BSW, RSW, MSW
With 8+ years' experience, Cristal is a highly regarded multi-disciplinary practitioner with extensive experience in social service sectors that include: mental health, education, criminal justice and community development. As an individual, her work emerges from the fundamental curiosity of how individuals come to know themselves and live out stories that shape their reality. She is grounded in the belief that our stories as individuals are interconnected with multiple histories of our families, our personal experiences and broader political forces that shape what we think we know.
A THOUGHTFUL, COMPREHENSIVE, AND CONSIDERATE APPROACH TO THERAPY.
As a culturally informed therapist, Cristal provides trauma-informed mental health services with proven yet nuanced interventions that encompass a wide-range of modalities. These include but are not limited to: narrative therapy, racial trauma therapy, solution-focused & family systems therapy to name a few.
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As an enthusiastic and grounded therapist, Cristal cultivates a healthy environment within the therapeutic relationship with her clients to, guide them through experiences of complex trauma and post-traumatic stress diagnosis (PTSD) to uncover hidden strengths and possibilities for their futures beyond these experiences.
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My definition of Culturally Informed Therapy:
At its core, culturally responsive therapy is intersectional and all-encompassing of clients humanity. It equally entails the inherent cultural traditions that inform their individual experiences and meaning they make from those experiences. Additionally, culturally responsive therapy contends with the complex relations of marginalized communities' histories with broader socio-political forces that produce experience of racial trauma. These included but are not limited to: slavery, colonization and the on-going imperial project(s). Culturally informed therapy is a means of seeing people within a broader context and, adopting approaches for holistic healing.
COUNSELLING YOU CAN TRUST.
With an expertise in trauma-informed care, Cristal establishes treatment plans that are co-developed with clients and any relevant support networks. Cristal specializes in work with youth, adults and women of all backgrounds and specializations with those from racialized communities to understand the complex impacts of intragenerational trauma on racialized identities.
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Her approach is grounded in love, curiosity and an intersectional framework that produces holistic practices. Cristal does not merely seek to build capacity for clients to cope, but to venture alongside them to the root of their symptoms and explore new story-lines and possibilities. The type of possibilities that become the birthplace of sustainable trajectories of transformative healing.
Starting your therapy journey with Cristal is easy.
Initial consultation
$0 · 15 min
Individual Counselling Session
$160 · 60 min
Student Counselling Session
$95 · 60 min
Family/Couples Counselling