Our Mental Health Professionals
Dr. Danielle Ruskin, PhD, C. Psych, Director of Mental Health Services
Contact:
Phone: +1 416 515 8608
Email: druskin@jjmentalwellness.ca
Education & Designations
Staff Psychologist, Dept of Psychology and Dept of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children
Adjunct Faculty, Graduate Program in Psychology, York University
Lead, Research and Evaluation, Chronic Pain Program
Registration with the College of Psychologists of Ontario, #4342
Canadian Psychological Association
Dr. Danielle Ruskin is a registered Clinical and Health Psychologist with the College of Psychologists of Ontario. She has over 20 years of experience providing expert psychological assessment and treatment to children, adolescents, parents, families and adults.
Dr. Ruskin completed her Masters in School and Child Clinical Psychology at the University of Toronto and completed her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Rhode Island. She then completed her residency and post doctoral fellowship at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children, specializing in parent-child therapies and psychological management of health conditions. Dr. Ruskin currently works at the Hospital for Sick Children where she provides psychological assessment and treatment to parents and their children with mood, anxiety and behavioural challenges in the context of health conditions.
In her practice, Dr. Ruskin collaborates with clients to help them achieve their treatment goals, using cognitive behavioural, mindfulness and acceptance approaches, hypnosis and parent-child therapies. Dr. Ruskin is a sought out expert in child and adult mental health and lectures nationally and internationally on these topics along with publishing widely on topics such as parenting, treatments to improve children's wellbeing and children’s adjustment to health conditions. Dr. Ruskin has served on executive committees to advise the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care on pediatric health.
Dr. Ruskin consults with the legal team at JJ Integrative Family Law on best practices to support a child’s wellbeing, support families pre, during and post separation/divorce, and provide support to children and families in circumstances of high conflict divorce.
Contact:
Phone: +1 416 515 8608
Email: Ehall@jjfamilylaw.ca
Education & Designations
Staff Psychiatrist, St. Michael's Hospital, Division of Consultation-Liaison
Courtesy Staff Psychiatrist, Casey House, Toronto
Courtesy Staff Psychiatrist, Toronto Grace Health Centre
Lecturer, University of Toronto Department of Psychiatry
Site Director, Undergraduate Psychiatry Medical Education, St. Michael's Hospital
Vice-President, St. Michael's Hospital Psychiatric Association
Dr. Elise Hall, MD FRCPC
Dr. Elise Hall is a psychiatrist in Toronto with primary practice at St. Michael’s Hospital and affiliated clinical work with various community partners. She is a faculty member at the University of Toronto and is actively involved in teaching both undergraduate and postgraduate medical trainees. Dr. Hall completed her medical school training and psychiatry residency at McMaster University in Hamilton. Following this, she completed a fellowship in Psychosomatic Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. Hall’s fellowship training included extensive work in trauma with the female veteran population, and perinatal psychiatry.
Dr. Hall’s clinical work is broad and includes, but is not limited to, providing care to individuals with addiction, trauma, and primary mood and anxiety disorders. Dr. Hall is trained in, and teaches, Interpersonal Therapy (IPT) particularly in focal areas of grief and/or difficult life transitions including new medical diagnoses, relational conflict, and separation. Dr. Hall values a multidisciplinary and collaborative approach to healthcare, and healing.
Dr. Hall works in a consulting capacity with JJ Integrative Family Law to assist on complex cases.