Dr Alia Offman is a registered psychologist in Ontario, Canada providing counselling and professional training services using Mindfulness-integrated CBT. She obtained her doctorate in research psychology at Carleton University, a Master’s in Education at the University of Ottawa, and post-doctorate training as a counselling psychologist. She is currently working through Self-Balance Psychological Services to provide MiCBT therapy and training in the town of Perth and On-line..
She has been a Contract Instructor at Carleton University for 20 years teaching in the psychology department. She has supervised their fourth year Honours Projects course, taught a fourth-year seminar course in The Psychology of Human Sexuality and undergraduate courses in The Psychology of Women, Statistics and Social Psychology. She has also taught in the education department at the University of Ottawa as a sessional lecturer. She is currently teaching a fourth-year course in Mindfulness and Well-being.
Dr. Offman is a published researcher with the majority of her work focused on adult populations, studying such diverse areas as workplace productivity, the impact of discrimination on health, communication in relationships and the effects of relationship violence on self-esteem. She was an Associate Researcher at Carleton University and a Research Associate with the Ottawa Health Research Institute.
She has completed 3 levels of training in the Mindful School Program and has experience offering mindfulness training to grade school students. For many years she volunteered with Planned Parenthood Ottawa, and she was recognized for her work in the field of human sexuality. She was awarded a Scholarship from the Planned Parenthood Federation of Canada.
She continues to study and train in mindfulness approaches and is a co-director of the North American Chapter of the MiCBT institute.
Areas of Practice
The treatment of anxiety, depression, trauma, family of origin issues, OCD, phobias, relationships & PTSD
Dr. Alia W. Offman, C.Psych is a registered psychologist working with adults in individual counselling. She has lived and worked in Lanark County for over 20 years. She works with a diversity of mental health concerns. These include, but are not limited to: depression, anxiety, PTSD, identity issues, life transitions, sexuality, self-esteem, stress/anxiety, family of origin issues and overall well-being.
She is a registered member of the College of Psychologist of Ontario, The Canadian Psychological Association and Ottawa Academy of Psychology. She is a qualified MiCBT therapist with the MiCBT Institute and is the co-director of the North American Chapter of the MiCBT Institute
Mindfulness-integrated Cognitive Therapy
Dr Offman uses exclusively Mindfulness-integrated Cognitive Behaviour Therapy or MiCBT (pronounced M-I-C-B-T) in her private practice.
MiCBT is an evidence-based therapy approach that integrates mindfulness training in the Burmese Vipassana tradition of Ledi Sayadaw, U Ba Khin and S. N. Goenka with core methods of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) to address a broad range of psychological disorders, stress conditions, and pain symptoms. The theory underlying MiCBT is strongly based on interdisciplinary scientific research, particularly on clinical neuroscience, without losing its foundation in Buddhist psychology.
MiCBT is one of the well-established approaches known as a “second-generation mindfulness-based intervention” because it includes important beneficial elements of the “Eightfold Noble Path” in Buddhist psychology: a training in ethics, a training in compassion for self and others, and a training in reducing the emphasis on the self . The formal definition of MiCBT is “a theoretically congruent and technically complementary integration of traditional mindfulness training and CBT, which provides a transdiagnostic approach to address emotional distress across a wide range of disorders” .
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Contact Self-Balance Psychological Services
Dr. Alia W. Offman, C.Psych
1211 Drummond School Rd
Perth ON K7H 0K5
Phone: 613 264 1985
Email: alia.offman@self-balance.ca
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Hours of Operation
Monday: 10:00am - 4:00pm
Tuesday: 10:00am - 4:00pm
Wednesday: 10:00am - 4:00pm
Thursday: 10:00am - 4:00pm
Friday: 10:00am - 4:00pm