Dr. Clarice Mendonca

Dr Clarice Mendonca is a clinical psychologist and neuropsychology specialist committed to being a light of hope, support, and guidance, illuminating and providing warmth. For more than a decade, she has invested her time and effort in enhancing her ability to use human connection to help and heal.

Dr Mendonca tailors evidence-based services to the distinctive needs of her patients, understanding that that one size does not fit all as everyone is uniquely shaped by their personality, biology, history, cultures, values, and experiences.

Her services are threefold:

• Providing psychotherapy to help individuals work through challenges and transform their relationship with the world, others, and themselves
• Conducting assessments for diagnosis, intervention planning, and understanding brain and personality functions that influence our abilities and goals
• Offering psychoeducational services for the community as part of our collective pursuit of excellence, meaning, and authentic happiness

Psychotherapy Expertise

• Trauma and abuse
• Stress and anxiety
• Psychosomatic Disorders
• Chronic illnesses
• Personality Disorders
• Self-harm and Suicidal Ideation
• Self-esteem/confidence issues
• Mood Disorders
• Executive/career development, workplace effectiveness, professional growth
• Non-Western (South Asian and Middle Eastern) mental health

Assessment Expertise

• Specific Learning Disorders
• ADHD
• Intellectual Disorder
• Head injuries
• Neurodegenerative diseases (Dementia, Parkinson's disease)
• Cognitive and behavioural changes due to medical illnesses
• Functional disorders
• Epilepsy
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Pre-surgical evaluations
• Executive/leadership development

Tools

• Neuropsychological assessments
• Psychoeducational assessments
• Psychodynamic therapy
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
• Biofeedback
• Psychoeducational talks, seminars, workshops
• Executive/leadership coaching
• Clinical and academic supervision