Kayla Deverson is a social worker with the OCSWSSW and has been registered since 2010. Kayla earned her Masters of Social Work degree at the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Social Work / Bachelor of Arts degree at McMaster University. These studies advanced a longstanding interest in providing compassionate care. Clinically, Kayla has fourteen years experience working in a variety of settings, primarily in healthcare. She started her career working in a fast-paced hospital emergency department and has continued to build her career working with individuals and families during moments of crisis, trauma, and change in a variety of different contexts within the healthcare realm. Kayla discovered her passion for women’s health issues in 2015 when she began counselling families during pregnancy and postpartum and when she gained firsthand experience welcoming her daughter in 2022. Her personal journey with pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and sleep deprivation have deepened her love of perinatal work and she is passionate about providing an empathic, judgement-free space for women and couples as they transition into parenthood. She sees each stage of reproduction as a life transition that is as unique as each individual. She believes that this is a profound and challenging time for every parent and is honoured to hold space for her clients as their family evolves. Kayla believes it is essential to meet people on their own terms and to provide a safe and supportive space for their growth. Kayla’s approach is client centred, supportive, empathetic, and focused on creating a safe space to promote client growth and wellbeing.

She has worked closely with individuals and couples in all reproductive life stages. She has a wealth of experience with issues surrounding infertility, pregnancy, medically complex pregnancies, birth trauma, pregnancy loss, adoption and surrogacy, and postpartum mood disorders. She offers weekend and evening hours to accommodate busy schedules.

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Melanie is a psychotherapist and Registered Social Worker with 20 years of clinical experience. She graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a Master’s Degree in Social Work and has acquired extensive training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Family Therapy and Attachment Therapy.

After a lengthy career working with adolescents and their families, Melanie returned to university at Toronto Metropolitan University and completed her Bachelor of Health Sciences – Midwifery degree and has worked as a Registered Midwife. While she is presently on Inactive status with the College of Midwives of Ontario, she remains very connected to the midwifery community and is passionate about supporting fair and equitable access to reproductive health care

Melanie’s work as a social worker, psychotherapist and midwife has provided her with rich experiences that have informed her passion for providing perinatal mental health care. In particular, Melanie has developed an expertise in the areas of prenatal and postpartum anxiety and depression, pregnancy loss and birth-trauma. In addition, she has a special interest in supporting midwives and other birth workers who have experienced and suffer from vicarious birth trauma.

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Jessica is a Registered Social Worker and has been a member of the OCSWSSW since 2006. Jessica graduated from Lakehead University with and Honours Bachelor of Social Work and the University of Toronto with her Masters of Social Work. Jessica has been practicing for 17 years mostly in the hospital setting and private practice. Her work in a variety of hospital settings has allowed her to walk beside individuals and families facing some of their most challenging moments, losses and transitions. Much of her career has also gone to supporting individuals and couples navigate relationship, parenting, grief, mental health issues and life transitions. Jessica has a passion for working with couples as they journey from individuals to a partnership while learning to manage all of life’s stressful complexities. Jessica knows how difficult it can be to create your own healthy family and break free from generational patterns that do not serve you and how challenging that can be as a spouse to provide the appropriate support when their experiences are not the same.

Jessica is a strong believer in taking what you can from a negative interaction, own what needs to be owned and reflect on it to come out stronger with a more comprehensive sense of self! Working with couples learning about each other and understanding not only themselves and the other person but so importantly the space between that blends them. Jessica uses a variety of tools and strategies to assist clients grow and learn about them themselves and their partnership. Jessica is trained in the Gottman Methods level 1 and 2 as well as in Teaching the Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work. Jessica also utilizes Cognitive Behavioural and Solution Focused approaches along with Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, self acceptance, and best practices for goal setting.

Jessica is striving to reduce the power that shame can have over us that keeps us small, quiet and from achieving a true sense of ourselves and the connection we all need and deserve to thrive. Our life creates issues for us in biopsychosocial ways, we owe it to ourselves to recognize our strengths and use them to manage our moods and our relationships that allow us to be our healthiest selves!

Jessica accommodates some evenings and Saturday mornings!

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Alison is a Registered Social Worker and Psychotherapist currently practicing in Nova Scotia and Ontario. Alison has a collaborative, client centered approach to therapy and aims to provide a welcoming space where clients truly feel heard. She believes in drawing on each person’s unique strengths, offering practical skills to manage life’s challenges and turn down the volume on painful thoughts and feelings.

Alison’s own journey to motherhood at the beginning of a global pandemic and personal experience with postpartum depression has influenced her passion towards maternal mental health and the perinatal period. She has specific training and experience in the area of perinatal and maternal mental health, and offers support for concerns such as birth and reproductive trauma, attachment trauma, depression, anxiety, stress, life transitions, relationship and parenting challenges. The journey to and through parenthood can be filled with so many transitions and challenges to navigate at once, while also learning how to care for yourself through this process. Alison aims to help you embrace the range of emotions that can present during this time, build support and connection in a way that matters to you, and increase confidence to be true to yourself.

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Much of Sarah’s career as a Registered Social Worker has been dedicated to adult mental health and supporting individuals to manage and overcome a vast array of challenges, experiences of psychological distress, and major life transitions. She maintains a particular passion for perinatal wellness and for the parenting journey itself. As a mother, she knows first-hand the challenges of extreme fatigue, pressures from society to “do it right”, balancing relationships as a new mom, combating mood fluctuations and at times, feeling unable to effectively cope with the day-to-day.

Sarah’s approach is integrative, collaborative, and about true connection. She wants her clients to feel seen, heard, validated, and understood in whatever they are feeling and experiencing. It is her belief that we are all the experts of our own lives and she aims to help you recognize unique inner resources, allowing you to reach your full potential. She is passionate about supporting you with challenges relating to major life transitions, role changes, lifestyle adjustments, anxiety, stress, perinatal mental health difficulties, trauma, interpersonal and relationship challenges, and/or riding the wave of being a new mom. Sarah sees individual, adult clients only.

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Isabelle is a Registered Social Worker. Originally from East Africa and identifies as a Black African-Canadian woman. She is blessed with three amazing children and lives in Saskatchewan with her spouse.

Isabelle’s passion for providing therapy to families experiencing perinatal mental health issues stems from her own lived experiences during pregnancy and immediately after the birth of her last child. She suffered alone for multiple years. Isabelle could not share with anyone, especially in her community, where stigma around mental health continues to exist. It wasn’t until she coincidentally attended a conference on perinatal mental health in 2018 that she met many women who shared struggles with mental health. It was then that she realized, oh, it’s a ‘thing’ actually to have mental health during pregnancy and postpartum. Isabelle felt validated that she was not alone and there was help. This led to her journey of healing for herself and another journey to help other childbearing families.

Isabelle graduated with a Master of Social Work from Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville, Illinois, and has over a decade of experience. Isabelle’s work is guided by using a lens of trauma-informed, cultural humility, and anti-oppressive.

Her treatment modalities include attachment, Circle of Security Parenting, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Isabelle has completed the Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Certificate Course through Postpartum Support International and is working towards getting the Perinatal Mental Health Certification. Isabelle strives for lifelong learning to keep up to date with training in mental health.

Isabelle considers it a privilege and an honour to journey along with individuals struggling with mental health. She strives to create a culturally safe space as she understands how difficult it can be to be vulnerable in sharing mental health issues.

When she is not working, she values, protects, and prioritizes self-care by creating opportunities for family time, prayer, meditation, movies, gardening, mentoring, reading, cooking, and travelling for “ocean therapy” for “Vitamin Sea” whenever possible.

Isabelle accommodates evening and Saturday schedules.

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Courtney is a Registered Social Worker, wife and mother of 2 little boys. After her own experience with infertility, she developed a passion for supporting woman who are at all stages of their journey through motherhood. She is deeply invested in providing a safe space to support those who are navigating infertility, and she welcomes the opportunity to walk alongside women who are struggling with the transition to motherhood whether that is during pregnancy or after your child is born. Courtney also has a special interest in supporting those who learn that their unborn child has a medical condition.

Sessions with Courtney will feel collaborative and empowering and the hope is that you will leave feeling as though you can comfortably move forward knowing what you need to do next. Courtney truly believes that she is meant to walk alongside her families through their struggle with infertility and motherhood and will be there to hold space during the hard times and also to celebrate with you when things are feeling good. Courtney uses an integrative approach in her work and draws from her knowledge of Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), Narrative Therapy, CBT, she is trauma informed and views the world through a feminist lens which intimately informs her practice.

Courtney is passionate about her work and is currently working on Certification with Postpartum Support International. She has completed training in Maternal Mental Health, Infertility, Pregnancy Loss and Reproductive Trauma and she completed her Masters Degree in Social Work in 2013. When Courtney is not working you can find her hiking with her family, playing tractors with her boys, or helping out on the family farm!

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Jessica is a Registered Social Worker who has been working in the field of mental health and crisis intervention for more than 10 years. She works with individuals using a mixed modality of solution focused, motivational interviewing, and cognitive behavioural techniques, always meeting clients with warmth, compassion and empathy. Her own journey of motherhood has inspired her passion to support others along their path.

Many times, we expect our story to unfold in a certain way and so often this contrasts with the reality of our experience. Together we can create a safe space to navigate your experience. With a gentle and supportive approach, we can begin to understand your story and work together to address your personal goals for therapy. Some things we may explore include negative or scary thoughts, self-esteem, challenges arising in motherhood (such as loss of identity, social isolation, not enjoying your days), working with difficult emotions and overwhelming thoughts. Using self-care, mindfulness, and coping strategies, we will build confidence in your parenting role, resiliency and empowerment to overcome the contrast between reality and experience, working towards a holistic view of self, sense of peace and personal well-being.

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Gabrielle is a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO) and recent graduate of the Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology (MACP) program at Yorkville University.

Gabrielle’s interest in perinatal mental health is a product of her own reproductive journey, specifically postpartum depression, pregnancy losses, a secondary infertility diagnosis and IVF. These experiences left an impression on her regarding the value of and need for inclusive, affordable, and accessible services.

Gabrielle strives to help her clients to feel more like themselves. Her goal is to support you through an integrative and person-centered approach informed by interpersonal psychotherapy, increased self-compassion, mindfulness-based interventions, and cognitive behavioural theory. She works from a collaborative approach, informed by your goals, boundaries, diversity, and the expertise that you bring regarding your own lived experience.

Gabrielle looks forward to collaborating with you on your journey to health and well-being.

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Kerri is a Registered Social Worker with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers. She has her Masters degree in Social Work with a specialization in working with children and families. Kerri has worked as a Social Worker supporting families in various stages of their lives for the last 8 years and has two children of her own. Kerri’s own journey to motherhood began during the global pandemic, which amplified her passion for supporting individual’s through the perinatal period, as she experienced how challenging it can be to move through this time without the right supports in place.

Kerri believes in a collaborative approach to counseling and acknowledges the importance of holding space for all to feel supported, heard, understood, and validated. Kerri is a client-centered therapist and truly believes the most important piece of your work together is the relationship you forge. Kerri tailors her approach to meet each individual’s needs & therapeutic goals pulling from various modalities such as Solution-Focused, Strength-Based, Narrative, Family Systems, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), and Mindfulness.

Kerri has specialized training in perinatal mental health & supporting individuals through trying to conceive, pregnancy, postpartum, pregnancy & infant loss, and the highs and lows of parenthood. Whether it is difficult emotions, managing relationships, dealing with stress & overwhelm, life changes & transitions, struggling with identity & role strain, or grief & loss - Kerri is here to walk alongside you, no matter where you are on your journey. Kerri wants to provide you and your family with the support, information, and tools to feel more like “you,” whatever that looks like.

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Heather is a registered Social Worker and Psychotherapist and the Clinical Director of Bloom Psychotherapy. She is a certified perinatal mental health specialist. Much of Heather’s practice focuses on infertility, birth trauma, perinatal and infant loss and grief, as well as postpartum adjustment issues. She is a mom of three who is passionate about helping mothers thrive, and in supporting women to feel grounded, confident and connected. It was her experiences with difficulty conceiving, vanishing twin syndrome, becoming a mother, and postpartum anxiety that led her to specialize in supporting mothers in their adjustment to parenthood. Heather is passionate about helping parents thrive as they journey through the reproductive, perinatal and parenting phases of life, and in supporting women to feel grounded, confident and connected.

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Renata is a Registered Social Worker (RSW) who specializes in working with birth trauma. She provides individual therapy for adults and has a passion for connecting with others in their life’s journey. With an eclectic style of different counselling modalities, she offers a variety of strategies that will help and support you on your own path. She listens, explores and collaborates with compassion and non-judgment, to ensure your story is heard and continued with intent. By connecting with ourselves, our values, and our loved ones, we can find an authentic and grounded path with many joyful moments to embrace during the unpredictable, demanding, and emotional journey of parenthood. Renata is a mom of two, and is dedicated to helping women and families thrive.

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Natasha is passionate about seeing people flourish in their lives. She holds the belief that people are resilient and hardwired for connection in this world. As your therapist, Natasha’s goal is that you would feel safe and comfortable in her presence, and leave empowered with skills to thrive.

Natasha loves working with women in the perinatal period - from trying-to-conceive, to pregnancy and postpartum. She understands that motherhood is a unique, beautiful, and challenging time of transition for many individuals. Natasha has a particular interest in supporting mother’s who have experienced infertility, loss, and birth trauma, and helping them to heal from these experiences. She also enjoys supporting couple’s, and helping to foster deeper connection and intimacy at any point in their relationship.

Natasha uses a variety of models in her practice, including: Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT), Narrative Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness, and Attachment-based therapy. She is also equipped to integrate faith in sessions for those who are interested. Natasha is a Registered Psychotherapist with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO).

Beyond the office, Natasha enjoys time spent with her family, good coffee, and getting lost in greenhouses.

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Carrie-Lynn is a Registered Social Worker who supports women, men and their partners, who are experiencing fertility challenges, pregnancy or infant loss, as well as perinatal anxiety and depression. She is also deeply passionate about supporting couples/parents in reconnecting, rebuilding the foundation of their relationship and navigating conflict in new and meaningful ways.

Carrie-Lynn works from an attachment, trauma-informed, and LGBTTQQIA+ affirming perspective. She is a certified Perinatal Mental Health Specialist. Through her own experience with perinatal loss and postpartum anxiety, Carrie-Lynn understands how difficult it can be to share your experience and process the complex feelings that arise along this journey. Now that you are here, Carrie-Lynn would love to work with you to process your emotions and make meaning of your unique experiences, so that you can integrate them into your lives and begin to heal.

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