Mindspace Counselling

Our lives can become complex and challenging. In times of need, Mindspace Counselling strives to offer you care, both in a professional and informed way. Our clinical expertise, coupled with our holistic approach, helps us understand the multiple layers of childhood and adolescent struggles. We are rooted in evidence-based practices and specialize in parenting and child and adolescent mental health.

Our Programs

Our Team

We are a team of experienced professionals dedicated to excellence in providing mental health services to families, children, and teens. We also strive to contribute highly specialized and evidence-based counselling services to support healthy relationships in the caregiving system.

Monica Hinrichs

MSW, RSW, RCAT

Tara Yazdani

BA, BSW, MSW, RSW

Yasmin E. Smith

BA, BSW, MSW, RSW

Our Beliefs

Our practice is rooted in the belief of:

the crucial importance of early relationships
the pervasive impact of early adversities and traumatic experiences
the presence of resilience and strength in all individuals
the deep connections linking mind, body and environment
the intrinsic value of being present in our own thoughts and emotions and aware of the ones of others
our innate drive to seek inner balance and growth in relationships

Our Programs

We offer a range of diverse modalities including the use of art therapy, mentalized-based treatments, attachment interventions and trauma-focused therapies.

Art Therapy: In Art Therapy, art making can be seen as a language other than the spoken words created and defined by image making, the use of art media, the reflection on the process of the experience of creating art and the unique relationship with an art therapist.
Attachment-Based Interventions: Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up (ABC), a 10-session home visiting model for foster, adoptive and biological parents of infants between six and 24 months of age.
Dialectical Behavioural Therapy: Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is practiced individually as well as in group format and combines elements of CBT to help with regulating emotion through distress tolerance and mindfulness.
Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR): Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is an extensively researched, effective psychotherapy method proven to help people recover from trauma and other distressing life experiences, including PTSD, anxiety, depression, and panic disorders.
Mentalization-Based Treatment for Parents: Reflecting Parenting: Reflecting Parenting (RP) Group is an evidence-based intervention based on principles of Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) and Attachment Theory.
Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE): SPACE, created at Yale University, is an effective treatment for childhood anxiety and obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) that shows parents how to implement the treatment themselves guided by the therapist.
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (TF-CBT): TF-CBT is an evidence-based model of practice that addresses post trauma (PTSD) symptoms and other related challenges in children, adolescents and teens.