Meet Your Wellness Experts

Meet your Clinical Therapist

Cissy Pulikunnel, B.Sc., H.B.S.W., M.S.W., R.S.W.

As a professional mental health consultant and therapist since 1981, Cissy has worked in both Children's and Adult Mental Health facilities. A private practitioner with offices in Belleville, Brighton and Tyendinaga, Cissy provides counseling services to individuals, couples, families, children and adolescents.

Cissy also provides family mediation services and clinical consultation to mental health organizations.

Cissy’s focus is on prevention and wellness, and she enjoys assisting individuals maximize their potential for a healthy and productive lifestyle. She has conducted several workshop on family therapy, depression, anxiety and ADHD in children.

Cissy is known as an astute, compassionate and gifted therapist who brings hope to those in despair and darkness. Her ability to establish a therapeutic alliance is not only rooted in her understanding of psychosocial stress and how it manifests itself in the form of debilitating anxiety, depression and other disorders, but in her faith in the infinite possibilities of the human spirit. She has the utmost respect and reverence for the individuals who seek her help.

Cissy is dedicated to excellence in clinical practice and the promotion of health.

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Meet your Clinical Psychiatrist

Dr. Gerry Weaver, Pyschiatrist MD, MA, FRCP, (C)

Dr. Weaver grew up in Trenton, attended Trenton High School, and then went to Trent University in Peterborough where he earned his BA (Hons) in Sociology and Philosophy.

He then received an interdisciplinary MA at York University in the Graduate Program in Social and Political Thought.

He worked for a year as an orderly on the neurosurgery ward at Wellesley Hospital in Toronto.

Following this he attended McMaster University Medical School where his MD degree was conferred and he then received his psychiatry education at the University of British Columbia and was accepted as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in 1984.

For the next three years his work was divided between private practice, the psychiatric emergency room at the Vancouver General Hospital (where in his final year he had been chief resident), and court ordered assessments for the BC Adolescent Forensic Psychiatric Unit, before returning to the Quinte region in 1987.

Since then he has operated a private practice, and continues work with Mental Health Community Services, Geriatric Psychiatric Services, and Psychiatric Services for the intellectually disabled.

The common theme that runs through these practice venues has continued to be the combined individual and group reactions to stress, which will vary widely, from the benign to the extreme. Hence Dr. Weaver’s interest in post-traumatic stress disorders and other related stress disorders as they occur in most clinical circumstances.

Dr. Weaver is particularly keen to join the Centre for Family Preservation & Wellness on account of his belief in the importance of continuity of care for the most difficult aftermath that many of our veterans face.

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"Build hope, make a fresh start and become whole again"

Costs may be covered by Health Canada or other extended Health Plans