Syeda Zaidi RP

I believe that at any moment, you hold the power to change the story of your life. My role is to support you in this journey towards healing, self-awareness, and acceptance, helping you to rewrite a more positive and balanced narrative that leads to a fulfilling life.

My passion for supporting individuals and families in their healing journey is deeply rooted in my own experiences with the stigma surrounding maternal mental health while growing up in Pakistan. This has driven me to work tirelessly in raising awareness about mental health issues, especially affecting women during pregnancy, postpartum, motherhood and parenting, child health concerns, familial and intergenerational trauma, domestic violence and abuse etc.

As a trauma-informed, family focused therapist, I provide compassionate and person-centered support to help individuals and couples navigate the changes that families go through at different stages of becoming a parent, with focus on postpartum anxiety and depression, life transitions, parenting, childhood, complex and relational trauma, PTSD, ADHD, personality disorders, stress and burnout, relationship issues, anger management, grief, and more. I take a culturally sensitive, strengths-based approach, deeply understanding the complexities of relationships and family dynamics, especially within collectivistic cultures.

As a first-generation immigrant, I am intimately familiar with the challenges of acculturation that young families experience and the nuances of navigating multiple cultural identities. I work with individuals, couples, and families using a range of evidence-based modalities, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT), Gottman Method, Humanistic Therapy, Mindfulness-Based Therapies, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), and Short-Term Solution-Focused Therapy.

I am a Certified Trauma Therapist and an ADHD-trained therapist, with training by The Canadian ADHD Resource Alliance (CADDRA). My approach is warm, safe, and empathic, and I strive to create a collaborative therapeutic alliance with my clients. I offer services in English, Urdu, Hindi, and Punjabi.