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Beidan Hassan is a Registered Social Worker who received her Masters of Social Work from the University of Toronto
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Meccana is a registered social worker with over 17 years of experience offering person-centered support and advocacy with families
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Anisa offers therapy to adolescents and adults. She utilizes client-centred, holistic,trauma-informed and anti-oppressive approaches.
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I have spent the past 9+ years working in mental health and advocacy, particularly with the BIPOC community. I bring a range of experience
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Keresa is a member of the Ontario College of Social Worker and Social Service Workers and the Ontario Association of Social Workers.
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Helps you identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviours that impact how you feel.
Teach you to slow down, become more present, and respond to stress with greater awareness and care.
Supports you in understanding, expressing, and healing through your emotions in a safe space.
Combines acceptance and change strategies to help with intense emotions, relationships, and coping.
Recognizes how trauma shapes your experiences and centres safety, choice, and empowerment in the healing process.
Connects body and mind by using gentle awareness and movement to support nervous system regulation and healing.
A therapy that helps the brain reprocess and release distress from traumatic or overwhelming experiences.
For many Black clients in Mississauga, working with a therapist who understands lived experience, cultural identity, and systemic influences can strengthen the healing process. A Black therapist can offer:A safe space to discuss identity, culture, and life stressors
- Understanding of race-based trauma and relationship challenges
- Familiarity with Black Canadian family systems and expectations
- Guidance through burnout, self-esteem concerns, and emotional overwhelm
- Support for mental health challenges common in BIPOC communities
Our therapists integrate evidence-based modalities like CBT, DBT, EMDR, EFT, and mindfulness, helping you build coping skills, process trauma, and enhance emotional resilience. Whether you choose in-person therapy or virtual sessions, you’ll receive support tailored to your personal goals and cultural context.Many Black Canadian clients seek culturally sensitive clinicians who provide psychotherapy, counselling services, and mental health support through a trauma-informed, non-judgmental, and evidence-based approach.We believe that your complexities should be taken into consideration during therapy. A great way to do this is to have a therapist that reflects your unique identity and can relate to the factors that have impacted your mental health.
By matching with the right therapist who understands your positionality, you can spend less time “explaining yourself” and more time focusing on your treatment.
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If you have any other questions, check out our FAQ page. You can also reach out to us at info@wellnest.ca or call/text us at 437-333-WELL(9355).
Our Commitment to Our Communities
For far too long, people of colour have been underrepresented in the mental health space, both as providers of psychotherapy services and seekers of those services.Our lived experiences and observations led us to understand that one of the most fundamental areas of change needed in our field is for better representation of its professionals. We want people, no matter their journey or their identity, to feel seen and heard as they navigate their healing.
We offer multiple ways you can pay for your therapy sessions here at Wellnest.
Find out if your insurance covers therapy
We accept credit card and Visa debt
Available by request and need
Some insurance providers cover therapy, please check with your insurance provider to see if they cover therapy.
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