Nadia MacDonald (she/her) is passionate about helping teens navigate their worlds. She knows that life comes with all kinds of challenges — stress, friendships, family dynamics, academics, diversity, or just plain figuring out who you are. Nadia creates a relaxed, judgment-free space where teens can show up as they are, talk things through, and find the inner strengths to handle life’s challenges.

Her approach is warm, flexible, and down-to-earth. Nadia believes therapy isn’t just about fixing problems; it’s about self-understanding and self-capacity. And whether it’s working through a specific feeling, or just having a space to wonder how things could be different, Nadia’s there to listen and support. In therapy, her work is relationally based, parts-informed and emotionally focused.

Out of session, Nadia is a mom, wife, and ninja. You’ll likely find her on the mats, training as a 4th degree black belt in Karate, or getting her butt repeatedly handed to her as a white belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.

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Bjorn comes to us from an agency in Peel Region where he supported a variety of youth and families going through a wide variety of experiences. He has journeyed alongside youth and families during times of crisis helping families stabilize while working to improve communication and family dynamics. He gets inspired when he sees teens and families going through their journey of healing and change.

In session, Bjorn provides space for each teen and family to explore feelings of anxiety, depression, low motivation, grief, loss and life transitions. He values the therapeutic relationship and will spend time to listen deeply to each teen’s story.

Bjorn’s approach to counselling is highly relational, trauma-informed, strength-based and anti-racist and anti-oppressive. Bjorn will be there to encourage and uplift your teen and family. Modalities that inform Bjorn’s therapeutic approach are Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Family-Based Therapy (FBT) for Eating Disorders, Narrative Therapy and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). Outside of counselling, Bjorn enjoys spending his time playing tennis, golf and has a passion for video games. He came to Canada when he was 6 years old and enjoys learning and experiencing different cultures.

If requested, Bjorn is able to provide therapy in Cantonese.

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Jenni comes to us with a background in Aquatics, serving as a manager, instructor and mentor to teen lifeguards. She appreciates the uniqueness of each person and is passionate about supporting adolescents to develop self-awareness and self-compassion as they navigate the exciting and challenging stages of life. You will find Jenni to be genuine, curious and warm. She has experience helping teens explore challenges like anxiety, depression, ADHD, loss, identity, big transitions, questions about sexuality, and relationship difficulties.

Jenni has a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology from Yorkville University. She draws from various modalities, including Internal Family Systems (IFS), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT), to provide tailored support for each client. Jenni provides a non-judgmental and welcoming space where teens can feel empowered and safe to explore what is important to them.

In her free time, you might catch Jenni spending time with family and friends or her cat, Nova. Jenni is a nature lover and whenever possible, she’ll be out running, hiking or camping. She also brings the outdoors inside, with a passion for caring for her numerous houseplants.

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Sam has worked with undergraduate students at the University of Waterloo in a peer support role, where she helped fellow students to navigate mental health, academic, social, and transitional concerns they were experiencing. This experience highlighted the significant impact counselling has on individuals and the importance of creating a safe environment for clients – something Sam is committed to continuing in her current role.

Sam understands that adolescence is a time when we experience a lot of life changes and new experiences. She is passionate about helping teens develop coping skills and being there to support them during a time in life when they are finding themselves and navigating many new situations. Adolescence can be challenging, and Sam recognizes the importance of helping teenagers in the present so they can be successful in their future and feel confident they have the tools they need to succeed. The modalities that inform Sam’s therapeutic approach include Narrative Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, mindfulness-based therapies, EFT, and cognitive- based therapies. She believes in finding the best fit for each individual client.

Sam believes in creating a non-judgemental space where teens feel comfortable being their genuine selves, and she utilizes humour and compassion to cultivate this space. She takes an anti-oppressive and trauma-informed approach to her practice and believes that individuals are the experts on themselves. She strives to utilize a collaborative approach in sessions to empower those she works with.

In her free time, Sam enjoys getting lost in a good book, spending time with her family pets, and exercising. A fun fact about Sam is she is a certified Pilates teacher!

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Ailidh has been working with families and young people for nearly 20 years, both as a parent coach and as a peer counsellor at the Distress Centre of Greater Toronto. She has worked with teens and families in hospital settings at Baycrest and CAMH, addressing themes such as loss, meaning-making (and meaninglessness), identity, addiction, psychosis, and mood disorders. In addition to all of that professional experience, she is also parenting her own teen (and tweens)!

Ailidh is warmly compassionate and relational. She has tremendous respect for the challenges of been a teen in a world which is often unfriendly to young people, and understands that teens are striving towards their own growth and fulfillment. Ailidh is honoured to offer support to young people and their families at this vital, vibrant time in their lives.

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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.

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