
Chris Chmielewski
Registered Social Worker, MA, MSW, RSW
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186 Albert Street, 206, London, ON N6A
Let's Connect (226) 400-1834

My background holds 40yr of extensive practice experience and continued learning. Expertise:all relationship concerns; recovery/healing from emotional hurts, losses, trauma. Such events, if in early years, can instill persistent insecurity, fears, loneliness and grief, causing troubled close relationships and inner-life: Restricting our core resilient nature where we keep strong potentials to be more open, creative, confident, realistic/effective persons. Mainly treat “self-regulation” problems: Social anxiety, shame/guilt, anger, depression; Overdependencies; Intimacy-sexuality, Communication; Identity-Personality issues;Selfcare.
My 'style' is committed engagement: developing a supportive-challenging connection that encourages open exploring; abundant feedback, resources, (humor as helpful). Perspectives applied: our deeper subconscious energies and persuasions; family dynamics ; Neuropsychology; social-cultural-historical factors; philosophy. Orientation: wholeperson wellness; noting your complexity and unique situation, passions and wisdom for discovering new meanings/choices, and voice.
As distress 'lives' in our physical-feeling self, insight can be insufficient. I use activating-experiential means (role play, practice experiment, art ), applying brain research, attachment/developmental psychology, analytic-interpretive processing (psychodynamic); C/DBT; trauma treatment; ‘internal self-state’; play therapy. Please GOOGLE client feedback.
Call or Email Chris Chmielewski now for a free 15 minute consultation - (226) 400-1834
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Finances
Fees
- Individual Sessions $165
- Couple Sessions $180
- Sliding scale: apply if you may be eligible
- Pay by ACH Bank transfer, Cash, Cheque, Wire
Insurance
- Blue Cross
- Canada Life | Great-West Life
- Educational Institution Ins. covers therapy.
- Great-West Life
- Green Shield Canada
- Greenshield
- Guardian
- Humana
- Manulife
- Manulife
- Most Insurers recognize Credentialed MSWs
- Sentara Health Plans
- SunLife
- TELUS Health
Call or Email us for a free 15 minute consultation now - (226) 400-1834

Chris Chmielewski
Registered Social Worker, MA, MSW, RSW
Qualifications
- Verified by Psychology Today Membership with Ontario College of Social Workers & Social Service Workers Chris Chmielewski
- In Practice for 50 Years
- Certificate from Ontario College of Social Workers 322455 / 1988
- Certificate from Family and Children's Services of York: Strategic Family Therapy (MRI) / 1990
- Attended University of Toronto, Graduated 1980
Registered Social Worker: Chris Chmielewski
Specialties and Expertise
Top Specialties
- Relationship Issues
- Self Esteem
- Emotional Disturbance
Expertise
- Addiction
- ADHD
- Alcohol Use
- Anger Management
- Antisocial Personality
- Anxiety
- Behavioural Issues
- Bisexual
- Body Positivity
- Borderline Personality (BPD)
- Cancer
- Child
- Chronic Impulsivity
- Chronic Relapse
- Codependency
- Coping Skills
- Depression
- Dissociative Disorders (DID)
- Divorce
- Domestic Abuse
- Domestic Violence
- Drug Abuse
- Dual Diagnosis
- Eating Disorders
- Family Conflict
- Gambling
- Grief
- Impulse Control Disorders
- Infidelity
- Internet Addiction
- Lesbian
- LGBTQ+
- Life Coaching
- Life Transitions
- Marital and Premarital
- Men's Issues
- Mood Disorders
- Narcissistic Personality (NPD)
- Open Relationships Non-Monogamy
- Oppositional Defiance (ODD)
- Parenting
- Peer Relationships
- Personality Disorders
- Racial Identity
- School Issues
- Self-Harming
- Sex Therapy
- Sex-Positive, Kink Allied
- Sexual Abuse
- Sexual Addiction
- Spirituality
- Stress
- Student/Youth:family/social-peer/performanc issues
- Substance Use
- Suicidal Ideation
- Teen Violence
- Thinking Disorders
- Transgender
- Trauma and PTSD
- Veterans
- Video Game Addiction
- Women's Issues
Client Focus
Age
Children (6 to 10) ,
Preteen ,
Teen ,
Adults ,
Elders (65+)
Participants
Individuals ,
Couples ,
Family
Communities
Bisexual Allied ,
Deaf Allied ,
Gay Allied ,
HIV / AIDS Allied ,
Immuno-disorders ,
Intersex Allied ,
Lesbian Allied ,
Little Person Allied ,
Non-Binary Allied ,
Queer Allied ,
Racial Justice Allied ,
Sex Worker Allied ,
Single Mother ,
Transgender Allied
Ethnicity
Indigenous Peoples ,
Other Racial or Ethnic Background
I also speak
Note: "allied" here means: without judgement.
Age
Children (6 to 10) ,
Preteen ,
Teen ,
Adults ,
Elders (65+)
Participants
Individuals ,
Couples ,
Family
Communities
Bisexual Allied ,
Deaf Allied ,
Gay Allied ,
HIV / AIDS Allied ,
Immuno-disorders ,
Intersex Allied ,
Lesbian Allied ,
Little Person Allied ,
Non-Binary Allied ,
Queer Allied ,
Racial Justice Allied ,
Sex Worker Allied ,
Single Mother ,
Transgender Allied
Ethnicity
Indigenous Peoples ,
Other Racial or Ethnic Background
I also speak
Note: "allied" here means: without judgement.
Treatment Approach
Types of Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment (ACT)
- Art Therapy
- Attachment-based
- Clinical Supervision and Qualified Supervisors
- Coaching
- Cognitive Behavioural (CBT)
- Compassion Focused
- Culturally Sensitive
- Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
- Eclectic
- EMDR
- Emotionally Focused
- Existential
- Experiential Therapy
- Family / Marital
- Family Systems
- Feminist
- Gestalt
- Gottman Method
- Humanistic
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago
- Integrative
- Internal Family Systems (IFS)
- Interpersonal
- Intervention
- Jungian
- Mindfulness-Based (MBCT)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative
- Neuroscience/brain research informed practice.
- Parent-Child Interaction (PCIT)
- Person-Centered
- Play Therapy
- Positive Psychology
- Psychoanalytic
- Psychobiological Approach Couple Therapy
- Psychodynamic
- Rational Emotive Behaviour (REBT)
- Reality Therapy
- Relational
- Self/Ego-State psychology;"Inner child"
- Solution Focused Brief (SFBT)
- Strength-Based
- Structural Family Therapy
- Transpersonal
- Trauma Focused
Location
Call for a free consultation now - (226) 400-1834

Chris Chmielewski
Registered Social Worker, MA, MSW, RSW