Working with Amanda is a supportive and collaborative experience where you are invited to slow down, reflect, and reconnect with yourself. Her goal is for you to leave each session feeling seen, validated, and equipped with meaningful tools to navigate life’s challenges. Amanda’s approach is centered on creating a safe and encouraging space where you can explore your thoughts, emotions, and relationship dynamics without judgment. She believes therapy should feel both grounding and empowering, a place where genuine growth and healing can truly begin.
Amanda takes an integrative, client-centered approach that draws on CBT, SFBT, Strengths-Based Therapy, and EFT for couples. With a strong trauma-informed background and a commitment to cultural sensitivity, her sessions are collaborative and practical, focusing on identifying patterns that may be holding you back and developing strategies to foster resilience, emotional regulation, and self-compassion. Her experience supporting women from diverse cultural backgrounds has strengthened her dedication to creating an inclusive space where every client feels understood and valued. She works with clients to set meaningful goals that reflect their values, guiding them toward greater awareness, confidence, and connection.
Amanda works with individuals and couples who are navigating anxiety, stress, relationship issues, and major life transitions. She helps clients manage anxious thoughts, strengthen communication, and create deeper, more fulfilling relationships. When working with couples, Amanda uses EFT to help partners understand each other’s emotional needs, repair disconnection, and build closeness. Her gentle, curious style encourages honest conversations and helps clients feel supported as they explore new ways of relating to themselves and others.
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Mary Vuksanovic is a Registered Psychotherapist, Clinic Owner, and Clinical Director with advanced expertise in anxiety-related disorders, trauma, and post-traumatic stress (PTSD). She specializes in health anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), phobias, panic, trauma-related conditions, and nervous system dysregulation. Her work integrates science-based, psychodynamic, and somatic approaches to address maladaptive thinking patterns, intrusive symptoms, compulsive behaviours, and chronic fight-or-flight activation.
As the Founder and Clinical Director of Vital Minds Psychotherapy, Mary oversees clinical standards, supervision, and treatment excellence across the practice. She is deeply committed to delivering evidence-based care while integrating depth-oriented and nervous system-informed approaches to create meaningful, lasting change.
Mary helps clients restructure unhelpful thought patterns, engage in corrective behavioural experiences, and regulate physiological stress responses. Her work emphasizes nervous system stabilization, reduction of hypervigilance, and restoration of emotional balance. Clients learn how to self-regulate, decrease physiological arousal, improve stress hormone regulation, and enhance overall functioning.
Her primary clinical foundation is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), with advanced specialization in Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) for OCD, health anxiety, panic, phobias, and trauma-related shock that can result in cognitive shifts and nervous system disorientation. She integrates somatic therapy, psychodynamic exploration, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to process complex trauma, attachment wounds, and underlying emotional patterns that sustain anxiety-based disorders.
In addition to ongoing therapy, Mary offers structured 3- and 6-hour Psychotherapy Intensives. These focused, high-impact sessions are designed to provide the depth of weeks or even months of therapy within one carefully planned experience. Intensives are evidence-based and particularly effective for individuals seeking accelerated trauma processing, OCD treatment, or targeted anxiety work.
Through experiential learning within session, Mary supports clients in developing resilience, reducing intrusive symptoms, and creating sustainable, insight-driven change that allows them to live more fully and confidently.
Mary Vuksanovic is a Registered Psychotherapist, Clinic Owner, and Clinical Director with advance...
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Katelyn is a trauma-informed and relational therapist that works through an attachment-based lens. She recognizes how early experiences, relational injuries, and nervous system responses shape current patterns of behaviour, emotion, and connection. Her expertise is in helping individuals or couples navigate anxiety, childhood trauma, attachment wounds, infidelity, emotional distress, relational conflict, self esteem, identity, personality disorders and psychotic disorders. She also has a special interest in supporting women going through fertility challenges or postpartum depression. Her clinical approach is grounded in providing a safe, structured, and collaborative therapeutic environment where individuals and couples can explore their concerns with clarity and purpose.
Katelyn creates a specialized treatment plan tailored to your unique goals, values, and presenting concerns, with an emphasis on evidence-based practice and measurable change. She integrates Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), mindfulness-based interventions, and person-centred approaches. With couples, therapy focuses on identifying and de-escalating negative interaction cycles, strengthening emotional safety, improving communication, and fostering secure attachment.
Using a collaborative therapeutic process, Katelyn ensures you feel supported in the therapeutic process by helping you increase self-awareness, process past traumas, develop emotional regulation skills, and building healthier relational patterns
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Melora understands how vital it is to feel safe, heard, and supported when being vulnerable and exploring personal experiences. Her goal is to foster a trusting therapeutic relationship with her clients where they feel empowered to explore their personal experiences at a pace that is comfortable for them. Her hope to support her clients in working through navigating life’s transitions, challenges, and emotional well-being. Her goal is to help build confidence, develop strategies and tools and empower her clients to make lasting change.
Your session with Melora will be a safe space for you to share, and will consist of a collaborative and client-centred approach. She utilizes a tailored approach to support you in recognizing the root cause of the challenges that you are facing and the patterns that are impacting your quality of life.
Her main areas of focus include anxiety, burnout, perfectionism, life transitions and self-esteem, women’s issues, relationship issues and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). She utilizes a collaborative and client-centred approach drawing from different therapeutic modalities tailored to fit your unique needs. These may include ACT, DBT, CBT, SFBT and EFT.
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Amanda is dedicated to helping individuals, couples, and families navigate life’s challenges with compassion and understanding. Her journey into therapy began with a PhD where she explored women’s memoirs to understand how personal and cultural narratives shape our understanding of trauma, identity, and relationships. She spent years teaching university courses on gender, race, trauma, and memory, deepening my understanding of how societal structures and lived experiences shape self-esteem, coping mechanisms, and interpersonal relationships. This foundation, along with specialized training in Counselling Psychology, inspired her to shift from the academic context to working directly with clients. She uses this comprehensive knowledge to support individuals, couples, and families as they navigate trauma, identity struggles, healing, and connection in their lives.
Therapy with Amanda is warm, collaborative, and rooted in respect for each client’s unique experiences. She believes true healing happens in a space where you feel heard, understood, and supported. Her approach is integrative and person-centred, drawing from trauma-focused therapy, emotionally focused therapy (EFT), cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). She also incorporates culturally sensitive and feminist perspectives, recognizing the ways systemic factors influence mental health. Whether you are navigating addiction, trauma, relationship struggles, postpartum challenges, infertility, or anxiety, Amanda tailors each session to meet you where you are, so you can work together on the path toward the change you seek.
Amanda is trained in supporting survivors of emotional abuse and gaslighting, as well as those navigating anxiety, depression, addiction, self-esteem challenges, and women’s health concerns, including postpartum mental health and infertility. Her goal is to help you let go from the patterns that no longer serve you, cultivate emotional resilience, and build a stronger connection with yourself and others. You don’t have to navigate this alone, Amanda is here to offer you validation, guidance, and practical tools to support your healing.
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Destiny was inspired to pursue psychology while growing up in a family that was affected mental health struggles. Witnessing the pain and challenges of mental health first-hand, created a passion for helping others. With additional experience in behavioural therapy, Destiny is able to support individuals that struggle with behavioral difficulties and emotional regulation. Destiny has a special interest in working with individuals with mood disorders, addiction, neurodivergence and trauma. Her ability to building trust with individuals that struggle with such complexities allow her to support individuals in crisis, including self harm and suicidality, and with de-escalating individuals who are in a aggressive or agitated state.
Destiny is driven to help individuals overcome their challenges, heal, and help find transformative change. Working with her will be a collaborative and client-centered experience. Sessions will be tailored to your unique needs and experience. Her goal is for you to feel accepted, understood, and more optimistic about your ability to overcome your challenges. Destiny will not only help you understand the root cause of your struggles but also explore your strengths, build self awareness and establish realistic goals. Her sessions elicit transformative change using evidence-based techniques, honest communication and active listening, to help you develop practical skills and tools to maximize resilience. Destiny’s approach combines cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT), mindfulness, and emotion-focused therapy (EFT). Through this integrative approach you will explore and process emotions, foster emotional healing, and identify and create more adaptive thinking patterns and habits. Destiny will also help you build emotion regulation skills and teach you how to focus on the present through mindfulness practices.
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