Jessica (She/Her) offers online & in-person individual counselling for youth 17+, adults, and parents of neurodivergent children.

Welcome! I’m so glad you’re here.

Whether you’re exploring support for yourself or someone you care about, I want you to know you’re not alone. I’m currently working through the practicum stage of my master’s in counselling psychology, but long before I started this journey as a therapist-in-training, I was trying to support my twice-exceptional (2E) AuDHD child. I was doing my best without a clear roadmap, reading as much as I could about different neurodivergent profiles, searching for guidance, and exploring resources, protocols, and programs to help me. Along the way, I gained a wealth of knowledge and met incredibly encouraging and helpful therapists. Despite my best efforts, I struggled to find someone who truly understood complex health profiles and how they presented as a unique experience. I wanted to find a therapist who could relate to my lived experience and offer the guidance I needed to better support and honor my child’s needs.

In my search for answers, I discovered that I, too, am neurodivergent. However, my neurodivergence doesn’t look like my daughter’s. Being older and raised in a society that didn’t understand neurodiversity, I learned to mask and adopted many tricks to function in a neurotypical world but often did so at the cost of my health and energy. I constantly felt tired, drained, and disconnected from my true self. Over time, I began to understand how my brain works and learned to honor my needs. This shift allowed me to reclaim my health, boost my energy, and feel happier.

This personal journey is what brings me here today. As a neurodivergent woman, mother, partner, advocate, and now therapist-in-training, I’m committed to supporting others navigating the unique challenges of neurodivergence with understanding and compassion. In practicum, I will work with older youth (17+), adults, and parents of neurodivergent children, and offer a supportive space where individuals can deepen their self-awareness, embrace the strengths of neurodivergence, and work toward building happier and more meaningful lives.

I work from a humanistic, person-centered foundation and integrate approaches such as DBT, EFT, ACT, Narrative Therapy, Somatic Experiencing, Attachment Theory, Polyvagal Theory, and mindfulness-based strategies to best support each client’s individual needs and therapeutic goals.

While my sessions are in English, I’m also fluent in French and conversational in Portuguese, and can offer assistance in these languages when needed.

I’m highly familiar with the challenges neurodivergent individuals often face, including: Social, emotional, and executive functioning difficulties, as well as masking.

Melissa (She/Her) offers online & in-person individual counselling for adults and parents.

Hi, I’m Melissa. I’m a student counsellor completing my practicum at AsUR.

I bring a warm, relational, and non-pathologizing approach to therapy. My work is trauma-informed, person-centred, and rooted in both my academic training and my lived experiences as a neurodivergent person. I’ve navigated late diagnosis, neurodivergent relationships, divorce, polyamory, parenting and advocating for a neurodivergent child, advocating within systems, caregiving through critical illness, and many forms of grief and loss. These experiences have shaped my counselling lens—one that is attuned to complexity, resilience, and the many forms that healing and growth can take.

I am particularly passionate about supporting clients who are on their own journeys of unmasking, self-discovery, and cultivating self-love. I hold a special place for caregivers on a journey of neuro-affirmative parenting, and for anyone who has ever struggled to feel like they belong. I believe in the power of community, storytelling, and reclaiming identity—on your terms.

Whether you're navigating identity, burnout, relationships, parenting, or grief, I will meet you with compassion, curiosity, and respect.

Rebecca (She/Her) offers online & in-person individual counselling for adults.

Rebecca is an Intern Counsellor who is currently completing her Master of Counselling Psychology degree at Adler University.

Late-identified with ADHD as a young adult, she has lived experience navigating challenges that neurodivergent people face and understands the importance of receiving radically neurodivergence-affirming counselling. She draws primarily from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) framework in working collaboratively with clients to help them understand themselves more, be more self-accepting, and move closer to the life they desire. Her approach is also influenced by Somatic-based theories, Narrative Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT).

Having worked in community mental health in the U.S., she has witnessed the systemic barriers that clients often encounter which have shaped her trauma-informed, multicultural approach to counselling. Her areas of interest in counselling clients are late identification of neurodivergence, sensory sensitivity, rejection sensitivity, masking, emotional dysregulation, disordered eating, executive dysfunction, burnout, and spiritual trauma. With each client, she focuses on being a warm, authentic, non-judgmental, and grounding presence that allows for a safe space for clients to explore, learn, and heal.