About Maddie

Registered Social Worker & Psychotherapist
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Maddie believes that patience, curiosity and non-judgemental compassion are key to building trusting therapeutic relationships with her clients. She aims to offer people a safe space to explore the experiences and relationships that have shaped their lives, and to act as a secure anchor to people who are working through periods of transition and/or loss.

Our lives can be profoundly altered by death-related grief and bereavement, and Maddie is particularly drawn to working with people to process the impact of these experiences. It is never too late to explore the ways that death and loss transform our lives.

Maddie has experience working with members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, and has worked in community mental health, harm-reduction, and palliative care settings. She draws from a broad range of therapeutic approaches like Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Mindfulness, and Grief-Therapy-As-Meaning-Reconstruction (GTMR) to meet the individual needs of each person.

Her work is grounded in the understanding that the experiences we bring to therapy are informed by broader social structures and social and economic injustices. She invites her clients to build on their personal strengths and values to facilitate a process of healing and self-discovery.

Maddie is a registered social worker with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers (#829299). Maddie holds a position as an adjunct professor at York University's School of Social Work.