Dr. Frank Robertson
Psychologist
Dr. Frank Robertson received his doctorate in clinical psychology from Pacific University with an emphasis in Neuropsychology.
He specializes in providing psychological and neuropsychological assessments. These assessments focus on answering client questions about their mental and cognitive health in a way that honours their experience as a whole person. As appropriate Dr. Robertson can help identify diagnoses, direct ongoing care, provide career advice, and generally help find creative solutions for clients and their families. He works with clients facing a wide range of challenges. This could include longstanding difficulties that led someone to suspect a developmental disorder such as attention deficit disorder, or cognitive and psychological problems following an injury such as a concussion or more severe traumatic brain injury. Other clients might include older adults who have noticed problems with their memory or attention and worry about a neurodegenerative disease like Alzheimer’s. In all cases Dr. Robertson aims to understand and describe the problems his clients are facing in a way that helps them to connect with appropriate care and find individualized solutions to their problems.
As a therapist, Dr. Robertson draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, as well as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and has training in Cognitive Processing Therapy for trauma, as well as Pain Reprocessing Therapy and several other interventions for chronic pain. Dr. Robertson enjoys working with clients who are dealing with chronic disabilities and adapting to medical problems. He has extensive experience with patients dealing with a variety of medical concerns including back pain, chronic fatigue, long COVID, fibromyalgia, surgical and workplace accidents. People facing these kinds of medical tragedies often also have to deal with trauma related disorders such as posttraumatic stress disorder, mood concerns like depression, anger issues, or anxiety, and may come into the experience with pre-existing trauma, grief or personality related concerns. As a result, Dr. Robertson has considerable experience in working through the impacts of traumatic events, managing depression, and anxiety, and working through the grief and practical implications of major life changes.
Dr. Robertson brings a compassionate and collaborative approach to therapy and assessment knowing that his clients are the experts in their own experiences, lives, and bodies. He is licensed to practice in the Province of British Columbia.