Graham Berlin is a PhD Candidate in Clinical Psychology completing his degree at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson). Graham recently completed his pre-doctoral residency at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) with rotations at the Gender Identity Clinic and the University of Toronto’s Student Counselling Centre. He has also completed clinical placements at St. Michael’s Hospital’s Academic Family Health Team, Sunnybrook’s Intensive OCD Treatment Program, and St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton’s Youth Wellness Centre. Graham has presented to healthcare professionals on gender affirming care practices, contributed to the development of accredited programs to support gender affirming care in healthcare institutions, and has been involved in various research projects and presentations focused on the mental health and wellbeing of sexual and gender minorities. In addition to his work at Step Stone Psychology, Graham works at the Youth Wellness Centre at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton.

In his clinical practice, Graham takes a person-centered and integrative approach. This means that, though his training is grounded in cognitive behavioural therapy, he flexibly incorporates emotion-focused, acceptance, and dialectical behaviour therapy approaches into his work to meet individuals’ unique needs. As a part of being client-centered, Graham seeks to understand the various identities each individual holds, and the strengths and challenges of these intersecting identities. Graham’s approach is evidence- and trauma-informed, culturally responsive, affirming, and collaborative. Though he works with a variety of concerns, challenges, and populations (trauma, depression, life transitions, emotion regulation issues, and school and work stress), he has specialized training in gender affirming care and assessments, working with older adolescents and emerging adults, and the treatment of obsessive-compulsive and related disorders and social anxiety disorder. In addition to therapy, he also completes comprehensive psychological assessments for clients looking for diagnostic clarity across areas of learning, attention, and mental health