Camille M. Quamina, Clinical Psychologist

Camille M. Quamina, Clinical Psychologist My goal is to partner with you to enhance the quality of your life. I am a Clinical Psychologist and provide psychotherapy (therapy) to Adolescents and Adults.

Whether you are dealing with something specific or are seeking increased satisfaction and balance in life, I’m here to help. This may look like individual, couples, family or group therapy. I tailor my approach so that therapy can be energizing and facilitate a healthy change process for you.

16/06/2026

Somewhere along the way, many of us were taught that a good life should feel good most of the time. So when pain arrives, we assume something has gone wrong.

Sadness, disappointment, grief, uncertainty, and struggle aren't signs that you're failing at life. They're signs that you're living it.

Healing isn't learning how to avoid pain. It's learning how to make room for it without letting it convince you that joy is gone forever.

You can be grateful and grieving.
Hopeful and exhausted.
Growing and hurting.
Strong and struggling.

Life was never meant to be either/or.

The more we normalize the hard moments, the less alone we feel in them.

What's something difficult you're learning to make peace with right now? ✨

01/06/2026

Sometimes we find ourselves reacting not to reality, but to the meaning we have assigned to it. The mind fills in gaps, predicts outcomes, and creates narratives based on past experiences, fears, hopes, and unresolved emotions. We may convince ourselves that we are unwanted, incapable, or destined for disappointment, not because these things are true, but because the stories in our minds have become louder than the evidence before us.

The challenge is not to silence the mind, but to become more discerning about what we accept as truth. Not every thought deserves our trust, and not every feeling reflects a fact. When we pause to question the narratives we have created, we open ourselves to a broader perspective—one that allows room for possibility, understanding, and growth. In that space, we begin to see reality more clearly and free ourselves from illusions that can keep us stuck. ✨️

01/05/2026

TTGPA, SIBL AND TRINRE INTRODUCE FIRST SPECIALISED PROFESSIONAL INDEMNITY INSURANCE PROGRAMME FOR TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

The Trinidad and Tobago Group of Professional Associations Limited (TTGPA), in partnership with Specialist Insurance Brokers Ltd. (SIBL) and TRINRE Insurance Co. Ltd. (TRINRE), has introduced a first-of-its-kind Professional Indemnity Insurance Programme designed specifically for professionals in Trinidad and Tobago. The programme is exclusive to TTGPA’s membership of approximately 9,000 individual professionals and represents a decisive step forward in strengthening risk management across the professional community.
This initiative responds directly to the increasingly complex and evolving risk landscape faced by professionals, delivering a structured and locally relevant solution supported by the underwriting strength and expertise of TRINRE. It reflects TTGPA’s continued focus on identifying practical, high-impact solutions that address real risks facing its members.
Chief Executive Officer of SIBL, Mr. Blaine Hosang, underscored the importance of the programme in today’s environment. “Even the most experienced and diligent professionals face exposure to claims of error, negligence or omission. This programme has been carefully designed to provide comprehensive protection, including legal defense costs and financial coverage, enabling professionals to operate with greater confidence and security,” Hosang stated.
The solution provides protection against claims arising from professional services, safeguards both personal and business interests, and enhances professional credibility. Notably, it is the first programme of its kind developed specifically for the Trinidad and Tobago market, reflecting a focused and informed response to local risk realities.
President of the TTGPA, Mr. Justin Smith, highlighted the strategic importance of the initiative. “This programme represents a tangible and timely benefit to our members, many of whom operate in high-responsibility environments where risk exposure is inherent. TTGPA has deliberately advanced this solution to ensure our members have access to protection that is relevant, practical and aligned with the realities of professional practice. It strengthens the resilience of our professional community and reflects our commitment to moving beyond advocacy to delivering meaningful, value-driven outcomes,” Smith said.
The Professional Indemnity Insurance Programme forms part of a broader, long-term initiative to develop a comprehensive suite of solutions for TTGPA members. These solutions are intended to support not only the professional obligations of members but also their overall wellbeing and financial security, reinforcing TTGPA’s role as a central platform for professional support and advancement.

Hosang noted that the initiative reflects a shared commitment among all partners. “This engagement is grounded in delivering sustainable value to professionals. It goes beyond insurance products to establishing a framework of protection and support for individuals who contribute significantly to national development,” he said.
The Trinidad and Tobago Group of Professional Associations Limited (TTGPA), established in 1969, is an umbrella organisation based in Woodbrook, Port of Spain. It promotes high standards, ethics, and collaboration among professional bodies and operates the Professional Centre, supporting 21 member organisations across a wide range of disciplines, including accountants, architects, engineers, internal auditors, medical and allied professionals, and other key sectors.

In photo: L-R: Mr. Blaine Hosang, CEO, Specialist Insurance Brokers; Mr. George Smith, Risk and Underwriting Manager, TRINRE; Mr. Christian Charles, Specialist Service Advisor, Specialist Insurance Brokers; Mr. Justin Smith, President, TTGPA and Ms. Keshma Maharaj, TTGPA Secretary to Council at TTGPA’s Member Presidents meeting held in April 2026 at the HYATT Regency Hotel, POS.

28/04/2026

It can be confusing when people respond with defensiveness, rudeness, or hostility instead of taking accountability. Often, it’s less about the situation and more about protecting a self-image, especially when the emotions that accountability bring up feel uncomfortable or exposing, and even if their reaction creates harm or conflict for someone else.

Sometimes accountability has to be named when it hasn’t been taken. And when it’s pointed out, it can feel less like reflection and more like pressure. That’s where the shift happens; that is, where what could be insight turns into resistance.

So the pushback isn’t always about the accountability itself, but how it’s experienced. When it feels imposed rather than chosen, people are more likely to deflect or react instead of engage.

Therapy can be a space to understand these patterns, strengthen your boundaries, and decide how you want to respond to them. ✨

19/04/2026

This post strips away the idea that life is keeping score. There is a quiet assumption people carry that being good should somehow protect you. It doesn’t. Life isn’t set up to reward character with immunity. Things happen; random, unfair, undeserved, and they don’t check who you are first.

And this is the key part to healthy emotional processing, what happens to you shouldn’t depend on whether you think you earned it or not. If you wait to decide “did I deserve this?” before you let yourself feel it, respond to it, or move through it, you stay stuck longer. Once you let go of deserving, you stop getting stuck in that loop of trying to explain the pain before you deal with it.

Sometimes nothing about it makes sense. Sometimes it’s unfair. Sometimes it has nothing to do with your character at all. But it still needs to be processed, not justified. So try to shift the focus:
not why did this happen to me?
but what do I do with it now?

That’s where movement towards healing and healthy processing actually starts. ✨

15/04/2026

The pressure to measure yourself against others quietly pulls you out of your own life. It asks you to question your timing, your choices, and even your sense of self, in order to align with standards that were never designed with you in mind.

Often, those standards come through people who seem certain about who you should be, how you should act, and what your life should look like. But no one else is living within your internal world, your history, your needs, your process and so they cannot truly determine the shape or pace of your life. Over time, trying to meet these external expectations creates a kind of disconnection where you are present in your life, but not fully grounded in it.

A life begins to take shape when you step out of that comparison and begin to orient yourself inward instead. When you allow your pace to be your pace, your desires to be valid, and your path to unfold without constant evaluation. From there, taking up space is no longer something you have to justify or earn because it becomes a natural extension of being rooted in who you are. ✨

14/03/2026

Uncomfortable feelings like anxiety, sadness, hurt, shame, or jealousy often make us want to escape. Instead of sitting with the feeling, we tell ourselves stories about what it means. Thinking feels safer than feeling, but those stories are usually where the real struggle begins.

Anxiety turns into catastrophes. Sadness becomes hopelessness. Hurt becomes blame. The feeling itself would rise, peak, and fade if we just allowed it. The stories are what stick and keep us stuck.

Learning to pause before the story forms and noticing the feeling without adding a narrative is where true emotional freedom begins. Therapy is a safe place to practice this, to separate feelings from the stories we attach to them, and to respond in ways that actually help us move forward. ✨

23/02/2026

The mind has a habit of time-travelling: it revisits painful memories to try to “solve” them retrospectively, and it rehearses catastrophic futures to feel prepared. Both habits are protective in intention. They’re the brain’s way of trying to keep you safe but when they become constant, they turn into rumination and anxiety; two of the biggest thieves of well-being.

The fear of a bad future is often just an unhealthy relationship with uncertainty mixed with a lack of perceived control. Your nervous system treats imagined threats as if they’re real, triggering stress responses for events that may never occur. Similarly, the memory of a bad past becomes heavy when it hardens into identity.

In both cases, the common thread is attachment to time outside the present moment. When your attention is mostly here in the present moment, the past softens and the future loses its sharp edges.

Happiness isn’t amnesia and it isn’t blind optimism. It’s a quieter state: less rumination, less catastrophic projection, and more capacity to live in the only place where change is actually possible, the here and now or present moment. ✨

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