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This is Clara, one of our wonderful psychotherapis

This is Clara, one of our wonderful psychotherapists! Read her bio below ⬇️

Want to set up a free, 15-minute consultation with Clara? Email us at info@umhn.ca ✨

"I am a Registered Psychotherapist (qualifying) and hold a masters in counselling degree from Yorkville University. Throughout my education, my clinical interests focused on relational closeness, queer kinship, trauma, and how our relationships in our first families effect our communication and relational styles. I am a white, queer, settler who strives to work from an anti-oppressive, anti-racist, anti-colonial, anti-ableist, and intersectional framework. I put particular attention to being neurodivergent affirming in my work. I believe that connection and community are integral parts of healing, while remaining attentive to the systems and pressures that exist within our communities. Community can be a group of people, you and your pet, or time spent in the forest; there are no limits to the validity of connections.

Alongside challenges, changes, and exploration, I also invite humor, curiosity, and playfulness in all its forms. You are the expert of your experience, and I will centralize you and your needs in how our time unfolds together. My goal is to create a comfortable space where you feel all the parts of yourself can be held and made visible, where the rigidity of binaries can be loosened and the space that creates can be explored together. I work with foundations in a variety of complimentary modalities, including attachment, narrative work, Internal Family Systems (IFS), mindfulness-based practices, and queer theory."

Rae is one of our incredible therapists! Read her

Rae is one of our incredible therapists! Read her bio below ✨

Want to schedule a consult? Reach out to us at info@umhn.ca

"I am an Irish & Scottish, white, queer settler, currently residing on the unceded and unsurrendered territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation. I am a Registered Social Worker with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers (OCSWSSW) and a member of the Ontario Association of Social Workers (OASW). My studies led me to receiving a Master’s in Social Work at Carleton University, in addition to a Bachelor of Education, with a specialty in Art, at the University of Victoria.

My practice is grounded in a client-centered, trauma-informed, anti-racist, de-colonialist, anti-oppressive, 2SLGBTQIA+ affirming, culturally humble approach, guided by narrative and feminist frameworks. Some of the values that inform my practice are sex-, poly-, and kink-positivity, as well as harm-reduction.

My intention is to co-create a healing, empowering, and exploratory space that affirms all the parts that make a client who they are (including their gender, sexuality, race, culture, ancestry, tradition, family, community, spirituality, thoughts, feelings, and beliefs). I whole-heartedly welcome the inclusion of these pieces of a client’s identity in mental health work.

I am committed to continuing work for change, justice, and liberation, particularly for those who are most harmed by the multiple and interwoven systems of oppression in our society, namely Black and Indigenous people, people of colour, 2SLGBTQIA+ people, disabled people, poor people, and people who are undocumented or at risk of deportation.

I use a variety of therapeutic modalities that include strengths-based, narrative, creative arts-based, trauma-informed, and mindfulness-based practices. While I have a soft spot for youth and young adults, I love working with individuals of all ages."

Please welcome Stephanie Wu, one of our new team m

Please welcome Stephanie Wu, one of our new team members!
Read Stephanie's bio below, and email us if you're interested in setting up a consultation with them!
✉️: info@umhn.ca

"I am a queer and trans-identified art therapist, registered psychotherapist (qualifying) with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario, and facilitator. I’m a 2nd generation East Asian settler with familial and ancestral roots in Hong Kong and Guangdong province in Southern China. I’m currently living, working, playing, and collaborating towards a liberatory future in Tkaronto.

I have spent years working with survivors of gender-based violence, and queer/trans youths and adults in the non-profit sector. I specialize in supporting individuals who are experiencing or have experienced intimate partner violence; childhood/adult sexual assault; family abuse; and; state and workplace violence. Other areas I can support you with include impacts of racial trauma, grief, migration, exploration of gender/sexuality, and restoring your relationship with self and others. I’m also a guest instructor at the Toronto Art Therapy Institute sharing knowledge and experience working with 2SLGBTQIA+ folks with Art Therapy.

I work collaboratively and holistically with my clients. Sometimes that may look like a combination of body-centered practices, art therapy and various talk-therapies (No previous art experience or knowledge is needed to take part in art therapy). Creativity, play and imagination can help us dream of alternative expansive futures and possibilities, and engage different parts of our brain. In my own work, I practice the processes of somatic abolitionism with other racialized folks to help myself and those around me in remembering ancestral resilience and brilliance and to heal from white body supremacy.

Outside of my therapy practice, I engage in my own art processes, garden, collect seeds, take care of many animal friends (dogs, rats, occasionally a cat), and spend time cooking.

Looking forward to working with you!"

Meet Bushra, our student therapist! Bushra's bio i

Meet Bushra, our student therapist! Bushra's bio is below ⬇️

As a student therapist, Bushra's rate is $75 per session. Want to schedule a consult with them? Reach out to us at info@umhn.ca

"I am a non-binary, Muslim immigrant-settler on Turtle Island. I am currently pursuing my Master of Social Work degree at Wilfrid Laurier University. I also hold an Honours Bachelor of Science degree in Neuroscience and Buddhism Psychology from the University of Toronto. I have worked primarily with racialized and 2SLGBTQIA+ communities, as well as within Equity, Diversity and Inclusion education and research.

I approach my therapeutic practice with the understanding that we are all experts of our own lives; and that our intersecting identities often shape how we perceive and interact with the world. My professional and personal practice is rooted in anti-oppression, anti-racist, anti-colonial, disability justice, body positive and sex-kink-polyam positive frameworks. My therapeutic approach draws from empowerment, strengths-based, trauma-informed and mindfulness based techniques.

As a neurodivergent individual, I recognize that not all therapeutic modalities are one-size-fits-all models. Therefore, I hope to create a non-judgmental and safe space where we can discuss your expectations, needs, goals, and adjust accordingly. I strongly believe in the power of community and collective liberation, and that much of our healing and growth comes from collaborative experiences."

The Umbrella team together IRL! So wonderful to se

The Umbrella team together IRL! So wonderful to see you all at the summer picnic. Thanks for making us a part of your Sunday!!

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