Meet the Team
Accepting New Clients
Virtual Only
Weeknight Availability
Additional Languages:
Cantonese, Mandarin
Venus Cheng BSW, MA, RSW
With a Bachelor in Social Work and a Master’s in Psychology, and over 10 years of experience in psychotherapy, Venus brings both academic depth and extensive clinical experience to her work. Her background across hospital, community, and specialized settings has shaped a thoughtful, grounded, and compassionate approach to supporting young adults.
What can she help with?
Venus works with kids, teens, and adults who feel overwhelmed by their emotions, struggle to find their footing when feelings become intense or are unsure of who they are becoming. She supports people experiencing emotional dysregulation, anxiety, depression, OCD, eating disorders and body image concerns, often alongside life stress, identity exploration, relationship difficulties, questions of belonging, and struggles with self-worth.
Therapeutic Approach
Venus offers a steady, compassionate space for clients who may feel overwhelmed by the intensity of their emotions or unsure how to manage them. She understands emotional dysregulation not simply as something to eliminate, but as a signal that something important may be happening beneath the surface.
Her work focuses on building emotional awareness and regulation, distress tolerance, self-compassion, and a stronger sense of safety within oneself. For clients experiencing eating or body image concerns, this work also includes developing a safer and more trusting relationship with food, the body, and emotions.
Drawing from evidence-based approaches including DBT, CBT, FBT, ERP, and Emotion-Focused Family Therapy, Venus combines structure with curiosity and compassion. She helps clients better understand and regulate their emotions, build self-trust, and develop practical skills to navigate difficult moments with greater stability and self-compassion. Her approach is affirming, culturally responsive, and stigma-free.
Accepting New Clients
In-Person and Virtual
Weeknight Availability
Raquel McNamee RP (Qualifying), DTATI
Raquel is a passionate mental health advocate with a background in Forensic Psychology and Women’s and Gender Studies. As a Professional Art Therapist (DTATI), she combines her love of creativity with a deep commitment to supporting others in their growth, healing, and self-discovery. She believes in the transformative power of creative expression and is dedicated to finding innovative, compassionate ways to help individuals navigate challenges, build resilience, and connect more deeply with themselves. Her work is grounded in the belief that healing can take many forms, and that creativity can be a powerful tool for insight, empowerment, and change.
What can she help with?
As an Art Therapist, Raquel works with ages 12+ and specializes in supporting clients navigating Neurodivergent experiences (e.g., ADHD, Autism, Learning Disabilities etc.). She helps clients build insight, resilience, and healthier connections through creative expression.
What is Art Therapy?
Art Therapy is a form of psychotherapy that uses art-making and creative expression to help individuals explore their experiences, process emotions, and share their stories—especially when words feel difficult to find. Through a combination of creative exploration and conversation, the art-making process becomes a meaningful way to gain insight, deepen self-understanding, and explore one's inner world.
Rather than relying solely on direct questions, an Art Therapist may draw attention to themes, symbolism, colours, patterns, and the energy within the artwork to spark reflection and discussion. No artistic skill, training, or experience is required—just a willingness to show up and engage in the process.
Not accepting new clients
Additional Language:
Arabic
Ramez Roman MDiv, RP (Qualifying)
Ramez is a dedicated professional with over five years of experience supporting individuals and families navigate complex emotional and behavioral challenges. Ramez specializes in supporting youth and young adults aged 8 to 25 and their families, providing targeted guidance during these pivotal years to strengthen the family unit and facilitate a healthy transition into adulthood. While he maintains a primary focus on this developmental window, his expertise also extends to adults aged 25 and older, offering continuity of care for those navigating later life stages.
What can he help with?
A central pillar of his work is helping clients master emotional regulation, specifically addressing the pervasive impacts of anxiety and depression, OCD, and ADHD. By providing the essential tools to manage these intense internal states, Ramez helps clients achieve mental stability and clarity. This support is particularly vital for those navigating high-risk behaviors, including self-harm, suicidal ideation, and aggressive outbursts, where he builds a safe environment to foster life-saving coping skills. He has experience working with neurodivergence and various mental health challenges.
Therapeutic Approach
He integrates a blend of evidence-based therapies, including CBT, DBT, Solution-Focused Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), and Motivational Interviewing, to ensure every client receives comprehensive and personalized care.
Additionally, Ramez offers dedicated parenting coaching, empowering caregivers with practical, effective strategies to navigate the unique complexities of raising children and youth. By resolving deep-seated family conflicts and tailoring his approach to the unique needs of each individual and their family, Ramez empowers his clients to work-through their obstacles and achieve lasting well-being.
Accepting New Clients
In-Person and Virtual
Weeknight / Weekend
Availability
Additional Languages:
Farsi, Kurdish
Hana Varzandeh MSW, RSW
Hana brings over 18 years of experience in social work, with a solid foundation in both community development and clinical mental health. She has held a variety of roles within hospital settings, including working as a crisis worker in emergency departments and as a member of a Mobile Crisis Team providing community-based support. For five years, Hana also served as a consultant to Police Services, contributing her expertise to their mobile crisis response program.
What can she help with?
Hana's clinical and therapeutic work focuses on helping adults addressing concerns related to symptoms of depression, anxiety, ADHD, adjustment to life altering experiences such as the loss of a loved one, retirement, marriage, ending a relationship, or caring for family members with disabilities/mental health challenges. She also specializes in working with first-responders. She incorporates diverse modalities depending on the context of the session.
Therapeutic Approach
Hana views therapy as an opportunity to clear a foggy mirror—allowing individuals to see themselves with greater clarity, less judgment, and a deeper appreciation for their own strengths, abilities, and resilience. She believes that healing begins in a safe and supportive space, where people feel truly heard, validated, and understood. For Hana, meaningful therapeutic work happens when emotions are gently acknowledged and cared for, creating the conditions to explore, process, and grow.
Kate Wong RP, MDiv
Not accepting new clients at this time
In-Person and Virtual
As a therapist, Kate has worked in various children's mental health agencies, adult addiction services, and private practice settings throughout the GTA since 2016. Most of her current practice includes working with children and young adults facing mental health and family issues.
What can she help with?
She specializes in helping children, youth, young adults, parents, and families to effectively address concerns related to symptoms of anxiety, OCD, depression, post-traumatic stress, parent-child conflict, suicidal ideation, self-harming behaviours, and other behavioural / relational challenges.
Therapeutic Approach
She considers the therapeutic process to be a collaborative and for a season of time. She typically draws upon a client's interests and strengths while incorproating evidence-based practices from a range of therapeutic modalities depending on a client's specific needs, situation, and hopes for therapy. This could include elements of body-based and relational approaches, CBT and DBT therapies, narrative therapy, and trauma-focused therapy.