About

2010 June

Qualia Counselling Services is founded by Thomas Brown, to be a mental health clinic with leaders and psychotherapists who embrace openness, honesty, vulnerability and hospitality. Qualia opens the doors to a one of kind professional service that quickly became a place of healing and growth for clients and clinicians alike.

2010 Fall

Qualia develops a relationship with McMaster University – Michael G De Groote School of Medicine Residency Program. Qualia starts teaching Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to medical residents.

2012 October

The Qualia family grows so large that the clinic moves from a three to an eight office clinic, now residing at Conrad Medical Center.

2014 October

Qualia Six Nations opens and begins expanding services to the Indigenous population, through Indigenous Affairs funding. Qualia Six Nations, lovingly called Q6, begins in a small office at Grand River Employment and Training in Ohsweken, and then Community Living Six Nations opens it doors to share office space for this clinic. In April 2016 Q6 finally becomes a clinic all on it’s own, at 40 Cao Lane in Ohsweken.

2014-2015 November

Qualia merges and acquires Cognitive Solutions. Wanting to expand the great services Qualia offers and become even more a leader in innovative mental health treatment, Qualia’s team of Directors grew and became known as Qualia’s Leadership Team. Welcome Charity Fleming as a co-owner.

2015 July

From a long standing dream that the Qualia Leadership Team had of offering professionally excellent and rigorous Cognitive Behavioural Training, Qualia Academy is born. The first CBT Training Bootcamp is offered.

2015 September

Qualia Academy partners with Wilfrid Laurier University to offer a 72 hour CBT Certification program, comprised of two levels of rigorous CBT training. The Qualia Leadership team and a few highly qualified members of Qualia’s team begin teaching regularly at Laurier’s Faculty of Social Work. The face of Qualia’s partnership with WLU – Lynne Jordan – is later awarded the Qualia Community Partnership Award for her outstanding collaboration and professional excellence in this partnership.

2016 October

Qualia opens its third location at The Boardwalk in West Waterloo. Located in The Medical Center of The Boardwalk this location lovingly is nicknamed QWest and becomes Qualia’s new Head Quarters.

2017 October

Qualia Academy expands to launch the first ever of its kind Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Online Teaching Program. Partnering with Wilfrid Laurier & Contact North, clinicians all over Ontario and the nation now have accessible CBT Training available to them.

2018 March

Qualia Academy grows to offer more workshops, like CBT Lite for Front Line Professionals.

2018 July

Qualia Six Nations begins offering its unique Happy Holistic Kids Camps. These camps teach Land & Play Based Cognitive Behaviour Therapy interventions.

2018 September

Qualia Brantford opens its doors!