Preteen Therapists in M6R

Are you looking to understand your experiences and create a new path forward? Maybe you're experiencing anxiety, depression, grief, or relationship troubles? Perhaps something needs to change but you're not sure where to start or what change could look like. I'm a psychotherapist and accredited music therapist that's passionate about providing a supportive therapy space where teens and young adults can unpack their experiences and learn more about themselves.

I am a family systems therapist who works with youth, parents and couples who have experienced various mental health challenges or are facing stress and anxiety due to relationship conflict. The families I tend to support are often feeling disconnected from one another and stuck in patterns of relating that often intensify their existing challenges. The foundation of my work is in building relationships where clients feel seen, heard and understood, allowing them to draw on their internal strengths. My role as a social worker is to help clients understand themselves and their relationships in a way that supports authentic growth.

I take a strengths-based and client-centred approaches to providing individual and family-based therapies, as well as parent/caregiver coaching and consultation. My work focuses on empowerment and transformation of my clients by promoting agency, increasing capacity, and strengthening family relationships to achieve effective and sustainable therapeutic outcomes for themselves.

I work with children, youth, adults, couples and families. Along with my Master of Social Work, I have additional training in Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Trauma-Focused Therapy (TF-CBT), Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Narrative Therapy, Brief Solution-Focused Therapy and Mindfulness-based approaches.

Chiron Learning Academy embraces a therapeutic approach rooted in compassion, client-centeredness, and education. Our aim is to empower clients on their healing journey, allowing them to access their own innate healing abilities and fostering their independence, growth, and well-being. We prioritize the client's unique needs, experiences, and goals, placing them at the centre of the therapeutic process.

My therapeutic approach is centred on the client’s needs. Everyone comes from different and unique circumstances in life, and I believe that the therapy process should be unique to each client. For this reason, my approach is warm, judgment free, and draws on a variety of evidence-based therapeutic methods. Therapy can provide positive outcomes for a wide variety of reasons. My belief is that therapy itself can be a healing process. The act of sharing your thoughts, feelings, and worries is an essential step to a healthier and more fulfilling life.

Life is full of contradictions: We can have close relationships yet still feel isolated, have the desire for change but feel attached to the past, and have the hunger to live creatively with the need for stability. As human beings, relationships are central to our lives. Patterns and painful repetitions can exist within our own internal relationship and with others. This can lead to symptoms of anxiety, depression, or lowered self-esteem. My passion is to provide a safe, honest, inviting and collaborative therapeutic space to explore and work through these inner conflicts.

The clients that I connect with are often sensitive and reflective. They may feel somehow different or misunderstood. I work well with teenagers and young adults; queer clients of all ages; people navigating ADHD; folks who have been confined to institutions; and "over-thinkers" who are interested in becoming more connected with themselves, their bodies, and the world around them. My background in critical mental health research grounds my practice in compassion, justice, and freedom.

Therapy helps resolve life issues & create strategies for positive change. Through a process that promotes self-awareness, healing & growth, you will develop greater capacity for healthy living. Whether struggling with a difficult life decision or event, having conflict in a relationship, needing help managing emotions, mood or stress, we provide care that fits with where you are in your journey & will help you find your way through. Our team of social workers are skilled & experienced in working with children, youth, adults, couples and families. Please visit our website and book and meet & greet.

Are you looking for a soft landing place for the parts of you that feel painful, messy, pushed aside, and unseen? Have you been holding this distress all alone? Welcome - I have 15 years experience in wellness, mental health and supporting people with navigating our beautiful yet at times devastating world. I invite those managing symptoms of trauma, depression, family conflict, relationship challenges, and grief to reach out to me to find warmth, compassion, humour and a collaborative path towards healing. Arrive just as you are - we will begin where you are at and grow from there.

From major life transitions to overwhelming feelings and thoughts, life can deplete us. I support children, adolescents, and adults with anxiety, depression, trauma and self-esteem challenges. With roots in perinatal mental health, my passion is to support you in finding stability and clarity in times of transition, no matter the type. My practice draws on a growth-oriented approach to changing family dynamics. In highlighting your resiliencies, we will tend to your needs in the here and now.

I offer deeply compassionate client-centered services for adolescents and adults. I am trained in the evidence-based models of Psychodynamic, ACT, CBT, and Narrative therapy as well as the Creative Arts Therapies, with an expertise in Drama Therapy (Role theory, Psychodrama, Improv, etc.). I interweave these modalities to best suit my client’s needs. My therapy approach goes beyond talk therapy, to also be embodied, creatively expressive, and somatically based. In this way emotions, memories, and presenting issues are explored and processed not only with words but with movement, metaphors, play, and body relaxation techniques.

We all have relationships that affect us deeply every single day. The relationships that we hold are pieces in our lives that we navigate. The most important relationship we hold is that within ourselves. By navigating our individual sense of self, we also strengthen the relationship with have with others. I am here to guide you as you navigate your own unique culture, relationships, and feelings of stuck in your life.

Do you struggle with low self-esteem and high inner critics? Does it feel difficult to fully trust in yourself and to like all parts of yourself? Do you experience anxiety, a fear of failure and/or a fear of rejection? And yet, you want to build a healthy, trusting and loving relationship with yourself (even though there is a part of you that doubts you can)? I would love to support you in the journey, as this is my jam. I specialize in Trauma, Self-Esteem, Anxiety, Depression and relationship challenges. I am entering my 20th year as a therapist, and feel so honored to do this work.

For the past 15 years I have worked with youth and families who are struggling with a variety of mental health issues or relationship difficulties. Often the clients I support are families who are experiencing conflict, whose members are feeling disconnected or teenagers and young adults who are struggling with intense emotions and engaging in behaviours that are concerning to themselves or their caregivers. I work well with people who are interested in transforming themselves and their relationships rather than those who are focused on symptom reduction alone. In addition, I work with adults who have experienced childhood trauma.

Are you struggling in your relationships with others? Relationships are complex and could be complicated. Yet, as human beings, we need others, and when there are challenges in our relationships we suffer and struggle. We all need to be loved and cared for, yet we often push away the very people we want to be close to. Rejection or the fear of it, could be so painful and makes us withdraw, isolate or hurt back. As a result, we may feel inadequate, unlovable, unworthy, and hopeless. Deep down, we want to feel connected, and we want to feel good about ourselves, and at peace.

My practice offers counselling to young people, adults and specialized separation/parenting services for families. Challenges experienced by clients may include: navigating family change, stress, anxiety, peer/romantic relationships, self-regulation, and managing behaviours (ADHD, OCD, ODD). As a Collaborative Family Professional, I work with parents wanting to minimize conflict for their family as they go through transition and change. I provide emotional support throughout the out-of-court process, help caregivers build skills to co-parent, and neutrally facilitate meetings during the collaborative process.

Nicole Haughton, M.Ed., C.Psych., is a registered member of the College of Psychologists of Ontario. She completed her Master of Education at the University of Western Ontario in 2007. Nicole has several years of experience working in both in the education and private sectors. She provides psychoeducational assessments for individuals who require further clarification of their learning strengths and needs. She also provides psychotherapy and counselling services to children, adolescents and adults, as well as parenting support. Nicole has travelled to many different parts of the world and loves to learn from and about others. She i

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