Your Therapist: A Registered Social Worker on the ADHD Care Team
Therapy at Finding Focus is provided by a Registered Social Worker who works with adults with ADHD and alongside the clinicians who assess and prescribe. This page explains what that designation means in Ontario, what your therapist does, and what they leave to others.
Your therapist's profile, credentials and registration number are shown in the portal when you book. If you need help now, call or text 9-8-8, or call 911.
A Registered Social Worker in Ontario is registered with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers, holds a social work degree, and practises under the College's Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice. Psychotherapy is a controlled act under Ontario's Regulated Health Professions Act, and social workers are among the professions authorized to perform it. The College's own guidance is clear that performing psychotherapy requires competence beyond the degree: specific education, supervision and experience. That is the standard your therapist works to.
Each therapist working with Finding Focus is an independent professional who carries on their own practice; Finding Focus provides the booking, payment, receipts, records and video systems through which sessions happen, and does not direct a therapist's professional judgment. Your therapist alone is responsible for the assessment and treatment decisions made in a session. What is different from booking a therapist elsewhere is access: your therapist can read your Finding Focus chart, including your assessment report and medication information, before you meet.
The boundaries are just as important as the skills. Your therapist does not diagnose ADHD or any other condition, does not prescribe or adjust medication, does not carry out psychological or neuropsychological testing, and does not prepare reports for legal, insurance, disability, custody, workplace or other third-party purposes. Diagnosis and letters come from your assessing clinician; medication stays with your prescribing clinician. If you need a report, the $49 diagnosis letter and $99 healthcare-provider report come from the clinical side of your care, not from therapy.
Registered and accountable
Registered with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers, practising under its Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice, with a registration number you can verify on the College's public register.
Two tracks, one practitioner
Your therapist delivers both cognitive behavioural therapy and ADHD coaching, so you can move between the mood work and the routine work without changing people or repeating your history.
Clear about what stays with your clinicians
No diagnosis, no prescribing, no testing, no third-party reports. When a session touches medication, your therapist will point you back to your prescribing clinician rather than guess.
How it works
Read your chart
Before the first session your therapist reviews what exists on your Finding Focus record: the assessment, screening measures, and medication information.
Agree the targets
The first session sets two or three specific targets for the track you chose, and confirms what is out of scope.
Work the sessions
Skills, practice and review, with notes kept in the therapy record or on your general chart, as you chose at intake.
Hand back when needed
If something in therapy needs a clinical decision, such as a medication concern or a new diagnosis question, your therapist tells you who to take it to and, with your consent, can flag it on your chart.
Session fees
Sessions from $149
Paid per session, in advance, with no membership. Receipts carry the Registered Social Worker designation and College registration number for extended health claims.
Fees, receipts and insuranceRelated therapy pages
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Psychotherapy is a controlled act under the Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991, and members of the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers are authorized to perform it when they are competent to do so. The College publishes practice guidelines for performing the controlled act, which set out the education, supervision and experience it expects.
No. A psychiatrist is a physician who can diagnose and prescribe. A psychologist can diagnose and carry out psychological testing but does not prescribe. A Registered Social Worker provides psychotherapy and counselling and does not diagnose, test or prescribe. At Finding Focus, diagnosis and prescribing stay with the licensed nurse practitioners and clinicians working with the clinic, and therapy is provided by the social worker.
The Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers keeps a public online register. Search it with the name or registration number shown in your portal booking and on your receipts.
No. Therapists do not prepare reports for legal, insurance, disability, custody, workplace or other third-party purposes. Documentation about your diagnosis comes from the clinical side of your care: a standard diagnosis letter is $49 and a healthcare-provider report is $99, as shown on the pricing page.
Finding Focus will notify you and offer an alternative therapist. You are never obliged to accept, and you can request a copy of your therapy record or see a provider outside Finding Focus at any time.
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