Taylor Hudd

PhD, C. Psych.

Dr. Taylor Hudd received her PhD graduate in Clinical Psychology from the University of Waterloo. She has extensive training and experience for the treatment of Chronic Pain, Social Anxiety Disorder, OCD, and PTSD. Taylor additionally treats a wide range of anxiety and mood disorders and symptoms, including panic attacks, excessive worry, and rumination. She also works with individuals who are experiencing relational difficulties, such as romantic, familial, or friendship conflicts, and symptoms of loneliness and isolation. 

Taylor works at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) where she currently helps individuals to recover from traumatic life events and chronic pain symptoms. She previously worked with clients at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton’s Anxiety Treatment and Research Clinic (ATRC), the Centre for Mental Health and Treatment Clinic (CMHRT) in Waterloo, and Sunnybrook Hospital’s inpatient OCD treatment program in Toronto, where she helped people to manage a broad range obsessive thoughts and compulsions about contamination, love and fidelity in romantic relationships, religious beliefs, committing unwanted harm to others or oneself, and the need for actions and decisions to feel “just right”.

Taylor uses a range of therapeutic orientations, such as Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT); Inference-based CBT (iCBT) for OCD; Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) for OCD; Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT); trauma-informed interventions such as Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT); and chronic pain treatments such as Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) and Emotion Awareness and Expression Therapy (EAET). She draws from multiple orientations because there are many effective ways to reduce psychological symptoms and navigate challenging life experiences, and Taylor believes each individual requires individually-tailored treatment that accounts for their unique worldview, learning style, and past therapy experiences. After collaboratively establishing goals, Taylor may use a number of evidence-based strategies to help people increase their self-insight, confidence, and hope. These strategies may include somatic or emotion expression exercises, behavioural experiments, role-plays, or imaginal/autobiographical memory techniques. More than anything else, Taylor is a relationship-focused therapist. Each relationship she builds with an individual is authentic and unique, but what remains the same is her unwavering warmth and support.

Taylor remains actively involved in research that continues to inform her clinical practice. She has published research on topics related to rejection sensitivity, painful life experiences, and the role of autobiographical memory in anxiety symptom development.