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 combination is its own specific problem.
I hold three graduate degrees, including a doctorate in psychology, and have spent nearly two decades at the intersection of psychological science, clinical practice, and institutional change.
Before entering clinical practice, I taught psychology at the undergraduate and graduate level across several Ontario universities, including Toronto Metropolitan University, the University of Guelph, University of Guelph-Humber, and Ontario Tech University.
My academic work included peer-reviewed publications, a co-authored book chapter with University of Toronto Press, and service on the editorial board of Law and Human Behavior.
The clinical and institutional work grew directly 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 and clinical practice, my work has been informed by long-term engagement with embodied disciplines, including more than two decades of practice in yoga, meditation, and breathwork, as well as earlier training in traditional martial arts and movement-based systems.
These were not adjunct interests, but sustained forms of study that shaped how I understand attention, regulation, and performance under pressure.
What ties it all together is a sustained focus on one question:
That question runs through the clinical work and the institutional work equally.
It is the same work, applied at different levels.