Women's Issues Therapists in Hamilton, ON

‘Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge” Audre Lorde We believe in different ways of knowing, and encourage people to tap into their ways of knowing to promote health and well being. We work from a holistic approach, and invite individuals to bring their body, mind, and spirit into each session. We provide trauma-informed, queer-friendly, and fat-positive counselling. Specializing in: • LGBTQ2S+ Shame and Guilt • Feeling Stuck • Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome • Trauma • Anti-Racism & AOP

Welcome to my private therapeutic practice: Hustle Heal Motivate. Hustle has become the mainstream mindset of today, as we accustom ourselves to a fast-paced culture that offers little time to process the challenges of life until these challenges begin to significantly impact us. My approach is a distinctively centred around you, drawing from modalities including Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), mind and body and somatic experiencing & neuroscience based modalities. I am deeply committed to supporting you in identifying your needs, strengths and goals in order to cope, manage and most importantly to thrive.

Are you feeling lost, stuck, or unsure how to cope with everything life has to throw at you? Are you struggling in your relationships with others or even with yourself? Sometimes understanding how to support ourselves and know what we need can be difficult. I hope to meet you in this uncertainty. Create a space to explore yourself. Understand your strengths, resiliency, and knowledge to build a life that honours your values and needs. Within a compassionate, non-judgmental space, I hope to support you in self-discovery, enhancing skills, finding balance, and establishing healthy relationships with yourself and others.

I have over 30 years of experience in the field of social work and 20 years of experience as a family mediator. My professional expertise includes a background in psychiatry and management. I counsel individuals, couples and families. I work with clients experiencing stress and trauma, anxiety and depression, relationship and family conflict including neglect, abuse, anger management and gender identity issues. I help couples with relationship conflict, communication, sexuality and parenting challenges, separation and divorce. I have experience in working with individuals struggling with addictions, making career decisions grief and day to day challenges.

Are you struggling right now? Is this affecting your mental, emotional, spiritual and physical well-being? Imagine... a space free of external distractions so you can go within and listen to what needs to be heard. see with a new perspective, learn healthy ways of coping, process the blocks that hold you back and gain personal freedom. I am here to support you as you navigate change, growth and heal old wounds. This will result in clarity and conscious creation. " Your task is not to seek for love (or insert your word), but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."

When our past is haunting our present, it is an opportunity to explore unresolved pain, grief, sadness and anger that we may not have been able to express as children. I believe that becoming a whole person involves identifying, retrieving and integrating lost parts of ourself. My intention is to guide clients to discover the healing they seek through gentle curiosity, practical exercises and nervous system rewiring. My primary areas of focus include: self-esteem, anxiety, trauma, burnout relationship challenges.

On the good days, you are unsure if you really need any help. You think it will pass. But on the difficult days, you find yourself here. You are tired and overwhelmed. Your mood is low, and your patience is short. Your relationships feel fragile, and your resilience is waning. Adding one more to-do item to your list seems impossible. Maybe even indulgent. You can ignore your struggle, and maybe tomorrow will be a better day. Or, you can find yourself the support you deserve and know that it will be. You do not have to do this alone.

You're here because something needs to change. Good. There's your first step. Let's connect to explore the issues. We can work on strategies to help you transform your challenges. I’m an honest, straight forward, compassionate counsellor and coach. I am here to support stuck people to move forward. Are you ready? Do you want your life to be bigger? If your issues are related to relationships, separation, boundaries, self-confidence, career or graduation transitions, burn out or general existential malaise, let’s work it out together. I will challenge you to listen to your gut and feel your feelings.

Are you a woman who finds herself feeling constantly overwhelmed? Are you plagued by thoughts that no matter how hard you try you feel like you are disappointing those closest to you? If so, you are not alone. There are so many messages about what women should be doing, feeling and looking like that it's easy to forget what matters to us as individuals. From the start, we need to empower our girls to celebrate what makes them unique so that they are able to flourish through the teenage years. Most importantly, women need to be grounded in who they are to navigate the conflicting roles of professional, partner, mother and lover.

I consider it a privilege every single time someone welcomes me to share in their therapeutic process. My intention is to bring authenticity, empathy and non-judgemental guidance to the room. I believe that therapy is a very personal experience for each of my clients, so I try to enter the therapeutic relationship as a 'clean slate', free of judgement or any agenda other than what they want or need in their healing. In my practice, I work from an anti-oppressive, client-focused, strength-based framework and believe that therapy is a collaborative process and that you are the expert of your experience.

There are various aspects our lives that can interfere with our personal success, social and family relationships, mental stability and overall well-being. Taking care of these needs are an important part of maintaining ones mental health. As a counsellor my job is to help clients identify what these needs are and help my clients address them. I have completed my Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology and work as a counselling associate with the Compassion Project. My group supervision sessions are with Pauline O'Brien, Ed.D., CCC-S, CCS-AC, RP and my individual clinical supervisor is Alyssa Koenderink, MACP, RP.

Are you struggling with life right now? Is your mental, physical and emotional health being impacted in a negative way as a result? Do you want to learn the coping skills necessary to be able to process the pain that’s holding you back from feeling at peace and in charge of your life? I can help. Through skill building, processing of negative or traumatic events and access to a very supportive team of psychiatrists I will help get you to a place where you are living your best life.

I have a significant amount of experience in working with those who present with anxiety, depression, self-esteem issues, sex and relationship concerns, trauma, and oppression. My clients may struggle with internalized self-blame for the issues they're facing. I hope to help them reject harmful societal messages that lead them to believe that the problems they're having are entirely due to their personal shortcomings. I hope to provide a safe and non-judgemental space for them to process their experiences of trauma and oppression. I hope to help them develop self-care routines, strategies and boundaries to avoid burnout.

Welcome to Pieces to Peace, a therapy practice that aims to transform the mental health and well-being of Black women and girls. As the primary practitioner, I help high achieving Black women and femmes dissatisfied with their lives, move past self-sacrificing, generational survival habits to discover what a life of peace means for them. Through this therapeutic relationship, we focus primarily on self-discovery, life transitions and building healthier relationships.

Are you overwhelmed by anger, stress, or anxiety? Perhaps your life has changed in ways you can't seem to cope with due to trauma or grief. Maybe you are just not living your life: you're simply surviving, instead of thriving. No matter what you are going through, I am here to say that change is possible. The road may indeed be tough; but, that's why I'm here. My goal is to bring therapy into people's lives as an enriching, enjoyable experience. It is through this journey that healing and life change can take place. I do not believe in one "agenda" for therapy: instead, at Uniquely You, the process is tailored to Uniquely YOU!

Are you longing for a personalized and holistic approach? Are you feeling burdened by anxiety, stress, trauma, grief or depression? I would like to help you understand and unravel the patterns in your life. I believe that this process begins with healing the relationship with ourselves as a starting point. I would like to guide and inspire you to cherish your own life, and begin to transform the fear based patterns, which may be overwhelming your best efforts towards true healing and change. As a trauma informed therapist and hypnotherapist, I can help you find the keys to unlock your inner peace and potential. May you find the way