Find the therapist that best suits your needs.
Our team
THERAPY, SUPERVISION, CLINICAL DIRECTOR AND FOUNDER
Sara Mackie, MSW, RSW
Sara Mackie, MSW, is a dedicated trauma-informed therapist specializing in holistic therapeutic practices. With a focus on helping individuals navigate through their traumas, Sara incorporates various modalities such as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), polyvagal theory, and mind-body somatic integration into her therapeutic approach. Her compassionate methodology is particularly tailored to support highly sensitive individuals, providing them with a safe space to explore and heal from past experiences. Through her expertise and empathetic guidance, Sara empowers her clients to embark on a journey of self-discovery and resilience, fostering growth and emotional well-being.
Anna Larmer, RSW, BSW, Certified Yoga Instructor
Anna is a Clinical Therapist and Registered Social Worker currently working on completing her Master of Social Work with a specialization in trauma. Anna works with trauma survivors of all ages including children and couples and is passionate about helping clients heal and move forward through self compassion, safe connection, nervous system regulation and mindfulness. Anna's work is guided by an anti-oppressive approach, internal family systems theory, attachment theory, polyvagal theory, the Gottman method and trauma-informed yoga. Anna's areas of experience involve working with children and youth, people who identify as BIPOC, intergenerational trauma, grief, PTSD, IPV, attachment wounds and relationship conflict, divorce, step parenting, sexual abuse, self esteem, personal development, eating disorders and inner child work. Anna integrates a mind-body spirit approach in seeing the individual as a whole rather than treating isolated symptoms, recognizing that each person is the expert of their own life.
Laura Gallivan, LCT, CCC
Laura is passionate about helping her clients work through their difficult emotions and become more self-accepting, develop a deeper capacity for intimacy, and form more satisfying relationships. Her work is grounded in a belief in the power of compassion and self-awareness to transform lives and facilitate healing. As a psychodynamically-oriented practitioner, she helps her clients build this awareness through exploration of their inner life, with particular focus on understanding how past experiences shape thoughts, feelings, and relationships in the present. Laura values a therapeutic process that considers the whole person. She works collaboratively to ensure her clients feel heard and respected. Laura is a graduate of McGill University’s Master’s in Counselling Psychology program. She did her clinical training at both the McGill Psychoeducational & Counselling Clinic and the Argyle Institute of Human Relations. In these settings, she worked with adults of various ages who struggled with trauma, anxiety, depression, and OCD.
Rebecca Pearson, LCT-C, CCC
Rebecca (she/her) is passionate about assisting clients in fostering self-esteem and self-compassion, and believes that everyone deserves to feel connected to themselves and others and empowered in life. Rebecca has a background in supporting folks with complex trauma, neurodivergence, anxiety and panic, depression, relationship issues and attachment wounds, and self-esteem. She is grounded in trauma-informed approaches and the mind-body connection, drawing on a blend of Internal Family Systems, polyvagal theory, mindfulness and self-compassion practice, and an interpersonal process approach.
Rebecca strongly believes in the healing power of an authentic therapeutic relationship, and brings humour, non-judgment, safety, and heart to each and every session. She is honoured to support clients on their individual journeys. Rebecca completed a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Psychology from Dalhousie University, and a Master of Education in Counselling from the University of New Brunswick.
Jocelyn Anderson, MSW, RSW
Jocelyn Anderson (she/they) is a Registered Social Worker who provides individual counselling to adults and adolescents. Their work is guided by an anti-oppressive, trauma-informed approach. She comes from a place of non-judgement, curiosity, and warmth when building therapeutic relationships with her clients.
Jocelyn is experienced in supporting folks experiencing issues related to grief and loss, trauma, anxiety, OCD, and 2SLGBTQ+ identities. In their work, Jocelyn supports clients to strengthen their mind-body connection, drawing on a blend of narrative and cognitive-behavioural therapies alongside polyvagal, somatic, and mindfulness approaches.
She strongly believes that everyone is the expert of their own experience. Her goal as a therapist is to guide clients towards their own inner strength and to provide them the opportunity to move through their life with a greater sense of self-compassion, ease, and joy.
Jocelyn is a proud member of the 2SLGBTQ+ community.
Anja Spears, MSW, RSW
Anja is a Master’s level social worker with a passion for providing support to individuals from a place of trauma-informed and anti-oppressive practice. Anja has worked in various areas of social work practice with individuals of all ages who have experienced complex trauma to re-establish a sense of felt safety, autonomy, and healing in their lives.
Anja has experience working primarily with adolescents and adults coping with complex trauma, grief and loss, depression, anxiety, substance use, parenting/caregiving, burnout and compassion fatigue, interpersonal conflict, and emotional regulation. Anja’s experience has had a particular focus on working with First Nations individuals, families and communities and supporting advocacy within systems. Anja believes that understanding the contexts in which harms occur and the layers of one’s identity and social location is paramount in supporting others.
Anja offers a client-centered and strengths-based space that seeks to rebuild a sense of safety and recognize individuals as the experts of their own experience. Drawing on a blend of therapeutic approaches including narrative, psychodynamic, and mindfulness-based, Anja’s practice goals involve supporting others to see their own inner strength as we work toward transformative growth and healing, together.
Brittany McEachern, Therapy Intern
Meet Brittany, a student therapist completing her Master's in Counseling Psychology. She specializes in addressing depression, anxiety, religious trauma, and ADHD through a person-centred and strength-based approach. She also integrates elements from solution-focused, narrative, psychodynamic, internal family systems, cognitive and dialectic behavioural, and somatic therapies.
As a musician, Brittany offers a unique dimension to therapy by incorporating music and expressive arts into client treatment as desired. She understands the power of incorporating creative activities into the healing process and supports her clients in exploring these methods.
No matter what approach is taken, her ultimate objective is to help clients discover and embrace their inherent wholeness. She aims to create a safe, supportive, and empowering therapeutic experience that guides clients toward a path of healing and self-discovery.
Our Affiliate Occupational Therapist
Maria DiCarlo, Reg. OT. (NB)
We are proud to be affiliated with Maria DiCarlo, Registered Occupational Therapist, and passionate supporter of neurodivergent wellness. Maria helps adults navigate their home, work, and extracurricular lives based on their own sensory profiles. She uses a holistic and creative approach to ensure you feel deeply heard while creating solutions for leading a more meaningful and fulfilling life!