Meet Sitara

Counsellor

It can be hard to know where one challenge ends and another begins — the stress, the strained relationships, the ache that lingers. But beneath these feelings, a deeper story is often at work. More than difficulties to be endured, they can be an invitation to explore questions you did not know you carry. Questions that stretch across generations, across cultural geographies, across everything that has made you who you are.

I came to this work through the experience of needing it. For me, it was motherhood that unearthed the questions I had no way of anticipating. I knew to prepare for the exhaustion, the change in pace, the ways life reorganises itself around a new person. I didn't know to prepare for what followed — questions about who I was, who I wanted to be, and the world I wanted to create.

This experience taught me that the currents of the world reverberate in the most intimate corners of our lives. Therapy needs to be expansive enough to hold this — making room for the identities we carry, the histories that run through us, and the ways the world has shaped who we are and how we relate.

In our work together, I welcome all that you bring: the tensions, the transitions, the sense that something doesn't quite fit — and the bigger questions that lie beneath. Through this process, we explore what can be difficult to express elsewhere and find meaning in unexpected places.

We are each made of more than we know. The more fully we connect with ourselves, the more we connect with all that we are part of.

Identity and selfhood

Culture and heritage

Intergenerational patterns

Emotional wellbeing

Couples and relationships

Pregnancy and new parenthood

Histories of migration and belonging

Life Transitions

Meaning and Connection

Sitara's Education and Training

  • Professional Counselling Diploma - Rhodes Wellness College

  • PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Oxford

  • MA in Sociology and Equity Studies from the University of Toronto

  • BA in Anthropology and Asian Studies from the University of British Columbia

  • Coaching Certificate - Rhodes Wellness College

Meet The Team

We believe that different ways of working offer different ways of seeing.

Summit Within brings together three practitioners whose approaches are complementary — not by accident, but by design. Between us, our practice is at once emotionally alive, structurally grounded, and always in search of meaning.

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.

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