Casey Desveaux-Peters
Casey began her journey as a Social Worker and followed her passion towards roles that aligned with her core beliefs. One pillar in Casey’s work is believing all people do their best with the toolbox they have access to at the time, even in the dreariest of circumstances. Every child, youth, adult, and family unit deserves support that sees them for who they are, separate from the heaviness and overwhelm of difficult times. Casey helps to unearth inner strengths and capacities while implementing a custom approach to support growth, resulting in people developing a more wholesome set of skills in their toolbox and a profound sense of who they are.
Casey leads with warmth and compassion, sometimes a shared laugh. She is rooted in developing relational safety with a gentle curiosity for who you are, where you are located, and what your neurobiology looks and feels like. Casey is an integrative therapist who pulls from a range of therapeutic play-based and sensorimotor interventions, along with some talk-based therapeutic modalities.
Credentials
Registered Social Worker with the College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers (OCSWSSW)
Member of the Canadian Association for Play Therapy (CAPT)
Master of Social Work – Windsor University
Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP), Level 1 & 2
Advanced training in: childhood trauma (Developmental Trauma), children’s grief and loss, traumatic stress across the lifespan, Sensory Motor Arousal Regulation Treatment (SMART), play therapy interventions, neurodiversity, alternative caregiving (including adoption competency through Adoption Council of Ontario), learning differences
Areas of Specialty
Children’s Mental Health
Developmental Trauma (childhood adversity)
Dyadic family therapy
Children’s Grief and Loss
Traumatic Stress
Sensorimotor interventions
Parent – Child attachment
Adult/Parent exploration of attachment history
Child Development
Alternative Caregiving Roles; supporting families in adoption, kinship and fostering journeys