About Our Collective

Meaningful change is born in connection — with yourself and with others.

Our work is rooted in the idea that you are more than your present moment. You are shaped by patterns carried across relationships, families and generations, held within communities and contexts that have marked you in ways both seen and unseen.

We tend carefully to these layers, and to the ways they have shaped how you think, feel, and connect with what truly matters. Not to define you by them, but to help you understand yourself more fully.

It's not just about making sense of what has shaped you — it's about what becomes possible when you explore from within

Our collaborative approach means therapy can move with you — across your emotional experiences, your relationships, and your place in the wider world — helping you find firmer ground in yourself and in the connections around you.

This is the work. The inner work. The relational work. The work that endures.

And it begins with the right person beside you.

Meet Our Practitioners

Colin Herfst

Healing doesn’t have

to be heavy.

Kieren Brittkovich

Guiding relationships through

their hardest moments.

Sitara Thobani

We are each made of

something more than we know.

Therapeutic Perspectives We Draw From

These perspectives reflect the breadth of our collective approach, thoughtfully drawn on and tailored to you.

Narrative Therapy

Exploring the stories we tell about ourselves and the world, and uncovering new ways of understanding and relating to our experiences.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

Examining the relationship between thoughts, feelings, and behaviours, helping to identify patterns and experiment with new ways of responding.

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)

Developing emotional awareness and resilience through practical skills for managing intense feelings and relationships.

Gottman Method

Strengthening intimacy, navigating conflict, and creating shared meaning in romantic relationships.

Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS)

Understanding, and harmonizing the multiple “parts” of oneself under the guidance of the Self.

Nature Therapy

Harnessing the grounding and restorative effects of the natural world to support wellbeing and perspective.

Relational Therapy

Understanding the self in the context of relationships and the wider world, strengthening connection and self-awareness.

Somatic Therapy

Tuning into the body as a source of insight, integrating cognitive, physical, and emotional experiences.

What Guides Us

Connection and Belonging

Connection has the power to hold us — in the room, in the relationships and communities we nurture, and in the meaning we make when we look closely at our lives. We are never just individuals. We exist in relation to our histories, our relationships, and the stories we carry. Tending to that web of connection orients our work and is where healing actually happens.

Dignity and Presence

To truly respect someone is to refuse to reduce them — to a single problem, a fixed identity, a single story.

We work with complexity rather than simplifying it. And at the heart of that is being truly seen and heard, without judgment or agenda. It is one of the most profound experiences a person can have, and it is what we return to in every session.

Growth and Possibility

Therapy, at its best, is alive. There is something in the stretch — the movement, the curiosity, the sense of something beginning to open — that brings you into closer contact with yourself. Not all of this work is heavy. There are moments when something shifts, things lift, and light finds its way in. We make room for all of it — the glimmers, the small joys, and the growing sense that things can be different.

Each person carries capacities for resilience and growth, whether known or still emerging.

This is not incidental to the work we do.

It is central to it.

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