Melissa Mulongoy, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) Accepting New Clients

Specialities: Depression, anxiety, stress and burnout, neurodiversity (ADHD/ADD and autism), trauma

Age Groups: Adults

Melissa Mulongoy is a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying). She works primarily to provide a high quality of mental health care and psychotherapy services to the Black community. She puts you and your needs at the front and center of treatment and wellness.

Melissa’s practice is rooted in a client-centered, humanistic, existential, and systemic approach. This means you are the priority and therapy will encourage self-discovery, insights, and making meaning of your life.

She draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Compassion & Mindfulness-based therapies, Emotion-Focused Therapy, Internal Family Systems, Narrative Therapy & Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.

Melissa has a Master’s of Arts in Counselling Psychology from Yorkville University. Her stance as a therapist has been shaped by ten years of work with non-governmental organizations on women’s empowerment and child protection, tackling gender-based violence and human rights violations. She worked in multicultural settings in Africa, Latin America, North America, the Caribbean, and Asia. This has been crucial in shaping her views of the world and in developing a deeper understanding of what it truly means to be a human being.

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Paméla Goutondji, RP (Q) Accepting New Clients

Specialities: Anxiety, Family Relationships, Relationships, Stress

Ages: Young Adults, Adults

Paméla Goutondji is a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying). She completed her Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology at Yorkville University and has been working as a clinician providing solution-focused counseling to individuals across different Canadian provinces.

Prior to her journey in psychotherapy, she had been working as an instructor therapist, providing ABA therapy to children and teenagers with exceptionalities.

Paméla grew up in a multicultural setting, where she was able to learn from individuals from diverse backgrounds. As a result, she has an open view on the world and on people, and is always willing to learn more from others.

Paméla’s approach is primarily person-centered and focuses on you as the expert in your life. She aims to provide a safe space where you will be able to be your authentic self.

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Nadiatou (Nadia) Fagbemi, Registered Psychotherapist (qualifying), Intern

Nadia is currently accepting new clients!

Nadia’s lived experiences as a Black-African woman and immigrant, passionately shapes her work as a therapist. Leveraging on these experiences and her training in counselling psychology, Nadia provides you support to start on the path to the life you want to live.

Nadia’s practice is based on a person-centered approach which incorporates an integrative approach to therapy primarily from a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Solution-Focused Therapy (SFT) lens as well as Narrative Therapy.

She works with women, predominantly Black and racialized women, looking to live their lives on their own terms while rediscovering who they are and building supportive and healthy relationships along the way.

Nadia offers a safe, non-judgmental and culturally inclusive space where you can freely express and share your thoughts, wants and wishes.

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Winnie Diverlus, M.Ed, Child and Youth Development, Autism and Behavioural Science

Accepting New Parent Support and Early Childhood Development Coaching Clients

Winnie is an Early Childhood Educator (M.Ed, birth to age three) and behaviour professional (Child and Youth Care, Autism and Behavioural Science) specializing in Montessori pedagogy, and child and youth development. Valuing her interdisciplinary roots in psychology, sociology and cultural studies, Winnie is a parent education fellow and possesses a decade of experience in facilitating and implementing various educational and developmental programs with children and adolescents. She has designed various programs that have supported the overall development of children such as language, sensorial, practical life learning, and cognitive development.

While doing her work, she realized that while there is ample support for the growing child during the early years, the support for parents and caregivers remain scarce and is practically non-existent for marginalized parents. She recognized that as we collectively shift towards the rewarding work of the inner child, unpacking our life long history and understanding how our experiences have contributed to the people we are today; if we insist on parenting our children the same way we were raised, then we will miss our chance at truly breaking traumatic generational patterns.

With the parent support program, parents and caregivers of young children will have 1-1 access to additional support that is needed to transform their parenting experience. The support will help parents and caregivers understand what exactly is going on with their child’s development, guide them in holistically supporting the latter and provide the appropriate support in their parenting journey.

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Hani Osman, RP (Q) Accepting New Clients

Specialities: Disordered Eating, Binge Eating, Depression, Anxiety, Postpartum Anxiety/Depression

Ages: Preteen (10+), Adolescents, Young Adults, Adults

Hani Osman is a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) and is also a member of the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association. Being a first generation immigrant herself, has shaped Hani’s understanding of the struggles new Canadians face. Her understanding of these struggles have inspired her to provide adequate and safe care for her clients, as well as recognizing the obstacles that may be present for clients who want affordable therapy. Hani has completed a Masters of Counselling Psychology at Yorkville University and has also completed a Bachelor’s of Education from Trent University.

Hani operates from a person-centered approach utilizing therapeutic modalities such as Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT), Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT), as well as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). She aims to assist clients with a greater understanding of self, in addition to navigating childhood experiences and lived traumas. She provides a warm and empathetic environment, ensuring her clients navigate therapy collaboratively.

Hani treats clients with an array of issues such as depression, postpartum depression, anxiety, identity issues and binge eating.

“Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.” - Brene Brown

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Carine M. Diverlus, MEd, Registered Psychotherapist

Please Note: Carine’s Caseload is currently FULL.

Online bookings with Carine are only for current, active clients. Please refer to our other practitioners (all accepting new clients) who may be of service to you. For assistance, please contact our Client Care Team through contact@piecestopeace.ca

Carine Diverlus is a psychotherapist, wellness consultant, and founder of Pieces to Peace Psychotherapy & Wellness. She has lived experiences as a Haitian, immigrant woman. As a Black therapist, Carine utilizes her educational and personal expertise to cultivate paths towards healing.

Carine’s practice is rooted in Liberation Psychology; she uses an integrative therapeutic approach drawing from Psychodynamic Theory, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Emotion-Focused Therapy.

She works primarily with women who are unsatisfied with living their lives on other’s terms, to build healthy relationships, navigate life transitions, and embrace self-discovery.

Carine is passionate about helping you understand and show up as your truest self by looking at the “why” of your situation.

Carine supports in creating a life where you are no longer surviving but thriving.

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Sherise Bailey, RP (Q) Accepting New Clients

Specialities: Adult Survivors of Child Abuse/Trauma, Gender-Based Violence, Family Issues, Reproductive Health, Spiritual Distress, Anxiety, Depression

Ages: Teens, Young Adults, Adults

Sherise Bailey is a Registered Psychotherapist (qualifying). She is a second generation immigrant living in Canada and descending from Caribbean parents.

As a survivor of abuse and trauma, Sherise was led into counselling after working to heal and grow from her own pain. She empathizes with the feelings and emotions of others and meets individuals where they are without shame and judgment. Sherise counsels from a person-centred approach incorporating elements of trauma informed therapy, emotion focussed therapy, DBT (Dialectical Behavioural Therapy), and Internal Family Systems Therapy. She integrates spiritual care and guidance by including contemplative practises to support clients no matter their spiritual or religious beliefs. Cherise supports clients experiencing historic childhood abuse, familial issues and dysfunction, sexual trauma, racial trauma, grief and loss, relationship difficulties, gender-based violence, support for trans and gender diverse folks, religious and spiritual issues, depression and anxiety.

Sherise has a passion for helping others love and accept themselves. Her role as a counsellor is to help individuals understand their inherent value.

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Genisha Armstrong, RHN, CHN, CPT Accepting New Clients

Genisha Armstrong is a registered holistic nutritionist and personal health coach at Pieces to Peace Psychotherapy and Wellness. She is Canadian-born and grew up in a West Indian cultural household.

As a black nutritionist, Genisha works with women who struggle with food consumption and healthy weight management. She has helped hundreds of clients learn to embrace their natural shape and size and how to rebuild a healthy relationship with food, the mind, and the body.

Her mission is to bridge the gap between conventional and alternative holistic medicine by applying functional nutrition to one’s health. She practises nutrition coaching from an intuitive, mindful and integrative approach and works from a place of empathy and compassion.

Genisha believes that small changes make a big difference in nourishing the body. She wants to help women with disordered eating patterns and body image concerns learn how food and culture play an integral role when making lasting changes.

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