Stephen Rochefort

Walking into a first session with Dr. Stephen Rochefort, clients often find someone more interested in understanding their particular life story than in fitting them into a diagnostic category. Stephen works from the conviction that a person’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviours make sense once you understand the personal history and relationships that shaped them — the childhood experiences, the significant attachments, the ongoing push-and-pull between who others expect you to be and who you’re trying to become.

His practice draws together psychodynamic therapy, CBT, and DBT, which means he can address pressing symptoms while also exploring the deeper patterns underneath them. He works with teenagers and adults navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, eating disorders, personality disorders, abuse, addiction, and grief — including adolescents whose sense of self is being formed simultaneously in their relationships and on their feeds, where the pressure to perform a version of themselves rarely lets up.

Dr. Rochefort holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Simon Fraser University, with forensic, adult, and child emphases, alongside advanced training in DBT, Radically Open DBT, violence and suicide risk assessment, and trauma. He is a registered psychologist in British Columbia and a certified Clinical Traumatologist. Sessions are available online.