Fatima Patel (she/her) is a Registered Psychotherapist who completed her master’s-level training in psychotherapy at the Toronto Centre for Psychotherapy and Counselling Education. She is additionally trained in EMDR with a focus on attachment and Complex trauma/PTSD.
Fatima is passionate about supporting children, individuals of all ages, couples, and families, as they navigate their own unique circumstances towards a healing path. She also holds a Diploma with honours in Early Childhood Education, the experience of which she brings to her practice.
Fatima’s core values are kindness and compassion, for ourselves and for our shared humanity, regardless of any differences. She doesn’t place value in pathologizing or labelling, whether assumed or assigned, beyond understanding the meaning and impact those labels have on her clients. She sees each client as an inherently worthy person and capable of being the expert on their own life.
Her approach is trauma informed, integrative and holistic, tailored to each client’s unique needs. It is rooted in humanistic, client-centred and relational principles. She draws on somatic, nervous system based strategies along with mindfulness, Internal Family Systems, elements of CBT/ DBT, Psychodynamic theories and other modalities depending on what best fits your situation.
Fatima offers a safe, non-judgemental, trauma-informed space where she meets you where you are. Together, you’ll explore the systemic, relational, physical, emotional, cognitive, and behavioural barriers that may be keeping you from experiencing life the way you’d like to.
She works to help you build self-awareness, self-acceptance and self-compassion as you navigate trauma, challenges, transitions or other life circumstances to move toward the goals you hope to achieve.
As part of her commitment to care, she occasionally offers sliding scale options for those in need. Email Fatima.
