Dr. Elizabeth Stevens

Dr. Stevens is a psychologist at the Waterloo Region District School Board.  She completed an undergraduate degree in psychology at Queen’s University, a MA at York University, and a PhD at the University of New Brunswick.  She completed her pre-doctoral internship at Alberta Children’s Hospital in the Mental Health, Perinatal, Child Abuse and Neurology Clinics.  Throughout her career she has worked in various settings including children’s hospitals, daycares, children’s community mental health, youth justice, and victim services.  She has been involved with clinical supervision throughout her career, including at the CMHRT.  Her current role involves provided assessment, consultation, and intervention for children and adolescents at the school board.  She has also had involvement with research and program evaluation at the board, including developing a social risk model to inform special education resource allocation, developing a self-regulation assessment tool for Kindergarten and evaluating anxiety treatment groups.    She has been facilitating CBT treatment groups for secondary school students with anxiety for a number of years.  More recently, she was trained as a Friends for Life facilitator and began offering this program in elementary schools and supervising the Friends for Life group at the CMHRT in 2016.