Fiona graduated from McGill University with a Masters in Counselling Psychology in 2007 and a Bachelors of Science in Biology 2003/Psychology (Hons) 2005 from Saint Mary’s University. She represented McGill as the student representative for the Canadian Counselling Association during her studies.

She continued her education while practicing in Colleges and Universities with young adults from 2008-2011. With a passion to teach, she worked as an Adjunct Professor in the Behaviour Psychology Program at St. Lawrence College teaching courses of Life Span Development and others, she also supervised 4^th year student’s work placements and thesis projects. She expanded her treatment population to provide assessment and treatment planning for adults in the criminal justice system in Ontario. She worked within the Ontario Justice specialized mental health court in Belleville, ON as a pivot role to bridge between the legal systems and mental health division/support for treatment.

For nine years, she further refined her expertise in providing assessment, case review and treatment planning and therapeutic intervention for clients in primary care, with family health teams in Kingston, Ontario. Further and significant training in providing treatment for Mood/Anxiety disorders group therapy, trauma, adjustment disorders and OCD while working with an interdisciplinary group of health care providers. During these nine years she further mastered Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Processing Therapy, Mindfulness based CBT, Motivational Interviewing, and Interpersonal Therapy (IPT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I),  Emotional Focused Therapy. Narrative Therapy.

While completing her licences for Ontario Board of Psychologists, which includes significant coursework and professional development for practice of the profession, competed the Jurisprudence Ethics examination, the Examination for Professional Practice of Psychology (North American standard for practice), and a board directed oral examination. She is also registered to practice with the Nova Scotia Board of Examiners in Psychology and worked within NS Health as Psychologist. Private Practice work was apart of the joy of working with clients from 2016-2023 in clinics in Kingston, ON, Toronto, ON, Kentville, NS during this time she began working with members of the Canadian Armed Forces and Veterans. She started with Lifemark as a full time Psychologist in 2003.