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, disconnected from their bodies, or unsure of who they are becoming. Many of the people she supports experience eating disorders, disordered eating, body image concerns, and emotional dysregulation in the context of life stress, identity exploration, and questions of belonging and self-worth.
Therapeutic Approach
In therapy, Venus offers a steady and compassionate space where difficult emotions can be named, understood, and held without judgment. Venus views eating and emotional struggles as meaningful adaptations to pain, pressure, and unmet needs rather than problems to be “fixed.” Together with her clients, Venus focuses on building a safer, more trusting relationship with food, emotions, and the self, while developing practical tools to navigate everyday life.
Drawing from evidence-based approaches such as DBT, CBT, FBT, and Emotion-Focused Family Therapy, Venus balances structure with curiosity and care. Her experience across varied levels of care allows her to attune to complexity, manage risk thoughtfully, and deeply respect the courage it takes to seek support.
At the heart of Venus’ work is the belief that healing grows through connection, compassion, and a strengthening sense of identity. Venus is committed to creating an affirming, culturally responsive, and stigma-free therapeutic space where young adults can move toward greater stability, self-understanding, and self-trust.
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.
Accepting New Clients
In-Person and Virtual
Weeknight Availability
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. 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, 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.
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Accepting New Clients
In-Person and Virtual
Weeknight Availability
Additional Languages:
Hindi, Kannada
Shruthi Venkatesh Ranga Rao M.Sc., RP
Shruthi is an experienced clinician who holds a Master’s in Psychology with a specialization in Learning Disabilities. She has more than a decade of experience working in the field of child and adolescent mental health, specializing in working with children and teens who are neurodivergent. She has worked in different settings and emphasizes the importance of working as a team with parents and children.
What can she help with?
She supports parents, couples, and families who want to strengthen their relationships, improve communication, and reconnect with themselves and one another. Many of her clients are navigating anxiety, stress, burnout, or the pressure of balancing work, family, and personal expectations.
Therapeutic Approach
With over 15 years of experience, Shurthi provides compassionate, evidence-based therapy for anxiety, depression, stress, trauma, relationship challenges, and OCD. As an immigrant therapist, she brings cultural awareness and a collaborative approach, drawing from EFT, CBT, DBT, trauma-informed therapy, and ERP to support meaningful and lasting change.
Kate Wong RP, MDiv
Limited Availability for
New Clients
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.