Specializations: Dea specializes in supporting women who are healing from trauma, managing anxiety, and seeking to reconnect with their authentic selves. Her work is grounded in trauma-informed psychotherapy and integrates somatic approaches and mindful coaching to support emotional and nervous system regulation.

Approach & Modalities: Dea takes a holistic, mind–body approach to therapy, helping clients understand and release long-held patterns shaped by stress and life experiences. Her work emphasizes nervous system regulation, self-awareness, and the cultivation of greater emotional resilience and clarity.

Experience: With over 25 years of clinical and coaching experience, Dea supports women navigating emotional healing, major life transitions, and the ongoing impact of stress on their minds and bodies.

Credentials: Dea is a Registered Psychotherapist with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers. She is also a Certified Life Coach and a Meditation Teacher.

Therapeutic Philosophy: Dea is committed to creating a safe, grounded, and compassionate therapeutic space. She supports clients in strengthening self-trust, feeling more centred, and building lives that reflect their values, purpose, and inner wisdom.

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Specializations: Vidhi specializes in supporting individuals navigating relational trauma, including challenges within romantic and family relationships, as well as major life transitions. She works with clients who have experienced loss, betrayal, emotional neglect, or adverse life experiences that can lead to feelings of disconnection, hopelessness, or powerlessness.

Approach & Modalities: Vidhi offers a compassionate, warm, and nonjudgmental therapeutic space where clients can explore difficult thoughts and emotions safely and at their own pace. Her work is grounded in trauma-informed, evidence-based approaches that are thoughtfully tailored to each client’s unique needs and experiences.

She takes a practical, skills-focused approach to therapy, supporting clients in developing tools that help them navigate challenges, overcome barriers, and improve their overall quality of life.

Experience: Vidhi works with children, adults, families, and couples, offering online counselling.

Credentials: Vidhi is a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) in Ontario, Canada. She is a trauma therapist with clinical experience supporting individuals and families on their healing journeys.

Therapeutic Philosophy: Vidhi believes that life’s challenges and adverse experiences can deeply shape how people see themselves and the world around them. She is committed to helping clients reconnect with themselves, build resilience, and move toward healing through self-exploration, empowerment, and compassionate support.

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Specializations: Kimia specializes in supporting teens, young adults, and parents navigating anxiety, panic, perfectionism, low motivation, emotional overwhelm, school-related stress, identity exploration, social anxiety, and family conflict. She works with teens who may feel stuck, uncertain, or overwhelmed by difficult emotions, as well as parents seeking support in understanding their teen, reducing tension at home, and strengthening communication and connection.

Approach & Modalities: Kimia’s approach is warm, practical, and evidence-based. She integrates Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), exposure-based interventions, and self-compassion strategies to help clients develop emotional regulation skills and build confidence.

She is also completing specialized training in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) for teens, treatment for self-injury, and Emotion Focused Family Therapy (EFFT), allowing her to effectively support both adolescents and their families.

Experience: Kimia works collaboratively with teens, young adults, and parents, helping families navigate challenges with greater understanding, calm, and connection. Her work focuses on supporting teens in managing emotions and life stressors while empowering parents with tools to foster healthier relationships at home.

Credentials: Kimia is a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) in Ontario. She offers therapy in English, Persian, and French.

Therapeutic Philosophy: Kimia believes that therapy can be a supportive and empowering space for growth, self-discovery, and connection. She is committed to helping teens build confidence and emotional resilience while supporting parents in creating more understanding, supportive, and connected family environments.

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Maria Mendez, RP (Qualifying)

Psychotherapy for Teens & Adults

Specializations: Maria supports teens and adults who are navigating a wide range of emotional and psychological challenges. Her areas of focus include trauma, grief, depression, anxiety, racial trauma, and body‑image concerns. She also works with individuals recovering from motor vehicle accidents (MVA) and those coping with the emotional and physical aftermath of overwhelming or distressing events.

Maria has a particular interest in helping clients understand how their internal experiences, thoughts, emotions, and learned patterns, shape their daily lives. She supports individuals struggling with emotion regulation, self‑esteem difficulties, identity‑related stress, relationship challenges, and the lingering effects of early or relational trauma.

Approach & Modalities: Maria approaches therapy from a person‑centered foundation, emphasizing respect, collaboration, and genuine presence. Guided by psychodynamic principles, she helps clients explore the deeper roots of their emotional experiences and understand how past relationships and environments influence current patterns.

She is trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Child & Adolescent Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT). To ensure therapy is responsive to each client’s needs, she integrates a range of evidence‑based modalities, including: • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) • Trauma‑Focused CBT (CBT‑TF) • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) • Solution‑Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) • Emotion‑Focused Therapy (EFT) • Blended approaches that support individualized, flexible care

Maria’s therapeutic style is warm, steady, and grounded. She prioritizes creating a space where clients feel safe to explore their inner world without fear of judgment.

Experience: Maria is a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) with a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology from Yorkville University. She has experience supporting both teens and adults through trauma recovery, emotional regulation challenges, identity exploration, and the complexities of everyday life.

Clients often describe Maria as approachable, thoughtful, and deeply attuned. She brings a calm, supportive presence to her work and is committed to helping clients feel understood, respected, and empowered throughout their therapeutic journey.

Credentials: • RP (Qualifying), College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario • MACP, Yorkville University • Training in EMDR • Training in Child & Adolescent DBT • Ongoing commitment to professional development and evidence‑based practice

Therapeutic Philosophy: Maria believes that therapy is most effective when clients feel genuinely seen and supported. She views healing as a process of developing insight, strengthening emotional awareness, and building the capacity to respond to life with greater clarity and self‑trust. Rather than pushing for quick fixes, she focuses on helping clients understand themselves more deeply and create meaningful, sustainable change.

Her philosophy centers on the idea that every person carries the potential for growth, even in moments of uncertainty or pain. Maria’s role is to walk alongside clients as they uncover that potential, offering guidance, curiosity, and compassion as they move toward a more grounded and authentic way of living.

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Sadaf Noureen

M.Sc. (Clinical Psychology), M.A. (Counselling and Psychology) Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)

Psychotherapy

Specializations: She provides a culturally sensitive and compassionate space where clients can express themselves in the language and context that feels most natural to them. With a deep understanding of Asian culture, family dynamics, and values, she can connect meaningfully and offer therapy that resonates on a personal level. She integrates clinical expertise with genuine human connection to support individuals, couples, and youth in regaining balance during life’s most challenging moments. She works with clients navigating grief, bereavement and loss, abuse, PTSD, depression, addiction, stress and anxiety, anger, relationship concerns, self-esteem difficulties, inner child work, suicide and self-harm, pre-marital counselling, trauma, academic stress, ADHD, cultural shock, separation or divorce, career or health changes, relocation, spiritual, and other significant life transitions.

She is also deeply committed to supporting refugees and immigrants in rebuilding their lives. As an immigrant herself, she has witnessed firsthand the profound impact immigration can have on mental health, even across generations. This lived experience continues to fuel her passion for making a meaningful difference.

Approach & Modalities: Sadaf approaches therapy from a person-centered and trauma-informed lens. Her integrative style incorporates EMDR, psychoanalysis, psychodynamic therapy, inner child work, Gottman Method, TF-CBT, DBT, CBT, IFS, Gestalt, Motivational Interviewing (MI), Transactional Analysis (TA), mindfulness-based practices, as well as solution-focused and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Through this flexible framework, she works to reduce emotional overwhelm, restore stability and ego strength, and help clients reconnect with clarity.

She tailors her approach thoughtfully to each client, maintaining a strong focus on the therapeutic relationship. Sadaf is especially passionate about supporting multicultural individuals and those navigating life transitions within a warm, genuine, and safe environment. Her collaborative style fosters a steady, holding space where clients can reconnect with themselves and build trust in their capacity to heal and grow.

Experience: Sadaf brings over 10 years of experience in therapy and counselling, supporting individuals, adolescents, young adults, families, couples, and the geriatric population as they navigate life’s challenges and personal struggles. She has worked extensively with university students and across diverse clinical and community settings, including a rehabilitation centre, with street children, and with individuals experiencing addiction, including chemical and non-chemical. Her work spans individual, group, and family therapy, and includes supporting neurodivergent clients, as well as providing premarital and couples counselling.

Clients describe her space as culturally attuned and welcoming, one where healing feels both structured and deeply personal. They experience her as empathetic, emotionally attuned, compassionate, an active listener, non-judgmental, genuine, and fully present. Above all, clients report feeling respected and supported as they explore their experiences with openness and vulnerability.

Credentials: Sadaf has done Masters in Clinical Psychology. She also holds a Master of Education Degree in Global Mental Health Counselling and Psychology from the University of Toronto (OISE). She is a member of the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO) and practices as a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) in Ontario, Canada. She is also a member of the Ontario Association of Mental Health Professionals (OAMHP).

As a trauma therapist, Sadaf brings clinical experience in supporting individuals and families on their healing journeys. She strongly believes in the ongoing professional growth of therapists and remains committed to continuous learning, supervision, and skill development to ensure her work remains ethical, informed, and responsive to clients’ evolving needs. She offers therapy in English and Urdu and can also understand Hindi and Punjabi.

Therapeutic Philosophy: Sadaf recognizes that many people arrive in therapy carrying layers of emotional pain, uncertainty, and life transitions that can feel difficult to hold alone. Grounded in Yalom’s fellow traveller perspective, she approaches therapy as a collaborative, human-to-human journey marked by authenticity and shared humanity. She intends to support clients in developing deeper self-awareness, resilience, and trust in themselves as they move toward meaningful and sustainable change.

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Speacializations: Shimul specializes in individual trauma therapy, anxiety, and relationship concerns. She supports clients who are working through past emotional wounds, life transitions, and patterns that no longer serve them. Her work is particularly focused on helping individuals build emotional resilience, regain a sense of control, and create healthier relational dynamics. Shimul also works with couples seeking to strengthen communication, rebuild trust, and deepen emotional connection.

Approach & Modalities: Shimul takes a structured, trauma-informed approach grounded in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), and Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT). She integrates practical skill-building with deeper emotional processing to help clients understand their patterns, regulate overwhelming emotions, and develop more adaptive ways of coping and relating.

Experience: With several years of clinical experience across medical and community settings, Shimul has supported diverse clients navigating trauma, anxiety, relationship distress, and major life stressors. Her work reflects strong clinical training combined with a culturally sensitive and client-centred lens.

Credentials: Shimul Rajput is a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) in Ontario and holds a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology from Yorkville University. She is trained in CBT, DBT, and Emotionally Focused Therapy for couples.

Therapeutic Philosophy: Shimul is committed to creating a warm, collaborative, and non-judgmental space where clients feel both supported and empowered. Her style balances compassion with gentle accountability, helping clients move beyond insight into meaningful, sustainable change.

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Specializations: Freshta specializes in supporting teens, and adults in collaboratively navigating a wide variety of issues. With a culturally-sensitive, and person-centered approach, she works with clients to navigate anxiety, depression, burnout, self-esteem, explores strategies to improve confidence, emotional regulation, and cultural adjustment. She also works with clients who struggle with their self-worth by emphasizing the significance of self-love, decreasing social anxiety, constructing positive social bonds, and exploring new life transitions.

Approach & Modalities: Freshta prioritizes a non-directive, and non-judgmental therapeutic environment which enables clients to freely express their experiences, and concerns. She utilizes a multicultural framework to adapt strategies to satisfy the client’s concerns. Importantly, Freshta implements a range of modalities such as CBT, SFT, a person-centered approach, some narrative therapy, and DBT accordingly to work towards the client’s goals, and ensure that the therapy work is collaborative, effective, and positive.

She significantly values the experiences of others, and respects culturally diverse backgrounds. Thus, Freshta always utilizes a strengths-based approach by emphasizing the client’s abilities, working towards their empowerment, and developing coping strategies to face life’s challenges.

Experience: Freshta is a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) in Ontario, Canada. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology and a minor in Women’s & Gender Studies, as well as a Master of Arts degree in Counselling Psychology. Freshta offers therapy in English, and Farsi or Persian.

Therapeutic Philosophy: Freshta strongly holds the belief that individuals possess the capability to work towards achieving their individual goals, and addressing their concerns. For this reason, she is eager to learn alongside her clients, she is transparent, and highly values a collaborative relationship which emphasizes self-awareness, self-love, and self-confidence.

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Registered Psychotherapy (Qualifying)

Specializations: Saniya supports individuals and couples navigating anxiety, low mood, burnout, perfectionism, relationship stress, and major life transitions. Her areas of focus include identity development, self-esteem challenges, attachment-related concerns, people-pleasing patterns, work-related stress, and family or cultural pressures.

She works with clients experiencing immigration-related transitions, intergenerational conflict, relationship difficulties, and feeling stuck between expectations and personal values. Saniya also supports individuals who feel disconnected from themselves, unsure of who they are beneath external roles, or struggling with confidence and emotional overwhelm.

Approach & Modalities: Saniya views therapy as a collaborative and steady process grounded in safety, respect, and curiosity. She works from a person-centered, trauma-informed, and anti-oppressive lens, recognizing the broader social and relational contexts that shape emotional well-being.

Her approach integrates Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Narrative Therapy, Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT), Mindfulness-based strategies, and gentle expressive techniques. She is certified in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) and supports couples in strengthening emotional bonds, improving communication, and rebuilding trust.

Saniya’s style is warm, grounded, and practical. She supports clients in exploring deeper emotional patterns while also building concrete coping skills that can be applied in daily life.

Experience: Before training as a psychotherapist, Saniya worked as an Occupational Therapist in India, supporting children, families, and older adults in rehabilitation and community care. This experience continues to inform her holistic approach, recognizing the connection between mind, body, and environment.

Her own lived experience of immigration and navigating significant life changes deepens her understanding of transition, resilience, and rebuilding. She brings steadiness and compassion to clients working through uncertainty, loss, or identity shifts.

Credentials: Saniya is a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) in Ontario. She is certified in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) and is committed to ongoing professional development grounded in ethical, culturally responsive, and evidence-informed care.

Therapeutic Philosophy: Saniya believes healing is not about being fixed but about having a safe space to explore, reflect, and grow. She understands that meaningful change happens when individuals feel seen and supported while developing greater self-awareness and confidence.

She works at a pace that respects each client’s readiness and capacity, helping them move from feeling overwhelmed or stuck toward greater clarity, resilience, and connection.

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