Hanadi (Hanna) Ghanchi Dar is a compassionate and culturally informed mental health professional with over a decade of experience supporting diverse individuals and families. She provides counselling for individuals navigating anxiety, depression, grief, and life transitions, drawing from both Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and humanistic approaches.
Hanna works from a strength-based, inclusive lens that honours the unique cultural, linguistic, and personal identities of each client. She has extensive experience supporting children, adolescents, BIPOC, and LGBTQ2S+ communities, and is dedicated to fostering safe, non-judgmental therapeutic spaces.
Hanna holds a Master’s degree in Counselling and Psychotherapy and is fluent in English, Urdu, Hindi, and Punjabi. She is passionate about advancing equity in mental health care and helping clients feel seen, supported, and empowered in their healing journey.
Emmily Lai (she/her/hers) is an art therapist and registered psychotherapist (qualifying), who holds a Masters Degree in Creative Arts Therapies from Concordia University. For Emmily, art therapy is a type of psychotherapy that uses art materials and the art making process to help people express their emotions, thoughts, and feelings when words are not enough. She believes using art in therapy can help people understand and connect with themselves, their world and to others.
Emmily is an educator, researcher, community leader, artist and art therapist who is passionate about supporting communities and people through their life experiences, intersectional identities and abilities to develop confidence, personal growth and well-being through art-making. She takes a humanistic, person-centered approach to understand her clients. She welcomes all of my clients into a safe, creative space that is culturally sensitive and inclusive.
Emmily works with children, youth, teens and young adults. Her areas of experience include:Confidence, Self-esteem, Anxiety, Depression, Neurodiversity: Developmental, Intellectual and other Disabilities, ADHD, ASD, Anger, Aggression, Emotional Dysregulation, Grief and Loss
