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Your session time is reserved especially for you, and we understand that unexpected things can come up. We kindly ask for at least 48 hours’ notice if you need to reschedule or cancel your appointment. Appointments changed or missed within 48 hours are billed at the full session rate, as this time is set aside just for you and cannot usually be filled on short notice. For clarity and to ensure your request is received, please email your therapist directly, as this is the only accepted method of communication for reschedule or cancellation requests.
Simar Gill Lowther, RP — simar@insightfuljourney.ca
Ngoc Long Khang Nguyen, RP (Qualifying) — khang@insightfuljourney.ca
Brooklyn Clifford, RP (Qualifying) — brooklyn@insightfuljourney.ca
Jason Holtz, RP — jason@insightfuljourney.ca
Melissa Melnychuk, RP (Qualifying) — melissa@insightfuljourney.ca
Mary Krohnert, RP (Qualifying) — mary@insightfuljourney.ca
LGBTQ Plus Affirming Therapist for Teens and Young Adults
Ngoc Long Khang Nguyen, RP (Q)
About Khang
Ngoc Long Khang Nguyen (he/they) is a Registered Psychotherapist Qualifying in Ontario and a Master of Arts candidate in Counselling Psychology at Western University. Khang supports teens and young adults, including gender diverse individuals, neurodivergent individuals, and members of culturally diverse communities who are navigating life transitions, identity questions, emotional overwhelm, and the stress that can come with change.
Khang provides therapy for individuals ages 14 and older and is comfortable supporting clients experiencing crisis presentations and panic symptoms. He brings a calm, grounded, and compassionate presence to sessions, with a focus on helping clients feel emotionally safe while developing practical skills to manage distress.
His strengths include cultural humility, affirming care, and strong emotional presence. As a member of the LGBTQ plus community, Khang brings lived experience into creating affirming and inclusive spaces for clients exploring identity, sexuality, belonging, and self-acceptance.
Khang offers counselling in both English and Vietnamese, supporting clients who may feel more comfortable expressing themselves in their first language. His goal is to help clients feel understood, supported, and empowered as they move toward meaningful change.
Areas of Specialization
Khang supports clients experiencing:
- Anxiety and panic attacks
- Low mood and emotional heaviness
- Burnout and stress
- Life transitions and identity exploration
- LGBTQ plus related concerns
- Immigration and cultural adjustment
- Grief and loss
- Relationship challenges and family conflict
- Peer and social relationship difficulties
- Self-esteem concerns
- School and academic stress
- Sleep difficulties
- Spirituality and meaning-based concerns
- Trauma-related distress
- Substance use concerns using a supportive, harm-reduction approach
- Crisis support and emotional stabilization
Please note: Appointments begin with a virtual consultation. After the consultation, clients may choose to continue with virtual sessions or request in-person appointments with Khang, based on availability.
Healing with CBT, ACT, DBT, and Mindfulness
Khang’s work is trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and collaborative. He integrates:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to support values-based living and acceptance of difficult internal experiences
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to gently challenge unhelpful thinking patterns and build coping skills
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy skills to support emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness
- Mindfulness-based approaches to help clients build present-moment awareness and nervous system regulation
Together, these approaches help clients build practical tools while reconnecting with their values and inner strengths.
LGBTQ Plus Affirming Care
Khang provides affirming, non-judgmental support for clients exploring sexual orientation, gender identity, belonging, and self-acceptance. As someone with lived experience within the LGBTQ plus community, he offers care that is grounded in understanding, respect, and safety. Clients are welcomed exactly as they are, without pressure to explain or justify their identity.
Virtual and In-Person Therapy
Khang offers virtual therapy across Ontario, with in-person sessions available in Oshawa by request. Sessions are available on weekdays and weekends, with flexible options for those balancing school, work, and family responsibilities.
Session Fees
Current rate: $150 per 60-minute virtual session (RP Qualifying).
Future rate upon full registration: $160 per 60-minute virtual session..
Rates
- Free Consultation (15 minutes): $0
- Individual Therapy Virtual (60 minutes): $150
- Individual Therapy In-Person (90 minutes): $225
- Care Coordination / Documentation Support (15 minutes): $50
Note: Each 60-minute appointment includes 50 minutes of direct client time and 10 minutes for documentation and care planning. Each 90-minute appointment includes 75 minutes of direct client time and 15 minutes for documentation and care planning
Art–Informed Psychotherapy for Children, Teens, Young Adults
Brooklyn Clifford, RP (Q)
About Brooklyn
Brooklyn is a Registered Psychotherapist Qualifying in Ontario who brings warmth, creativity, and strong clinical skill into her work with children, teens, young adults. and families She has extensive experience supporting young clients who struggle to express, understand, or regulate their emotions, and she brings strong developmental sensitivity into every session.
What makes Brooklyn’s work with children and teens distinctive is her ability to adapt therapy to the child’s emotional language, rather than expecting children to communicate in adult ways. Through art-based and play-based approaches, she helps youth identify emotions, build emotional regulation skills, and develop a sense of emotional safety within the therapy space. This approach is especially supportive for children who feel overwhelmed, emotionally guarded, or unsure how to talk about what they are feeling.
With adults, Brooklyn offers grounded and compassionate support for those navigating grief and loss, identity changes, and major life transitions. She creates space for grief without pressure to move on, supporting clients in making meaning of loss and building emotional resilience over time. Brooklyn works thoughtfully with caregivers, offering general updates around skill development while protecting the child’s emotional safety and trust in the therapy process.
Areas of Specialization
Brooklyn supports clients experiencing:
- Emotional regulation difficulties
- Big emotions in children and youth
- Anxiety and emotional overwhelm
- Grief and loss
- Life transitions and identity changes
- Family stress and relational challenges
- Self-esteem concerns
- School-related stress
- Adjustment challenges
- Parent-child relational stress
Healing with CBT, ACT, DBT Skills, and Person-Centred Therapy
Brooklyn’s work is developmentally informed, collaborative, and trauma-aware. She integrates:
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to support understanding of thoughts, feelings, and behaviours
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy skills to build emotional regulation and distress tolerance
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to support values-based coping and emotional flexibility
- Person-centred therapy to create a safe, validating, and supportive therapeutic relationship
For children and youth, Brooklyn incorporates play-based and art-based approaches to meet clients at their developmental level and help them express emotions in ways that feel safe and accessible.
Virtual & In-Person Therapy
Brooklyn offers both virtual and in-person therapy. She primarily works in person in Oshawa, as this allows for richer engagement with art-based and play-based approaches. Virtual sessions are also available for clients who prefer or require online care.
Session Fees
Current rate: Session fees start at $150 per individual session and $170 per family session while registered as a Registered Psychotherapist Qualifying.
Future rates upon full registration: $160 per individual session and $180 per family session.
Rates
- Free Consultation (15 minutes): $0
- Individual Therapy Virtual (60 minutes): $150
- Individual Therapy In-Person (60 minutes): $150
- Family Therapy Session Virtual (60 Minutes): $170
- Family Therapy Session In-Person (60 Minutes): $170
- Care Coordination / Documentation Support (15 minutes): $50
Note: Each 60-minute appointment includes 50 minutes of direct client time and 10 minutes for documentation and care planning. Each 90-minute appointment includes 75 minutes of direct client time and 15 minutes for documentation and care planning
Psychodynamic and DBT-Informed Therapist for Men and Adults
Jason Holtz, RP
About Jason
Jason Holtz is a Registered Psychotherapist in Ontario with over 20 years of clinical and community-based experience supporting adults through complex life stressors, emotional distress, and major transitions. Jason works well with adults navigating intense emotions, anxiety, low mood, addiction patterns, relationship conflict, identity concerns, and stress related to legal or system involvement.
He has a particular interest in supporting men who may feel hesitant to begin therapy, struggle to open up emotionally, or prefer a grounded, respectful therapeutic relationship with a male therapist. Jason understands that reaching out for support can feel uncomfortable, especially for individuals who have learned to carry challenges alone. He prioritizes creating a space that feels safe, direct, and approachable, allowing clients to engage at their own pace.
Jason brings a deep respect for each client’s worldview, lived experience, culture, family system, community ties, and personal history. He works with individuals from diverse cultural, social, and economic backgrounds, including clients connected to Indigenous communities and LGBTQ plus communities. Jason understands that healing looks different for everyone and tailors therapy to honour each client’s unique context and values.
Areas of Specialization
Jason supports adults experiencing:
- Anxiety and emotional overwhelm
- Low mood and emotional heaviness
- Addiction patterns and concurrent concerns
- Relationship conflict and communication challenges
- Identity concerns and self-worth difficulties
- Major life transitions and role changes
- Stress related to legal or system involvement
- Emotional regulation and impulse control difficulties
- Spirituality, values, and meaning-based concerns
- Trauma-related distress and critical incident stress
- Crisis-related emotional stabilization
Healing with Psychodynamic Therapy, DBT Skills, and Mindfulness
Jason’s therapeutic approach is primarily psychodynamic and Adlerian-informed, with strong integration of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy skills, mindfulness, and somatic-based strategies.
He supports clients in exploring how early life experiences and core beliefs shape current emotional patterns, relationships, self-worth, and coping strategies. Alongside this insight-based work, Jason focuses on building practical, real-life skills, including emotional regulation, distress tolerance, communication, boundary-setting, and coping with urges or impulses.
Jason integrates mindfulness and body-based strategies to support present-moment awareness, grounding, and a stronger sense of internal safety and self-trust, particularly for clients who feel emotionally disconnected or overwhelmed.
Spirituality and Meaning in Therapy
Jason brings a thoughtful appreciation for spirituality and meaning-making into therapy when this is important to the client. With graduate-level training in theology, he is comfortable supporting exploration of purpose, values, identity, faith, and life meaning as part of the therapeutic process. Spirituality is never imposed and is explored only when it aligns with the client’s beliefs and goals.
Culturally Responsive, Indigenous-Affirming, and LGBTQ Plus Affirming Care
Jason provides culturally responsive, Indigenous-affirming, and LGBTQ plus affirming care, working respectfully with men and individuals from diverse cultural, social, and economic backgrounds. His work is guided by humility, curiosity, and respect for each client’s lived experience, identity, and community context.
Jason honours each client’s cultural roots, community ties, and personal history, and understands that healing looks different across cultures and life experiences. Clients are supported without assumptions or pressure, and care is shaped collaboratively to align with each person’s values, goals, and lived realities.
Virtual Therapy
Jason offers virtual therapy only across Ontario. Many clients find that virtual therapy can feel more approachable, as being in a familiar environment can reduce pressure and make it easier to open up.
Jason offers a free 15-minute virtual consultation to help you explore fit, ask questions, and decide whether virtual therapy feels right for you. This is intended to be a low-pressure first step toward support.
Session Fees
Rates
- Free Consultation (15 minutes): $0
- Individual Therapy Virtual (60 minutes): $160
- Individual Therapy Virtual (90 minutes): $255
- Care Coordination / Documentation Support (15 minutes): $50
Note: Each 60-minute appointment includes 50 minutes of direct client time and 10 minutes for documentation and care planning. Each 90-minute appointment includes 75 minutes of direct client time and 15 minutes for documentation and care planning
Attachment & Trauma Therapist Using Creative and Parts-Based
Mary Krohnert, RP (Q)
About Mary
Mary Krohnert is a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) and Integrative Art Therapist in Ontario who supports adults ages 18 and up through attachment-oriented, trauma-informed therapy. Mary works with individuals navigating emotional overwhelm, trauma, identity-related concerns, relationship patterns, and periods of transition or loss.
Mary’s approach is relational, person-centred, and collaborative. She integrates Internal Family Systems parts work, somatic awareness, mindfulness practices, and creative self-expression to help clients identify patterns contributing to distress and strengthen their capacity for emotional regulation, adaptive coping, and overall wellbeing. This approach can be especially supportive for adults who find it difficult to fully express their experiences through words alone.
Mary strives to honour and affirm diverse identities, lived experiences, and ways of knowing. She engages with clients using curiosity, creativity, and care, meeting each individual where they are. Through conversation and gentle creative exploration, Mary supports meaning-making, emotional safety, and personal growth at a pace that feels respectful and empowering.
Areas of Specialization
Mary supports adults navigating:
- Trauma and difficult life experiences
- Stress, anxiety, and low mood
- Chronic pain and body-based distress
- Addiction and recovery patterns
- Life transitions and loss
- Shame, perfectionism, and masking
- Emotional regulation and impulse control
- Identity exploration and self-acceptance
- Support for neurominorities and neurodivergent adults
- Relationship and attachment challenges
- Grief and meaning-making
- Reconnecting with creativity and emotional expression
Healing with Integrative Arts Psychotherapy
Mary’s therapeutic work is grounded in attachment theory and neurobiology, recognizing how early and ongoing experiences shape the nervous system’s patterns of protection and connection. Therapy is tailored collaboratively to each person’s capacity and pace.
Mary integrates:
Creative Art Therapy
Supports expression of experiences that may feel difficult to access with words alone. Creative exploration helps externalize emotions, support regulation, and deepen insight.
Internal Family Systems and Parts Work
Supports compassionate understanding of protective patterns and builds inner safety, clarity, and self-leadership.
Somatic Awareness
Supports awareness of how experiences live in the body and helps build nervous system regulation and grounded presence.
Mindfulness Practices
Supports present-moment awareness and a gentler relationship with thoughts, emotions, and internal experiences.
Session Fees
Rates
- Free Consultation (15 minutes): $0
- Individual Therapy In-Person (60 minutes): $160
- Individual Therapy Virtual (60 minutes): $160
- Couples Therapy Session In-Person (60 Minutes): $180
- Couples Therapy Session Virtual (60 Minutes): $180
- Family Therapy Session In-Person (60 Minutes): $180
- Family Therapy Session Virtual (60 Minutes): $180
- Care Coordination / Documentation Support (15 minutes): $50
Note: Each 60-minute appointment includes 50 minutes of direct client time and 10 minutes for documentation and care planning. Each 90-minute appointment includes 75 minutes of direct client time and 15 minutes for documentation and care planning
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Specialist
Melissa Melnychuk, RP (Q)
About Melissa
Melissa is a skilled psychotherapist with advanced training in trauma therapy and EMDR. She provides virtual therapy to children, adolescents, adults, and couples, offering a warm, supportive, and personalized approach to healing.
Her work focuses on long-term resilience, emotional insight, and practical coping strategies that empower clients to move toward meaningful and lasting change. Melissa is highly attuned to the experiences of neurodivergent clients and tailors her approach with care and respect for individual needs.
Whether supporting clients through past trauma, life transitions, relationship concerns, or emotional barriers, Melissa provides a grounding, encouraging, and transformative therapeutic space.
Areas of Specialization
Melissa's areas of specialization include:
- Trauma
- Anxiety
- Depression
- ADHD
- Autism
- Stress
- Grief
- Self-esteem issues
- Women’s concerns
- Behavioral challenges
Please note: Appointment availability is limited due to high demand.
Healing with EMDR Therapy
Melissa specializes in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), an evidence-based approachdesigned to help clients process distressing memories, reduce emotional reactivity, and restore emotional balance.
Her approach is integrative and tailored. Alongside EMDR, she draws from:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)
This combination allows clients to explore their experiences, strengthen emotional resilience, and connect with practical tools that support both immediate relief and long-term healing.
Accessible Virtual Therapy Services
Melissa offers online therapy exclusively, making it easy for individuals, couples, and families to receive support from the comfort of their own space. Her secure and flexible virtual sessions are ideal for those with busy schedules, accessibility needs, or geographic limitations.
Session Fees
Therapy services start at $165+ per session, reflecting Melissa's commitment to providing high-quality, evidence-based care tailored to each client’s unique journey.
Rates
- Free Consultation (15 minutes): $0
- Individual Therapy Virtual (60 minutes): $165
- Individual Therapy Virtual (90 minutes): $245
- Couples Therapy Virtual (60 minutes): $180
- Family Therapy Session Virtual (60 minutes): $180
- Care Coordination / Documentation Support (15 minutes): $50
Note: Each 60-minute appointment includes 50 minutes of direct client time and 10 minutes for documentation and care planning. Each 90-minute appointment includes 75 minutes of direct client time and 15 minutes for documentation and care planning
Introductory Video by Melissa, EMDR Therapist
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