Meet the Team
Meet the Team
Bella is currently a graduate student pursuing her Master’s of Social Work degree at York University. Bella has over three years of experience providing emotional support and coping strategies in an acute healthcare setting. Bella has supported individuals through experiences
with mental health challenges, issues with substance use, social exclusion, complex family dynamics and more. As a member of the 2SLGBT+ community, Bella is deeply committed to providing an anti-oppressive and safe space.
As a part of her practice, Bella informs her therapy using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Narrative Therapy and Mindfulness Strategies. Bella’s ultimate aim is to create a therapeutic relationship that feels authentic, relaxed and tailored to each person’s unique needs. Bella is committed to providing counseling that focuses on the desires and goals of clients.
In her free time Bella loves to garden, make pottery, rock climb and make visual art. For individuals that may be interested, Bella is happy to incorporate art-based mindfulness practices into session.
Bella sees individual teens & adults as well as families.
Please note that Bella will be with us until April. If you get to that point when Bella is done and you want to continue with therapy, don’t stress. We’ll have another student ready for you at that time and you’ll be able to continue on with low fee counselling. Most of our clients are feeling comfortable with their new student therapist within one or two sessions.
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Patricia provides a warm and supportive environment to safely navigate life’s challenges. Her approach is all about highlighting and fostering strengths along with areas of success, growth, change, resiliency and collaboration. She has extensive experience with complex family conflicts, as well as supporting clients navigating the impacts of trauma, loss, grief, self-criticism, self-esteem, parenting, and self-harming behaviours/suicidal ideation. She works from an anti-oppressive, trauma-informed framework and social justice context to build supportive, therapeutic relationships. She draws from multiple modalities, including cognitive-based interventions, Narrative Therapy, Solution-Focused and Emotion-Focused Therapy. Clients often remark on her warmth, dry sense of humour and insight.
Patricia sees individual children, teens, adults & parents as well as families.
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Laura strongly believes in creating a space that is rooted in curiosity, compassion, authenticity, and humanity to best support clients process & make sense of their experiences. Laura’s hope is to help individuals bring awareness and understanding to all parts of self in order to heal, grow, and feel empowered.
Laura enjoys working with individuals and families. She has experience providing support for a broad range of concerns including anxiety, depression, life transitions, relationship difficulties, grief and loss.
Laura is passionate about working from a culturally-sensitive and trauma-informed approach. The main therapeutic interventions that inform her practice are Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT), Emotion-Focused Family Therapy (EFFT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS), Family-Based Therapy (FBT) for Eating Disorders, narrative therapy, and relational practices.
Laura sees individual teens, adults & parents as well as families.
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Delaney has provided counselling and psychotherapy services within a variety of settings including community mental health, postsecondary, crisis intervention and addiction treatment for several years. It’s a passion of hers to walk with clients through some of life’s most difficult experiences.
For Delaney, an open-minded, down to earth attitude is a must. In the therapy room, Delaney shows up as her genuine self and loves when her clients do the same. With a healthy blend of compassion, humour and directness, she forms relationships with clients that are real and grounding. Her approach is non-judgmental and affirming of diverse sexual, gender, spiritual and cultural identities.
With a master’s degree in social work and experience / training in trauma-informed care, mindfulness, emotionally focused therapy, internal family systems, cognitive behaviour therapy, and addiction treatment modalities, Delaney works with clients to choose the approach that fits best. Most importantly, she sees each client as the expert of their own life, following their lead in a collaborative way. Delany welcomes the opportunity to work with couples and co-creates a space for the journey ahead.
Outside of the therapy room, Delaney is a proud mom to a wild toddler. She loves spending time in nature, reading and writing.
Delaney sees individual teens & adults, as well as couples.
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Molly believes that therapy deepens our understanding of how lived experiences and interpersonal relationships inform who we are. When this understanding is awakened, we increase our self-acceptance and self-empathy. Therapeutic change isn't about changing who we are. It's about forgiving ourselves, accepting ourselves, and caring about ourselves, so that we can transform our relationship with our inner self and the world around us.
Molly’s approach to counselling is relational, strengths-based, trauma-informed, and non-judgemental. Her therapeutic approach is informed by psychodynamic theory, Narrative Therapy and Structural Family Therapy. Molly also has experience with Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT). She responds with flexibility and insight to the concerns of each unique client.
Our interpersonal relationships give our lives meaning, and we understand ourselves better when we understand the relationships that define us.
Molly sees individual teens, adults & parents as well as couples & families.
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Amy is a registered social worker and has over a decade of hospital-based clinical experience. She takes a strengths-based approach with her clients and believes each person possesses the power and insights to positively move forward. Through compassion and warmth, Amy helps her clients navigate the complexities of eating disorders, anxiety, depression, self-harm, self-esteem, loss, grief, and life transitions.
Amy provides individual and family therapy. She draws from multiple evidence-based modalities, including cognitive-based interventions, Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT), and mindfulness-based interventions. She hopes to help her clients find their strength, wisdom, and compassion through the therapeutic process.
You can regularly find Amy on a hiking trail through a local forest, in the kitchen cooking up yummy meals, or sitting at the piano making music. Amy believes in healing the mind body connection through creative outlets and spending time in nature. Amy and her husband have three active sons who are the delight of their lives.
Amy sees individual children, teens, adults & parents as well as couples & families.
Amy is a registered social worker and...Learn More
Amy believes that we all have the potential to heal, grow and change at any stage of life. Often people seek therapy to shift their emotional experience but are unsure of how to move forward. Amy values her work of connecting with people in relation to their exploration for understanding, calm, and direction in their personal lives. Amy provides individual and family therapy. She uses an integrative approach to her work and draws on evidence-based therapies including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Trauma-Focused CBT, Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) Narrative Therapy, as well as applications of attachment theory and mindfulness strategies
Amy sees individual teens, adults & parents as well as families. She also supervises therapists.
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Bjorn believes that the biggest agent for change is you. He values building a trusting and honest relationship with you and hopes to see you grow and heal. As you move along your counselling journey, Bjorn will be there to provide you with a listening ear, a sounding board and an open heart. He believes that your story needs to be told and needs to be heard.
Bjorn enjoys working with individuals and families. Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Family-Based Therapy (FBT) for Eating Disorders, Narrative Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) inform Bjorn’s therapy approach.
Bjorn sees individual teens, adults & parents as well as couples & families. He also supervises therapists.
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Ailidh’s approach to therapy is grounded in the vision of human flourishing – of YOU flourishing. Whatever is bothering you, it can help to share it. Together, we can create a safe space to hold your feelings, concerns, and problems. Together, we look at your current strengths and strategies, where they come from and what they mean. This is the work of understanding how to make sense of what’s going on for you, right now, and how to envision a more vibrant, zestful life.
Ailidh works with individual teens, adults & parents as well as couples & families (in all constellations). She also supervises therapists.
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Jessica is our fearless leader, aka clinic director. She is known around here as a seasoned and wise therapist. The therapists who have had Jessica as a supervisor have felt known, validated and lovingly pushed to grow and excel.
Jessica is currently working with adults. She works with a lot of leaders from the business/corporate, non-profit and artistic communities. She’s been in leadership all of her life (starting from the beginning as an oldest child of four kids) and she has been developing leaders in an official capacity since her first career after her undergraduate degree. It’s not a surprise that those in leadership have really valued her as their psychotherapist.
Deeply creative, curious and innovative people have also enjoyed working with Jessica. If you are open and ready for big shifts in your life, you will find Jessica keen to help you get to where you want to go. She has helped people navigate evolving and growing, leadership roles with their ups and downs, being open to love in a new way, healing from difficult experiences, big transitions (both chosen and unexpected), career changes, spiritual shifts, and significant loss.
In session, Jessica is engaged, thoughtful, kind and insightful. She will help you be curious about yourself, your context, relationships and options.
Jessica is a skilled couples therapist. She is open to working with couples that are highly motivated to work hard and shift.
Jessica is well versed in many therapeutic approaches. You will find that she primarily works with Internal Family Systems (IFS), Emotionally Focused Therapy/Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFT/EFFT) and borrows from Relational Psychotherapy and Narrative Therapy. She was supervised for years by two brilliant therapists in Sue Johnson’s inner circle.
Jessica sees individual teens, adults & parents as well as couples & families. She also supervises therapists.
Jessica is our fearless leader, aka...Learn More
Jess is our fearless leader here. She started Toronto Counselling Centre for Teens when her youngest was just a baby and now her kids are entering their teenage years themselves. As she loves teens, she’s pretty excited to be in this stage of family life.
Jess has a passion for young people and families. She sees it as her mission in life to empower teens and families to connect and feel great about themselves and one another. She wants families to be warmly welcomed here.
If you get Jess talking about her philosophy of leadership, you’ll find out she is a total nerd on that subject and can talk about it for a loooong time. Two of the ways her leadership nerdiness can be felt here are: Read More
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