The Arterie is a collective of likeminded therapists who practice together in a homey Burlington clinic, on the westernmost shores of lake Ontario.

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    HOSPITALITY

    The Arterie is home to 6 full-time private practices & part-time others.

    We don’t doubt that clinical excellence in therapy can be delivered via video or phone conference: we do the same in a pinch (à la pandemic).

    However, Arterie therapists are the increasingly rare ones who invest in the considerable overhead expense of a well-kept consulting & waiting room, easy parking, and a good location. These are therapists who prioritize the liberating yet focussing context of fully hosting a private sit-down to think / talk / create mental health.

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    CREATIVITY

    Arterie therapists treasure the riches of being able to take the unseen—the ‘more than words’— into view with creative, experiential, expressive therapy modalities like art therapy, play therapy, internal family systems work, dialogue therapy.

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    QUALITY ASSURANCE

    As a team, we learn together. Clients must be able to sense the shared commitment to the art and craft of psychotherapy. In good conversations, both regularly scheduled and stumbled-upon, we maintain the privacy of our clientele, but share our big questions.

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    PSYCHODYNAMIC FRAMEWORK

    The psychology of mindfulness and behaviour feature in professional assessments and treatments, as they must. What is rare and so valuable is that our collective draws together accomplished professionals who implement cognitive and behavioural techniques within the matrix of contemporary psychodynamic theory and relational psychoanalysis. This must read like shop-talk, but you sure want to know that your therapist can talk shop. And we do, at The Arterie, every day.

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    INCLUSIVE GENERAL PRACTICE

    “Child clients keep me from taking life too seriously, adult clients keep me taking childhood seriously.” ~ Sarah B

    The Arterie is home to general practices that are collectively enriched by a diversity of client ages and stages (children, teens, adults), as well as by a diversity of gender identity, and sexual orientation. Cultural diversity amongst Arterie therapists and clienteles is another asset. We maintain the house and the collective to be family friendly. Amongst the private practices in-house are services for couples, families, groups, and classes. The central request, and so the majority of our clientele, comes for longer-term individual psychotherapies, or shorter-term couple therapy.

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Two women standing in front of a house with the number 384 on the door. One woman has curly blonde hair, wearing a gray dress with jewelry. The other woman has long black hair, wearing a white shirt with jewelry, with her hand on her hip. They are positioned outside a house with beige brick walls and a black door.

We could not do without the radical ‘self-care’ that is teamwork.

Sarah Brodie
& Claudia Corradetti
co-founded
The Arterie in 2014.

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Our mission is to support one another towards mastery as professional healers & social entrepreneurs.

Likeminded professionals have joined in along the way.

Today, the Arterie is home to 6 full-time private practices & part-time others.