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Dr. Lindsay Borovay received her Bachelor's Degree (Honours) from Queen's University and her Master's Degree and Ph.D., from McGill University. She has worked both within the hospital and school setting. Her previous work experiences at the Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital and the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) provided extensive experience working with children, adolescents, and families dealing with various psychological and social-emotional difficulties. Dr. Borovay has also worked at the Lester B. Pearson School Board in Montreal where she provided assessment, intervention, counselling and consultation to teachers, parents, and students at both the elementary and high school levels.    

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​Dr. Borovay has been working within the private practice setting since 2008. She is committed to enhancing the well-being of children, adolescents, adults, and families by addressing their emotional, behavioural, academic, and relational needs. Her approach builds connection that helps foster resilience by positively impacting neurological, social, and emotional well-being through working from an attachment perspective. In her work with families, Dr. Borovay recognizes that parenting and managing relationships can be challenging. She understands the complexity of having to regulate oneself and manage personal stressors, while simultaneously having to care and support loved ones. In her work, Dr. Borovay strives to address caregivers’ struggles in their attempt to parent, overcome obstacles in their children's academic/social milieu, and in their professional/personal lives. These struggles are compounded by the presence of anxiety, depression, learning disabilities & ADHD, to name a few. 

 

Dr. Borovay has extensive experience conducting comprehensive psycho-educational and psychological assessments to identify children's, adolescents', and adults' cognitive, academic, information processing, and social-emotional functioning. She works with families to better understand their child's or adolescent's learning strengths and weaknesses and develops strategies that meets their needs across environments. Dr. Borovay also offers parent coaching and consultation, as well as treatment to individuals for ADHD, anxiety, depression, relational issues, and learning disabilities. 

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Dr. Borovay enjoys working with clients and families as well as consulting professionals in the youth camping industry. Leaning into her passion, Dr. Borovay consults camp professionals, facilitates staff development and training as well as leadership programming for campers/youth, and has engaged in the strategic planning for the development of camper care teams to various residential summer camps. She sits on the Board of Directors for an Ottawa Area Private School as well as the Learning Disability Association of the Ottawa-Carleton region. She is also a co-developer of the Parenting Workshop series for the Canadian Women in Medicine Organization (CWIM).

 

Dr. Borovay maintains memberships in national, provincial, and local psychological associations and keeps up to date on current developments in the field by regularly attending post-graduate educational workshops and lectures.