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Understanding Mental Health Professionals in Ontario

  There are diverse mental health professionals in Ontario, offering different approaches and performing multiple activities. Navigating this field, understanding what each professional can do, and when to look for them can be quite challenging. To better understand that, it is important to recognise that the Regulated Health Professions Act (1991) set out 14 controlled acts that are inherently risky and should only be performed by a properly qualified professional to ensure client safety. The controlled act of psychotherapy is one of these legally restricted acts. More information: Regulated Health Professions The Controlled Act of Psychotherapy is defined as “treating, by means of psychotherapy technique, delivered through a therapeutic relationship, an individual's serious disorder of thought, cognition, mood, emotional regulation, perception or memory that may seriously impair the individual's judgement, insight, behaviour, communication or social functioning". Mor