Carine Diverlus
MEd, Registered Psychotherapist (Q)
Carine Diverlus is a Registered Psychotherapist offering services for a wide range of situations and specialities. Her passion for providing mental health services is intentional in hopes that she can help all individuals, especially people of colour to feel seen, heard and cared for. Her passion and role as a therapist is to help clients in overcoming the barriers preventing them from feeling like their best selves. She believes in strength-based approaches to healing. To make this process as comfortable as possible, she offers a free 15 minute consultation. Find out more here.
Location: Toronto
Specialties: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Solution-Focused Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Emotion-Focused Therapy
Camille Djokoto
Registered Psychotherapist, RP
Camille Djokoto is a Registered Psychotherapist specializing in somatic movement. Her practice provides healing centered, trauma-informed and socially conscious therapy. It is informed by her anti-oppressive, anti-racist, queer, and feminist values. Her practice is inspired by somatic training and 30+ yrs. of dance and movement experience. She integrate various body-centered modalities with psychodynamics and neuroscience. Find out more here.
Location: Toronto
Specialties: Trauma and PTSD, Stress, Racial Identity
Donna Jean Ferguson
Psychologist, PsyD, CPsych
Donna Ferguson’s practice provides short-term therapy that specializes primarily in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and treats a variety of Anxiety Disorders, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Mood Disorders, Substance Use Disorders, and more. She also deals with self-esteem issues. Thirty minute sessions, video therapy and phone sessions are also offered through her practice. She also specializes in conducting psychological testing and assessments including refugee and humanitarian assessments, and psycho-diagnostic and psycho-educational assessments. Find out more here.
Location: Toronto
Specialties: Trauma and PTSD, Anxiety, Addiction
Clinical Supervisor, BA, MSW, RSW
Since 2001 Tenniel Rock has been committed to providing accessible and transformative support services to individuals, families and groups in diverse communities across Canada. Tenniel has received a Master of Social Work degree from Wilfrid Laurier University, specialized in therapeutic practice with individuals, groups and families. She is an experienced facilitator, speaker, clinical supervisor and educator. Using an Anti-Oppressive, Trauma informed, Eclectic approach she provides customized Counselling, Coaching, Training, Facilitation and Advising services to Individuals, Couples, Organizations and Groups. Find out more here.
Location: Toronto
Specialties: Trauma and PTSD, Relationship Issues, Racial Identity
Tenniel Rock
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, HBSc, BSW, MSW, RSW
Shawnette Thompson has over 10 years of experience. She works to help build positive coping skills, reduce stress, increase self-confidence, develop balance and emotional resilience by integrating, trauma-informed and harm reduction based, elements of solution-focused brief therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy, mindfulness-based approaches, narrative therapy, emotion-focused therapy, attachment-focused family therapy and dialectical behavioural therapy. Find out more here.
Location: Toronto
Specialties: Anxiety, Depression, Sex Therapy
Shawnette Thompson
This is a growing list of black therapists, psychologists and psychotherapists who are doing great work in our community. Feel free to reach out for support and if you have any recommendations for our resource page, email us at adornment.media@gmail.com.