Dr. Mirisse Foroughe is the Clinical Director at Family Psychology Centre. She has over 25 years of experience providing assessment and treatment to children, adolescents, and families with expertise in Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Emotion Focused Family Therapy (EFFT), Family-Based Treatment (FBT), and Motivational Interviewing (MI). Dr. Mirisse is the developer of Emotion Focused Therapy for Youth (EFT-Y), which has individual, parent-child, co-parent, and family applications. In her role as a clinical teacher and supervisor, Dr. Mirisse has trained health care providers locally and internationally and has personally supervised over 100 graduate students in clinical psychology and psychotherapy.

After completing her Master’s degree in Health Psychology, Dr. Mirisse completed a doctorate degree in Clinical-Developmental Psychology at York University. She has held positions at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto District School Board, Child Development Institute, and Sick Kids Centre for Community Mental Health (formerly the Hincks-Dellcrest Centre). She was Ontario’s first full-time Child and Family Psychologist in a Family Health Team, providing primary care to children, adolescents, and families alongside colleagues in medicine and allied health. Currently, Dr. Mirisse oversees clinical services at the Family Psychology Centre, providing training and supervision to the clinical team, as well as serving as Director of the Emotion Transformation Institute, a clinical research lab investigating emotional change through child, caregiver, and family-based interventions.

Dr. Mirisse has edited two books, is the author of 12 book chapters, and received numerous awards and accolades for her work, including the OPA Ruth Berman Early Career Psychologist Award, the CPA PFC Innovative Service Award, and the OPA Harvey T. Brooker Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching. She holds Adjunct Faculty positions with York University as well as the University of Waterloo and is an Adjunct Clinical Supervisor for the School and Child Clinical Program at OISE, University of Toronto.