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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Operating from a place of compassion and empathy, Emma has worked with children and youth from diverse backgrounds for over ten years. Throughout that time, she has worked as a Child and Youth Worker within Indigenous and Caribbean communities, in Canada and abroad.

Emma aims to ensure that the relationships she develops fosters safety, security, and affirmation. She is passionate about walking alongside individuals in their healing journey to support their overall well-being.

Emma has a diploma in General Science, a Bachelor’s in Social Science with a concentration in Child and Youth Studies, and is currently completing her Master’s in Clinical Counselling.

She incorporates family systems, emotion-focused therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy, narrative therapy, and trauma-informed approaches. Emma offers support for children, youth, and young adults through their mental health, identity concerns, and life transitions.

On her free time, she enjoys going to the lake, listening to music, hanging out with friends, travelling, and cooking.

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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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