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Dr. Jacqueline Masson, MD, CM, FRCP(C) is a psychiatrist who has worked for the past 23 years at the University of Toronto’s Health Services.
Dr. Masson received a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology in 1978. She then worked as a biologist in Northern Quebec. Subsequently she worked with children suffering from various forms of brain injury. She graduated from McGill University medical school in 1982. After a one year rotating internship at the Ottawa Civic Hospital Dr. Masson received her general licensce to practice medicine. Dr. Masson received her specialty certificate in Psychiatry from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in 1987.
Dr. Masson specialized in psychotherapy with young adults, couple therapy, and group therapy. Her responsibilities included a number of outreach teaching projects, consulting to the Health Service at Scarborough College and providing assessment and treatment services for the student population. She has also been a consultant for Oolagen (agency for adolescents), and has been a consultant to York university’s Counselling and Development Services. She became interested in the practice of mindfulness as a teachable alternative/addition to standard methods of medical treatment.
In 1999 she completed the eight week MBSR course. She has attended several intensive training retreats with Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn and Saki Santorelli and has studied yoga at Esther Myers Studio in their two year “yoga teacher training” program. Her clinical time presently focuses on integrating mindfulness and yoga into her practice.
Dr. M. Lee Freedman, MD, CM, FRCP(C) is a psychiatrist with 28 years of practical clinical experience with adults, children, adolescents, and families. She graduated from McGill University with an honours Bachelor of Science degree in Neurophysiology in 1978, received her medical degree from McGill University in 1982, completed her specialty psychiatry training at University of Toronto, and received her specialty certificate in psychiatry from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in 1987. She has had experience on staff at the Hospital for Sick Children, as well as consulting positions with the Surrey Place Centre, The Muki Baum Association, and the Counselling and Development Centre at York University. Over the past twelve years she has focused her clinical time exclusively on her private practice serving adults, adolescents, children and families with anxiety and stress-related mental and physical conditions. She has a particular interest in the neuroscience of mental health.
Dr. Freedman was first introduced to Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction as a participant in the MBSR Clinic at St. Josephs Health Centre in 2002. She has since been actively developing her own mindfulness practice and has attended numerous mindfulness workshops, conferences and retreats, including the foundational residential training retreat “Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in Mind-Body Medicine” with Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn and Saki Santorelli in 2007. She has been gradually integrating mindfulness training into her psychotherapy practice with adults, children, adolescents, and families.
Dr. Freedman has special interests in mindful parenting for parents of anxious children, mindfulness in children's education, photography as a training tool and portal for mindful living and the inter-relationship of neuroscience, mindfulness, and health.
For further information contact:
Dr. Jacqueline Masson: matp55@live.com (416) 578-4645
Dr. M. Lee Freedman: matp55@live.com (416) 913-5546