Dr. Précilia Hanan

Précilia's work sits where psychology, trauma, and the law meet, and where clarity, truth, and human dignity matter most. She works at the front lines of high-conflict family dynamics, domestic violence, child disclosures, parental capacity, and complex psychosocial realities, with a steady, precise presence that lets her hold complex material with depth and bring structure to chaotic situations.

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Her expertise spans psychosocial and psycholegal evaluation, trauma-informed care, DBT-informed therapy, psychoeducational assessment, and complex behavioural presentations. She supports children, adolescents, adults, and families whose stories require both clinical sensitivity and legal intelligence, and her practice is known for being structured, human, and thorough.

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Her style is grounded and direct: warmth without losing boundaries, compassion without losing clarity, clinical creativity without sacrificing evidence or rigour. People come to her when things are complicated, and when they need someone who can hold the emotional truth and the legal context at the same time.

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Through her work at the Service de médiation familiale et d'expertise psychosociale and extensive private mandates, Précilia has led numerous evaluations involving parental capacity, family violence, supervised access, attachment, developmental needs, and high-risk relational patterns. She collaborates with lawyers, social workers, and multidisciplinary teams, bringing forward analyses that are detailed, ethically sound, and child-centred.

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Her therapeutic background includes trauma-focused interventions, emotion-regulation work, crisis support, ADHD and executive-functioning assessment, and long-term work with people navigating intense relational pain, identity wounds, and behavioural dysregulation.

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Précilia completed her PhD in Clinical Psychology at the Université du Québec à Montréal, specializing in child development and the cultural validity of assessment tools. Her research, conducted across Montréal and France, examines how culture, context, and pedagogy shape children's engagement, and how assessment tools must adapt to remain fair and valid. At Kaïa, she anchors the clinic's psychosocial and psycholegal division and helps develop its programs.