
ROBERT VINCENT PIRO, M Ed, CCC, RP.
Light the way
PSYCHOTHERAPY
Professional Trainings
Internal Family Systems Level 3 Professional/ Practitioner’s 5 day training (March 2025)
Foundations of Clinical Supervision - An online course with the University of Ottawa set to satisfy the Clinical Supervising requirements of the CRPO. (2024)
Certified in Brainspotting by Dr. David Grand, Brainspotting Trainings LLP - (Sept 2022)
Internal Family Systems Level 1 Professional Training, 18 day training (2021 to 2022).
Brainspotting Canada Association – Brainspotting Phase 2, 3 day training (Oct 2020)
Joy Health & Research Centre – Dialectical Behavioral Therapy 35 Hour Training (May 2019)
Brainspotting USA/Dr. David Grand - Brainspotting Phase 5, a 3 day training (Feb 2025)
Internal Family Systems Level 2; an 8 day virtual training; working with shame, anxiety, & depression (March/April 2023).
IFSCA Advanced Course in IFS with Derek Scott - a two day virtual course (Sept 2022)
Brainspotting USA/Dr. David Grand - Brainspotting Phase 4, 3 day training (Dec 2021)
Brainspotting Canada Association – Brainspotting Phase 1, 3 day training (Sept 2020)
Oshawa Psychotherapy Training Institute –Best Practices Workshop, Trauma Informed CBT (Oct 2019)
From Freeze to Thaw; The Next Level. An advanced training in Bodyspotting (a brainspotting technique) to be completed Nov 2025
Brainspotting; From Freeze to Thaw - Unlocking Trauma in the Body. 3 day virtual training (March 2023).
Somatic IFS - IFS Institute – led by Susan McConnell - a one day IFS online training (May 2022)
Brainspotting Canada Association - Brainspotting Phase 3, 3 day training (Nov 2020)
Living Works – Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) (June 2019)
Canadian Mental Health Association - Introduction to Motivation Interviewing (May 2019)
Research Publications
Black, J., Belicki, K., McCann, A., & Piro, R. (2021). Dreaming of the Deceased After Miscarriage: A Pilot Study. Dreaming, 31(3), 229-243. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2021-81902-001
Black, J., Belicki, K., Piro, R., & Hughes, H. (2020). Comforting Versus Distressing Dreams of the Deceased: Relations to Grief, Trauma, Attachment, Continuing Bonds, and Post-Dream Reactions. OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying, 84(2), 525-550. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0030222820903850
Conferences
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Black, J., Belicki, K., Hughes, H., Piro, R., McCann, A., & Emberley-Ralph, J. (2019). Understanding dreams of the deceased. Paper presented to the annual meeting of the International Association of the Study of Dreams, Kerkrade, The Netherlands.