As we like to say – no system fits all! Our practitioners are there to get to know you, and finally work with you on your goals and concerns. We are here to help!
Lead Practitioner
With over 15 years of experience in the medical field, Pawel serves world-class care and understanding for all kinds of patients. It is all about building relationships based on trust and compassion to create a stress-free environment to speak openly.
People first, everything else second!
Pawel’s psychotherapy practice focused on working with healthcare specialists to help youth, families, and adults solve their health issues. From chiropractors through psychologists and massage therapists to social workers, it is always about picking the right team to help at the highest level. With over 15 years of experience in the medical field, Pawel and his team serve world-class care and understanding for all kinds of patients. It is all about building relationships based on trust and compassion to create a stress-free environment to speak openly. We are here to listen and help!
On the private side, Pawel has always been a competitive athlete. He played ice hockey at the College level and tennis at the Provincial level.
Chrissy specialises in providing a caring and supportive ear to those struggling with depression, anxiety, relationships, anger management, ADHD, grief, trauma, and the stress of everyday life.
Life is difficult sometimes, and we need to lean on each other to get through them.
Chrissy specialises in providing a caring and supportive ear to those struggling with depression, anxiety, relationships, anger management, ADHD, grief, trauma, and the stress of everyday life. With 20 years of work experience within the social service field in Canada and England, she helped individuals of all ages to gain coping skills to navigate their lives successfully.
She uses therapeutic techniques such as CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy), Expressive Arts Therapy, Brief Solution-focused Therapy, DBT, Trauma and Resiliency Approaches, Motivational Interviewing, Narrative Therapy and Mindfulness.
Zhivka has over seven years of experience providing psychotherapy to children, youth, adults and families.
“And if you cannot find your way out of the darkness, I will sit there with you and show you the stars.” N.R. Hart
Zhivka has over seven years of experience providing psychotherapy to children, youth, adults and families. She specializes working with families struggling with emotional regulation, anxiety, depression, separation, divorce, illness, and death.
To Zhivka, it is a privilege joining families on their journey seeing them grow confident, hopeful, and trusting of themselves, experiencing another way of being with themselves and their loved ones.
Zhivka uses models such as SFBT, Family Therapy, EFT, CBT, and IFS. Her approach is eclectic, trauma informed, attachment based, person-centered, and anti-oppressive; it is tailored to the individual and family’s needs.
Maria’s goal for each session is to support you in processing your feelings and emotions, developing coping and stress management skills, and leaving you feeling empowered.
Allowing yourself to find the proper support and encouragement during these difficult times can be crucial and imminent to your well-being.
Maria’s goal for each session is to support you in processing your feelings and emotions, developing coping and stress management skills, and leaving you feeling empowered.
She understands that we all have experienced a trivial moment or difficult encounter that has us questioning things we see around ourselves. Allowing yourself to find the proper support and encouragement during these difficult times can be crucial and imminent to your well-being. Finding a place of acceptance and serenity to provide inner peace is possible and can be done with the right person. Maria ensures that you feel validated and supported during your difficult time.
She has supported service users over the last three years overcoming addiction, trauma and other trivial experiences.
Amy is competent to provide counselling and therapy for career/academic development concerns, trauma, mood disorders, interpersonal effectiveness, and navigating life with minority identities.
Finding a place of acceptance and serenity to provide inner peace is possible and can be done with the right person
Amy is competent to provide counselling and therapy for career/academic development concerns, trauma, mood disorders, interpersonal effectiveness, and navigating life with minority identities.
She has experience working across various settings, including hospitals, college, and community clinics, providing mental health support to over 200 clients. The majority of her client population are children/families living with disabilities, youth, and young adults transitioning between life stages.
Services are offered in English and Mandarin via video conferencing, telephone or text as needed.
Yusra’s narrative approach infused with culturally appropriate knowledge is a powerful tool that allows her to connect with her clients to work towards healing.
The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.
Yusra’s narrative approach infused with culturally appropriate knowledge is a powerful tool that allows her to connect with her clients to work towards healing. She has over five years of experience providing client-centred services in a mental health Agency, Child Protection Services, and Settlement Agencies. Her expertise in the field has strengthened her understanding of the anti-oppressive framework in light of social justice advocacy and the client’s rights. She is a strong advocate for social justice and diversity with a strong desire to participate in personal and systematic change through her professional experience.
As a therapist, Yusra uses a range of therapeutic modalities, which includes Narrative Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy and Mindfulness from a strengths-based perspective and a Trauma-Informed lens while working with youth, adults, and families.
Yusra provides therapy in multiple languages: English, Balochi and Urdu.
Nicholas’ focus is to help clients gain clarity on their problems while also becoming more aware of themselves in the process so that they can find solutions that come from their own inner
During challenging times, it is helpful to find someone you can trust and feel comfortable opening up to.
Focusing on making sure you feel heard and seen is Nicholas’ priority and his training has largely emphasized the therapeutic power of a trusting relationship.
Nicholas has supported people that are going through many different issues including grief and loss, relationship challenges, spiritual-religious concerns, trauma, stress management, addictions, depression and anxiety, meaning and purpose and self-esteem. This experience has come through working with clients in inpatient and outpatient programs in hospitals, Hospice grief and loss counseling and through doing psychotherapy in private practice.
Nicholas uses a hybrid therapeutic approach which includes person centered therapy, CBT, narrative therapy, mindfulness and spiritually integrated psychotherapy.
Leila focuses in offering support and guidance to some of us who are struggling with diagnosed or undiagnosed conditions such as anxiety disorders (panic, social anxiety, phobia, generalized anxiety), depression, trauma, and stress (Post Traumatic Stress-PTSD, flashback, nightmares), borderline, or bipolar disorder. Feeling overwhelmed or stuck prevents some of us from living in the present moment.
To ascend to a better self and be authentic requires self-compassion and courage. Reaching out for support is already an act of bravery.
Leila focuses in offering support and guidance to some of us who are struggling with diagnosed or undiagnosed conditions such as anxiety disorders (panic, social anxiety, phobia, generalized anxiety), depression, trauma, and stress (Post Traumatic Stress-PTSD, flashback, nightmares), borderline, or bipolar disorder. Feeling overwhelmed or stuck prevents some of us from living in the present moment.
Leila strives to provide treatment that are evidence-based and structured such as EMDR therapy, CBT, ACT, or a more integrative style including narrative approach, mindfulness, psychodynamic. With over 15 years of work experience in French and English in various agencies, she accompanied her clientele to unpack their trauma, learn coping mechanisms, and to attain their goal.
She is a client-centered therapist and offers psychotherapy augmented by a Humanistic approach