Maria Carolina Saenz holds a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá as well as a Mental Health and Addictions Certificate counselor from Durham College, Ontario. Maria Carolina is a member in good standing of the Ontario Association of Mental Health Professionals (OAMHP).
Maria Carolina brings extensive expertise in monitoring and fostering human development across private practice, hospital, and community settings. She has broad experience working with children, adolescents, young adults, older adults, individuals experiencing homelessness, family groups, emotional support groups, educational workshops, crisis intervention, and interprofessional collaborations. Her services are available both in-person and online, in Spanish and English.
Over the last ten years, Maria Carolina has developed strategies for providing emotional support in crisis intervention, mental health care, psychoeducation, trauma-informed approaches, and individual counseling. She employs a humanistic, client-centered, and systemic approach, empowering individuals to develop strategies for managing crises, anxiety, depression, substance use challenges, understanding behaviors, addressing relationship challenges, navigating grief, coping with illnesses, and facing other life circumstances.
Maria Carolina invites you to join her in creating a space for reflection, self-awareness, and autonomy, a space where compassion is central and where you are encouraged to explore new perspectives on your life’s journey.
Maria Carolina offers services in-person and online in English & Spanish.
Dasha Shalimo is a Certified Therapeutic Art Practitioner and therapist in-training completing her training with CiiAT to become a full licensed Psychotherapist and Art Therapist. Dasha will be offering low-cost rates and pro-bono (free) therapy online and in-person under the supervision of Lorena Patrucco, RP.
Dasha earned a doctorate from UofT as well as a masters and bachelor degree in Early childhood psychology and pedagogy. Dasha has worked locally and internationally with various groups where she developed and practiced skills and knowledge that has characterize her as an open - minded, kind-hearted and empathetic person.
Dasha brings an abundance of healing practices for those individuals who are interested in self-discovery, self-healing and empowerment. She offers art therapy sessions through individual and small group sessions for women and children who are struggling with life’s challenges. Her sessions help children who have encounter bulling, social difficulties and behavioural challenges, anger issues and grief among other difficulties. Dasha is also a filial therapist, which through art therapy, she helps individuals and families to create and build genuine long-lasting bonds, recover from broken relationships, and overcome family issues.
While focusing on the healing practice of expressive art, Dasha offers a vast of knowledge in understanding one’s own development and mindset and focuses her practice on helping clients with several life challenges such as, traumatic experiences, grief, social behaviour, life transitions (such as newcomers/immigration), relationship issues, and parenting/separation issues. Dasha also offers restorative practices to help families to unwind their potential and reestablish healthy relationships.
Dasha uses a variety of therapeutic approaches as well as various means of artistic expressions to move through the process of personal discovery and eventual understanding of the self. You do not need to be an artist your expression will come from within yourself. Hence, you will become an artist of your own life.
Dasha offers therapy in English, Belarusian and Russian.
