Hello! I am Nadia.

 

Long before my professional training began, I would often find myself in deep conversation with friends, family and strangers about their experience of personal struggle. I found it was a comfortable place for me and I also felt honoured that others saw me as a safe place based on how I sat with them in their pain.

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As I sit with you in therapy, I not only bring my skills as an experienced Social Worker and trained counsellor but also the wider context of my life. The roles I live out as a daughter, sister and mother of two healthy and energetic sons can help me to understand shared human experience with empathy and compassion.

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Likewise, I will seek to understand how your roles in life, culture, faith perspective, and worldview have shaped you and help you embrace your identity with self-acceptance, which is crucial to well-being.

 

I am a well -trained and highly experienced Clinical Social Worker and Psychotherapist, specialized in older adults' challenges of health, aging, life transition and their everyday concerns.

I have more than 10 years of experience providing counselling to individuals and their loved ones with different backgrounds and issues.

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I have extensive experience working with individuals and seniors in a Long Term Care (LTC) home& retirement homes, newly diagnosed or with long standing cognitive impairment ( Dementia diagnoses), memory loss, and newly diagnosed health concerns(Palliative diagnosis).

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Individuals come to me to get  support concerning, but not limited to, the following:

• Depression

• Anxiety

• Difficulty with everyday tasks and mobility

• Lack of purpose

• Caregiver stress

• Burnout

• Lack of motivation

• Sleep Disorder

• Insomnia

• Loss and Bereavement

• Mood challenges

• Life transitions

• Midlife crisis

• Loneliness

• Lack of support

• Low self-esteem

• Memory loss and Dementia

• Transition to living in retirement home or in Long Term Care (LTC) home

• Stress

• Lack of self-determination

• Fatigue

• Newcomers' challenges and adaptation to the new society

• Coping with health changes

• Living with chronic illness

• Interpersonal Issues

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It is an absolute privilege to support my clients as they navigate through the complexities of their physical and mental health journey.

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I would like the opportunity to know you, hear your life story and support you on your path.

                                               

 

 

  Looking forward to the journey,

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Nadia Soltani 

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