STEPHANIE O'COIN

• Advocate on behalf of clients: The Case Manager maintains clear channels of communication with the client and their family, supporters and treatment team.
• Guide clients and their families throughout the treatment process: The Case Manager walks the client and their family through each step of the recovery plan, recapping weekly treatment meetings, offering context for clinical decisions, and ensuring clients feel comfortable and confident about the care they’re receiving.
• Coordinate clinical appointments: The Case Manager assists the client in scheduling internal appointments with their various clinical providers.
• Provide referrals: The Case Manager may help connect the client with other kinds of care to complement their treatment.

• Provide Individual & Family therapy to adolescents and adults effected by eating disorders, body image and self esteem distortions, as well as anxiety, depression, trauma, substance use disorders & personality disorders
• Collaborate with clients to identify their goals for recovery & develop strategies for achieving meaningful change
• Work with medical and support teams to assess and monitor for emerging or existing eating disorder complications

• The Eating Disorders team provides treatment for those people whose eating disorder is severe enough that it cannot be managed on an outpatient basis, but not so severe that the patient requires medical management in a general hospital setting
• The team focuses on symptom interruption, normalization of eating and skills acquisition prior to transitioning into more independent levels of care
• Supporting clients in understanding, accepting and challenging their eating disorders is a prime focus of therapy while monitoring the medical complications associated with these disorders
• Clients present to this team with anorexia nervousa, binge purge sub types, bulimia and ARFID
• We primarily use DBT and CBT to challenge ED behaviours and beliefs
• Coaching, motivational interviewing and behavioural activation were the primary treatment models

I worked with an exceptional multidisciplinary team and benefited greatly in my learning of how to make use of DBT and CBT skills while supporting clients as individuals rather than patients.

• Comprehensive Psychiatric Care is a DBT directed program geared toward clients experiencing challenges related primarily to personality disorders
• Supporting patients in adapting the core values of DBT by demonstrating skills and providing opportunity to process experiences was the main focus of this program