Andrea Dixon - Executive Director
MA HBSW RSW
Counselling / Psychology / Mental Health
Andrea is passionate about supporting healthy child development, positive mental health, and secure attachment. For over 20 years Andrea has worked with children, adults, and families heal and overcome life’s challenges.
Andrea is adoption-competent and has an extensive background working with families and professionals in foster care and permanency planning. She is available for consultations and training for caregivers and professionals who wish to learn more about the complexities that children in care experience and how to better support more positive outcomes for their futures.
Angela Bhatia
Occupational Therapist O.T. Reg. (MB)
Occupational Therapy
Angela strives to build connection with your child and your family in order to better understand your child’s strengths, challenges, and goals. She has a passion for collaborating with children and their caregivers to provide strategies that fit children’s unique needs and interests. She works from a culturally safe and anti-oppressive lens in order to provide high quality empathetic care for folks with diverse lived experiences and social circumstances.
“I’m so passionate about working with families to foster their strengths and their social relationships in order to boost children’s learning, participation, and sense of belonging.”
Front Desk
Front Desk - Admin
Our front desk reception is your first point of contact when inquiring about our services and matching you with your new therapist. You can reach us by email or phone to answer any questions you may have or to schedule your first phone consult. We look forward to hearing from you!
Irlanda Gomez
Counselling / Psychology / Mental Health
Irlanda is a practicum student in counselling psychology who is passionate about holistic mental health access at all ages. She views each person as a complex universe unto themselves, and recognizes the importance of integrating people’s support systems, cultural values, passions, and interests when supporting them. Irlanda believes in meaningful connections as a powerful tool for clients to connect with their truest self. Irlanda works from the approaches of attachment theory, narrative theory, and positive psychology. Her background in neuropsychology drives her to integrate the mind and body’s natural processes in understanding and addressing trauma.
Karley Melsted
MA, CCC
Counselling / Psychology / Mental Health
I am a compassionate and dedicated therapist who fervently believes in an attachment-focused therapeutic approach and the power of play therapy. I specialize in working with children to help them navigate through challenging emotions and experiences. My approach is warm, empathetic, and client-centered, aiming to create a safe and supportive space where individuals can explore their feelings and develop emotion regulation and coping skills. Drawing from my academic training and practical experiences, I employ various therapeutic techniques tailored to meet each client’s unique needs. I am committed to fostering resilience, promoting growth, and empowering my clients to live fulfilling lives. I am excited to embark on this journey of healing and transformation with you.
Nyla Comeau
BSW, MSW, RSW
Counselling / Psychology / Mental Health
Nyla’s approach to counselling is person-centred, trauma-informed, and holistic in nature. Nyla believes in working with the client alongside their family and that a systems approach to counselling can aid in foundational healing within the family unit. With roots in Indigenous values, she hopes to foster positive relationships with both parent and child and seeks to restore the wellness within a family through an anti-oppressive lens and in a culturally safe and warm environment.
Nyla believes that through the power of connection positive change can occur. “I hope to help those I work with find their personal agency and to restore their confidence in developing a healthy relationship with self and others”.
Rayne Stuart
C.C.C.
Counselling / Psychology / Mental Health
Rayne is a dedicated clinical therapist committed to guiding individuals on their journey toward mental well-being. Grounded in a client-centred therapeutic lens and a cognitive-behavioural therapy approach, Rayne places a profound emphasis on fostering genuine connections and understanding. Rayne values strength-based approaches to therapy and its role in supporting individuals through challenges and navigating the complexities of life.
“I believe everyone deserves to be valued and accepted by understanding differing human perspectives. Empathy is the central agent of the therapeutic process. I will provide a non-judgmental and respectful therapeutic environment for children, adolescents, and families to build a connection by supporting their needs through mindfulness and acknowledging worldviews, values, culture, beliefs, and life experiences”.