Educational workshops and training. I have more than 20 years of experience working with individuals suffering from chronic mental illness and addictions. I am a former staff member and psychotherapist at the Addictions Unit of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC). My private practice is located at the Seaforth Building (Côte-des-Neiges). I also provide individual and group therapy session u
sing Zoom. I primarily use motivational and psychoeducational approaches as well as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). I also use Mindfulness-Integrated CBT techniques for the treatment of chronic pain syndromes and individuals recovering from op**te dependence. I am a former Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at McGill University. I taught courses to undergraduate students (Issues in Drug Dependence), graduate students (Advanced Seminar in Addiction), as well as residents in the Psychiatry Diploma Course and nurse practitioners. My teaching and academic work informs my clinical approach. The therapeutic work that I do is evidence-based - formulated on best practices, a critical evaluation of the current literature and informed by an up-to-date understanding of what works in the treatment of emotional problems and addictions. I have more than 25 years of experience organizing and delivering courses, workshops, presentations and clinical training related to addictions and mental health. Recent examples of training workshops and presentations are listed below
Course Organizer: Treating Substance Dependence and Mental Illness: Tools for Practitioners, 2019. A two-day course organized at the Allan Memorial Institute, MUHC. The objective was to provide practical tools for practitioners that facilitate the detection, screening and assessment of clients with substance use disorders and comorbid mental illness in the community
Organizer and Instructor: One-Day Staff Training Workshop on Psychopharmacology and Addiction + Concurrent Addiction and Mental Disorders. Wabano Aboriginal Health Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, 2016
Instructor: Biopsychosocial Approaches to Addiction. Fundamentals Course on Addiction, Joint Meeting of the International & Canadian Societies of Addiction Medicine, 2016
Keynote Speaker: Personality Disorders and Concurrent Substance Dependence: Understanding Treatment Failure and Improving Outcomes. International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders, 2015
Workshop: What Clinicians Need to Know About Treating BPD and Addictions. International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders, 2015. Presentation: Gill K, Hamdullahpur K. A Critical Review of Heroin-Assisted Treatment: Evidence versus Ideology. Canadian Centre for Substance Abuse conference, 2015
Presentation: Hamdullahpur K, Fraser R, Charney D, Palacios-Boix J, Gill KJ. The Influence of Personality Disorders During Op**te Detoxification: Understanding Treatment Failure. Canadian Centre for Substance Abuse conference, 2015
Instructor: McGill Graduate Certificate in Chronic Pain Management, Comorbidities of Chronic Pain: Substance Abuse, 2015
