About Avigal

Pronouns: She/Her

Welcome! I am a registered Social Worker with a background in Child and Youth Care, working specifically within the youth shelter and transitional housing systems. This work has shown me the valuable healing and growth that happen in our relationships to one another and in community. I am passionate about supporting youth and young adults in navigating mental health, developing coping skills, and building greater self-esteem and self-acceptance.

As a queer therapist, I am informed by lived experience and committed to working alongside members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community to support journeys of self-discovery and mental, emotional wellbeing. My therapeutic approach is grounded in the belief that we are experts in our own experiences and that effective therapeutic relationships must honour this truth. I believe that we all come to therapy with different strengths, expectations, and goals, which must be respected and explored to best guide our work together. I take a trauma-informed, harm reduction, and anti-oppressive approach to working with clients from all walks of life.

SERVICES AND AVAILABILITY

Accepting New Clients: Yes

Online and In Office Appointments

Services:
Individual Psychotherapy
Group Psychotherapy
Child Psychotherapy

Areas of Focus:
2SLGBTQIA+
Play Therapy
Mood Disorders
Trauma and PTSD
Intergenerational Trauma
Family Conflict and Communication
Self-Esteem
Identity Formation and Questioning
Suicide
Self-Harm
Trauma Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST)
IFS and DBT Informed
Polyvagal Theory

Availability: Sundays through Thursdays

FEES

Individual Psychotherapy 50 mins: $150