About us
If you are a new client at Insight and Wellness, we kindly ask that you book a 30 minute consultation with our therapist-intern, David Perez. This is our first step in getting to know you so that we can refer you to the therapist who best suited to your needs. We thank you for booking your first appointment and look forward to welcoming you to Insight and Wellness!
Hello! I’m Jade Roy-Boulet
Co-Founder and Registered Psychotherapist
Jade is a bilingual, Registered Psychotherapist who holds a Master’s degree in Counselling, Psychotherapy and Spirituality from Saint-Paul University. She works collaboratively with clients in a compassionate, understanding and safe environment to help them embrace aspects of themselves in a way that allows them to live more freely. She works in a dynamic and innovative manner to help them achieve their goals with a variety of approaches tailored to their individual and couple needs. As an individual and couple therapist, she has a wide range of experience working with clients dealing with anxiety, depression, trauma, difficult life transitions, relational issues, low self-esteem, mood and personality disorders.
As an individual therapist, she uses psychological theories of human development, and a variety of clinical interventions to help clients tap into their own resources and achieve the change they want. With the help of psychodynamic, emotion-focused, cognitive behavioral practices, process oriented theories, she helps clients achieve an understanding of their current struggles and uses every challenge as an opportunity for growth and fulfillment.
As a couple’s therapist she focuses on helping partners heal and connect, by expressing their needs and emotions to achieve a more secure and fulfilling relationship. She has training and experience with different empirical therapeutic modalities that center on emotional-attachment principles and practical tools to promote deeper understanding, compassion and effective communication. She has experience working with couples dealing with a variety of relationship difficulties such as infidelity, traumatic experiences, chronic arguing, sexual dissatisfaction, and financial stressors among others.
Her Approach & Values
She is dedicated to the well being and transformational possibilities that lies in the core of each us. Her interest in mindfulness, relaxation and the power of inner stillness, currently at the forefront of contemporary developments in psychology, is used to foster personal growth and self awareness.
Treatment Approach & Therapeutic Framework:
- Emotionally Focused Individual & Couples Therapy
- Marital/Family Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy & Mindfulness
- Solution-Focused
- Acceptance & Commitment Therapy
- Existential & Transpersonal Psychology
- Trauma & PTSD Informed Therapy
- EMDR (Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
- Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy (PACT) Level One Certified
Hey! I’m Cat Kamel
Co-Founder and Registered Psychotherapist
Cat is Registered Psychotherapist and holds a Master’s degree in Counselling Psychology from McGill University. She creates a safe and compassionate space for clients to connect with their emotions and explore their concerns. Believing that no two people are the same, Cat approaches each client with an interest in their individuality, tailoring her approach to suit the unique qualities and needs of each client. She is committed to an empowering and collaborative approach to therapy, which centers on increasing self-awareness and self-compassion. Cat strongly believes in the power of genuine connection to facilitate healing, while also using psychological theory and evidence-based interventions to inform her work.
Cat has experience supporting individuals work through anxiety and depression, low self-esteem, relationship concerns, grief, loneliness, traumatic experiences, body image concerns, and life transitions. She can help you to uncover unhelpful patterns of thinking and behaving, while developing a deeper relationship with yourself and with others. Cat hopes to help you to live your life more freely, with joy, fulfillment, and meaning. Whether you are struggling with a personal challenge or seeking self-exploration, Cat can help you maximize your own strengths and resources to meet your individual goals.
My Approach & Values
Informed by several theories, Cat’s approach to therapy aims to increase personal insight and emotional connection, while also developing concrete tools to foster growth and improved well-being. She aims to make the experience highly personal and aligned with each individual’s values and goals. Cat values the therapeutic relationship above all else and is committed to making sure that clients feel seen, heard, and respected throughout their entire journey. Cat is dedicated to her own personal and professional development, always seeking opportunities to advance her knowledge of best practices in therapy.
Treatment Approach & Therapeutic Framework:
- Attachment Focused
- Emotion Focused Therapy
- Compassion Focused Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- Mindfulness
- Solution-Focused
- Process-Oriented
- Experiential
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic
- Gottman Method
- EMDR (Eye-Movement Desensitization and Re-Processing)
Welcome! I’m Andrina Slegers.
Co-Founder and Registered Psychotherapist
Andrina provides a warm, welcoming and safe space where she seeks to authentically connect with you, deepen your self-awareness and and support you in making positive changes related to your goals for therapy. She believes in the power of self and relational healing and aims to create a relationship where it is safe to explore your childhood, familial relationships, belief systems, values, vulnerabilities and shadow to fully understand and accept oneself. Andrina is an Individual, Couple and Family therapist who uses evidence-based therapy approaches with clients of all ages, cultures and identities.
As an individual therapist, she seeks to connect personally with you, to help you feel seen and heard. She strives to support you in deepening your emotional and self-awareness so you have a better understanding of your thoughts, feelings and behaviours, with love and self-compassion.
As a couples therapist, she seeks to help partners understand one another, communicate lovingly, connect and/or reconnect and heal painful dynamics that may be getting in the way of the relationship you desire. She supports you in creating a safe, secure and more loving relationship.
As a family therapist, she seeks to help family members effectively communicate and heal painful family dynamics, present or past, so you all may have more fulfilling and supportive familial relationships. She helps to create space so every family members voice can be heard and respected.
She earned her Master’s of Science Degree in Couple and Family Therapy at the University of Guelph. She is a registered psychotherapist in good standing with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario.
She looks forward to connecting with you.
My Approach & Values
She believes that every person has a story deserving to be heard and strives to build a therapeutic relationship based upon genuine connection, presence, understanding and trust. She uses a combination of approaches depending on client’s needs and goals for therapy. Her interest in deepening and expanding her own self-awareness assists her in supporting clients on their journey and pursuit of personal growth.
Treatment Approach & Therapeutic Framework:
- Attachment Focused
- Emotion Focused Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Solution Focused Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Family Systems Theory
- Biological, Psychological, Social and Spiritual Theory of Addiction
- Motivational Interviewing
- Experiential
- Trauma and PTSD Informed Therapy
- Logotherapy
- EMDR (Eye-Movement Desensitization and Re-Processing)
- Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy (PACT) Level One Certified
Hello! I’m Bella Rawleigh
Registered Psychotherapist
Bella brings a warm, comprehensive, and practical approach to mental health and wellness. She holds a Masters Degree in Counselling Psychology, and prior to becoming a therapist has background in corporate development and management which brings a unique insight to client’s with corporate backgrounds.
Her primary areas of focus include: anxiety, relationship issues, self-esteem, self-growth, stress management, empowerment and assertiveness.
As an individual therapist, her orientation is client-centered, non-judgmental and humanistic, recognizing the value of human experience and resiliency. She also has experience working with issues surrounding confidence, anger, identity, lifestyle change, and depression. Bella likes to employ mindfulness based practices to help her clients develop deeper understanding of themselves.
As a couples therapist, she has experience with different therapeutic modalities that focus on deeper emotional understanding, helping couples to better communicate, understand one another, and have their needs met.
Bella works collaboratively with her clients to address concerns, achieve goals and make positive changes.
My Approach & Values
Bella is passionate about promoting the overall well-being of her clients. She works with her clients to develop strategies for reducing distress as well as enhancing happiness and well-being. She incorporates the use of evidence-based psychological interventions with a philosophy that you are the expert in your own life. She is determined to provide a safe, supportive, and non-judgmental space to explore one’s feelings.
Treatment Approach & Therapeutic Framework
- Attachment Focused
- Acceptance and Commitment (ACT)
- Emotion Focused Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- Solution-Focused
- Mindfulness-Based
- Narrative Therapy
- Self-Compassion Theory
- Person-Centered
- Psychodynamic
- Strength Based
- EMDR (Eye-Movement Desensitization and Re-Processing)
Welcome! I’m Leila Morrison
Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)
Leila is an attentive and responsive adult and couple therapist. She pays close attention to your unique, individual process so that your experience of therapy is a safe, empowering, and rich one. She knows that to be human is to have a core need to feel seen and heard in the fullness of who you are.
She supports adults and couples through anxiety, depression, grief and anger, in negotiating life transitions, finding direction, exploring identity, and bringing complex family, relationship and career concerns. She works with those hoping to improve their relationships at home and at work, or who are seeking to find and build deeper, more secure relationships. Collaboratively, she creates safety and structure for individuals bringing a history of traumatic experiences.
Leila works with couples hoping to resolve patterns of repetitive conflict or loss of intimacy, as well as with newer couples who want to deepen their friendship and get it right from the start. She offers premarital therapy and has a special interest in infidelity and betrayal recovery. The Harvard Grant Study—the world’s longest ongoing study of adult life, continues to find that it is close relationships that have the greatest impact on happiness and well-being. Leila is an inspired couple therapist dedicated to promoting secure-functioning relationships.
My Approach & Values
Her approach to therapy is relational and highly personalized—she pays close attention to what works for you, and integrates elements from many forms of psychotherapy including attachment-based, emotion-focused, existential, psychodynamic, mindfulness-based, somatic, cognitive-behavioural and family systems therapies. She is trained in the Gottman Method and the Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy.
Treatment Approach & Therapeutic Framework:
- Attachment-Based
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- Emotionally Focused
- Existential
- Experiential
- Family Systems
- Gottman Method
- Mentalization-Based
- Mindfulness Based
- Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy
- Psychodynamic
- Transference-Focused
Hi! I’m Tracy Wilder
Registered Psychotherapist
Tracy believes that each client is entitled to an individualized approach to their therapy treatment which is as unique as they are. She believes that it takes courage to reach out for help and that change is hard work, but with the right therapist it can be positively life changing.
Tracy enjoys working with individuals and couples. She is married with two teenagers and often works to support parents and help them improve their relationships with their children. Her age, background and counselling experience enable her to help guide, collaborate and support clients that are emotionally overwhelmed, dealing with depression, low self-esteem, anxiety, grief, trauma, difficult life transitions, relationship problems, parenting challenges and other personal issues.
Combining mind and body based therapies, Tracy empowers clients to achieve their goals, resolve conflict, improve their relationships, help them heal and move forward towards greater peace of mind and psychological wellness. Using the principles of psychodynamic and attachment therapy and drawing from cognitive behavioural, solution focused, and mindfulness practices, she works together with clients to help them address difficult issues, experience personal growth and healing. Tracy also works with clients using EMDR to help them process emotional blocks that have prevented them from thriving and living an emotionally healthy life.
My Approach & Values
Tracy believes that the strength of the therapeutic relationship and providing a compassionate and non-judgemental safe space for clients are key to achieving a positive outcome in therapy. Sometimes clients have emotional blocks that are keeping them from living an adaptive and emotionally healthy life. In these cases, Tracy works with clients using EMDR and bilateral stimulation to help reprocess negative or traumatic experiences so they are no longer psychologically disruptive and they can begin to heal. With the goal of working as a collaborative team, she is dedicated to helping clients understand the roots of their issues, explore different perspectives and achieve greater personal insight and acceptance to encourage long lasting and meaningful change.
Treatment Approach & Therapeutic Framework:
- EMDR (Eye movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
- Psychodynamic-oriented
- Attachment Focused
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- Strength based Therapy
- Solution-Focused
- Mindfulness
- Existential
Hello! I’m Carly Byberg
Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)
Carly provides a warm and welcoming space to explore emotional wounds and to empower others to live fully. She believes in the importance of having a light and non-judgemental environment to develop trust within the therapeutic relationship.
Carly approaches each client with the intention of creating meaningful connection, discussing difficult issues, and fostering self-awareness. Carly facilitates the exploration of deep-rooted emotions and individual coping strategies for the purpose of developing positive change.
Carly highlights the uniqueness of each individual, while striving to understand the interlocking factors that may be influencing and impacting your ability to be the best version of yourself. She engages in a variety of diverse therapeutic techniques that aim to create a deeper understanding of the self and foster resilience, connection, and strength.
She has experience working with neurodiverse individuals, youth, and individuals transitioning into adulthood through a supportive and strengths-based lens.
My Approach & Values
Carly is passionate about human connection, and meeting each client where they are, while creating a space for clients to feel both understood and accepted. She believes in the importance of recognizing the individuality of each person and adhering to the goals and needs of the client. Carly is committed to seeking opportunities for the development of her personal and professional practice to broaden her knowledge.
Treatment Approach & Therapeutic Framework:
- Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
- Attachment-focused
- Mindfulness-Based
- Person-Centered
- Psychodynamic
- Solution-Focused
- Strengths based Therapy
- Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy (PACT) Level One Certified
Hi! I’m Behrang Ajam.
Registered Psychotherapist
Behrang is one of those fortunate individuals that live their passion. He is a psychotherapist/counselor/coach on one side and an educator/instructor/trainer on the other. The two areas often overlap, enabling him to utilize over 10 years of experience, training, and education to the full benefit of his clients. As a medical school graduate and a qualifying psychotherapist registered in Ontario, he believes in a balanced, integrated approach to mental health, physical health, work, and personal life.
His education and training in trauma-informed psychotherapy modalities provide him with a deep understanding of the suffering and growth human beings go through in day-to-day life and job incidents, as well as past events. His clients often describe him as non-judgemental, “easy-to-talk-to,” and result-oriented.
Behrang is a mental health advocate promoting positive psychology through radio shows, podcasts, and published articles for the general audience, including people experiencing cancer and other chronic conditions, teens and adolescents, and their families.
My Approach & Values
Behrang is passionate about promoting mental health. He believes in the mental and physical healing power we all have as well as the impact of the insight provided by a trained professional to make that healing possible. He believes in an integrative approach to therapy to help clients “live a life worth living,” communicating effectively with the world while expressing their individuality.
My Training
- Telemental Health Provider (CTMH) Certification Training (ongoing)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training for Children and Adolescents.
- The Ultimate Trauma Treatment Certification (CCTP/CCTPII, certification obtained).
Treatment Approach & Therapeutic Framework:
- Trauma-informed DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy)
- PTSD and Complex Trauma treatment including EMDR.
- CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)
- SGBT (Solution-Focused Brief Therapy)
- EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy) for couples and individuals
- TA (Transactional Analysis)
- Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy (PACT) Level One Certified
Hey! I’m David Perez
Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)
David is a Registered Psychotherapapist (Qualifying) who is completing his practicum for his master’s degree in counselling and psychotherapy. He strives to create a safe and welcoming environment for all clients to express themselves authentically. He believes that there is no “one size fits all” approach to therapy and appreciates the individuality of each client in orderto tailor a treatment that fits their specific needs. Thus, David uses an eclectic and integrative approach to therapy, drawing from different theories and ideas when approaching treatment options. It is important to him that therapy is collaborative, taking the position that the client is the expert in their own lives, and strives to learn from each client about their unique experiences, culture, and worldview. He firmly believes that each individual has an innate ability to heal within themselves and is committed to supporting clients on their journey of self-discovery and healing. David draws from an evidence-based approach and psychological literature to inform his practice, staying up to date with current literature, trends, and best practices for treatment.
David is experienced working with and supporting individuals struggling with anxiety, depression, childhood trauma, and lowself-esteem. David also has experience working with individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Attention–Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and other learning differences.
My Approach & Values
David takes a non-pathologizing approach, emphasizing that all individuals are more than their difficulties and hopes to appreciate who an individual is outside of their struggles. For those with learning disabilities, David hopes to explore the unique challenges they face and explore their mental health needs. He can help you to explore unhelpful behaviour and patterns of thinking, while digging deep into one’s experiences and building greater self-awareness. In addition, he is also passionate about exploring emotions, investigating emotional experiences, and exploring the role these emotions play in daily life, and the information they can provide.
Hey! I am Heidi Bercovici,
Registered Social Worker
Heidi is a Registered Social Worker who brings warmth, empathy and creativity to all her therapeutic relationships. She offers an inviting, respectful and empowering space for her clients and is devoted to helping them cope with life’s challenges with enhanced self-awareness, personal growth and well-being.
Heidi has a Bachelor of Social Work from York University and a Master of Social Work from Wilfrid Laurier University. She also holds a Bachelor of Science in Clinical Exercise Physiology with a joint major in Spanish Language and Culture from Concordia University. She has experience working with individuals, couples and families dealing with a wide range of issues related to physical and mental health, grief, loss, anxiety, depression, anger, life dissatisfaction and trauma. She also specializes in perinatal and postpartum mental health.
Heidi practices from an anti-oppressive, strength-based perspective and bases her interventions on a holistic, client-centered approach focusing on the mind-body connection. She integrates diverse treatment modalities including mindfulness-based therapies, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), body-based techniques, attachment, and FLASH.
Treatment Approach & Therapeutic Framework:
- Attachment Based
- Strength Based
- Mindfulness
- Mind-Body Connection and Somatic Therapy
- Trauma Informed and Trauma Centered Therapy
- Emotion Focused Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Internal Family Systems Informed Therapy
Hey! I’m Andrei Reznikov
Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)
Offering sessions in Russian and English, Andrei believes that each individual has an innate capacity to self-heal, and that given the right environment this capacity can be summoned to help process trauma and change. Offering a supportive and safe space, Andrei’s approach works as a mental toolbox – each client is provided with their unique set of tools to explore their capacity for self-awareness and to create strategies that can be used to restore functionality and motivation to live life at it’s fullest. Informed by his personal experiences of immigration, Andrei is passionate about culturally sensitive work, and pays special attention to an individual’s unique life journey and their personal experience of growth.
Andrei’s areas of focus include any relational issues – be that the relationship the client has with themselves or with another person, or perhaps with their romantic or sexual partner; psychological and physical traumas – things that hold one back from achieving their full potential, regardless if recent or from the past; and difficult life transitions and decisions – clients have described Andrei as a “personal sounding board” and as a “catalyst” for personal growth.
His past academic and professional experiences make him uniquely equipped for working with young professionals and individuals who are in the process of completing their education or are just launching their career.
Having migrated through Eastern Europe, Israel, and Polynesia before finally settling in North America, Andrei employs a unique blend of the collectivistic, Eastern philosophy and family values, combining it with his Western education and training. While working with a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy foundation, Andrei uses traditional cognitive behavioral strategies in combination with elements of Narrative and Solution Focused Therapies. He is particularly attentive to the session format, trying to blend the more rigid CBT interventions with a flexible, client centered approach.
Treatment Approach & Therapeutic Framework:
- Culturally Responsive Therapy
- Adlerian
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution Focused Therapy (SFT)
- Systems Theory/Family Systems
- Existential
- Relational
- Strength Based Therapy
- Person Centered
- Biopsychosocial
Hello! I’m Meredith Berr.
Administrative Assistant
Meredith is a university student entering her final year of her undergraduate honours psychology program, with plans of pursuing a career as a psychotherapist in the future. She is excited to be joining the team this summer to gain some hands-on experience in a therapy clinic and to be part of a team that supports individuals on their journeys towards improved mental health and well-being.
With her background in psychology, Meredith hopes to bring her understanding of the importance of compassionate and empathetic care to her role as administrative assistant and she takes pride in being the first point of contact for clients. She is committed to creating a warm and welcoming environment for all clients, ensuring their comfort and confidentiality from the moment they step through the doors, and ensuring that every client feels valued and supported throughout their interactions with the clinic. She is happy to assist clients and associates with any of their administrative needs.
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