Dr. Carmen Lalonde (She/Her)
Therapist
Licensed in NY, Ontario and Toronto (Canada) .
Dr. Carmen Lalonde holds a doctorate in psychology and two master's degrees, one in clinical psychology and one in school psychology. She is the Founder and clinic owner of Lalonde Psychology, based in Toronto, ON, and works as a senior staff psychologist at Behavioral Psych Studio. Dr. Lalonde is board-certified through the DBT-Linehan Board of Certification and provides comprehensive DBT for children, adolescents, adults, couples, parents and families in Ontario and NY
She completed her pre-doctoral internship at Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Hospital in New York, where she received extensive training in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, co-occurring substance use and psychiatric disorders, and complex trauma, treating clients across the lifespan. Carmen is not only a clinician but also a trainer of clinicians and a supervisor. Carmen's clinical experience spans direct therapy in both outpatient and inpatient settings, community clinics, schools, foster care agencies, consultation and supervision of clinicians, research clinics, and teaching clinical psychology students at the graduate level.
Carmen is a proponent of third-wave therapies and primarily works within a DBT framework. She strongly believes in using a relational and behavioral approach to deliver evidence-based interventions that are client-focused and embedded in culturally affirming care. She is intensively trained in providing DBT-C, DBT-A, Standard DBT for Adults, DBT for couples and families, DBT-PE for trauma and DBT-SUD for substance use disorders. In addition to her extensive training in DBT, Carmen also specializes in Emotion Focused Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, ACT, Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness-based approaches, Trauma-informed approaches, relational therapy, attachment-focused interventions, parenting therapy, and mentalization-based interventions.
Carmen is compassionate and warm and believes strongly in working collaboratively with her clients to increase their resilience and skills to build lives that align and honor her clients' lived experiences and goals. She is also deeply committed to self-growth, reflection, and learning to be an effective advocate and provide affirming care to the 2SLGBTQIA+ community.
In her free time, Carmen enjoys spending time with her partner and their cat Peppa (she is an animal lover), composing music, working out, walking and drinking delicious coffee.
