Meagan Yarmey PhD, MA, MSW, RSW
About
Most of the people I work with are not struggling in the conventional sense.
They are capable, accomplished, and stuck. That is its own kind of problem.
I hold three graduate degrees, including a doctorate in psychology, and have spent nearly two decades working across psychological science, clinical practice, and education.
Before entering clinical practice, I taught psychology at the undergraduate and graduate level across several Ontario universities.
My academic work included peer-reviewed publications, a co-authored book chapter and service on the editorial board of Law and Human Behavior.
The work that followed grew naturally from that foundation.
As an embedded clinician at the University of Waterloo, I worked with high-achieving students under sustained academic and professional pressure. I later led national curriculum design for the University of Waterloo's Mental Health Literacy Certificate. At Havergal College, I designed and led the school's first institutional wellbeing framework. Earlier consulting work included contributing to a biopsychosocial model of resilience for the Department of National Defence.
Alongside formal training in psychology, I have maintained a long-term interest in practices involving attention, regulation, and performance under pressure, including yoga, meditation, breathwork, and martial arts. Those disciplines continue to shape how I think about attention, regulation, and change.
My path into clinical practice was not a straight one. Before becoming a therapist, I spent years in academia, research, and consulting after completing my doctorate in psychology. Later, as a solo parent of a two-year-old, I returned to graduate school to complete my clinical training and build a new career. That experience deepened my appreciation for how often capable people find themselves navigating uncertainty, reinvention, self-doubt, and pressure despite doing all the right things.
What ties it all together is a sustained focus on one question: