Lorraine Franco-Sham

Lorraine Franco-Sham is a Child and Family Therapist and an Approved Private Adoption Practitioner. She has over 11 years of experience providing therapy to children and adolescents and their families.

As a Family Therapist, she offers counselling services for children, adults and families specializing in:

• Parenting strategies & behaviour management
• ADD/ADHD
• Autism Spectrum Disorder/Aspergers
• Cognitive Behavioural therapy with children/youth with Anxiety or Depression
• School difficulties and advocacy within the school setting
• Trauma assessment and treatment
• Aggression and defiance
• Marital/co-parenting difficulties

As a Adoption Practitioner, she offers:

• Homestudy Assessments for International and Domestic Adoptions
• Post-Adoption counselling
• Attachment focused therapy
• Birth-Parent counselling

Lorraine has a Masters of Social Work from Wilfrid Laurier University. She is a Registered Social Worker with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Social Workers, a Member of the Ontario Association of Social Workers, and a Member of the Ontario Association of Private Adoption Practitioners.