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EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE THAT WILLOW ROOTS THERAPY IS MOVING TO 280 METCALFE STREET IN SEPTEMBER! Stay tuned for a follow-up email announcing our official moving date.

With a direct yet warm approach, Ro places a strong emphasis on building a secure therapeutic relationship. Through this connection, she supports clients in developing an internal sense of safety, helping to regulate the nervous system and create space for reflection, emotional processing, and the integration of therapeutic tools.

Ro supports individuals and couples navigating relationship challenges, sexual concerns, life transitions, parenting issues, and perinatal mental health. She has a particular interest in sex therapy, helping clients explore intimacy, desire, and connection in a way that feels safe, empowering, and aligned with their values. Ro brings a culturally humble lens to her work and is mindful of the impact that culture, identity, and intergenerational experiences can have on emotional wellbeing and relationships.

Her approach is emotion-focused and attachment-based, integrating evidence-based modalities such as Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT), the Gottman Method, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), and somatic-based approaches. Ro works collaboratively with clients to tailor therapy to each client’s unique needs and goals.

Outside of the therapy room, Ro enjoys cooking, watching hockey, thrift shopping, and spending quality time with her family. She values warmth, humour, and authenticity both in her personal life and in her work with clients. In her free time, she enjoys cozy nights in and unwinding with reality TV.

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Emi provides a supportive, non-judgmental space for clients to share and explore new approaches to their personal challenges. She offers counselling for adult individuals and couples, using a holistic, tailored approach focused on specific goals. She integrates methods from various theories, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy, Attachment Theory, Mindfulness, and Solution-focused Therapy. In each session, Emi meets the client with acceptance, compassion, and understanding.

Emi works with individuals and couples facing concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, grief, or relational issues, and/or with experiences of trauma, abuse, or neglect. She helps extend therapy beyond sessions and into daily life, so as to make meaningful steps towards the life clients want to live. Throughout the course of therapy, Emi checks in to get the client’s feedback on the collaborative process and to make sure therapy is working to meet everyone’s expectations. She helps clients who feel stuck and ready for things to be different by investigating a new way forward.

Emi is a Registered Psychotherapist with the CRPO, holding a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a Master’s in Counselling Psychology. In addition to her formal degrees, she has training in Non-violent Crisis Intervention, Applied Suicide Intervention Skills, and Complex Trauma. She has experience in private practice, counselling clients of diverse gender identities, sexual orientations, cultural and spiritual origins, and socioeconomic statuses.

In her personal time, Emi enjoys physical activity, playing games, nurturing her house plants, and connecting with friends and family.

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Sophia’s approach to therapy is a holistic one, catering to the needs of each client as everyone is different. She provides counselling to individuals, couples and families with an emphasis on a Family Systems approach. However, the interventions she uses can vary as she meets the clients’ needs, such as Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Attachment Theory and Psychodynamic Therapy. The therapeutic environment is a safe space where confidentiality meets acceptance, understanding and support to each person’s concerns.

Some of the issues Sophia focuses on are relationship struggles, depression, anxiety, communication skills, pre and post-marital conflict, adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), intimacy issues and any day-to-day life concerns. Once you attend your first counselling session, together, you will explore your reasons for taking the step to come and you will work together to create a treatment plan that will suit your needs. Sophia will discuss with you about what works best for you and how to continue your upcoming sessions. Every step you will take you will take it together. As a participant in your journey Sophia can provide you with the tools to manage your concerns in alternate ways, should you be willing and open to explore them. She will provide utmost care to what it is you need to explore and accomplish.

Sophia obtained her Masters Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy in New York State. Her previous experience includes providing therapy in a private practice clinic to individuals, couples and families, counselling individuals in a rehabilitation center, and providing counselling in a child and family counselling preventive program. She is a Registered Psychotherapist with the CRPO and a Registered Marriage & Family Therapist with the CACFT.

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Andrew believes strongly that every client has a story, and within that story, every behavior and reaction makes sense. He approaches therapy with the belief that it’s never too early or too late to seek support. Andrew sees the hurtful experiences and broken relationships in every client’s story, and connects the dots to help go back to the past in order to heal the present self.

Andrew specializes in working with both individuals and couples. He supports clients navigating trauma, anxiety, depression, anger, and goal-setting, and works extensively with couples facing communication difficulties or recovering from infidelity. His approach to relationship therapy helps partners rebuild trust, strengthen emotional connections, and develop healthier ways of relating to one another.

In his practice, Andrew draws form a range of therapeutic modalities including Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Internal Family Systems (IFS), polyvagal theory, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Solution-Focused Therapy (SFT), Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT), and the Gottman Method. Andrew works in partnership with clients to develop a treatment plan that aligns with their goals while remaining mindful of time and financial considerations. He is dedicated to making therapy an accessible and meaningful experience.

Andrew is fluent in English and French. He is a certified EMDR therapist and an Associate member of the Canadian Association of Couple and Family Therapists.

Outside of his work, Andrew enjoys exploring new languages and has been self-studying Japanese since 2015. He hopes to one day enjoy anime and J-pop without translation. He also loves reading about human cognitive-bias, decision-making, and personal finance.

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