Expanding Love
About
Rosa Leão Bruno, B.Sc., Psycho
Hello. I’m Rosa Leão Bruno based in the Greater Toronto Area – Mississauga. You can find me as a Registered Psychotherapist on CRPO as Rosa Souza.
I offer individual and couple therapy with a variety of approaches tailored to meet your needs, to enhance and expand self-love and self-compassion, also revealing new ways to explore love toward others. Being ready to ask for help shows a great power of self-love and acceptance. The answers are within yourself.
I am here to help you find a loving space where you can be heard, and hear yourself. Therefore, I am here to guide you through life’s most complex and difficult moments.
Registered Psychotherapist (CRPO), with an extensive clinical practice spanning 25+ years of work with adolescents, adults, and seniors
- Experience in a broad range of conditions like bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, eating disorders, anxiety, and depression
- Successful practice for 4 years with CMHA York, helping individuals identify strengths and create effective action plans to ensure independence and satisfaction in life
- Developed therapeutic methods for Eating Disorders, based on studies and tools designed to improve self-perception and self-care
- Responsible for the subject “Eating Disorders” and “Healthy Mind in a Healthy Body” in mature-oriented college programs
- Presented lectures and workshops in companies, schools, and charities about Quality of Life, Stress Management, and Eating Disorders
- Efficiently coordinated a Psychotherapy Centre, with 16 professionals, for almost a decade.
Education and Professional Development
- 2017 – Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy
- 2017 – Core ICS Mental Health- Provincial Health Services Authority Indigenous Program
- 2016 – Aging Conference
- 2016 – Building a Trauma-informed Culture
- 2016 – DBS Training
- 2016 – Advanced Motivational Interviewing Training
- 2013 – CBT – Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Training
- 2013 – Mindful Training
- 2013 – Mindful Self Compassion
- 2012 – Bridge Training Program for Internationally Trained Psychologists
- 2011 – Culture and Psychotherapy Conference – CAMH
- 2011 – The mysterious world of Eating Disorders – Belwood
- 2011 – Bridge Training for International Psychologists – Mennonite New Life Centre
- 2010 – The therapist’s state of mind
- 2007 – Post-graduation in Psychoanalysis – Centro de Estudos Psicanalíticos, São Paulo, Brazil
- 2001 – Specialization in Brief Psychotherapy – Instituto Sedes Sapientiae, São Paulo, Brazil
- 1992 – Bachelor degree in Psychology – Faculdades Metropolitanas Unidas Sao Paulo, Brazil