I recently met with Laurette over a grief and guilt issue to do with my mom dying. While I do believe that she is a good psychologist she was not a good fit for me. After a couple sessions I let her know that I didn’t feel she was connecting with me or providing the way to help me let go of my mom. Still she continued down the same route telling me that my mom’s substance abuse was something to be angry at. But I’m not. I needed her to hear that I needed tools to forgive me and my mom for her later years. Still I think she meant well but I came away with a bad taste in my mouth.

Submitted March 24, 2020

Laurette is a thoughtful, caring and compassionate therapist. She has treated me for depression and burnout. She is very easy to talk to and is non-judgemental. I always feel her support when I share my thoughts and struggles. She focuses on solutions. She has been patient and understanding as I put her solutions into practice in my life. The changes I have made since seeing her have made such an improvement in my life. I am so grateful to have found her.

Submitted July 2, 2019

Laurette has a warmth and wit that puts you at ease. She is an excellent listener, and her responses, endowed with wisdom, offer a key to addressing your problems, perhaps in a way you hadn't thought of. An engaging and inspiring relationship that resonates in your thoughts long after a session. I always look forward, no matter how difficult my day has been, to entering that special place that belongs just to the two of us and always come out of it feel expanded and inspired. I feel I've been on a journey. A remarkable psychologist, a remarkable woman

Submitted July 5, 2018

Laurette is an amazing therapist. She is very solution focused and continues to support me and my family during a challenging time. She is authentic honest and have really genuinely helped me understand my life. She has been compassionate as well as truly caring. If you are going through some tough times Laurette will be able to support you through and help you be empowered and take your power back.

Submitted May 12, 2018

Laurette is simply incredible. She saved my life and continues to help me navigate my past so that I can be fully present and alive. Her depth of knowledge and compassion are bottomless. She is a very special person in this world. I can't imagine all the lives she has touched in profound and important ways. Deep gratitude.

Submitted Dec. 20, 2017

Before I met Laurette Larocque, I was convinced my life-long depression was a reality that had to be managed. After several years of weekly sessions with Laurette, I feel qualitatively different and truly happy. Laurette's attentiveness and safe discussion has allowed me to understand and accept myself within the context of the emotional neglect I experienced as a child and the sexual abuse I suffered as an adolescent. She went above and beyond in her support as I worked through personal tragedy that occurred during the course of our treatment program and when I engaged the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board. Laurette is kind, insightful, knowledgable and articulate. Compassion and expertise are ever present in her practice. Lively debate, joy, and deep grief seasoned our difficult work together. She is very accommodating with her schedule, punctual, and focused during sessions. I cannot praise her enough and strongly recommend her.

Submitted Nov. 15, 2017

I can not say enough of this caring, extremely smart and witty psychotherapist. I saw Laurette for a number of years for therapy. There were many days that I felt I knew what the 9 circles of Dantes Fire but Laurette was always there with her competence to reach in and pull me up. At first I was more in the circles of inferno than out but over time Laurette taught and fought with me to climb up and to stay up. Therapy is hard and there are many times you feel like giving up. Laurette is patient and understanding of these times. She walked along side of me on my journey, never pulling and never pushing but tenderly encouraging. I had what we call a box of monsters under my bed. Every week for a very long time we would pull the box out together and examine the monsters until they were not scary anymore. Laurette is prompt, is not tardy and does not miss appointments. She is always there. When I was in crisis Laurette was there for me. I knew she had other clients but her work and dedication with me made me feel like I was the only one. This helped my recovery immensely. Laurette is quick to figure out which type of therapy is best suited to your needs, whether it be cognitive, emotional etc. The cabin that she had built for her patients which is in her back garden is wonderful. Its cosy, its liberating but most of all - it feels safe. I highly recommend Dr Laurette Larocque for everyone's emotional journey.

Submitted Aug. 9, 2017

Laurette is an excellent, supremely capable therapist -- her ability to mobilise multiple treatment modalities (psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioural, emotion-focussed, client-centred, etc.) and employ each one with competence and care is one of the many things that makes her great at what she does.

She was never late for a session, never missed a session -- and I saw her over a period of two years, often weekly. She was also willing to be (somewhat, but not excessively -- she is not a doormat) flexible in when payments were made, as well.

Her therapeutic space is lovely, too -- a small cabin in her backyard in a quiet old city of Guelph neighbourhood, built just for the purpose of being a therapy room.

She saved me from myself, and I cannot recommend her highly enough. Most especially if you have tried other therapies (short-course CBT, antidepressants, etc.) and found them insufficient in facilitating your recovery.

Submitted March 8, 2017

She quite literally saved me from myself. The setting for her sessions is perfect. She is patient, kind, and incredibly smart. She is meant to do this kind of work. Highly recommend her.

Submitted June 16, 2016

I highly recommend Dr. Larocque. She helped me years ago with battling anxiety and I still successfully use, refer to and sometimes pass on what I learnt during our sessions together. She was unbelievable and have her to thank for the highly functional and successful life I lead today.

Submitted Nov. 6, 2014