Mahmoud is a Mental Health clinician, working under the direct supervision of one of the directors Adam Ghemroui. Mahmoud works with children, adolescents, and
adults.

Maria is a Registered Psychotherapist with a Master’s in Counselling Psychology. Maria is experienced in working with children, youth, adults, and families. She worked for a number of years at Reach out Center for Kids (ROCK), as well as Halton Women’s Place (HWP), and Halton Multicultural Center (HMC).

Zanub is a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario who specializes in helping individuals, couples, and families improve their relationships and achieve greater emotional well-being. If you’re experiencing challenges in your relationship or have been impacted by trauma that is affecting your ability to connect with your partner, Zanub can help. With a warm, empathetic approach and extensive training in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Zanub works collaboratively with her clients to identify the root cause of their challenges and develop healthier communication patterns to increase emotional intimacy.

Rana is a registered social worker with more than 10 years of experience providing mental health services to individuals, couples and families. Her therapeutic approach is client-centred and strength-based. She believes in helping her clients find their inner strength and walks along their side on the journey to self exploration and healing. She uses a variety of therapeutic modalities including attachment-based trauma informed approach, emotion focused therapy, cognitive behaviour therapy, dialectic behaviour therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy and mindfulness.

Farhat Javed is a compassionate Registered Social Worker with a Master’s degree from Wilfrid Laurier University and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Waterloo. With a deep passion for helping others, she specializes in trauma-informed, culturally sensitive counselling for individuals, couples, and families.

Farhat has extensive experience supporting clients through a wide range of challenges including anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, relationship and parenting issues, self-esteem, women’s empowerment, and newcomer mental health. Her approach is grounded in empathy, respect, and cultural humility.

Using a variety of evidence-based modalities—such as CBT, DBT, Emotionally Focused Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Mindfulness, and the Gottman Method—Farhat creates a safe, non-judgmental space where clients can process their experiences and build meaningful change.

Fluent in English, Pashto, Urdu, Hindi, and Panjabi, she is dedicated to fostering connection and understanding across diverse cultural backgrounds. Farhat’s warm, ethical, and client-centered approach helps individuals feel seen, heard, and supported on their journey toward healing and growth.

Marwa is a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) and a member of the College of Registered Psychotherapists and the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association. She first began her career as an educator and learned quickly that her passion lie’s in supporting youth and adults to navigate their life’s challenges and attain a deeper sense of self-awareness. This inspired her to pursue her Master of Education in Counselling Psychology and Psychotherapy at OISE, at the University of Toronto.  

Zeynep is a registered member of the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers and the Ontario Association of Social Workers. She completed her Master’s degree in Social Work (MSW) at the University of Toronto with a collaborative specialization in aging, palliative, and supportive care across the life course.

About Salisha

Salisha is a Registered Social Worker and Psychotherapist with the Ontario College of Social Workers and has a Master’s Degree in Social Work from the University of Toronto.  She has over 20 years of experience counselling a diverse population and helping them to work through their challenges.

She has worked at a Community Health Centre for 17 years focusing on mental health.  She has provided therapy to clients of all ages, particularly youth and adults in the capacity of individual, couples, and family counselling.  She has also facilitated many groups and workshops on various topics such as self-esteem, assertiveness, anger, healthy relationships, anxiety, as well as DBT groups focusing on emotion regulation and distress tolerance.  In addition, she has many years of experience providing therapy to clients and their families at a counselling walk-in clinic in Durham as well as being a Clinical Supervisor to the Therapists at the clinic. 

She has provided therapy to clients who have presented with a variety of concerns such as depression, anxiety, relationship challenges, conflict, self-esteem, trauma, grief, etc.

Salisha’s therapeutic approach involves first creating a felt sense of safety and comfort with her clients.  She provides support in a warm, compassionate manner and assists clients to develop meaningful insights to help them work through difficulties and get to a place of self-growth.  In addition, she helps clients learn practical skills and strategies that they can begin applying immediately to work on their challenges. 

Salisha works from a lens of cultural humility and honours clients’ values.  She uses a nonjudgmental approach and seeks to develop a greater understanding of clients’ experiences and helps them process and make sense of them.  She is very collaborative in her work with clients and seeks to learn about their needs and counselling goals and ensures that therapeutic modalities used are in alignment with this.  She is very passionate about working alongside of her clients to help them attune to their own inner wisdom, strengthen their sense of self, and assist them toward becoming the best version of themselves that helps them feel authentic, connected, and confident with who they are.

In addition to the blend of various therapeutic modalities used when working with clients, other areas of focus in her work include using a holistic approach, mindfulness, meditation, breathwork, somatic experiencing, compassion-focused and strength-based approaches.  She also provides faith-based and spiritual counselling upon request.

Treatment Approaches

• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
• Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
• Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
• Internal Family Systems (IFS)
• Narrative Therapy
• Solution-Focused Therapy
• Somatic-Based Approaches

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