About Carole-Anne

Carole-Anne Vatcher has been a practicing clinician for over 25 years.

She earned her Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree from the University of Toronto in 1992.  In 1996 Carole-Anne returned to the University of Toronto to complete a Master’s degree in clinical Social Work.  During her degree Carole-Anne completed professional training in evidence-based therapeutic approaches, as well as practicum placements providing therapy and counselling services to individuals, couples, families and groups.

Carole-Anne has practiced in a wide range of settings in Toronto, Napanee, Belleville, and Kingston.  After graduating with her MSW, Carole-Anne was the clinical Social Worker for the spinal cord unit at the Toronto Western Hospital, providing support to spinal cord injured patients and their families.  She was then a Staff Social Worker at Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto, where she worked with lung cancer patients and their families. 

Subsequently Carole-Anne established and operated a full-time private practice in midtown Toronto for six years, where she provided personal counselling and talk therapy to individuals and couples across a range of personal concerns, and became a sought after expert in the media, giving interviews to CBC Radio, Canada AM, TVOntario, CityTV, The Toronto Star, The National Post, Chatelaine, Canadian Living Magazine, Flare, and Homemakers Magazine.  Carole-Anne was also a regular expert contributor to CanadianLiving.com and Homemakers.com during this time, writing regular columns on a range of issues relating to relationships and human functioning.

After moving to Kingston in 2005, Carole-Anne initially provided therapy services through Lennox & Addington Community Mental Health Services.  She then worked as a clinician for the Maple Family Health Team in Kingston, providing talk therapy in a family medicine clinic setting.  

From 2012 to 2016, Carole-Anne provided individual counselling to undergraduate, graduate, and professional program students in her clinical practice at Queen’s University.  She also taught Wellness Workshops to students, provided Supervision and professional education to colleagues, and co-authored a Workbook on Anxiety, “Your Best You:  Managing Your Anxiety,” a CBT-based practical workbook specifically geared to Queen’s students.

Based in Kingston, for the last nine years Carole-Anne has worked in her private practice. She now provides psychotherapy to clients in Ontario and Nova Scotia by phone or encrypted video.

Carole-Anne is a member in good standing with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers and the Nova Scotia College of Social Workers.  She engages in continuing professional education in accordance with the requirements of her Colleges.  Carole-Anne is also a longstanding member of the Ontario Association of Social Workers.

Carole-Anne lives in Kingston with her husband and seventeen-year old daughter.