Why Seek Therapy?

Everyone deserves therapy that feels safe, validating, and aligned with their identity. Affirming therapy provides a grounded place to process these experiences with support that honours your whole self.

You may benefit from therapy if you’re:

Exploring your gender or sexual identity.
Experiencing stress, anxiety, or depression related to minority stress.
Navigating coming out, family conflict, or relationship changes.
Recovering from trauma, rejection, or discrimination.
Coping with significant life transitions (such as career changes, relocation, or starting a family).
Dealing with grief and loss that impacts your emotional well-being.

Who We Help

Every LGBTQIA+ story is unique. Our therapy honours your pace, identity, culture, and personal journey, offering both emotional safety and space for self-discovery.

LGBTQIA+ Affirming Counseling

Identity-affirming support for queer, trans, and non-binary clients navigating life transitions, relationships, identity, or stressors.

Support for Relationships, Identity & Family

Therapy for navigating chosen family, partnerships, coming out experiences, or complex family dynamics.

Individual Therapy

Personalized care for anxiety, depression, trauma, and internalized stigma, with a focus on strengthening self-worth and resilience.

Culturally Responsive, Evidence-Based Care

Our clinicians use evidence-based, identity-affirming approaches that integrate emotional processing, nervous system support, and cultural humility.

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)

EMDR is an evidence-based therapy that helps the brain reprocess traumatic memories through gentle bilateral stimulation, reducing emotional distress and promoting long-term healing.

Cognitive behaviour Therapy (CBT)

CBT teaches people to identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviours, building practical skills to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress.

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT – Skills Informed)

DBT teaches core skills in mindfulness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness to support stability and reduce emotional intensity.

Internal Family Systems (IFS)

IFS helps clients understand and compassionately connect with their internal “parts,” promoting emotional regulation and healing from past wounds.

Queer-Affirming Therapy

Provides safe, identity-affirming support for LGBTQIA+ clients by honouring their lived experiences, validating their identities, and addressing the unique impacts of stigma, trauma, and marginalization.

Narrative Therapy

Narrative Therapy helps clients re-examine and re-author the stories they hold about themselves, fostering greater agency, identity, and empowerment.

Somatic Work

Somatic Work helps clients tune into the body’s sensations and nervous system responses, supporting trauma healing through increased regulation, grounding, and embodied awareness.

Attachment-Based Therapy

Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relational experiences shape emotional patterns, helping clients build healthier and more secure connections.

We’re a Safe Space

Wholetherapy embraces and affirms the full spectrum of LGBTQIA+ identities. We recognize that identity exists within culture, community, family, and lived experience, and our clinicians practice with cultural humility, respect, and trauma-informed awareness.

Queer, trans, and non-binary individuals.
People exploring or questioning their identity.
Clients navigating intersectional identities (race, culture, migration, disability, etc.).
Individuals coping with family rejection, stigma, or discrimination.
Couples and partners across diverse relationship structures
Anyone seeking a space where their identity is honoured and protected.

Our Therapists

Jena Macdonald, M.A.

Registered Counselling Therapist Candidate (RCT-C) | Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC)

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Jessica Gingras, M.A.

Registered Counselling Therapist (RCT) | Certified Canadian Counsellor (CCC) | EMDR Certified

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Julia Oguzer, M.A.

Registered Counselling Therapist Candidate (RCT-C) | EMDR Trained

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Alys Howe, M.Ed.

Registered Counselling Therapist Candidate (RCT-C) | Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC) | EMDR Trained

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Karen Belliveau

Clinical Social Worker (RSW) | Clinical Specialist | EMDR Trained

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Matthew Hall, M.A.

Registered Counselling Therapist Candidate (RCT-C) | EMDR Trained

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Jessie DesRoches, M.A.

Registered Counselling Therapist (RCT) | EMDR Trained

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Jane Gavin-Hebert

Clinical Social Worker (RSW) | EMDR Certified Therapist

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Sumi Iqbal M.A.

Registered Counselling Therapist Candidate (RCT-C) | EMDR Trained

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Lindsey MacDonald, M.Ed.

Registered Counselling Therapist Candidate (RCT-C) | Certified Canadian Counsellor (CCC)

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You don't have to wait for things to fall apart to begin therapy. There is no "perfect" moment to start. If you are ready to make a change, improve your mood, or better manage your anxiety, we are here to help you take that first step in a safe and confidential space.