It’s time to
feel better.

Alison James is a Registered Psychotherapist specializing in integrative mental health treatment. With diverse and broad training, she adapts her approach to suit each client’s unique temperament and needs. Alison is sensitive to the ways in which systemic oppression, exclusion, and marginalization impact the wellbeing of individuals and communities. She strives to practice from an anti-racist and ableist, intersectional feminist, sex and body positive, queer and trans allied, and class-conscious position.

Approach

my VISION

“I support clients in cultivating the clarity, confidence, and courage they need to change their lives.”

Alison James

 

 
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about

Alison James

Alison is a Registered Psychotherapist with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario and a member of the Canadian Association for Psychodynamic Therapy. She is trained in Relational, Sensorimotor and Somatic, Gestalt, and Emotionally Focused Therapy, as well as EMDR, Structural Dissociation Theory or Parts Work, Polyvagal Theory and Nervous System Regulation, Mindfulness and Embodiment, Hypnotherapy, and EFT.

 
 

how l can help you

come home to yourself

 
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