Stephanie is a Psychotherapist with over 5 years of experience supporting individuals from various backgrounds on their mental health journeys. She believes that every client is unique, and her practice is committed to respecting and honouring the individual experience and needs of each client. Using a holistic, client-centred approach, Stephanie integrates aspects of mindfulness, dialectical behavioural therapy (DBT), attachment therapies, and interpersonal therapy (IPT) into your personalized care. Whether dealing with anxiety, depression, trauma/PTSD, grief and loss, addictions, relationship challenges, self-esteem and identity, life transitions, or difficult family dynamics, Stephanie is dedicated to providing a safe and supportive space for healing and growth. She believes in ensuring therapy is a judgment-free space for individuals to openly express their fears, anxieties, and struggles for adults and teens. Stephanie is also a Canadian Certified Perinatal Mental Health (CC-PMH) Therapist specializing in supporting expectant mothers and their families during their transformative journey into motherhood, parenthood, and beyond. With a deep passion for maternal and parental well being, Stephanie offers compassionate, evidence-based psychotherapy to help you navigate the emotional and psychological challenges that can arise during conception, pregnancy, and/or the postpartum period, including fertility and reproductive-related challenges, birth trauma, or the complexities of pregnancy loss. Stephanie has lived experience navigating fertility and reproductive challenges and treatments, pregnancy, birth, postpartum mental health challenges, and the transition into motherhood. She understands the profound impact this season can have on your mental health. As a psychotherapist, Stephanie aims to provide compassion and understanding while serving as a trusted support for those navigating life’s challenges. Stephanie’s services are covered by most extended health benefits plans as a Registered Social Worker. Please check with your insurance provider to ensure reimbursement. She sees individual clients (teens and adults) in-person or virtually and provides her services in English.

**CURRENTLY NOT ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS** Samantha is a Registered Psychotherapist with over 10 years of Mental Health Counselling experience. Samantha emphasizes compassion, trust, safety, and choice in the therapeutic relationship to foster resilience. Samantha takes a Holistic approach to Counselling, integrating Emotion-Focused, Cognitive-Behavioural, Dialectical-Behavioural, Interpersonal, and Attachment Therapies. Through her lived experience with Postpartum Mental Health, Samantha developed a deep appreciation and passion for supporting mothers/birthers and partners through the delicate, vulnerable, and transformative perinatal period. Through building a village of support, Samantha found ways to cope with scary and intrusive thoughts, guilt, grief, and identity change. This helped her develop confidence, hope, and life-long connections. Samantha now hopes to be a member of her clients’ village, guiding them to be the parent they want to be; aligned with their values and intuition. She helps her clients achieve their goals by teaching emotion regulation, distress tolerance skills, and mindfulness while uprooting and dismantling unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns. Samantha specializes in treating adults with anxiety, depression, PTSD, childhood abuse, trauma, substance use disorder, and eating disorders. Samantha offers in-person and virtual care. As a Registered Psychotherapist, Samantha’s services are covered by most extended health benefits plans. Please check with your insurance provider to ensure reimbursement. Samantha brings authenticity, humour, and optimism to her work, welcoming all emotions, experiences, and struggles without judgement. She sees adult clients (18+) and provides her services in English.

**CURRENTLY NOT ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS** Krista completed her Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology from Yorkville University, and holds Qualifying registrant status with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario. Krista also volunteers with Postpartum Support International, connecting people to resources, and support. Krista believes all individuals are capable of meaningful change, and approaches therapy collaboratively from a strengths-based stance. Krista shares lived experience with fertility treatments, perinatal loss, and birth/parenting during the early stages of the pandemic. Krista appreciates the profound transitions involved throughout the perinatal period, all of which deserve compassionate, and timely support toward positive well-being for individuals, and families. Krista’s main areas of care include perinatal mental health, fertility, attachment and bonding, relationship issues, anxiety, grief, trauma, coping development, and self-compassion. Krista follows a flexible, integrative approach to therapy viewing the client as the expert authority of their experiences, using strategies from psychodynamic therapy, emotionally-focused therapy, strengths-based cognitive behavioural therapy, EMDR, and Gottman method therapy models. Krista has completed additional trainings in Gottman method couples therapy (Level 1 and Level 2), Emotionally Focused Therapy, EMDR, as well as advanced trainings in perinatal mental health issues. Krista provides virtual psychotherapy services in English for adults and couples in Ontario. Receipts will be issued including her registration with the CRPO as a Qualifying registrant. Please check with your insurance provider ahead of services to ensure coverage details and requirements for reimbursement. Krista anticipates transferring from Qualifying status to full RP status in early 2025.

Rachel is a Registered Social Worker with multiple years of experience supporting individuals and families from all walks of life. She believes that each person’s journey is different, and deserves to be heard and honoured. As a counsellor, Rachel works from a strength-based approach that values the client as the expert on their situation, and aims to support and empower clients during their work together. She has experience working with a variety of issues including depression, anxiety, trauma, grief, and relationship challenges. Rachel’s passion is working with women and their families during the perinatal period, including working with concerns such as postpartum depression and anxiety, birth trauma, pregnancy/infant loss, and identity navigation. She practices from an eclectic approach, pulling from models such as cognitive behavioural therapy, brief solution-focused work, dialectical behavioural therapy, and interpersonal therapy. She also recognizes the importance of the genuineness in therapeutic relationships, and always brings humanity to each sessions. Rachel is committed to supporting adults, teens, and families as they navigate life’s challenges with compassion, humour, warmth, and authenticity. Rachel provides services in English for teens and adults.

**CURRENTLY NOT ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS** Michele Pomerant is a Registered Psychotherapist who works at building a safe and therapeutic relationship that provides the emotional and mental health support that is so very needed at such a transitional time. She recognizes the core of any therapeutic treatment begins with a client-centred approach that is built on the foundations of empathy, compassion and is always judgement free. As a therapist, Michele works with anxiety, depression, grief and loss, anger management, guilt, self-esteem, identity, perfectionism, boundary setting, addiction and is trauma-informed. She works from an integrative model, drawing on aspects of CBT, Mindfulness-Based CBT, Interpersonal Therapy, Attachment Therapy and Emotionally Focused Therapy, working with clients in a collaborative manner to find the best fit. Michele is passionate about working with parents in the perinatal period and has a long history of working in different settings, offering support and guidance. She is trained in Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorder and Advanced Perinatal Mental Health Psychotherapy.