Cerasela Toba: Offering Clinical Counselling and Psychotherapy
Therapist and Registered Clinical Counsellor
Specializing in complex challenges, CPTSD, DID, Chronic Pain, Grief and Loss, Depression & Anxiety, Healing from Abuse.
I offer a gentle and safe space to explore and change together what blocks you from being able to live life fully. I work from an anti-oppressive perspective, using a feminist and unlearning approach. I believe that through attunement and safety, we can figure out how to meet your goals. My experience is that we can heal or get to live fuller lives. My healing and learning journey makes me comfortable working with complex challenges, CPTSD, DID, chronic pain, grief and loss, depression & anxiety, healing from abuse and what feels overwhelming or too much. Therapy can help us understand where we are coming from and where to get. I strive to help people find their inner resources, new ways of coping and understanding their lives. I am queer and hope to create safe space for others. I work somatically using SE, Internal Family System, and psychodynamic interventions that are tailored to fit personal needs. If you are unlearning, I help unpack the personal impact that comes from it .
Monica Dragosz(she/her), M.A., RSW(AB), RCC(BC) Counsellor/ Psychotherapist
I have worked in and around mental health for more than twenty years, and the sum total of my experiences has shaped the trauma-informed lens that I currently practice from. Personal experience has also led me here, and my family’s history, my training as a yoga teacher, as well as a deep, lifelong bond with the natural world have all influenced the presence that I bring to my work.
I provide counseling and psychotherapy for issues related to all forms of trauma (particularly developmental and relational trauma), using a blend of Internal Family Systems Therapy and a somatic focus informed by Hakomi Therapy and Focusing-Oriented Therapy. I have an additional interest in the field of ecopsychology and therefore I also draw from nature-guided practices and ritual. I am trained in EMDR and integrate these other approaches into EMDR protocols to truly tailor it to each person’s unique character and needs.
While I hold an intersectional, anti oppressive, and feminist view of mental health, I am also a keen student of the human nervous system. I bring forth a highly attuned presence that is respectful, grounded, and gentle – in service of the larger vision of fostering resilience, healing, and empowerment for all those I work with. Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions about the possibility of working together.
Nicolle Nattrass Clinical Counselor (CAC II),
Nicolle Nattrass is a Counselor (CAC II), a member of the Journal Council of the International Association for Journal Writing (IAJW) and an advocate fo Maternal Mental Health with the Canadian Perinatal Mental Health Collaborative.
(Featured in the anthology, You are Never Alone July 2021)
Since 2013, she has tirelessly advocated for the use of Creative Journaling and creative modalities to be used with a trauma informed lens to help those in overcoming trauma, dependency, anxiety and stress heal and improve self-care.
During Covid-19, she wrote and published her first book, Just the Two of Us (a soft place for tender hearts to land), a new book for parents & caregivers to use journaling with children to process stress, anxiety and trauma. She is also a contributing author of two new books, Transformational Journaling for Coaches & Clients: The Complete
Guide to the Benefits of Personal Writing (Routledge Press, 2021) and the Great Book of Journaling (Mango Publishing 2021) both co-edited by well-known American author and psychologist, Eric Maisel and Lynda Monk, IAJW.
She has created 4 Creative Journaling courses and programs, facilitates workshops & webinars as well as now training trauma specialists & counselors about her work.