We Are

Janny Thompson and Valerie Whiffen are Registered Psychologists who have more than thirty years of collective experience helping people overcome depression and improve their relationships.

EFT Therapists

Janny and Valerie are certified EFT therapists, a form of couple therapy that has been shown by research to increase couples' happiness and satisfaction with their relationship. They learned EFT from one of its co-originators, Dr. Sue Johnson, and they are certified both to practice EFT and to supervise individuals who want to become EFT therapists.

As university professors, Valerie and Janny focused their research on the study of depression. Collectively, they are the authors of over 60 journal articles, chapters, and books on depression.

Most recently, Valerie wrote a best-selling book about women's depression, A Secret Sadness: The Hidden Relationship Patterns that Make Women Depressed. Using research data and clinical examples, she shows how depression is linked to the quality and nature of women's relationships with their parents, spouses and children, and with the high expectations women have of themselves in these relationships.

Valerie gives lectures to public and professional audiences on the topic of women's depression and the use of IPT and EFT to treat individuals and couples struggling with depression.

Both Janny and Valerie were formerly university professors, working at Simon Fraser University and the University of Ottawa, respectively, where they taught courses in clinical and counseling psychology and trained graduate students to do psychotherapy with individuals and couples.