Marilyn Thorpe

After graduating from McMaster and University of Western Ontario, Dr. Thorpe spent 22 years in private practice doing Adolescent and Young Adult Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and working with London’s Children’s Aid Society and Child Forensics.  She moved to Victoria in 2013 where she continued her forensic work and spent four years at UVic Student Health Services where she led a project to build mental health services and to develop “pit appointments”, joint collaborative psychiatric assessments done in a family doctor’s office with a family doctor, patient and psychiatrist. The clinic won the 2017 Canadian CFPC/CPA Collaborative Mental Health Care Award.  She was involved with spreading this idea and began work remotely by video link in 2019 with Carrier Sekani Family Services. And eventually got MSP funding for the collaborative appointments. Since 2019, she has been especially devoted to work with our Indigenous neighbours, especially in remote northern parts of the province, and is now the psychiatry lead and medical director at the First Nations virtual medical clinic.  She has Faculty appointments in Medicine at both UBC and UVic.