Helena Bryn-McLeod is a registered psychotherapist with the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association
welcome to a place where you matter
where non-pathologizing meets creativity
where self-discovery meets neuroscience
this is your life, your truth, and a conversation designed for you.
Support for diverse journeys.
The personal is political.
LGBTQ2S+ — 2e — NEURODIVERGENT — PRO OUTCASTS — TRANS AFFIRMATIVE — DECOLONIAL
individual sessions
One-on-one
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With individuals, I work one-on-one to develop a therapeutic relationship. Together, we explore and uncover the questions you are bringing to therapy while recognizing the experiences that have shaped you. I work with all ages 10 and up. I welcome and affirm neurodivergent individuals, approaching our work through a neuroscience-informed and non-pathologizing lens that celebrates and finds joy in the diversity of human minds and stories.
Individual therapy can go in a multitude of directions, but most importantly it needs to fit you. By exploring your strengths, intelligences, nervous system, and ways of processing the world, we can find approaches that provide meaningful support. Drawing on current neuroscience and a collaborative, non-pathologizing perspective, I aim to help you better understand yourself while building on the resources you both have and want.
multi-person sessions
Friends & Romantic
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Working as a pair in any relationship dynamic can benefit from being witnessed with space held around you. I’m curious what drew you to one another, what has happened, what you are building together, and where you hope to go despite challenges you may have faced. I welcome and affirm neurodivergent couples, relationship partners, friends, and non-romantic partners — recognizing that differences in communication, sensory experiences, emotional processing, and ways of relating can be sources of both challenge and joy.
It is my intention to get to know each of you, ask thoughtful and guiding questions, and support communication in ways that foster understanding, connection, and empowerment. Sometimes meaningful change occurs when we learn to ask different questions, listen in new ways, and better understand what is at play neurologically. I aim to provide a safe and supportive space where you can practice these skills and deepen your connection. Relational skills for the win!
family sessions
Chosen & of origin
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Families are where we first learn about belonging, connection, conflict, and care. Within our families, we can experience deep love and support or misunderstanding, tension, and harm — sometimes both, and sometimes only the latter. We inherit stories, patterns, strengths, traits, and pain that shape how we relate to ourselves and one another across generations.
I welcome neurodivergent families and families of all backgrounds. I support family members in recognizing and appreciating each person’s unique protests and desires. Together, we can generate strategies that help respond to differences in attention, emotion, communication, sensory processing, and socializing. For some families, simply gaining new understandings of neurotypes can help them move away from blame and misunderstanding and toward greater empathy, collaboration, and belonging.
My name is Helena,
I am here to walk with you through conversations that take courage. I love what I do and I look forward to getting to know you.
Note: As a cis, white, able-bodied, queer, settler practitioner, there are limits to my knowledge and understandings of intersectional experiences. If I can support the humanizing of you, however, I am here for it and in your corner. It is my honour to develop trusting relationships, and trust is earned.