Hamso brings together two clinical psychologists based in Canada and the United States, united by a shared approach to assessing and caring for attention. The collaboration is designed to welcome additional colleagues as the team develops. Your location determines the psychologist responsible for your care, who independently manages clinical services, records and billing.
PhD in Clinical Psychology; psychoanalytic psychotherapy and interpersonal approaches. Services in Québec and online only in Ontario, with an in-person option in Montréal.
Professional portrait
Dr. Morteza Modarres Gharavi is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst on the Hamso team in New York State. He has more than two decades of experience in clinical assessment, psychotherapy, research and teaching. His approach to assessing ADHD and difficulties with attention, concentration and executive functioning considers current symptoms alongside each person’s developmental history, psychological experiences, everyday functioning and cultural context.
When assessing children and adolescents, he pays particular attention to developmental history, family relationships, school experiences and differences in functioning across settings. When possible, he incorporates information from parents and schools. For adults, he considers difficulties with concentration, organization, planning and managing tasks, as well as how these difficulties affect relationships, work, education and sense of self. He also considers factors that may coexist with or explain the difficulties, including anxiety, mood difficulties, sleep disorders and learning difficulties.
His psychoanalytic background and psychodynamic approach help him attend to the inner and emotional dimensions of these experiences, including frustration, self-criticism, internal conflicts and the effects of recurring difficulties on personal and family relationships. The aim is to understand each person’s situation more precisely and offer recommendations suited to their needs and circumstances.
Dr. Modarres Gharavi currently serves as a supervising psychologist at the Pratt Institute Counseling Center in Brooklyn and teaches in the Intensive Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program (IPPP) at the William Alanson White Institute. He previously served as an associate professor of clinical psychology at Mashhad University of Medical Sciences and as the founding director of the clinical psychology department at Ibn Sina Psychiatric Hospital.
His academic and teaching experience includes psychological assessment, developmental psychopathology, clinical interviewing, differential diagnosis and psychotherapy training. He has also contributed to research on attachment-based play therapy and the validation of Persian-language psychological measures, including the MMPI-2 and the Maslach Burnout Inventory.
His professional experience in Iran and the United States, together with his familiarity with the experience of migration, informs his attention to language, culture, family expectations and social circumstances during assessment.