Dr. Jesse Wilde

It is our earliest relationships with others that help to lay the groundwork for how we experience ourselves and the world around us as we navigate life. Often, the messages we receive early on stay with us and continue to direct our ongoing thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. Gaining insight into these processes, and learning to change them if they are no longer adaptive to us, is an important part of therapy. I take an integrative approach to therapy, drawing largely on the therapeutic relationship as a major source of meaningful change, but also incorporating the use of more tangible coping skills and strategies when needed. First and foremost, I believe that a therapeutic relationship characterized by mutual respect, trust, and genuine positive regard represents an essential foundation for effective psychotherapy, and is necessary for deeper, lasting change to take place.

I completed my doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Western University. Over the years my research has focused on understanding how the way we think about ourselves and close others influences our mental health and relationship well-being.