About Us
Robin Beardsley, MD, FCFP
Robin Beardsley, MD, FCFP, a Family Physician with over 35 years’ experience of comprehensive family medicine practice and psychotherapy with a focus on care for the caregiver. She is a certified IFS-I Therapist, approved Clinical Consultant, with extensive training in the Satir Model and is a trained teacher of Mindful Self Compassion. She also works with learners, as a faculty member of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Ottawa, and teaches Self Compassion for Health Care Communities. These experiences of working with and healing from empathic distress in medical communities with IFS and Self-Compassion, along with her own journey of being a caregiver, personally and professionally, has given her a greater understanding of the complexity and multiplicity of our systems. She lives in Ottawa, Ontario with her husband and adult children nearby.
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Risa Adams, MD, CCFP
Risa Adams, MD, is a family physician with a focused practice in perinatal mental health and complex PTSD. She is a Certified IFS Therapist, Approved Clinical Consultant and Trainer with the IFS Institute. Through her own travels with mental health she has come to appreciate the complexity of being a human while being a physician, with a special interest in intergenerational trauma. Risa lives in Elora, Ontario, with her partner and two children, and hopes to help bring IFS to doctors, patients and her own communities.
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Elizabeth Parsons, MD, FCFP
Elizabeth Parsons has been a physician for over 25 years, with a focused practice in psychotherapy since 2007. She is Certified in IFS and is an Approved Clinical Consultant with the IFS Institute. She has been interested in physician well being since residency, when she surveyed medical residents on their coping strategies. She has been closely involved with the Medical Psychotherapy Association Canada since 2007, launching a retreat for physicians that has run annually since 2012. She has extensive training in trauma therapy and has been facilitating psychotherapy groups since 2010. She lives in Ottawa, Ontario, with her husband and 3 children.
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