Cristina Snook is a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) registered with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO). She specializes in perinatal mental health, including but not limited to individuals and couples undergoing fertility treatments, anxiety during pregnancy and post-partum, perinatal grief and loss, intimacy post-baby, and early parenting challenges. Cristina is a neurodiversity-affirming therapist, with both personal experience and additional training in ADHD and neurodiversity, she understands how this intersection can uniquely impact the perinatal period.
With additional training in perinatal mental health, couples therapy, and sex therapy, Cristina helps clients better understand themselves and the transition to parenthood. She helps clients build more effective communication strategies with their partners and offers a space to speak openly about the challenges of parenthood and how to rebuild intimacy and a partnership post-baby.
Cristina applies a person-centred, integrative approach to evidence-based treatments such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Relational-Cultural Therapy (RCT), Gottman, Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT), Narrative Therapy, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), and Psychodynamic Therapy.
Education: Cristina has a Masters of Arts in Counselling Psychology from Yorkville University, a graduate certificate in Marketing and Business Intelligence Research from Algonquin College, and an Honours BA in Anthropology with a minor in Psychology from the University of Waterloo. Additionally, she has certifications in Perinatal Mental Health, Birth and Reproductive Trauma, and Perinatal Grief and Loss from Canadian Perinatal Mental Health Training. She has other notable trainings in the following treatment modalities ACT, CBT, RCT, EFT, Gottman Level 1, and training in sex therapy, neurodiversity, and ADHD.
