Our Team

Welcome, and thank you for your trust. A little bit about me:

I am trained both as a psychotherapist and as a clinical pharmacist. Over the two decades of my experience in optimizing medication therapy for hospital and long-term care patients, I have acquired a wide spectrum of expertise, supporting patients through cancer treatment, psychiatric illness, insomnia, depression, anxiety and stress. I have completed certification training in management of depression and anxiety in cancer patients, smoking cessation, diabetes management, ADHD management, and geriatric medicine, and I am proficient with medications used in fertility treatments.

While helping treat physical illness, it always felt like a piece was missing. With every patient I listened to, I appreciated psychosomatics more, both for its power to cause illness and for its potential for healing. A whole person was in front of me, while I was only trained to view their physical being.

So, I went back to school and learned about “the other half”. I gained a broad range of knowledge in psychotherapy, from Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Solution-Focused Therapy (SFT) – brief yet effective treatment models, to more analytical approaches. I am a Certified Anxiety Informed Professional (CAIP), Certified Reproductive Mental Health Specialist (CRMHS), a sex therapy informed professional, and my practice is Internal Family Systems (IFS) informed. I am skilled in supporting clients experiencing grief and loss. My own fertility journey and later-age motherhood have enriched my training in fertility-related counselling.

I provide individual, couples & family and group therapy, and I work well with teenagers, adults and seniors.

The interdisciplinary perspective empowers my clients with a comprehensive view of their issues, which at times brings us stunning surprises. The girl with anxiety and anger outbursts does not need to waste years in effort to control it – she needs extended bloodwork, to have the thyroid disorder driving her mood diagnosed. The senior executive does not need to retire because of her worsening OCD and irritable bowel – she just needs to change some of her diet and lifestyle routine. The gentleman with recurrent ulcers can realize that his distressing work environment is fueling his disease. These are just a few snapshots of what gets missed when we only listen to one of the voices in the mind-body duo.

It is my mission to find those missing links, and help my clients aim their efforts well. Once you figure out the “what”, you will find your own way to the “how”, and I will support you on the path you choose.

We have been blessed to have Jessica onboard as a Social Work Consultant for matters of support available to residents of Ontario. She is a knowledgeable and compassionate professional with nearly a decade of diverse clinical experience.

Jessica started her career at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto, and continued to specialize in mental health within hospital settings, including inpatient, outpatient, and emergency room (crisis) milieus. She is inherently familiar with financial, social and living arrangements challenges people face these days, and provides practical, thorough, non-judgmental advice on the support available in community and from the government to those in need, and how to secure it.

Your therapist may reach out for a consult with Jessica at any time you would consider it helpful, and a personal consultation with her can be arranged as well.

Samantha, our uniquely skilled Physiotherapy Consultant, has joined us to help address the physical aspects of our clients’ wellbeing. She has 15 years of experience of helping patients of Southlake Hospital and York Rehab tackle their physical challenges.

Sam implements physiotherapy as a highly effective and non-invasive approach to managing chronic pain. Her passion includes physiotherapy for neurological conditions. Sam utilizes the McKenzie Method – the Mechanical Diagnosis and Treatment Model (MDT) for assessment and treatment of musculoskeletal problems, such as back, neck, and extremity pain. She is a magician when it comes to improving mobility.

Being a firm believer in a client-centered approach to physical rehabilitation, Sam creatively merges the variety of approaches she has mastered, to ensure optimal care fitting the client’s individual needs. She excels in providing effective virtual therapy, and offers home visits.

Your therapist can arrange your meeting Sam anytime for a consultation on the promising ways to help relieve your pain and rehabilitate your body. As a truly interdisciplinary team, we will appreciate and appropriately integrate the insight Sam can provide into your care plan, making therapy optimally targeted and effective.

Olga is our Nurse Practitioner with over 20 years of diverse clinical experience, strongly rooted in mental health, geriatrics, and long-term care. She is the prescriber who has both the expertise and the time for you. Holding both a Master of Science in Nursing and a Primary Health Care Nurse Practitioner degree, Olga combines advanced clinical expertise with a compassionate, patient-centered approach. Recognized for her clinical excellence, Olga is a recipient of the Excellence Award from Southlake Hospital and the Praxis Award from York University.
Olga’s practice includes providing acute and chronic disease management, mental health support, and health promotion services. As a member of an interdisciplinary team, Olga unfailingly offers sharp insight and effective collaboration, to gain understanding of the client’s needs and provide excellent, timely help. Your therapist would refer you to see Olga, should involving /adjusting medication treatment appear potentially helpful in the course of your therapy.