My name is Mahnaz, and I am an EMDR-trained clinician, Registered Social Worker, and Psychotherapist with a Master of Social Work degree from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario. With more than 20 years of experience providing psychotherapy, clinical consultation, training, and mental health education, I am deeply passionate about helping people heal and create meaningful, lasting change. I believe that while life’s challenges can feel overwhelming, healing is always possible.

My vision is to help individuals create a “new normal”—one rooted in greater clarity, resilience, purpose, and inner peace. I approach therapy with compassion, curiosity, and deep respect for each person’s unique experiences, strengths, and challenges. My goal is to provide a safe, supportive, and collaborative environment where clients feel empowered to explore their experiences, process difficult emotions, and move toward lasting healing.

I provide trauma-informed, evidence-based therapy tailored to each individual’s unique needs. My approach integrates Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (TF-CBT), attachment-based therapy, mindfulness-based interventions, and Vicarious Trauma Response strategies. Together, these approaches help clients heal from trauma, build resilience, strengthen emotional regulation, and develop practical coping skills for everyday life.

For children and families, I incorporate specialized, developmentally appropriate interventions, including Sandtray Therapy, Play Therapy, and Filial Therapy, to support emotional expression, strengthen relationships, and foster healthy development.

I also believe that healing extends beyond symptom reduction. By integrating mindfulness, self-awareness, self-compassion, and personal growth into the therapeutic process, I help clients gain deeper insight into themselves, heal from past experiences, strengthen relationships, clarify their values and goals, and experience post-traumatic growth.

Creating a caring, culturally responsive, and non-judgmental therapeutic space is central to my practice. Throughout my career, I have worked extensively with individuals from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds, including newcomers to Canada. I recognize the important role that culture, identity, family dynamics, gender, race, and sexual orientation play in shaping each person’s experiences, and I strive to provide therapy that is respectful, inclusive, and responsive to these unique perspectives.

I offer services fluently in both English and Farsi.

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Zoe is a compassionate Registered Social Worker who supports individuals and couples experiencing anxiety, depression, PTSD, trauma, grief, relationship challenges, and work-related stress. She integrates Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), mindfulness, grounding strategies, and a strong foundation in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).

Zoe’s EMDR work focuses on helping clients process distressing memories, reduce emotional overwhelm, and reconnect with a sense of internal safety and resilience. She approaches EMDR gently and collaboratively, ensuring clients feel grounded, supported, and fully in control throughout the process.

Beyond EMDR, Zoe works with clients to explore the deeper roots of their stress, whether personal, relational, or professional and to develop practical, empowering coping strategies tailored to their unique needs.

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Melanie Huska, PhD, MSW, RSW (she/her)

Melanie is a Registered Social Worker whose practice is grounded in anti-oppressive and trauma-informed care. She comes to therapeutic work after training and working as a professor of Latin American history. Her experience living and working in Mexico and Ecuador shaped her understanding of how culture, context, and systems influence lived experience. This perspective informs her clinical work, where she invites clients to explore how histories, identities, and social environments shape how they navigate the world. Patterns that were once adaptive can become limiting over time, and Melanie supports clients in understanding and reshaping these patterns with care and intention.

Melanie is especially drawn to working with students—undergraduate, graduate, and professional—as well as postdoctoral fellows and faculty, and values working with people navigating multiple, intersecting identities and systemic barriers. Her background in academia gives her insight into the “hidden curriculum”—the implicit expectations, performance pressures, and institutional norms that shape these spaces. She supports clients in understanding and responding to the complex interplay of achievement, burnout, identity development, relational strain, and questions of purpose and belonging. Her work focuses on helping clients stay connected to their own values, needs, and capacities while navigating these layered demands.

Melanie’s clinical toolbelt integrates psychodynamic, DBT, CBT, mindfulness-based, somatic, and parts-informed approaches. When appropriate, she also incorporates Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), a brief, eye movement–based approach that helps the brain process difficult memories so they feel less overwhelming, without requiring extensive verbal retelling. It can be useful in situations where cognitive understanding alone does not fully access or shift deeper emotional experiences. She works with concerns including depression, anxiety, PTSD/CPTSD, life transitions, identity development, perfectionism, neurodivergence, and body image. She tailors her approach to each client, balancing insight-oriented work with practical strategies for change.

Melanie’s style is warm, attuned, and genuine. She creates a space where clients feel supported and gently challenged. She believes healing becomes possible when people feel genuinely seen—with honesty, compassion, and enough safety to begin relating to themselves and others in new ways.

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Trauma, much like a splinter, embeds itself into a person and affects all aspects of life. My primary objective is to create a safe and compassionate therapeutic alliance which facilitates healing and growth. With Trauma, I truly believe that the body holds a great deal of the emotional weight, without us knowing.

I witnessed severe difficulties in my community, and as an adult I have grieved many friends who kept their suffering a secret, often until it was too late. I truly believe that every individual innately harbors the right set of tools to achieve their personal goals and find their way to a meaningful, fulfilling life.

I am a Registered Psychotherapist, trained EMDR therapist, and a Registered Kinesiologist. This allows me to specialize in treating trauma along with anxiety, depression and a range of other mental health issues. I utilize specific modalities to assist each person reach their unique therapeutic goals, specifically, EMDR, Parts Work, Somatic Therapy, and CBT.

Life is difficult as it is, particularly when one has experienced a traumatic event. Our body and mind are able and willing to heal. We are able to reach a level of meaningfulness in life that we may not have imagined possible. You have the right components within yourself to heal and grow, and I would be honoured to walk with you on that journey.

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Kim McCullough, MSW, RSW Registered Social Worker, OCSWSSW Psychotherapist, Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapist

Somewhere along the way, most of us learn to manage what we feel rather than move through it. We become very good at surviving, and quietly exhausted by it.

If that resonates, you are in the right place.

Kim practices through the lens of Two-Eyed Seeing, holding Western integrative relational neurobiological science and Indigenous ways of knowing together as equally valid guides in understanding what it means to be human, to be hurt, and to heal.

Kim moves between top-down and bottom-up therapeutic processes, between story and meaning, and the body’s long-held tension that never had words for the hurt to begin with. Underpinning all of it are somatic practices, including Brainspotting (Phases 1 & 2), Polyvagal-informed therapy, sound therapy including the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) and Rest and Restore Protocol (RRP), parts-based work, and expressive play. She is currently completing certification in Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST) and TraumaPlay.

Kim works with people who are emotionally, physically, spiritually, and mentally exhausted from a dysregulated nervous system, expressed in cycling emotional states, difficult thoughts and problematic behaviours. She specializes in abuse, PTSD, complex trauma, BPD, dissociative phenomena, depression, anxiety, TBI and concussion. These experiences often arrive layered with chronic pain, illness and inflammation, ruminating thoughts about suicide, excessive worry and low self-esteem, self-harm, relational issues and addictions, that asks for an approach that can hold complexity to create lasting change.

Something in you kept looking for a way through, even on the days you didn’t believe one existed. That kind of surviving takes more than most people realize. You’re here now, and Kim is here to meet you with her compassionate and down-to-earth approach. There’s room here for exactly where you are.

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Shannon is a registered social worker with 15 years of experience supporting diverse populations, including those navigating serious mental illness, substance use disorders, trauma, grief and concurrent disorders. She also has training and experience in supporting individuals with eating disorders, process addictions, and ADHD.

Her clinical practice is trauma informed and grounded in evidence-based modalities such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Compassion Inquiry.

Shannon holds Bachelor of Arts in Social Development Studies and a Bachelor of Social Work from the University of Waterloo. She is currently completing a Master of Social Work at Wilfrid Laurier University. As an active mindfulness practitioner herself, Shannon integrates nervous system regulation, body awareness, and self-compassion into the therapeutic process, supporting clients in developing tools they can carry beyond the therapy space. Shannon is deeply committed to client-centered care and the importance of creating a safe, non-judgmental space for healing.

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With a Master of Education in Counselling Psychology and EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) training, I bring a compassionate, client-centered approach to therapy. My academic background includes a Bachelor of Arts, a Bachelor of Education, a Master of Arts, and a Master of Education, reflecting a lifelong dedication to learning and human development.

Before transitioning into mental health, I spent years teaching both internationally and within unique cultural communities in Korea, The UAE, Kazakshatan and Brunei. These experiences profoundly shaped my sensitivity to cultural diversity and deepened my commitment to creating a safe, inclusive therapeutic space. My work on a First Nation’s reservation upon returning to Canada was particularly pivotal, sparking my path toward mental health practice.

I specialize in EMDR therapy, a modality I’ve found to be deeply transformative. Witnessing the significant impact it has had on my clients has solidified my belief in the power of trauma-informed care.

Outside the therapy room, I’m an avid yogi, a lover of nature, and a devoted traveler. I find grounding in the outdoors and joy in motherhood, which continuously enriches my perspective as both a person and a practitioner.

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I am a dedicated and compassionate therapist with a Master’s degree in Counselling Psychology and extensive training in a wide range of therapeutic approaches. With over 15 years of experience working with children and teens as a teacher, I bring a deep understanding of developmental stages and a profound empathy for the challenges individuals and families face.

My practice is client-centered and trauma-informed, creating a warm, safe space where clients of all ages can unfold, be themselves, heal, and grow.

I specialize in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). I work within a range of therapeutic modalities and have additional qualifications in EMDR,, ADHD support, Parenting Coordination and family professional services. In addition, I have specialized training in the Gottman Method for couples, and sex therapy. I am truly passionate about supporting individuals and relationships achieve healthier communication, emotional connection, and long-term growth.

My approach weaves together both bottom-up (body-based) and top-down (cognitive-based) therapies, always honoring the whole person, mind, body, and spirit. I am passionate about holistic healing and committed to walking alongside my clients as they move toward deeper self-awareness, meaningful change, and lasting resilience.

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Alexandra believes that healing begins within a therapeutic relationship where people feel genuinely safe to show up as they are. When our full humanity—including the parts shaped by pain, uncertainty, contradiction, and complexity—is met with trust, authenticity, compassion, and genuine human connection, even life’s most difficult experiences can become opportunities for deeper self-understanding, healing, and reconnection with our truest selves, others, and the lives we want to create.

As a Registered Psychotherapist, Alexandra’s work with adults and older adults is grounded in an integrative, trauma-informed approach that draws upon psychodynamic, existential, mindfulness-based, IFS-informed, somatic, nature-based, and psychospiritual principles and strategies. She believes therapy is not simply about reducing symptoms, but about creating the conditions for meaningful exploration, integration, and lasting transformation. She approaches each therapeutic relationship with curiosity, collaboration, and deep respect for every person’s unique story, values, and lived experience.

Alexandra is particularly drawn to supporting individuals navigating experiences that challenge their existing understanding of themselves and the world around them. Whether someone is moving through trauma, profound life transitions, existential questioning, identity exploration, or seeking support with psychedelic preparation and integration, she enjoys helping clients explore questions such as: What is this experience asking of me? Who am I becoming through it? Through a strengths-based approach, Alexandra supports clients in making sense of these experiences while cultivating greater clarity, resilience, and confidence to move forward with intention. She also helps clients develop greater awareness of their nervous system through experiential practices that deepen presence and support a greater sense of safety within themselves.

For more than three years, Alexandra has provided psychotherapy to refugee and newcomer populations experiencing complex trauma, grief, displacement, identity transitions, and the psychological impact of forced migration. Working with individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds in both English and Spanish has strengthened her commitment to culturally responsive, compassionate, and person-centred care, while deepening her appreciation for the resilience and adaptability of the human spirit.

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