Hi I’m Nicole, a psychotherapist with over 14 years of counselling experience. It’s an honour to wade with people into the love and fear, pain and beauty, messy and magic of life. Humanity is complicated- understanding our own, and how we connect to others. So healing and self discovery can feel like contending with the vastness of space. We will work together to move through the stars and build constellations of relations that sustain life and meaning.

North American society is organized in a way that isolates people, cutting us off from family, community, even from a full sense of ourselves. This disconnection impacts us all in different ways, and has pressed me to pursue wholeness in therapy, where all the layers of our realities can be taken up, nurtured, and addressed in the space. The counselling relationship is too significant and vulnerable a space to feel nervous bringing up the impacts of systemic oppression, and yet I know this is a common experience for folks seeking out supportive services. My approach is deeply relational, compassionate, creative, trauma and structurally informed. Where individual experiences aren’t disconnected from movements in community, or struggles through colonialism, capitalism, or cis-heteropatriarchy.

As a therapist with extensive experience within diverse communities and practice settings, I’ve supported folks like you, through life’s incredible joys and hardships. From self discovery, grief & loss, trauma, relationships, family conflict, life transitions, depression, anxiety, and illness. As well as supporting other therapists and community workers to continue to care for themselves and others through their own therapy or clinical supervision services.

I believe healing happens in relation, and I am dedicated to nurturing a compassionate space where we can build trust, care, understanding, creativity, even humour in the process. I am an integrative therapist (which means I combine theory and techniques from various therapeutic schools of thought based on the express uniqueness of each person), that believes in the value of relational dynamic therapy, and where possible long-term in-depth therapy. Where I can really get to know you, and you can really get to know yourself, as we draw on a wider pool of counselling theory and approaches, for a deeper understanding of self in the world. Approaches drawn upon may include Narrative, Emotion-Focused Therapy, Existential, Systems, Psychodynamic, Attachment, Liberation Psychology, Cognitive and Behavioural, to cultural, creative and others, in order to support the therapeutic journey.

Finding the right counsellor can be tough, I know. It’s more than just picking a name off a list. So please contact me if you want to chat, ask some questions, and explore whether we might be a good therapeutic match. I look forward to connecting with you.

Nicole is a member in good standing of the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers (registration # 818432), the Ontario Association of Social Workers (membership #17299). Licensed to practice psychotherapy as per the Regulated Health Professions Act and Social Work and Social Service Work Act of Ontario. Nicole holds a Master of Social Work (MSW) from York University, and a PhD from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto.

Services Provided: Psychotherapy, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (2x per week), Clinical Supervision, Case Consultation

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