Explore Our Specialties
At Authentic You: Counselling, Assessment & Addictions Services Inc., each of our psychologists brings unique expertise to their practice. This section highlights the areas they specialize in and the therapeutic approaches they use most often with their clients. For a full list of concerns and presenting issues each clinician works with, please refer to their individual therapist profiles.
Fisayo's Areas of Specialization
Fisayo offers a compassionate, culturally grounded approach that helps clients feel seen, supported, and empowered in their healing journey. Her areas of expertise are especially focused on:
✨ Mood-Related Challenges, Including Depression
Supporting clients in navigating emotional lows, persistent sadness, or disconnection—while building hope, motivation, and a renewed sense of self.
✨ Anxiety & Stress Management
Helping individuals reduce overwhelm, calm racing thoughts, and develop sustainable strategies to manage stress and reclaim balance.
✨ Developing Emotional Regulation Skills
Teaching practical tools to recognize, understand, and respond to emotions in healthy and grounded ways—especially in intense or triggering moments.
✨ Building Self-Worth & Confidence
Guiding clients in strengthening their inner voice, challenging self-doubt, and embracing who they are with compassion and clarity.
✨ Healing from Trauma
Creating a safe, steady space to process painful experiences, reconnect with the body, and move forward from a place of resilience and safety.
✨ Culturally Responsive & Anti-Oppressive Approaches
Fisayo honours diverse lived experiences and supports clients in unpacking cultural, systemic, or identity-related stressors through an inclusive and affirming lens.
✨ Exploring Identity & Personal Growth
Helping clients make sense of who they are and who they’re becoming—whether navigating cultural identity, sexuality, gender, life roles, or major transitions.
Fisayo tailors therapy to each individual’s unique strengths, needs, and goals—drawing from a variety of evidence-based, client-centered therapeutic approaches:
✅ Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Explores the connection between thoughts, emotions, and behaviours to shift unhelpful patterns and build coping strategies.
✅ Solution-Focused Therapy (SFT)
Goal-oriented and forward-thinking—helps clients focus on what’s working and how to build on existing strengths.
✅ Person-Centered Therapy
Rooted in empathy, authenticity, and unconditional positive regard—this approach empowers clients to explore and grow at their own pace.
✅ Narrative Therapy
Encourages clients to reframe limiting stories and reclaim their voice, values, and agency within their personal narrative.
✅ Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Supports deeper emotional processing, helping clients understand and express feelings in a safe, healing way.
✅ Mindfulness-Based Therapy
Incorporates breath, presence, and awareness to help clients regulate stress, connect with the moment, and deepen self-compassion.
Manjinder's Areas of Specialization
Manjinder offers a thoughtful and steady presence, helping clients navigate both the challenges and opportunities that come with being human. Her work is rooted in deep respect for each individual’s journey, with her area of specialization focusing on:
🌿 Self-Esteem & Worthiness
Working alongside clients to quiet the inner critic, rebuild trust in themselves, and reconnect with a sense of inherent value and inner strength.
🌿 Relationships & Attachment
Exploring how past and present relationships shape connection, boundaries, and emotional security—while building healthier, more fulfilling ways of relating.
🌿 Self-Identity & Life Transitions
Supporting clients through periods of personal transformation—whether navigating cultural identity, gender or sexuality, career shifts, or major life changes.
🌿 Grief, Loss & Life After
Offering space to honour and process loss in all its forms—be it the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, or the letting go of a former version of oneself—while gently moving toward healing and meaning.
Manjinder brings a calm, client-centered approach to therapy, blending evidence-based tools with emotional attunement and curiosity. She draws from the following modalities the most often to meet clients where they’re at:
🌸 Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Helps clients identify and shift thought patterns that contribute to emotional distress—while building practical coping tools for daily life.
🌸 Attachment-Based Therapy
Explores how early relationships impact present-day connection, trust, and emotional expression—offering new ways to create safety in relationship with self and others.
🌸 Person-Centered Therapy
Grounded in deep empathy and authenticity, this approach prioritizes each client’s lived experience, strengths, and inner wisdom.
🌸 Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Facilitates deeper understanding of emotional experiences and promotes healing through safe emotional exploration and expression.
🌸 Mindfulness-Based Therapy
Invites clients into present-moment awareness—building calm, clarity, and compassion through mindful practices.
Andrew's Areas of Specialization
With over +20 years of experience in mental health, Andrew brings deep clinical insight, psychological assessment expertise, and a calm, grounded presence to his work with adolescents, adults, and older adults. His approach is practical, collaborative, and rooted in evidence-based care—tailored to help clients understand themselves, build on their strengths, and move forward with clarity and purpose.
🧩 Mood Disorders (Depression & Anxiety)
Andrew supports individuals experiencing low mood, anxious thinking, or emotional dysregulation—helping them identify underlying patterns, develop coping strategies, and foster long-term emotional resilience.
🧩 Neurodevelopmental Disorders (ADHD, Autism & Learning Disabilities)
Using a neurodiversity-affirming approach, Andrew works with individuals navigating neurodevelopmental disorders—supporting executive functioning, social and emotional development, and meaningful daily life strategies.
🧩 Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Andrew integrates trauma-integrated, evidence-based methods to help clients process trauma, reduce re-experiencing, and rebuild a sense of internal safety and trust.
🧩 Personality Disorders
He provides steady, nonjudgmental support for individuals working through identity confusion, emotional intensity, and interpersonal challenges—helping them build skills for stability, connection, and self-awareness.
🧩 Addictions & Compulsive Behaviours
Whether working with substance use or behavioural addictions, Andrew uses a strengths-based and motivational approach to explore patterns, reduce harm, and promote values-aligned change.
Andrew’s therapeutic style blends structure with warmth. He draws on a broad toolkit of evidence-based approaches, customizing care to each individual’s needs and goals—whether focused on symptom relief, personal growth, or long-term recovery.
🔍 Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
A central framework in Andrew’s work, CBT supports clients in understanding how thoughts, emotions, and behaviours interact—and provides tools to shift patterns and improve functioning.
🔍 Motivational Interviewing (MI)
A collaborative, client-led approach that helps clients resolve ambivalence, explore readiness for change, and build momentum in their personal goals.
🔍 Narrative Therapy
Encourages clients to reframe the stories they hold about themselves—bringing strengths, values, and identity into sharper focus, and creating space for preferred ways of being.
🔍 Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT)
An evidence-based trauma intervention that helps clients reprocess traumatic events and shift trauma-related beliefs—especially helpful for individuals with PTSD.
🔍 Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT-Informed)
Draws on key DBT skills such as distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness—particularly effective for clients managing complex emotional and relational patterns.
🔍 Existential Therapy
Invites clients to explore life’s deeper questions around meaning, direction, identity, and freedom—especially during periods of uncertainty, transition, or self-reflection.
🔍 Solution-Focused Therapy
Focused on building forward momentum, this approach helps clients identify their strengths and envision what “better” looks like—starting from what’s already working.
Karen's Areas of Specialization
Karen brings over fifteen years of experience applying clinical depth, directness, and trauma-integrated insight in to her work—offering grounded, evidence-based care, with a fierce belief in the healing power of authenticity.
❤️ Complex Trauma & Emotional Wounding
Helping clients process and release the impact of developmental trauma, relational violations, and emotional neglect—while building nervous system safety, identity coherence, and resilience from the inside out.
❤️ Addictions & Recovery (Substance & Behavioural)
Specialized support for individuals navigating out of control behaviours related to substance use or behavioural addictions, including alcohol, cannabis, illicit drugs, sex, pornography, gambling, gaming and compulsive spending—using an integrative approach that addresses both the root and the recovery.
❤️ Burnout, Boundaries & Self-Reclamation
Helping high-achievers, caregivers, and empaths rediscover their own needs and limits, shift perfectionist or people-pleasing patterns, and return to themselves—authentically and unapologetically.
❤️ Authenticity & Identity Integration
Guiding clients through deep self-exploration and personal growth—supporting the reclaiming of voice, agency, and self-expression beyond old roles, trauma adaptations, or external expectations.
❤️ Sex & Gender Therapy, LGBTQIA2S+ Affirming Care
Creating affirming, non-pathologizing space for clients exploring gender, sexuality, and identity—including support for queer, trans, non-binary, and questioning individuals navigating coming out, transition, or self-acceptance.
❤️ Kink, Polyamory & Non-Traditional Relationships
Providing sex-positive, shame-free counselling for individuals and partners engaged in kink/BDSM, consensual non-monogamy, or alternative relationship styles—focusing on autonomy, communication, and relational wellness.
❤️ Forensic Counselling & Risk-Related Work
Offering nonjudgmental, evidence-informed counselling for individuals involved in the justice system, mandated for treatment, or navigating legal, workplace, or court-related concerns—specializing in risk, recidivism, and accountability-based work.
Karen takes an intuitive, relational approach grounded in years of clinical experience. Her work is integrative and layered—meeting each client with what’s needed in the moment, while always holding a deeper map of healing, safety, and self-trust.
🧠 Client-Centered & Relational Approaches
Karen believes healing happens in connection. Her work is rooted in authenticity, empathy, and a collaborative therapeutic relationship that empowers growth.
🧠 Gestalt & Existential Therapy
Facilitates self-awareness, presence, and meaning-making—helping clients explore who they are, how they show up, and what it means to live more fully and freely.
🧠 Somatic & Body-Based Therapy
Centers the body as a key source of information and healing—supporting trauma release, nervous system regulation, and deeper emotional insight.
🧠 Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
A powerful framework for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness, and relationship effectiveness—especially useful in trauma recovery and high-stakes life situations.
🧠 Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Used selectively to support clarity, skill-building, and behaviour change—especially when clients are feeling overwhelmed or stuck.
🧠 Exposure-Based Therapies
Karen uses a variety of exposure-based techniques to help clients safely confront fears, reduce avoidance, and regain a sense of control. This includes:
Exposure & Response Prevention (ERP): Often used to treat OCD and anxiety-related disorders, ERP helps clients reduce compulsions and build tolerance for distress without reinforcing avoidance patterns.
Systematic Desensitization: A gradual, step-by-step approach that pairs relaxation strategies with controlled exposure to feared situations—supporting nervous system regulation and confidence-building.
Trauma-Informed Exposure Work (In Vivo & Imaginal): Whether addressing trauma-related triggers through real-world exposure, guided imagery, or sensory-based techniques, Karen integrates exposure work carefully within a trauma-integrated, consent-based framework—always prioritizing client readiness, pacing, and emotional safety.
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