicole-Ann Shery, M. Ed., c.o., Psychotherapist (OPQ)
UGME Wellness Consultant
Nicole-Ann has been working as a Wellness Consultant in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at McGill University since 2017. She holds a Master’s degree in Counselling Psychology from the University of Ottawa and is a Psychotherapist with the Order of Psychologists of Quebec (OPQ) and a Counsellor with the Order of Guidance Counsellors of Quebec (OCCOQ). She is also a member of the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA).
Nicole-Ann started her career as a Psychotherapist at McGill University’s Counselling Services, now known as the Student Wellness Hub. She has focused most of her career working with the student population in the university setting which led her to eventually find her niche and build an expertise supporting students in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at McGill for the last 6 years. She has seen first hand the mental and emotional challenges that medical learners face and the challenges that come up from this rigorous training. She feels passionately about supporting medical learners to find strategies to cope, take care of themselves and thrive.
Nicole-Ann approaches therapy from a client-centred perspective and use an integrative psychotherapeutic model. This means that she draws from different therapeutic interventions depending on what the client needs and presents with in session. She uses evidence-based techniques such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapies (CBT) to guide treatment and has focused a lot of her training and treatment approaches around third wave CBTs such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Dialectical and Behavioural Therapy (DBT).
Nicole-Ann has experience supporting medical learners facing a wide-range of challenges and difficulties including burnout, depression, perfectionism, grief, academic difficulties and life transitions. She specialize in the treatment of anxiety, mild to moderate depression, trauma, childhood abuse & relationship difficulties. Nicole-Ann has a lot of training in Crisis Intervention from her work at Suicide Action Montreal (SAM) and is skilled in supporting students in mental and emotional distress. She works in English and French.