Meet the Team
Meet Anne Vickers, BA, RP, Registered Psychotherapist
Anne is a Registered Psychotherapist in good standing with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario and holds a post graduate diploma in Addiction and Mental Health. Anne works with individuals aged 16 and up experiencing anxiety, depression, addiction (including gambling and gaming), health anxiety, trauma, complex relationship dynamics, life transitions, and self-esteem challenges. She has particular expertise supporting clients who feel stuck in longstanding relational patterns such as people-pleasing, perfectionism, and emotionally intense or difficult relationships. Her work focuses on helping clients understand underlying patterns while building practical skills for meaningful, lasting change.
A significant focus of Anne’s practice is trauma treatment, including both “small t” and “big T” trauma. She is trained in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) and provides structured, trauma-informed care to help clients safely process distressing experiences, reduce emotional reactivity, and foster long-term integration.
Anne brings over two decades of clinical experience, including 17 years in a public hospital mental health setting and six years in private practice. Her hospital work provided extensive experience with complex presentations, crisis services, and residential treatment pathways, while her private practice has deepened her ability to offer individualized, depth-oriented outpatient care. Together, these experiences allow her to support clients thoughtfully, including when coordinated or higher levels of care are needed.
Her therapeutic foundation is relational, grounded in the belief that healing occurs within a safe, attuned, and authentic therapeutic relationship. She integrates evidence-based approaches including Motivational Interviewing, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Solution-Focused Therapy, psychodynamic therapy, relational therapy, and EMDR. Treatment is collaborative and goal-oriented, with clear, individualized goals to ensure therapy remains effective and relevant to clients’ lives.
Anne is committed to ethical, evidence-informed practice and ongoing professional development. She believes therapy is not about fixing what is broken, but about strengthening resilience, self-awareness, and psychological flexibility. She considers it a privilege to walk alongside clients as they work toward greater clarity, emotional wellbeing, and relational health.
To book a consultation with Anne, call or email Thrive or feel free to connect with Anne directly at annev@thrivemassagewellness.com.