Boris Kris:

Education/Certification:
B.Ed., M.A., M.Sc., AAMFT Associate Member

Supervised Training Experiences:
Boris has a Masters of Science Degree in Couple and Family Therapy from the University of Guelph, where he gained two years AAMFT supervised clinical experience in counseling individuals, couples, and families.

Professional Experiences:
Over the last two years, Boris has served individuals, couples, and families in the Mississauga, Brampton, and Orangeville offices of Catholic Family Services of Peel Dufferin, as well as facilitated therapeutic groups at the agency. He has provided specialized services through the Safer Families program, which has been a collaborative initiative between Catholic Family Services of Peel Dufferin and Peel Children’s Aid.

The services he offered specialized in fathering issues, domestic violence, partner assault response programs, abuse, and trauma. He has also had some experience in helping people who have been living with addictions of various kinds.

Mission Statement:

Boris uses a variety of approaches, including dialogic, narrative, solution-focused, cognitive behavioural, and emotion-focused therapies. In particular, he enjoys helping people understand the communication and interaction patterns that they may have with partners, children, relatives, friends, and co-workers, and helping them build new ways of interacting that can allow for new, positive experiences in their lives.

For Boris, his Christian faith is integral to the well-being of individuals, couples, and families. He believes that God provides for us an unchanging and inexhaustible resource of personal worth, grace, affirmation, and compassion to face the challenges of life and to enjoy the beautiful times. Boris uses God’s kindness in the process of therapy to help people access new perspectives and fresh motivation to become who they are designed to be in Christ.