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Ameena Abid
(she/her) MSW, RSW
Registered Social Worker and Psychotherapist
Why are we here? Who am I? How do we live amidst suffering? I became a therapist because I want to support people in finding their own answers to life’s toughest questions. I believe good therapy is a lot like applied philosophy. We’re exploring what it means to live a good life–to you. Your answer to that question must take into consideration your unique experience, which is influenced by your early life, trauma, culture, spirituality, gender, and sexuality.
Grounded by existential and psychoanalytic theory, I work by creating a warm, authentic relationship with individuals looking to identify what matters to them and how they want to live a life that supports that. Therapy is a continuation of the developmental process. Throughout our lives, we have a need to be understood, to care and be cared for, and to feel as though our lives matter. When these needs are not met, we can benefit from a supportive therapeutic relationship that helps us feel safe enough to become who we are.
As a social worker, I bring my experience working in employment counselling, crisis intervention and mental health. I enjoy supporting folks building a life worth living in tandem with a mental health diagnosis. I draw interventions from a variety of modalities to support you in this process, including psychodynamic, acceptance and commitment and dialectical behavioural therapies. That means that sometimes we’re building skills: getting to bed earlier, noticing emotions, and setting boundaries. And sometimes, we’re stepping back and exploring how you got to now and where you want to go from here.
My core values as a therapist include courage, curiosity and care. (I swear, I did not intend them to all start with a c!). I am the daughter of Indian and Pakistani parents. As a second-generation immigrant, I enjoy working with themes of loneliness and identity confusion in folks from diverse communities. I believe in being a good friend, auntie and community member to the people around me. I am currently studying psychoanalytic psychotherapy through the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. In my spare time, I enjoy yoga, being around water, writing poetry, and falling down research rabbit holes.
I would be privileged to be a fellow traveller on your journey. Where we go is up to you.
(she/her) MSW, RSW
Registered Social Worker and Psychotherapist
Why are we here? Who am I? How do we live amidst suffering? I became a therapist because I want to support people in finding their own answers to life’s toughest questions. I believe good therapy is a lot like applied philosophy. We’re exploring what it means to live a good life–to you. Your answer to that question must take into consideration your unique experience, which is influenced by your early life, trauma, culture, spirituality, gender, and sexuality.
Grounded by existential and psychoanalytic theory, I work by creating a warm, authentic relationship with individuals looking to identify what matters to them and how they want to live a life that supports that. Therapy is a continuation of the developmental process. Throughout our lives, we have a need to be understood, to care and be cared for, and to feel as though our lives matter. When these needs are not met, we can benefit from a supportive therapeutic relationship that helps us feel safe enough to become who we are.
As a social worker, I bring my experience working in employment counselling, crisis intervention and mental health. I enjoy supporting folks building a life worth living in tandem with a mental health diagnosis. I draw interventions from a variety of modalities to support you in this process, including psychodynamic, acceptance and commitment and dialectical behavioural therapies. That means that sometimes we’re building skills: getting to bed earlier, noticing emotions, and setting boundaries. And sometimes, we’re stepping back and exploring how you got to now and where you want to go from here.
My core values as a therapist include courage, curiosity and care. (I swear, I did not intend them to all start with a c!). I am the daughter of Indian and Pakistani parents. As a second-generation immigrant, I enjoy working with themes of loneliness and identity confusion in folks from diverse communities. I believe in being a good friend, auntie and community member to the people around me. I am currently studying psychoanalytic psychotherapy through the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. In my spare time, I enjoy yoga, being around water, writing poetry, and falling down research rabbit holes.
I would be privileged to be a fellow traveller on your journey. Where we go is up to you.
Approaches
Existential-Humanistic
Psychodynamic Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (Skills)
Areas of Focus
Mental Health Recovery
Spirituality
Education & Career
Loneliness & Relationships
Cultural & Immigrant Identity
Additional Team Members
“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”