Leanna Bissell is a Registered Psychotherapist working with teens aged 15-18 and adults. Leanna has seven years of experience as a counsellor and therapist, with a focus on injury recovery and rehabilitation support at Community Head Injury Resource Services in Toronto for adults with acquired brain injury. After receiving her Masters Degree in Counselling Psychology in 2022, Leanna broadened her psychotherapy practice to include: substance abuse, disordered eating and body dissatisfaction (dieting/restrictive eating, emotional eating), anxiety (social anxiety, worry, rumination), and depression (low mood, low motivation, fatigue, poor concentration). Leanna works collaboratively with clients to enhance their existing coping skills and support issues such as, impulse control and managing urges, that can accompany these issues. Further, Leanna has recently undergone intensive training in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR), an empirically validated and best-practice approach for trauma and stress. She works with clients to process underlying trauma by first resourcing the client, then supporting them to desensitize and reprocess difficult memories and traumatic events.

Leanna believes that therapy is a partnership and a collaborative process that focuses on creating an atmosphere where meaningful and impactful conversations can take place to explore a person’s inner strengths and therapeutic goals. Leanna’s approach draws from the following therapeutic modalities: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Mindfulness, EMDR (trauma informed) and Polyvagal informed therapy.

Leanna Bissell is a Registered Psychotherapist working with teens aged 15-18 and adults. Leanna h... Read More

Melinda Krynen Hill is an experienced Mindfulness Practitioner and Registered Psychotherapist offering individual therapy services in Oakville, Ontario and virtually across Canada as a Certified Counsellor.

Melinda has a special interest in rehabilitation and recovery from injury or illness. She has particular expertise working with chronic health concerns including chronic pain, complex health conditions (e.g. rare diseases, autoimmune), mild-moderate Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Post Concussion Syndrome (PCS), and associated mental health concerns such as health anxiety, depression and adjustment difficulties. Melinda also has experience working with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), anxiety, panic, stress, and life transitions.

Melinda has over eight years of training and experience facilitating Mindfulness Based Interventions such as, MBCT, MSC, and MBCPM. Melinda is also a Senior Trainer for Mindful Gateway Consulting, offering mindfulness training across Ontario, most recently to the University Health Network, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), and the Canadian Parliament. Her academic background includes a Master of Education in Counselling Psychology from the University of Toronto and a Master of Public Health in Health Promotion from the University of Alberta.

Melinda Krynen Hill is an experienced Mindfulness Practitioner and Registered Psychotherapist off... Read More