Cultural identity
Questions of belonging, code-switching, and identity across two or more cultures. Helpful for first and second-generation Canadians.
Counselling Services
En español.
In English.
Cross-cultural psychotherapy, Spanish-language sessions, Marriage and Family Therapy, and individual counselling. One Registered Psychotherapist, one bilingual practice.
By appointment. Booking by phone, returned promptly.
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Across language and identity
Cross-Cultural Counselling
Counselling that takes seriously the cultural and linguistic contexts each client brings into the room. Migration stress, bicultural identity, family expectations across countries, and the slow grief of leaving one home for another.
Migration and resettlement
The emotional weight of moving countries, the long adjustment of life in a new system, and the family dynamics that come with it.
Faith and meaning
Drawing on training in theology alongside psychotherapy. For clients whose faith is part of the conversation, those questions can have space.
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Spanish-language sessions
Sesiones en Español
Sessions delivered in Spanish for clients who prefer to work on intimate issues in their first language. Cross-cultural counselling, individual therapy, and couples or family work all available en español.
Sesiones individuales
Individual therapy in Spanish. Ansiedad, transiciones de vida, duelo, problemas familiares, identidad y herencia cultural.
Terapia de pareja
Couples therapy in Spanish, including bilingual or bicultural couples where each partner may prefer a different language.
Terapia familiar
Family sessions across generations. Useful for families navigating migration, school transitions, or parenting across two cultures.
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RMFT designation
Marriage and Family Therapy
Couples and family therapy delivered under a Registered Marriage and Family Therapist designation. Systems-based work that brings the whole relational picture into the room.
Couples therapy
Communication, conflict, repair, and the day-to-day patterns of long partnerships. Bilingual and bicultural couples especially welcome.
Family sessions
Inter-generational dynamics, parenting collaboration, and family-of-origin patterns brought into the present. Sessions can include children or extended family as needed.
Premarital conversations
Build the foundation early. Sessions on shared values, faith, family-of-origin patterns, and the cross-cultural questions that arise in mixed partnerships.
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Anxiety, grief, transitions
Individual Counselling
Individual sessions for adults working through anxiety, life transitions, grief, or other day-to-day struggles. 50-minute sessions, weekly or biweekly, in English or Spanish.
Anxiety and stress
Practical strategies for managing anxiety alongside the deeper questions about what is fuelling it.
Grief and loss
Bereavement, end-of-relationship grief, and the slower grief that follows estrangement or chronic illness.
Life transitions
New countries, new careers, new identities, parenting changes, retirement. Transitions are when most adults reach out, and there is no shame in that.
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Booking, format, receipts
How sessions work
All sessions are booked by phone. Initial intake is longer than follow-up sessions so we have time to set the plan. Receipts are issued at every session for submission to extended health benefits, where the plan covers Registered Psychotherapy.
Phone booking
Call 226-407-7614 to book. Leave a voicemail if Irving is in session and the call is returned between appointments, usually the same business day.
Office location at booking
The current preview does not list a fixed office address. The exact office and meeting format (in-person or virtual) is confirmed when the appointment is booked.
Receipts for benefits
Receipts are issued at the end of each session under the Registered Psychotherapist designation. Coverage varies by plan, please confirm with your benefits provider.
A note on photos
Interior photos are representative.
Irving's practice does not currently have a photo gallery online. The interior shots on this preview are representative of a private counselling office. Real photos of the actual practice space can be swapped in before the site goes live.
The next step
Phone goes to Irving directly.
No receptionist, no online booking platform. Just a real call, returned between sessions.