Our Team

Dr. Perpick-Breton has a scientific background, holding a Master’s degree in Chemistry/Biochemistry, a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, and a year of research in Medical Genetics prior to obtaining her Medical Degree at the University of Toronto, Canada.  She is a General Psychiatrist with specialty training in Child, Adolescent and Marital Psychiatry.  While in Ontario, Dr. Perpick-Breton was affiliated with two major hospitals and also acted as consultant for Child Welfare organizations across Canada.  As such, she conducted numerous Assessments of Parenting Capacity and Custody and Access, and presented expert testimony, for the Courts. Dr. Perpick-Breton has been extensively trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Interpersonal Therapy, Insight-Oriented Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Medical Hypnosis and  Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for Couples. Notably, Emotionally Focused Therapy  is one of only two scientifically validated approaches to working with couples in varying levels of distress, and Dr. Perpick-Breton is one of only two Psychiatrists in Canada, and the only Psychiatrist in Western Canada, to be an  ICEEFT  Certified Emotionally Focused Couples Therapist and is a Supervisor-in-Training.  In particular, Dr. Perpick-Breton has married her expertise in the application of Emotionally Focused Therapy with her vast knowledge base and experience working with the gamut of psychopathology.  This includes, but is not limited to,  Mood Disorders, Anxiety Disorders, Eating Disorders, Sexual Disorders, and Substance Abuse Disorders.   Dr. Perpick-Breton excels in working with couples where one or both parties have a mental health disorder.  At this point, Dr. Perpick-Breton in is private practice in Calgary, Alberta where she treats individuals, couples, and families across the lifespan.

A significant portion of her practice is dedicated to the treatment of medical and other health professionals and their families.  On a personal note, Dr. Perpick-Breton is a pianist with a great love of the Arts.  Her personality is vibrant and her enthusiasm and dedication to her patients is remarkable.  Her approach is both collaborative and active, with deep respect for the power of attunement in the psychotherapeutic process. Most recently, together with her husband, Dr. Martin Breton, Dr. Perpick-Breton has spear-headed an innovative approach to outreach and treatment of mental health disorders through telehealth in the form of PsychiatryOnlineCanada.com.  Her Curriculum Vitae is available upon request.

Dr. Catherine Krasnik is a Consultant Staff Psychiatrist at Niagara Health System and Assistant Clinical Professor at McMaster University. She has completed numerous court reports addressing the issues of Fitness to Stand Trial and Criminal Responsibility in Canada, and more recently, in New Zealand, where she was the Forensic Psychiatrist physician lead at Nga Taiohi, the National Youth Bicultural Forensic Service in Wellington. Prior to this post, she worked as the Clinical Lead and Forensic Psychiatrist at the Syl Apps Youth Centre since 2010.  This is a medium-secure youth forensic mental health facility in Ontario, Canada that is comprised of a secure treatment unit, a unit for remanded youth with mental health concerns, and a separate unit for youth who have been found Unfit to Stand Trial or found Not Guilty By Reason of Insanity.  She completed her medical training with an MD, PhD from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada in 2006.  She has specialist qualifications in Psychiatry, and Forensic Psychiatry with a subspecialty designation in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada since 2011.  She also has completed visiting fellowships in ECT (Columbia University) and rTMS (Duke University). She has been a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons since that time.  She has worked in the field of forensic psychiatry since 2010 and has routinely provided psychiatric reports to the court.  She holds public appointments to the Canadian Consent and Capacity Board since 2012 and the Ontario Review Board since 2014.  The Ontario Review Board is a specialist adjudicative panel that performs reviews of forensic clients designated as Unfit to Stand Trial or Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity.  She has given expert evidence to the court and has been instructed by the court, defence and the prosecution. Her areas of research and special interest include Conversion Disorders, consultation Liaison/medical psychiatry, neuropsychiatry, forensic psychiatry and independent medical evaluations.

Dr. Breton’s background includes a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics and Computer Science, a Masters degree in Condensed Matter Physics, and 4 years of research in Medical Genetics from the University of Toronto, where he also completed his Medical Degree.  He is a Family Practitioner with extensive training and experience in Mental Health.  He worked at Centre For Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, Ontario for 3.5 years, where he was in charge of both the Dual Diagnosis and Geriatric Units. His expertise and knowledge base around Psychiatric medications has been an asset to his medical practice.  Additionally, he has completed the most intensive training available in North America in Medical Hypnosis, and is particularly skilled in its application.  He is extremely interested in working with clients to treat and manage chronic pain, and as such, has been fully trained in prolotherapy, a method of repairing chronically injured or unstable joints and spines.  (www.prolotherapy.clinic) He is currently in private practice in Calgary, Alberta.

Dr. Breton is a problem-solver by nature.  He is a no-nonsense physician with the client’s interest as his first order of business, which he approaches collaboratively with a straight-forward, matter-of-fact style that gets the job done for those interested in shorter term, more medication-dominant therapy.

PsychiatryOnlineCanada.com has been spearheaded by Dr. Breton and his wife, Psychiatrist Dr. Perpick-Breton, as a means of offering consistent top quality private mental health care to clients across Canada.  This service can be accessed at www.psychiatryonlinecanada.com

Dr. Annette Stevens’s is a University of Toronto trained psychiatrist currently licensed in British Columbia and affiliated with the University of British Columbia Department of Psychiatry as a clinical instructor for the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program.  She is well respected by her peers for treating difficult cases including PTSD and for her work in Geriatric Psychiatry.  She is sought after for her impartial IMEs (Independent Medical Examinations).

Dr. Emily Gavett-Liu is a child, adolescent, adult and forensic psychiatrist. She completed her medical school and General Psychiatry residency at the University of Buffalo School of Medicine, and went on to complete her Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Forensic Psychiatry Fellowships at SUNY Upstate Medical School. She is triple board certified in General Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and Forensic Psychiatry through the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

Dr. Gavett-Liu was the medical director for the Children's Guild, a non-profit organization serving children, adolescents and their families throughout Maryland and Washington D.C., for nearly 5 years. At this organization, she also had a busy outpatient clinical practice, was a consulting psychiatrist at the organization's non-public Level V special education school, was a consulting psychiatrist in their group home facilities, and was a consulting psychiatrist for many youth in the organization's therapeutic foster care program. She was the co-owner and co-founder of Comprehensive Psychiatric Services of Maryland, where she provided therapy and psychotropic medication management for youth and adults. Since moving to Canada in 2018, she was the lead psychiatrist for the Flexible Assertive Community Treatment Team (FACT Team) at the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) of Waterloo Wellington for 2 years. The FACT Team serves individuals with serious mental illnesses and diagnoses such as Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, personality disorders, and Substance Use Disorders. She has also been a child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist for CMHA. She has recently re-opened her private practice in Maryland and Arizona in the US as an outpatient child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist, where she brings her broad experience to provide therapy and psychotropic medication management.

In addition to her clinical work, Dr. Gavett-Liu also has vast forensic psychiatry experience with youth and adults. She has performed hundreds of forensic and medico-legal evaluations over the past nine years. She served as the Senior Medical Advisor for the Office of Juvenile Pretrial Services through the Behavioral Health Administration for the state of Maryland. In this position, she oversaw all court-ordered Competency to Proceed evaluations for youth in the state of Maryland, trained the psychiatric and psychological evaluators and competency attainment providers, and performed evaluations, often with youth who had the most difficult cases (i.e. individuals who were very young, had more serious charges, such as attempted murder, or who were accused of more high profile crimes). She has performed state and federal evaluations with youth and adults for the court, and has testified as an expert witness in New York and Maryland. She is also now performing medico-legal evaluations in Canada, such as independent medical evaluations for individuals that have been in an accident, treatment planning evaluations, catastrophic assessments, evaluations for tort cases (lawsuits), disability evaluations, and return to work or fitness for duty evaluations. Dr. Gavett-Liu has conducted forensic and medico-legal evaluations and testified is cases where the accused is charged with serious crimes such as murder or attempted murder, and for individuals as young as 8-years-old.

Dr. Anson Liu is a Psychiatrist.  He completed a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and Finance at the University of Sydney, a Bachelor’s Degree in Biology from the University of Texas at San Antonio, a Masters Degree in Hotel Administration at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, and his medical degree at the University at Buffalo, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. He completed both his General Psychiatry residency training and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship training at the University of Maryland/Sheppard Pratt Hospital. He trained with many world-renowned experts in psychiatry and psychotherapy including authors and contributors to the creation of the DSM-5 diagnoses at his training program. He trained with Dr. John Gunderson, the founder of the diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder into the DSM during his training. Sheppard Pratt Hospital is one of U.S. News and World Report ranked best psychiatric hospitals in the United States and a quaternary psychiatric hospital in the country, accepting patients nationwide.  As a result, he is an expert diagnostician as well as psychotherapist. He is also well published in the field of psychiatry as well as other medical fields, with over 10 publications in major medical journals as well as presentations in national scientific meetings in the fields of psychiatry, anesthesiology and gastroenterology. He had the honor of being nominated as the Chief Resident/Fellow of his training program for his outstanding clinical work as well as leadership in the program. He is board certified in General Psychiatry as well as Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the United States. He is registered with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) and is certified to practice independently in General Psychiatry as well as Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Ontario.

He has extensive outpatient and telepsychiatry practice experience serving children, adolescents and adults in the United States and Canada, treating Mood Disorders, Anxiety Disorders, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Psychotic Disorders, Substance Use Disorders, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Personality Disorders, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). He has special expertise in treating Personality Disorders, PTSD and high functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder. He was the medical director for a community health clinic and the founder and CEO of Comprehensive Psychiatric Services of Maryland, a boutique private practice in Maryland. Since relocating to Canada, he was the lead psychiatrist for the First Step Early Psychosis Intervention Team as well as staff psychiatrist for the Flexible Assertive Community Treatment (FACT) team, Children Services team and Acute Adult Services team at the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) at Waterloo Wellington. He created and implemented a new pathway for children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder for faster diagnosis and referral or initiation of treatment and services in the Wellington Waterloo Region. He is a speaker and consultant in the region for various topics for hospitals, health systems and pharmaceutical companies. He is also currently an executive coach for executives and physicians, helping them make changes in mindset and behaviors to optimize performance and quality of life.

Dr. Liu has extensive experiences in forensics and medico-legal work in both the United States and in Canada, ranging from assisting in independent psychiatric assessments in criminal cases, conducting evaluations for civil cases, including accident benefit cases and disability claims, evaluations for comprehensive treatment plan recommendations as well as evaluations for disability applications.

He holds an academic position at McMaster University School of Medicine, Waterloo Regional Campus as an Assistant Clinical Professor where he teaches medical students, residents and fellows.

Previous to his career in medicine, he has had years of experience in the business and corporate world. He was a general manager for a nightclub, a sales and marketing manager for a luxury hotel chain and a senior sales consultant for the pharmaceutical industry.

Dr. Howard Eisenberg is a Medical Doctor with additional postgraduate education in both Psychology & Psychiatry. He is also the CEO of SYNTREK® Inc., servicing an international Fortune 100 clientele. Dr. Eisenberg has a B.Sc. (Honours Psychology), M.Sc., (Psychology), and M.D., from McGill University, and was the recipient of several scholarships. He has also been a Faculty member at the University of Toronto, York University, and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Vermont.

He has a diverse and accomplished background as a Scientist, Physician, Psychotherapist, Professor, Entrepreneur, Author, Radio Host, Management Consultant, Corporate Trainer, Public Speaker& Executive Coach. His credentials & accomplishments are cited in several reference texts such as, Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare and Who’s Who in America.  Dr. Eisenberg has recently written a book titled "Dream it to Do it: The Science & the Magic".

His manner is sensitive & considerate, and yet also direct. He helps clients by offering a truly objective perspective from the outside & then assists them to think more creatively about their resources and future opportunities. His approach is with a 'solution-focus'. He helps people understand why they have become upset, or stuck, and then empowers them with self-care information & practices to live more comfortably & effectively. The most appropriate people for his approach are those with the ability & motivation to 'partner' with him on changing themselves, (i.e. who are willing to invest more in changing, than complaining).

Dr. Dorothy Reddy is a Medical Doctor licensed in BC. Previously, she practiced in New York.

She specializes in Adult Psychiatry (x 18 years) with a Subspecialty in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (x 16 years). Dr. Reddy is American Board Certified in both Adult Psychiatry as well as Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.  She is also a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

Her patients are complex with at least 4-6 diagnoses each. The diagnoses include  Bipolar Disorder, Treatment Resistant Depression, Major Depressive Disorder, General Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), PTSD, ADD/ADHD, Substance Abuse, self-harm and Eating Disorders. 

Dr. Reddy has expertise in Diagnosing Disorders, making Treatment Recommendations, and Medication Management. Her Assessments are thorough and include doing bloodwork, ECG, myDNA (which helps with medication choice and management), and often Brain imaging (Positron Emission Tomography (PET) or Brain Spec). The latter is important in understanding brain function. 

Regarding treatment, aside from medications for the above disorders, she also offers a non-pharmacological treatment called the deep Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (dTMS) for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder and OCD, approved by Health Canada. Additionally, she prescribes exercise, vitamins, and other types of treatments.

For the last 11 years, she has also been conducting Independent Medical Examinations. Dr. Reddy is involved in the research of Alzheimer's disease. Academically, she is a co-editor in a medical journal called the Canadian Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Dr. Andrea Alvarez is an assistant professor with the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University and the Undergrad Psychiatry Regional Education Leader for the Waterloo Campus. She is a consultant psychiatrist at the Traumatic Stress Injury and Concurrent Program at Homewood Health Centre where she helps front line workers (paramedics, firefighters, veterans, health care professionals) and the general population with the diagnosis and treatment of PTSD and other disorders/expressions of various traumatic experiences. She does trauma informed psychiatric care and has training and experience in various psychotherapeutic modalities such as Mindfulness, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotional Focused Therapy, and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy that she applies in her practice. She is also a consultant psychiatrist for Stonehenge Therapeutic Community which is a long term addictions facility, where she works with individuals with mental health and addiction issues. She is also a consultant psychiatrist for the Guelph's Centre for Bariatric Excellence at Guelph General Hospital, where she does psychiatric assessments for candidates for gastric bypass surgery and helps the team work with the intersection between mental illness and obesity to help patients achieve the best possible outcome in their weight loss journey.

Her areas of interest and clinical expertise include trauma, addictions, mood and anxiety disorders, adult ADHD as well as mindfulness based interventions and their application in health care, physician's health and resilience training. Dr. Alvarez is certified as a facilitator for Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy and Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction through. She facilitates mindfulness based programs and group therapy for patients as well as for healthcare professionals. Dr. Alvarez's broad area of expertise in her clinical work offers a unique perspective to mental health issues. She is a highly skilled diagnostician and helps individuals see more clearly the landscape of their mental health struggles with unconditional positive regard and a psycho-spiritual approach when welcomed.

Dr. Alvarez is the founder of the Being AWERE Institute for human growth, integration and awakening where she combines her 21 years of experience in mental health and her years of mindfulness training, yoga practice and personal work to help individuals strengthen their human condition and express their full potential. She has developed programs to help healthcare professionals and institutions acknowledge and differentiate their role as health care professionals from their role as human beings. Her programs offer practical strategies to move from our habitual reactivity to life’s challenges and painful experiences to a more skillful response coming from a place of inner wisdom and freedom from old and no longer helpful conditioning.

Dr. Alvarez has created programs for healthcare including the Clinician Heal Thyself Program, offered at Cambridge Memorial Hospital (Emergency Department and senior leadership); Integrating Mindfulness into Everyday Life, 7 Tools To Prevent Burnout And Increase Your Capacity To Embrace Any Situation, offered to the Waterloo Wellington LHIN for primary care physicians and more recently Surviving and Thriving During Times Of Covid-19, offered through the Canadian Mental health Association and privately to front line healthcare workers.

Dr. Alvarez completed her medical school and first Psychiatry residency training at the Universidad Militar Nueva Granada in Bogotá, Colombia, and then when she immigrated to Canada in 2004 she completed her second Psychiatry residency training at McMaster University in Hamilton Ontario. She speaks both English and Spanish.

Dr. Andrea Alvarez is an assistant professor with the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University and the Undergrad Psychiatry Regional Education Leader for the Waterloo Campus. She is a consultant psychiatrist at the Traumatic Stress Injury and Concurrent Program at Homewood Health Centre where she helps front line workers (paramedics, firefighters, veterans, health care professionals) and the general population with the diagnosis and treatment of PTSD and other disorders/expressions of various traumatic experiences. She does trauma informed psychiatric care and has training and experience in various psychotherapeutic modalities such as Mindfulness, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotional Focused Therapy, and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy that she applies in her practice. She is also a consultant psychiatrist for Stonehenge Therapeutic Community which is a long term addictions facility, where she works with individuals with mental health and addiction issues. She is also a consultant psychiatrist for the Guelph's Centre for Bariatric Excellence at Guelph General Hospital, where she does psychiatric assessments for candidates for gastric bypass surgery and helps the team work with the intersection between mental illness and obesity to help patients achieve the best possible outcome in their weight loss journey.

Her areas of interest and clinical expertise include trauma, addictions, mood and anxiety disorders, adult ADHD as well as mindfulness based interventions and their application in health care, physician's health and resilience training. Dr. Alvarez is certified as a facilitator for Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy and Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction through. She facilitates mindfulness based programs and group therapy for patients as well as for healthcare professionals. Dr. Alvarez's broad area of expertise in her clinical work offers a unique perspective to mental health issues. She is a highly skilled diagnostician and helps individuals see more clearly the landscape of their mental health struggles with unconditional positive regard and a psycho-spiritual approach when welcomed.

Dr. Alvarez is the founder of the Being AWERE Institute for human growth, integration and awakening where she combines her 21 years of experience in mental health and her years of mindfulness training, yoga practice and personal work to help individuals strengthen their human condition and express their full potential. She has developed programs to help healthcare professionals and institutions acknowledge and differentiate their role as health care professionals from their role as human beings. Her programs offer practical strategies to move from our habitual reactivity to life’s challenges and painful experiences to a more skillful response coming from a place of inner wisdom and freedom from old and no longer helpful conditioning.

Dr. Alvarez has created programs for healthcare including the Clinician Heal Thyself Program, offered at Cambridge Memorial Hospital (Emergency Department and senior leadership); Integrating Mindfulness into Everyday Life, 7 Tools To Prevent Burnout And Increase Your Capacity To Embrace Any Situation, offered to the Waterloo Wellington LHIN for primary care physicians and more recently Surviving and Thriving During Times Of Covid-19, offered through the Canadian Mental health Association and privately to front line healthcare workers.

Dr. Alvarez completed her medical school and first Psychiatry residency training at the Universidad Militar Nueva Granada in Bogotá, Colombia, and then when she immigrated to Canada in 2004 she completed her second Psychiatry residency training at McMaster University in Hamilton Ontario. She speaks both English and Spanish.

Dr. Julia Wong is a Fellow in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, a general Adult psychiatrist, holds a Master of Arts degree in counselling psychology from the University of British Columbia, and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Victoria. She works at BC Children's Hospital as one of the Emergency Room Consultant Psychiatrists and is the Psychiatry Continuing Professional Development Director. She has worked as the Co-medical director of the BCCH Provincial Eating Disorder program, consultant to the BCCH tertiary ADHD clinic, and consultant in the Compass Line program for mental health questions around the province. Dr. Wong also works in a specialized school program in the community and has a private practice working with elite athletes and performers, is consultant to the Canadian Sport Institute with a previous affiliation to the Canadian Centre for Mental Health in Sport.  Dr. Wong holds an appointment as a Clinical Instructor in the UBC Department of Medicine.

Dr. Wong is described by colleagues as a physician with excellent therapeutic skills and strong leadership skills who is extremely dedicated in the care she provides for the needs of patients and their families. She excels at assessment and developing case formulations that drive treatment decision making, balancing care with firmness. With colleagues from a variety of disciplines, she is noted to be a supportive and safe colleague for debriefing and consultation, with colleagues noting she would be their choice for their family members.

Dr. Wong draws on her diverse background of experiences in theatre, music, international athletic competition, and, most significantly, her experiences as a daughter, sister, mother and wife to connect with her patients. More recently, Dr. Wong has incorporated Brainspotting into her practice, particularly to intervene early in sports injuries and for performance goals for performers in any field.