DAVID CESARINI, MSW, RSW

Waterloo, ON | david@davidstherapy.ca | (519) 498-3904

CURRENT EMPLOYMENT

PSYCHOTHERAPIST March, 2018 – Present

Private Practice – DavidsTherapy.ca
Thriving practice performing cognitive behavioural therapy and dialectical behaviour therapy for
individuals, couples, and families.

CLINICAL COUNSELLOR Feb, 2019 – Present

Family Counselling and Support Services Guelph Wellington

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

COUNSELLOR 2017 – 2019

House of Friendship – Community Addiction Services
I counselled people concerned about their mental health and substance use, problem gambling and
technology use.

PARENTAL LEAVE & EDUCATION LEAVE

Stay-At-Home Dad & Social Work Student 2010 - 2014

PRACTICUM

FAMILY COUNSELLING & SUPPORT SERVICES OF GUELPH WELLINGTON

Clinical Intern Therapist 09 / 2016 – 04 / 2017

Individual, couple, family, and group therapy provided by developing an appropriate, solution-focused
plan of intervention. Identifying and supporting clients that are at-risk of addictions, violence,
suicide, physical harm, homicide, crisis, and psychiatric emergencies.
 UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO 2016 - 2017

Master of Social Work
Social Justice & Diversity Program

Major: Collaborative Program in Addictions Studies (CoPAS)

Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO - RENISON COLLEGE 2014 - 2016

Bachelor of Social Work, Dean’s Honours List

UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO 1994 - 1997

Bachelor of Arts, Psychology

CERTIFICATIONS
CERTIFICATE PROGRAM IN CBT April, 2017 – April, 2018
CounselCareCanada Learning Solutions

11-month course approved by the Canadian Counselling & Psychotherapy Association

and Canadian Addiction Counsellors Certification Federation for 160 Credit Hours.

CONTINUING EDUCATION
BRIEF NARRATIVE THERAPY TRAINING Mar., 2019
Windz Institute

COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAM IN DBT Sept., 2018

CounselCareCanada Learning Solutions

INTRODUCTION TO PROBLEM GAMBLING: PHASE ONE Nov., 2018

CAMH-PSSP

CONCURRENT DISORDERS AND THE MENTAL STATUS EXAM Nov, 2018

CAMH Gambling, Gaming and Technology Use Knowledge Exchange

GAIN Q3 MI ONT SITE INTERVIEWER CERTIFICATION June, 2018

CAMH-PSSP, West Region & Chestnut Health Systems

TAKE HOME NALOXONE TRAINING Feb., 2018

BC Harm Reduction Program
APPLIED SUICIDE INTERVENTION SKILLS TRAINING (ASIST) April, 2017
Living Works

TRI-COUNCIL INTRODUCTORY RESEARCH ETHICS CERTIFICATE Jan., 2017

The Interagency Advisory Panel on Research Ethics (TCPS 2: CORE)

NON-VIOLENT CRISIS INTERVENTION TRAINING PROGRAM Dec., 2017

Crisis Prevention Institute

PRIMER ON ANTAGONIST-BASED TREATMENT

OF OPIOID USE DISORDER IN THE OFFICE SETTING
American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry Oct., 2017

ADULT CPR & AED Nov., 2017

St. John Ambulance

CENTRE FOR INTERPROFESSIONAL EDUCATION (IPE)

University of Toronto, 2017

• Dietetics Activity – Trillium Health Partners Mississauga Hospital

• My First Patient Death, Palliative Care – Trillium Health Partners Credit Valley Hospital
• HIV & Rehabilitation Online Activity
• Delirium – Look, Screen, Intervene