About

Patrick Franklin Woodtli is a clinical psychologist, holding a doctorate in psychology from the Université du Québec à Montréal, and a member of the Ordre des psychologues du Québec. Initially trained in anthropology and philosophy, he practices in Montreal in private practice as well as within an outpatient psychiatric service.

His path was shaped gradually, through a series of heterogeneous professional and cultural experiences, before a clinical commitment progressively emerged. A formative experience in the field of international cooperation became a turning point, leading him back to university studies and eventually to doctoral training in clinical psychology.

His doctoral research explored developmental processes underlying certain forms of identity vulnerability, particularly in personality disorders and contexts of complex trauma. His clinical work is grounded in an integrative psychodynamic orientation, attentive to the quality of the therapeutic relationship, processes of subjectivation, and transformations in one’s relation to time, meaning, and others.

His approach draws notably from contemporary psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and certain relational and existential approaches.

Based in Montreal, he offers psychotherapy in both French and English, in person and online.

Some people seek therapy during a moment of crisis. Others arrive with the more diffuse feeling that something in their way of inhabiting their existence has become more difficult. Psychotherapy may then become a space where certain experiences, long left without form or language, can gradually be expressed, reflected upon, and transformed.

His clinical work is guided by a sustained attention to what, in each person, seeks a form through which to speak, a rhythm through which to unfold, and a singular way of inhabiting the relationship to others and to one’s own history.