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Vanessa Tombolini, M.A.

PsyD Candidate

I work and live on the unceded, ancestral, and occupied traditional lands of theᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᐗᑭ  (Anishinabewaki),  Ho-de-no-sau-nee-ga (Haudenosaunee), Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, and Attiwonderonk (Neutral) peoples. 

Vanessa (she/her/hers) graduated from Yorkville University in May 2019 with her Masters of Counselling Psychology and is currently completing her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Adler University (Vancouver Campus). She is a Psychology Team Member with Dalton Associates and Launch Behavioural Health. Under the supervision of a Registered Psychologist, Vanessa is providing psychotherapy services and completing psychological assessments.

Throughout her clinical training, she has gained experience completing psychodiagnostic and psychoeducational assessments for children, youth, young adults, and adults for neurodevelopmental disorders (e.g., ASD, ADHD, learning disorders) and mental health conditions, (e.g.,  anxiety, depression, OCD).

Vanessa maintains a non-judgmental, empathetic, and warm approach to psychotherapy. She provides a client-centered and integrated approach, meaning she works collaboratively with clients to address any challenges or concerns they are facing, and can help her clients identify and utilize their strengths, address their goals, and improve their lives, while using emotion-focused, psychodynamic, trauma-informed and cognitive behavioural techniques. She facilitates a welcoming space to explore her clients’ concerns, including those related to anxiety, communication, depression, emotion regulation, and trauma.


Dalton Associates (DA) and Launch Behavioural Health acknowledge that we are situated on Turtle Island, that has been inhabited by Indigenous Peoples from the beginning. As a settler-owned organization, we are always working on de-colonizing our practices and offering mental health services that reflect a wholistic approach to health and wellness. Our clients come from a variety of backgrounds, and include First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples. We want to do more than make a difference at an individual level: we aspire to support a societal shift in the way that mental health is addressed and cared for, and we believe that a cross-cultural approach, bringing Indigenous worldviews to the forefront, is necessary to help break the system and rebuild it in a way that promotes healthy wellbeing for future generations. We are actively engaged in changing the landscape of mental health care in Ontario, by augmenting (and compensating) the voices and experiences of Indigenous knowledge keepers, and by incorporating Indigenous values and teachings in our program models.