Florine Ferreira MSW, RSW Registered Social Worker, Child and Youth Worker Diploma, Bachelors of Child and Youth Care, Masters of Social Worker

Florine graduated in 2015 with a degree in Child and Youth Care followed by completing a Master’s degree abroad in Social Work. Throughout her nine years of education, she gained a wide range of knowledge and skills in different capacities with different age groups. She has been a Registered Social Worker since 2017 and has had the opportunity to gain different experiences from working throughout youth treatment centers, hospital mental health units, counselling agencies, and foster care.

Florine’s passion has always been working with children, adolescents and families to help navigate difficult situations and support during areas of growth and change. She has a listening posture to create safe environments for others to share their concerns, and encourages others through strength-based approaches.

Florine works through a Cognitive Behavioural (CBT) lens and is trained with case management and advocacy to recognize individual and family situations through a systemic perspective. She is trained in crisis interventions, family mediation, and assisting to navigate systems and offering community resources.

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Michelle has extensive experience working with adolescents, children, couples and families in Toronto, the GTA, and Internationally. Her professional background of more than 25 years combined, spans from being a teacher, a minister, a director and facilitator of programs, and a counsellor for couples, families, and individuals from pre-teens to seniors.

Michelle has the gift of listening and maintains a supportive, non-judgmental stance, fostering connection and open communication. Compassion, insight, and kindness are an integral part of her character.

Areas of counselling experience include children, youth, couples, family relationships, parenting, teen pregnancy, marital issues, depression and anxiety, life transitions, trauma, racialized trauma, violence and abuse, death, grief and loss, chronic pain, self-esteem, self-harm, identity issues, sexuality issues, addictions, life skills and more.

She works well within various therapeutic approaches that influence an integrative working model favouring Evidence-based Practices including but not limited to, brief solution-focus, cognitive behavioural, emotional focus couples and family, dialectical behaviour, family systems, structural dissociative, internal family systems, humanistic, developmental, attachment, inner child, grief & bereavement care, holistic care from a bio-psycho-social-spiritual framework, and EMDR for trauma.

Michelle has an Early Childhood Education Diploma in the Montessori Philosophy. She holds a Bachelor of Religious Education, a Bachelor of Arts in Human Services, a Master of Divinity in Clinical Counselling, and currently holds a Doctorate in Counselling and Psychotherapy. She is a sessional and adjunct professor teaching remotely to counsellors-in-training at a Seminary in Ontario, and a University in Seattle. She is certified in EMDR, Bereavement & Grief Care, ENRICH couples therapy, level one Focusing, and CBT, and is a member of CAMFT, CRPO, EMDRIA, ICEEFT and CCPA.

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Bola Musiwa has a MDiv, Registered Psychotherapist, Certified Life Coach, Gottman’s Couple Therapy (Levels 1 and 2), DBT, Prepare Enrich facilitator, TVIA Certificate. Currently pursuing her Doctoral program in Counselling and Psychotherapy. Her experience spans over 20 years in Pastoral counselling, administrator and accountant. She has also been a guest lecturer at McMaster University.

Bola loves to help others and walk their journey with them so that they can achieve their goals and live meaningful lives. She is an ardent believer that people can always rise when they fall. Whatever your struggles are in life, she is here to help you find hope in your pain, hope in your struggles and healing from your pain.

She believes that you can be set free from everything that has held you down. You can be free from every form of destructive pattern and begin to live life wholly. She believes you can get free from insecurity, and lack of self-worth and become a person of worth and be who you want to be.

Clients always say that she has a non-anxious presence and that gives them a safe place to talk.

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Hannah is passionate about helping individuals journey through life in their full potential. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology (Hons.), and a Graduate Certificate in Mental Health and Addictions. She attained training in CBT at University of Toronto. Hannah’s education has prepared her to provide support to those who seek help with their mental health wellbeing. She creates and maintains an environment, having compassion and empathy for clients. Forthcoming, Hannah is currently attaining her education with a MA in Clinical Counselling at Tyndale University. She has more than five years experience working with children and youth as a teacher’s assistant and student counsellor.

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For more than 25 years, Jamie has walked alongside many families, youth and children, individuals and couples from diverse walks of life. He has engaged individuals from a range of different cultures, socio-economic backgrounds, diverse walks of faith, mental health concerns and learning challenges throughout Toronto, the GTA, and Internationally.

Jamie enjoys working with individuals around issues of power and control in relationships to help them gain a better understanding of their preferred Self. More recently, he has been engaged with couples managing relationships from pre-marital to high-conflict concerns. He has also, been involved with men helping them to understand the impacts of abuse on the self and in their relationships. Moreover, collaboratively co-creating and exploring the meaning of different challenges in life, has been a passion to help others better enjoy their quality of living professionally and personally.

With an integrative, client-centred approach, Jamie’s experience in counselling modalities and theories includes but is not limited to, narrative, solution focus, cognitive behaviour, focusing, motivational interviewing, family systems and strategic, grief and trauma-informed, emotionally focused couples, ENRICH couples, and sex therapy.

Jamie holds a Child & Youth Worker Diploma, BA in Philosophy (Hons.), Master of Divinity in Clinical Counselling, and is attaining his MD in pursuit of Psychiatry. He is affiliated with CAMFT, CCPA, AASECT, CRPO, and ACTA.

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