Hello! My name is Bethany (Beth). I am passionate about providing an inclusive, empowering, and supportive environment for the individuals I support. As a Recreational Therapist, I work with clients to improve quality of life, develop new skills, and interact with their community while exploring their recreation and leisure endeavours. I have worked in a variety of settings such as Adult Day programs, Recreation Centres, elementary/high schools and within the community.

Areas of Focus:

-Exploring new recreation and leisure activities -Walk and talks -Group community outings -Developing life Skills -Community integration and knowledge -Advocacy

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Willkommen! Bienvenue! And Welcome! I’m Helen and in case you missed the cabaret reference, I am a big theatre nerd! I am also a Social Worker who is passionate about helping people learn to live their lives with radical honesty and epic bravery. I think people feel best when they can be their authentic selves. I strive to establish a connection with clients that helps them feel safe, heard, validated, and seen. I value honesty and transparency and strive to reflect this in my practice and daily life. I help people find hope in situations that feel hard or hopeless. I have been around long enough to know that no one gets through this life without experiencing some type of distress or trauma and I truly believe that everyone can use a good therapist at least once in their life!

As a proud member of the queer community, I feel strongly about advocating for 2SLGBTQIA+ youth and persons. I am passionate about speaking up and fighting against homophobia and transphobia. I provide gender-affirming, trauma-informed counselling including medical readiness sessions to help prepare for and support after gender-affirming medical care visits. I am trained in a variety of modalities, use an eclectic style, and weave elements of different models together to best suit the person I am working with. I have worked in a variety of different settings with various populations, but I feel most at home within the Queer community.

Assisting parents to deal with the stressors of having children/youth who are struggling is also a passion of mine. I have two neuro-spicy children and know how difficult it can be to parent. As a parent, we all just want what is best for our children but knowing what that is, isn’t always easy and we often face so much judgment from others. I provide support to parents and caregivers that is safe, gentle and non-judgemental.

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Hi, I’m Lex!

I offer psychotherapy (talk-therapy)! The modalities that I have training and experience in providing include: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Compassion-Focused Therapy, Harm Reduction, Integrated Trauma-Focused Somatic Therapy. I am currently an Expressive Arts Therapy student through the WHEAT Institute, and so, I enjoy incorporating the arts in my work with clients as well (for those who are interested).

I work at the crossroads of mental health and social justice, and so, my practice of psychotherapy is grounded in anti-oppressive practice, trauma-informed care, advocacy and activism. My practice is anti-racist, identity-affirming, sex, poly and kink positive, and sex worker positive.

Feel free to book a free 15 min consult to see if we are a good fit!

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Hello! I’m Brooke. I work from a client-centered approach, as I have lived experince in mental health and know how valuable it it to feel like someone is in your corner. I have worked in various mental health roles, such as a group facilitator, community support, and mental health worker.  I offer a wide range of services, such as counselling, sex and intimacy workshops, and group programs.

Areas of Focus: 

-Depression and Anxiety

-LGBTQIA+ Issues 

-Trauma

-Life Skills

-Harm reduction

-Kink-allied

-Sex/Sexuality Identities  

-Group Work 

You can read more about me and my approach at here, or you can email me at brooke@stardustcollective.ca or book online directly right here

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Hi! I’m Emma! I like to talk about feelings and ask questions. As a counsellor, my sessions are casual and conversational. I work from a trauma-informed lens, including recognizing the trauma we take on just existing within an oppressive, capitalist world.

I pull bits and pieces from a number of different modalities to create a sort of therapeutic trail mix that works for me.

Areas of focus:

• Trauma
• Sexuality and gender identity
• Healthy relationships and self-esteem
• Youth/adolescent issues
• Non-traditional relationships including kink dynamics, non-monogamy, and blended families
• Neurodivergence

Read more about me here, shoot me an email at emma@stardustcollective.ca, or you can book online with me directly!

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Skye is a Registered Social Worker who specializes in body liberation and self-esteem counselling.

Skye is white, genderqueer, bi, and self-identified fat person with lived experience of mental health and body shame struggles.

Skye believes that everybody and every body is inherently worthy, that people are the experts on themselves, and that supportive community is a powerful way to heal.

As a trauma-informed practitioner, they aim for a safe therapeutic space that is centered around consent, choice, and autonomy. They are particularly passionate about working with folx who want to reject diet culture and anti-fat bias, and improve their relationship with their bodies, food, and themselves. Skye works from an anti-oppressive and social justice-oriented perspective, grounded in body liberation and intersectional feminism.

Skye uses a variety of approaches in their work which include self-compassion, mindful noticing of thoughts, emotions, and sensations, and embodied (or somatic) practices.

When Skye isn’t working, they are spending time in fat community, trying not to get cat fur into their knitting, dancing in their living room, and spending time amongst trees.

Contact Skye at skye@stardustcollective.ca

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River is a Mixed-Race (Black, Métis, and Ukrainian) Trans-Masculine Non-Binary person with lived experience of complex trauma, chronic illness & chronic pain, neurodivergence, poverty (generational), and queerness.

River’s lived experience of existing in-between & outside of binaries of race, gender, sexuality, and disability is central to their approach as a therapist. In practicing therapy informed by Indigenous approaches to helping, River believes that strengthening the relationship between themself and the person they’re supporting requires them to share parts of their own life/story as well.

River’s therapeutic approach is rooted in the Mi’kmaw concept of ‘Two-Eyed Seeing’; the bridging of Indigenous & Western knowledges. River applies this through the blending of Indigenous knowledge & practices with Western therapeutic techniques - such as blending Narrative Therapy with Indigenous traditional oral storytelling.

River’s professional background includes community organizing, peer support, and Indigenous mental health. River got their Bachelor of Social Work from McMaster University in 2020 and their Master of Social Work from Wilfrid Laurier University in 2023.

Areas of Focus: - Trauma - Sexuality & gender identity - BIPOC & Mixed-Race Identities - Youth/adolescent issues - Non-traditional relationships including non-monogamy & kink dynamics - Neurodivergence (Autism Spectrum, ADHD) - Chronic illness & Chronic Pain

Therapy Approaches/Modalities: - Narrative Therapy - Peer Support - Indigenous approaches to helping/therapy - Trauma-informed & Trauma-focused - Internal Family Systems (IFS) - Harm Reduction - Arts-based therapeutic practices

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Please note that Emily will be on maternity leave beginning November 27, 2023.

Emily is a registered social worker specializing in working with adolescents and their families, queer and gender diverse humans, non-traditional family systems, and people struggling with self-harm and suicidal thoughts. She has extensive experience in working with folks struggling with depression, anxiety disorders, ADHD, ODD, trauma, young parenting and post-abortion support.

Emily is a cisgender, bisexual, white woman with lived experience of mental health, trauma, and neurodivergence. Emily lives in Thorold with her wife, three terribly behaved kitties, and occasionally a young person or two as an active foster parent. In her free time, Emily loves to knit, cook (and eat!), read comic books, and play cooperative video games with her wife.

Emily has previously worked in the adult and youth shelter systems, the carceral system, men/women’s anti-violence programming, young parenting programs, and within the children’s mental health sector. For the past few years, her passion for working with youth and families has led her to focus on individual and family therapy around various mental health and substance use concerns. Emily particularly enjoys working with people of all ages in addressing intergenerational family cycles, and with parents requiring their own therapeutic and/or parenting support.

Emily holds a Bachelor of Social Work from McMaster University, a Concurrent Disorders certificate from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and a Master of Social Work from York University. She is a life-long learner and is currently on a deep dive into somatic approaches in therapy.

CONTACT: emily@stardustcollective.ca.

NOTE: If the existing availability does not work for your schedule, please contact Emily directly to discuss alternative dates/times. She will do her best to coordinate a time that works for you both!

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