Meet Our Team
Amanda Young, B Comm, MSW, RSW
Founder and Director of Kin Well Therapy
Amanda has specialized in working with couples, parents, and families for nearly 15 years. She is intensively trained in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), a therapy that helps people regulate their emotions and better interact with others.
Amanda is the only Canadian team member at The Center for DBT and Families, an international organization that trains and supervises therapists in using DBT with parents, families, and couples.
Before becoming a therapist, Amanda had an earlier career in business, working for Microsoft in Asia, Australia, and the U.S.
Her training and clinical experiences include: Women’s College Hospital, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), and a year-long Fellowship in Family Therapy at SickKids Hospital’s Centre for Community Health, as well as seven years in a private group psychology practice.
Consulting Psychologists to KinWell Therapy
Dr. Molly Martha Roberston,
Ph.D., C. Psych.
Parent Skills Group Co Facilitator
Molly is a staff psychologist in the Borderline Personality Disorder clinic at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and has her own private practice. At CAMH, she’s involved in DBT clinical service delivery, research, supervision, and capacity-building training.
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Dr. Robertson received her doctorate in clinical psychology from Columbia University and has worked in a variety of hospital and community-based mental health settings throughout New York City and Toronto.
She has a particular passion for working with emotion regulation difficulties and brings her experience, warmth, and humor to helping clients increase compassion as they work towards growth and change.
Dr. Alan Fruzzetti,
Ph.D., C. Psych.
Program Development Advisor
Alan is a Research Fellow at the National Suicide Research Foundation/ University College Cork, Lead for supervision & implementation for the National DBT Team in Ireland, Professor Emeritus at the University of Nevada-Reno, and was previously on the faculty at Harvard Medical School.
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Alan is a co-founder of the Center for DBT and Families and the World DBT Association and is on the board of directors of the DBT Board of Certification. He has developed Dialectical Behavior Therapy applications for parents, couples and families and other successful DBT programs for people with suicidality or other difficulties regulating their emotions.
His research focuses on the connections between emotion dysregulation and interpersonal or family processes and the development and evaluation of interventions to help both individuals and relationships. He has authored more than 140 research and clinical papers and has lectured and trained professionals and the public in more than two dozen countries on BPD, DBT, family distress and DBT family interventions. He received his BA from Brown University and MS and PhD from the University of Washington in Seattle.
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