Jessica Batres, RSW

Do you feel stuck, anxious, or disconnected—especially while navigating cultural expectations, family pressures, or relationship challenges? You’re not alone. Many newcomers and second-generation Canadians quietly carry the weight of perfectionism, people-pleasing, or feeling like they’re never “enough,” even when doing everything right. Therapy can offer a safe space to pause, reconnect with yourself, and move forward with more clarity and self-compassion.

As a Latine and second-generation Canadian, Jessica understands the emotional weight of cultural pressure and the silence that often comes with it. She brings both professional expertise and lived experience to her work. Together, you’ll explore what’s holding you back and build strategies for healing, growth, and a life that feels authentic and self-directed.

Jessica can also support you if you are struggling in your relationship, feeling unsafe, or trying to rebuild after emotional abuse from an intimate partner.

Jessica supports individuals and couples navigating the complexities of recovering from abuse, cultural pressures, and family expectations, offering a safe space to process experiences, set boundaries, and rebuild trust and confidence.

Jessica offers virtual sessions across Ontario in English, French, and Spanish.

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Julie Burnett, RSW

At the core of Julie’s work is the belief that people are people, and problems are problems. People are not their problems. Sometimes problems feel like such a big part of you, it’s hard to see where you begin and it ends. Regardless of the problem, Julie believes that the essence of who you are is not defined by your emotional, relational, or motivational issues.

Julie works with all of her clients from an anti-oppressive framework where you are considered an expert in your own life experiences. Julie and her clients work together in finding how their experiences line up with research and adapting their mental health care to meet what they are feeling and dealing with in their day to day life.

Julie builds therapeutic relationships by discovering her client’s stories through curiosity and unconditional positive regard. Julie brings warmth, presence, and passion to all interactions with her clients.

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Michael Dougan, RP

I am a Registered Psychotherapist and clinical supervisor with extensive experience in community mental health, higher education, and private practice. My practice includes providing virtual clinical services (i.e. individual psychotherapy and clinical supervision) to individuals 16 + years old within Ontario.

My therapeutic style is warm, collaborative, and experiential. I practice from strengths-based, relational, and trauma-informed frameworks. I am particularly interested in working with individuals in the healing/helping professions and folks grappling with life changes or existential concerns. I also have significant experience supporting individuals navigating experiences of grief/loss, social anxiety, and ADHD-related concerns.

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Connor McCrindle

RP(Qualifying)

Connor is a down-to-earth therapist with a knack for helping people find clarity and resilience in the middle of life’s pressures. He works especially well with those who push themselves hard — athletes, students, and professionals who carry heavy expectations and don’t always give themselves the same compassion they show to others.

For athletes, Connor brings not just clinical expertise, but a lived understanding of the sports world. Having grown up around athletics and coaching, he knows the culture of sport — the grind, the pressure, the unspoken rules, and the passion that keeps people coming back. He understands what it means to pour yourself into performance, to struggle with identity outside of sport, and to find balance between training and life. Whether it’s the anxiety that shows up before competition, the frustration of an injury, or the burnout that comes from years of pushing, Connor helps athletes strengthen their mental game while staying connected to who they are beyond sport.

He works with teens navigating the balance of school and athletics, college athletes managing the jump in pressure and expectations, and adults adjusting to transitions in or out of sport.

For students and young adults more broadly, Connor helps with the weight of academic pressure, perfectionism, and the daunting uncertainty of “what’s next.” College and university years can bring identity questions, burnout, and self-doubt — and Connor provides a steady, nonjudgmental space to work through it all.

His approach is grounded in person-centered and ACT-informed therapy, with a strong emphasis on mindfulness, self-compassion, and practical strategies you can actually use outside of sessions. Connor believes therapy shouldn’t feel like homework. Instead, he creates an atmosphere where you can drop the mask, exhale, and show up exactly as you are — whether that means digging into tough emotions, laughing at life’s chaos, or finding new ways to move forward.

Connor is especially attuned to the needs of high achievers — the ones who look “put together” on the outside but privately feel stretched thin, exhausted, or unsure of their identity under all the pressure. His goal is not just to help you cope, but to help you reconnect with your own strength, balance, and sense of purpose, so you can thrive both in performance and in life.

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Cora Schouten

Intern Therapist

You might be navigating loneliness, chronic illness, or the exhaustion of a vocational life that has left you burnt out. For many, it isn’t just the weight of these challenges, but the struggle of knowing where to put that weight or how to carry it without shutting down. You may have spent years being the “strong” and “capable” one, while the deeper need to be truly known has gone unmet.

Cora brings a gentle, analytical presence to her work, shaped by both her intellectual curiosity and her lived experience with chronic illness. She understands the unique complexity of moving through the world with a deep and sensitive emotional life. For much of her journey, Cora leaned on logic to make sense of things, only to discover that understanding wasn’t enough. The real shift happened when she learned how to be with her emotions in a way that felt safe, grounded, and compassionate—a journey of listening to her inner world that now guides her work with others.

Drawing from Narrative Therapy, Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT), and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cora helps you move beyond overthinking to develop a more manageable relationship with your story. Together, you can explore the narratives you hold about yourself and find ways to hold complexity with greater steadiness. Her approach is collaborative and paced to honour your unique rhythm, offering a space to slow down and reconnect with yourself even when life feels untethered.

Cora works with youth, adults, and seniors, including those with ADHD who want to better understand themselves without feeling overwhelmed by their internal world. As a queer woman, she warmly welcomes 2SLGBTQIA+ clients, including those exploring identity and belonging later in life. She wants you to know that every part of you is welcome here.

Therapy isn’t about fixing you; it’s about helping you feel, so you can live with greater clarity, connection, and authenticity.

If you’re standing at the edge of change—unsure but ready—she would be honoured to walk alongside you as you navigate life’s shifting tides with newfound self-trust.

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Neil Slattery, RSW

If you’re here, you’re probably looking for someone who just gets it—someone who can hold space for the hard stuff, who knows healing isn’t one-size-fits-all, and who can help you come home to yourself.

Neil is a Registered Social Worker with over 25 years of experience supporting people through some of life’s most intense seasons. After a long and impactful career at Youth Services Bureau, he brings both deep expertise and a calm, grounding energy to his therapy work. There’s just something special about a therapist who’s lived it, seen it, and still shows up with humour, heart, and a fierce commitment to community care.)

Neil works with adults, young people and families across Ottawa and beyond. His style is integrative, collaborative, and rooted in trauma-informed practice. While he draws from multiple approaches—including Internal Family Systems (IFS), DBT, CBT, narrative, and feminist therapies—his priority is always relationship first: building real therapeutic connection and tailoring support to fit each individual or family.

Neil enjoys working with clients from all walks of life, especially those navigating the ripple effects of trauma, attachment wounds, and everyday life stressors. He’s comfortable and experienced in supporting neurodiverse folks (including ADHD and learning disabilities), and brings a strengths-based lens to help you understand yourself more deeply, discover practical tools for self-care, and begin to integrate the parts of your story that feel hard to hold alone.

He’s also part of the team at Field Trip Health in Ottawa, where he offers Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) as part of a multidisciplinary care model. If you’re exploring psychedelic-assisted therapy as part of your healing journey, this might be the therapist to support you along this transformative path.

Whether you’re burnt out, wrestling with grief, reworking relationships, or just ready to stop carrying it all on your own—Neil offers a space where you don’t have to explain yourself, hide parts of your story, or figure it all out right away.

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