Our Team

Daniela is a child and family therapist and registered clinical supervisor with over a decade of experience supporting children and families. She takes a warm, collaborative approach to help families create meaningful and lasting change. Daniela specializes in working with parents, children, and teens facing challenges related to anxiety, ADHD, ASD, learning disabilities, behavioural issues, trauma, and grief. She draws from a range of evidence-based approaches, including play therapy, art therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), narrative therapy, solution-focused therapy, and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT).

Riki is a skilled social worker with a focus on helping individuals of various age groups, including youth, teens, and adults. She utilizes several therapeutic approaches, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness, and a Strength-Based perspective. Riki's practice encompasses addressing a range of mental health issues, such as anxiety, depression, and ADHD. One of Riki's key strengths is her emphasis on building strong therapeutic relationships with her clients. Establishing trust and rapport is crucial for effective therapy. Riki's ultimate goal is to equip her clients with the necessary tools to navigate life's challenges successfully. By combining evidence-based techniques and a client-centered approach, Riki aims to help her clients achieve their goals and improve their mental and emotional well-being.

Lianne is a Registered Psychotherapist and works with individuals of all ages, focusing on children 7+, teens, and young adults. She has a passion for helping these age groups with issues relating to low self-esteem, relationship challenges, school difficulties, depression/anxiety, sexual identity exploration, stress, trauma, emotion dysregulation, and perfectionism. She has a particular focus on supporting children and adolescents with ADHD, offering effective coping strategies that foster confidence in managing daily challenges. Lianne works to create a safe and non-judgemental space to help clients feel comfortable to explore what is important. Her therapeutic approach is holistic and integrative, using evidence-based therapies such as DBT, ACT, CBT, strengths-based approach, and narrative therapy. Lianne will collaborate with you to craft tailored goals that resonate with your values, guiding you towards a fulfilling and meaningful life.

Angie is a registered psychotherapist with over 10 years of experience working with children, youth, and families in both clinical and educational settings. Her extensive background includes working in hospital inpatient and outpatient programs, as well as mental health agencies. Angie is passionate about supporting individuals facing trauma, depression, anxiety, ADHD, ASD, learning disabilities, suicidal thoughts, self-harm behaviours, school difficulties, low self-esteem, and challenges in family and sibling relationships. Angie is dedicated to helping individuals cultivate their resilience and strength in a compassionate, non-judgmental, and family-centered way. As a neurodiversity-affirming therapist, she integrates play, arts, and music into the therapeutic space. She employs evidence-based and trauma-informed approaches, including Play Therapy, Music Therapy, Emotion(ally)-Focused Family Therapy, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT). Angie emphasizes creating a safe and secure environment for all family members to express themselves. Angie provides sessions in English, Cantonese, and Mandarin.

Shalheves is a Registered Social Worker dedicated to empowering children, adolescents, and adults to overcome challenges such as anxiety, depression, loss, trauma, addiction, and school difficulties. Her approach is tailored to each individual’s unique needs, using a range of modalities including CBT, IFS, play therapy, and motivational interviewing. Shalheves works with individuals and families to identify the root causes of their struggles and empowers them to develop healthy coping skills. She utilizes a holistic and strengths-based approach, creating a safe space to help her clients explore their thoughts, emotions, behaviours and develop effective strategies for lasting change and growth.

Jackie is a registered social worker and certified family mediator with over 15 years of experience supporting children, adolescents, adults, and families through complex life transitions. Drawing from her extensive background in counselling, family mediation, and parenting support, Jackie brings a deeply compassionate, direct, and forward-thinking approach to her work. Jackie is particularly skilled in supporting neurodiverse individuals, including those with ADHD and autism, as well as clients navigating anxiety, emotional regulation challenges, parenting stress, separation and divorce, high-conflict co-parenting, and trauma. Her practice is grounded in trauma-informed, child-focused, and neurodiversity-affirming principles. With lived experience as a neurodivergent parent to neurodivergent children, Jackie integrates clinical expertise with personal insight. She tailors her sessions to meet the unique needs of each client. Jackie creates a warm, collaborative, and non-judgmental space where clients feel accepted, heard, seen and safe to be themselves.

Nikki Bianchi is a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying). Her practice is grounded in narrative therapy and informed by Internal Family Systems (parts work). This means you’ll explore your inner world as a system of parts — each with its own story, role, and reason for being. As trust builds within your system, you’ll begin to connect more often with your Core Self — the calm, grounded, wise inner presence that’s always been there, just beneath the noise. Nikki has a special interest in self-identity, self-worth, and self-compassion. Her approach is warm, relational, and conversational. Additionally, she offers emotional attunement and occasional humour to help you learn practical ways to support your inner parts, respond to triggers with kindness, and create more ease in your everyday life.

Michelle is a Registered Social Worker who specializes in working with children aged 0–7 and their parents. She values family-based practice as a foundation for healthy child development and emotional well-being, and works to empower families in strengthening their relationships. Michelle supports children facing challenges such as anxiety, depression, emotional dysregulation, and developmental concerns like ASD and ADHD. With a warm, play-based, and compassionate approach, she creates a safe space for children to explore their emotions and build resilience. Her work integrates modalities including Child-Centered Play Therapy, Theraplay, CBT, DBT, SFT, Narrative Therapy, Mindfulness, Art Facilitation, and Parent Coaching.

Sivan enjoys working with different populations and age groups, especially with teenagers, adults and families. She offers different modalities of practice such as CBT, EFT, solution-focused work, mindfulness-based approaches and some DBT. She focuses a lot on the therapeutic alliance, building a strong rapport and overall trust with her clients in order to achieve the goal of creating a safe space. She is culturally informed, speaks fluent Russian and has a good understanding of Hebrew.

Marni is a compassionate and experienced Registered Psychotherapist dedicated to guiding individuals and families towards positive change. With a wealth of experience working with youth, teens, adults, and families, Marni brings a versatile and empathetic approach to her practice. Marni is committed to creating a safe and supportive space for clients to explore their unique challenges and develop effective coping strategies. She specializes in evidence-based modalities, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Psychodynamic techniques. Marni tailors her therapeutic approach to meet your specific needs. Her goal is to empower clients to overcome obstacles, enhance communication, and foster positive growth within themselves and their relationships.

Yakov offers his clients a safe, non-judgmental, and confidential environment where they can gain greater insight into their core strengths and values to help them achieve their therapeutic goals. As someone with ADHD who grew up with a brother with Autism, Yakov can relate to the challenges faced by many clients. Through these experiences, he has become confident in helping his clients navigate tough times. As a therapist, his goal is to guide individuals through a solution-focused lens, introduce new perspectives, and challenge their thought patterns, all while understanding their emotional needs. He implements a variety of evidence-based approaches such as cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), solution-focused therapy (SFT), family systems, and narrative therapy (NT).

As the client relations coordinator for Young Sprouts Therapy, Eric brings over 10 years of experience as both an elementary and high school teacher, deeply understanding the educational and emotional needs of children and families. Also a published children's book author, he applies storytelling as a unique way to engage and inspire young minds. As a devoted dad of two girls, his personal investment in creating a nurturing home environment fuels his professional passion for promoting positive mental health and family harmony. His role here is not just to guide you through the initial steps of your therapeutic journey, but also to make sure it’s the right fit for everyone involved.

Viktoriya is majoring in BA Psychology and hopes to create a warm environment for every individual. With an interest in mental and behavioural health, Viktoriya wants to ensure that each person feels welcome and supported throughout their journey at Young Sprouts Therapy.