Practice

Hodan Warsame brings her son Ayaan, 15, to a first appointment after his school raised concerns about attendance and a drawing.

A midwife referred Beatriz, seven weeks postpartum with Lucas, for anxiety and poor sleep.

Corazon Villanueva, 70, a retired nurse born in the Philippines, has advanced pancreatic cancer and lives with her daughter Marisa.

Efua, 19, a first-year student in residence, is far from her Pentecostal family; her parents are from Ghana.

His physician refers Fernando, 79, widowed eighteen months and living alone, for low mood.

Jarrett, 28, a drywaller, came to the agency's walk-in clinic for stress after a layoff.

Kiana Nadjiwon, 21, who is Anishinaabe, moved here from her First Nation last fall for a hospital housekeeping job.

Twenty-five minutes into a first session for 'burnout', Margo Lefebvre, mother of Étienne and Camille, says her partner Dany 'yanked' Étienne up the stairs by the arm last week.

On Monday, in a first session his physician suggested, Tomás Reyes, 34, describes a separation, a humiliating access arrangement and discipline at the plant where he works nights.

Camille, 33, has seen you for five months for panic and health anxiety.

Nadim Farouk, 36, is suing a condominium after breaking his wrist on its unsalted walkway.

Quentin Rhodes, 24, is autistic and referred for anxiety and 'escalating meltdowns'.

Shanice Clarke, 26, a social work student, has panic attacks that started at her placement.

Ulrich Brandt, 52, a mill foreman, threw a wrench while shouting at a young millwright.

Vivian Lam, 40, has booked a first couple session with her husband, Theo, 43, three weeks after finding his messages to a woman from his work.

Wahida Karimi, 43, came from Afghanistan two years ago with her two sons.

Xavier Morgan, 59, who owns the hardware store, has been referred to your ten-week grief group after his wife died in the spring.

Its nurse practitioner referred Amaan, 26, for insomnia.

At your third visit, lunch for two is set on her kitchen table.

Gerry, 58, lost his plant job to a shoulder injury, has a disputed WSIB claim and waited eleven months to be seen.

Ibrahim, 54, a machinist until a back injury, has been low and irritable since.

Inaya Rahman, 7, was referred by her mother, Amina, for angry outbursts since her baby brother was born.

Julian Osei, 45, an emergency physician, booked for 'burnout'.

Keegan Doucette, 31, has seen you for eight months for low mood after his restaurant closed and a relationship ended.

Maeve Okonkwo-Doyle, 34, was referred by a fertility clinic after a third pregnancy loss; one funded IVF round remains.

Martin, 24, has seen you weekly for five months for depression and isolation.

Forty couples are waiting, some for months.

Noor Haddad, 27, a Deaf ASL user, is referred for low mood after a breakup.

Oksana, 39, a personal support worker in long-term care, originally from Ukraine, was referred by her manager for 'workplace stress'.

Eight months ago Rosalind Fitzgerald, 44, left her partner Doug, who checked her phone, controlled their money and once put his hands around her throat.

Members signed a confidentiality agreement.

Teodor Popescu, 34, came for low mood after his wife left.

Vasco Pereira, 64, a retired canal lock operator, has seen you for seven months for depression after a back injury ended his career, and he is steadily better.

Wendell Price, 58, is in his sixth session for low mood and exhaustion.

Yuki Sato, 41, a child protection worker with the local children's aid society, has seen you for six weeks for burnout and is sleeping better.

Zeke Mahler, 50, is on remand.

A nurse practitioner refers Estela, 43: 'Generalized anxiety.

Hollis Reid, 36, operates heavy equipment at a dry mine camp, two weeks on, two off.

Errol Campbell has engaged you to see his mother, Hyacinth, 88, born in Jamaica, at the Carleton Place retirement home she moved into after a fall.

Nathan Wright, 23, from a northern fly-in First Nation, left college after his cousin's death and sleeps three hours a night.

Owen Prentice, 46, has had eleven weekly sessions of cognitive behavioural therapy for low mood.

Una Byrne, 55, has had panic attacks since her father's sudden death last winter.

Vikram Chaudhary, 57, takes an antidepressant from the physician who referred him for low mood.

After eleven weeks of graded exposure for panic disorder, Zofia Nowak, 45, now drives locally.

For a year you have seen Analyn Dizon, 17, for panic attacks that kept her home from school most of last year; she has been back full-time since September.

Chloe, 26, came after a long relationship ended.

Colm Brennan, 44, a father of two, sees you for depression.

Dylan, 20, a trans man estranged from his parents since coming out, came for low mood.

After fourteen months of work, you have agreed together to end next week.

Agency policy lets clients follow you if they raise it and are also offered agency care.

Your first private client, Bartosz Wróbel, 48, a paper mill shift worker, is booked for tomorrow morning: he has barely slept since his father's funeral in Poland last spring.

The nursing station refers Dale, 52, for panic attacks since a fatal mill accident.

Next month you leave a group practice to open your own in Collingwood.

Hoang Nguyen, 47, has seen you since a workplace assault, starting with three couple sessions with his wife.

Your fee schedule, given to every client, includes a sliding scale under a written policy.

Today she says a therapist she saw last year hugged her at length each session, called her the only client he thought about, and twice touched her thigh.

Priya Ramanathan, 38, has seen you weekly for nine months for anxiety after a separation.

The owner, Petra, teaches yoga and is not a regulated health professional.

On Saturday your work laptop, password protected but not encrypted, was stolen from your locked car at a gym.

Under a written agreement, your supervisor, Dana Whitfield, reads your notes and knows clients by name.

Your supervision is a weekly group of six led by Elaine, a couples therapist.

Paulette Leblanc, 71, a retired school secretary, sees you for grief since her husband Roger died.