Marissa Paquin
Marissa Paquin, MA, LMHC, is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who has worked in mental healthcare since 2006. She has experience working with adults, adolescents, and notably First Responders experiencing mental health concerns including but not limited to trauma, anxiety, depression, substance use, and grief.
Marissa graduated with a Masterās degree in Co-occurring Counseling. Her undergraduate degrees are in Psychology and Criminal Justice. She is also a Certified Clinical Mental Health Counselor, National Certified Counselor and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional. Marissa is a certified EMDR therapist through EMDRIA and has completed advanced training in recent traumatic events and group traumatic events protocol, as well as Ego State interventions. Marissa is also a Certified Perinatal Mental Health Therapist through PSI. In addition, she has completed advanced training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) and Motivational Interviewing (MI).
Marissa believes that healing is a collaborative endeavor that requires genuine caring without judgment, and she cooperatively assists her clients in clarifying their goals for treatment. She provides a compassionate atmosphere to safely explore and work through feelings, thoughts, and beliefs. Rather than adopting one methodology for all individuals and issues, she draws from a variety of methods to create a tailored approach for each individual and situation. Her integrative style of client-centered therapy includes a strength-based approach incorporating cognitive behavioral therapy and other evidence-based treatment. As a therapist, she is warm, open, encouraging, and direct. Marissa considers herself an active therapist, combining experience, education, creativity, and sense of humor with a down-to-earth, realistic approach to counseling.
Marissa has a particular passion and expertise working with adolescents as they struggle to define their identities, cope with the rapid physical, emotional and psychological changes that take place within them and adjust to the demands of peers, school, families, and society. When seeing teenagers, she works collaboratively with the family, schools, and others to provide optimum level of care.
Marissa is passionate about learning and constantly bringing new tools and techniques to her practice and those with whom she works. Marissa believes in empowering others and when equipped with the proper tools everyone can become happy, healthy individuals and achieve their personal goals.
Testimonials
Neurofeedback is one of the most effective treatments I’ve ever come across to help address trauma, anxiety and depression. My sessions have me regain clarity, connectedness of mind and body as well as finding healthy mind and body balance. Highly recommend!!!
We brought our 11-year old son to see Sutton when he was having difficulty with his emotions and his behaviour while transitioning to a high school environment. Our experience was very positive. Sutton’s approach was evidence-informed, pragmatic and empathetic. She provided my son with practical tools to help him identify and manage his emotions and control his behaviour. Sutton also provided my husband and I with invaluable parenting advice to support our son. We are all so grateful for her help and saw remarkable improvements that have been sustained over time. We can recommend Sutton’s services without hesitation. Our son
“Marissa at Infinite Mindcare has been instrumental in helping me heal from some very tough experiences in my life. She is a great counselor and helps me feel heard and understood every time I open up to her with my feelings and problems. She is even available by phone for the times I didnāt feel well enough to leave my home. She took my healing to another level with the EMDR techniques that she is highly experienced in using. Not only did these techniques help me with current life issues, but the progress Iāve made with processing past traumas has
“I attended regular sessions with Sutton over a six-month period. I found Sutton insightful and very helpful on a practical level. Certainly, I feel much more self-aware as a result of these sessions, better able to deal with practical issues and able to live more in the moment. In summary, for me the experience has been truly enriching.”
The quality of care and depth of experience of the Infinite MindCare team is exceptional. They have provided multi disciplinary care to our family to support a serious mental health crisis. It makes all the difference having access to this level of care on island.
Dr Eleanor has been instrumental in helping me process some past trauma and providing me with tools to help me help myself, and also in giving me perspective on my life and how to handle ongoing challenges. She is very empathetic, and she challenges my “stuck” beliefs with care and offers practical alternatives.
There are times in your life when you fall and skin your knee! There are times in when you fall flat on your face! There are times when you fall so hard you donāt want to get back up. That was where I was when I walked into Suttonās office. I had reached my bottom! In fact I think I had dug a hole about three feet below that. The shovel I used to dig that hole was then covering me with dirt all on its own. I was riddled with shame, guilt and had lost all sense of self
Greg is a excellent therapist, easy to talk too, knowledgeable of various techniques and has helped me massively with reducing the severity of my panic attacks.
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