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Taking care of your mental health in person and online

A safe space for you

At Kaer Wellness, we believe that caring for your mental and emotional health is just as important as your physical health. Whether you are seeking in-person counselling in Toronto or online therapy anywhere in Ontario, our team of experienced Registered Psychotherapists and Registered Social Workers is here to support you.

We provide a safe, non-judgmental space where you can explore your thoughts, emotions, and life challenges with the support of a compassionate professional.

 

Who We Support

Our counsellors specialize in supporting individuals through a wide range of experiences and transitions. While we are leaders in perinatal and maternal mental health, we also offer therapy for general mental health concerns.

 

Areas of Specialty:

  • Preconception and fertility counselling

  • Pregnancy support

  • Postpartum anxiety and depression

  • Navigating postpartum transitions

  • Birth trauma counselling

  • Support for egg donors and surrogates

  • Grief and loss counselling

  • Returning to work after leave

  • Parent guilt and shame

  • Life transitions and identity changes

  • Relationship challenges

  • Stress and overwhelm

  • Mood disorders

  • Generalized or acute anxiety

  • Depression and low mood

  • Coping tools and emotional regulation

  • Self-care and overall wellbeing

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Why Choose Kaer for Counselling?

  • Experienced Therapists: Our team includes Registered Psychotherapists (RP) and Registered Social Workers (RSW) with specialized training in perinatal mental health, trauma, grief, and life transitions.

  • Evidence-Based Approaches: We integrate proven modalities such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Mindfulness, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT).

  • Safe and Supportive Environment: We prioritize creating a comforting, non-judgmental space—whether in-person or online—so you feel heard and supported.

  • Flexible Options: Choose between in-clinic sessions or online counselling across Ontario

What to Expect from Counselling

Your First Session

Your first appointment focuses on building trust and helping you feel comfortable. You can share as much or as little as you feel ready to. Together, we will begin to understand what brings you to therapy and outline your goals.

 
Ongoing Therapy Work

Therapy is highly individualized. In future sessions, you may:

  • Learn tools for managing anxiety and stress

  • Explore and process past experiences or trauma

  • Strengthen boundaries and communication skills

  • Reconnect with yourself during times of transition

  • Develop greater self-awareness and coping strategies

  • Find meaning, clarity, and balance in your daily life

Online Counselling Across Ontario

If you live anywhere in Ontario, you can access counselling with us from home. Our secure, encrypted platform ensures your privacy. Online therapy is as effective as in-person care and is ideal for busy schedules, new parents, or anyone who prefers the convenience of virtual sessions.

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Support every life transition

Well-being Fertility Counselling Prenatal Counselling Postpartum Counselling Perimenopause Counselling Couples Counselling

Well-being

Ongoing therapy fosters balance, resilience, and self-care, helping clients strengthen their mental health and overall quality of life.

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Fertility Counselling

A supportive space to process the emotional ups and downs of fertility challenges, offering coping strategies and hope through uncertainty.

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Prenatal Counselling

Helping you manage stress, fears, and transitions, while building confidence and emotional resilience during pregnancy.

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Postpartum Counselling

Navigate identity shifts, anxiety, depression, and the challenges of adjusting to life with a baby

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Perimenopause Counselling

Get guidance and emotional support through the physical, hormonal, and relational changes that accompany perimenopause and beyond.

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Couples Counselling

Therapy helps couples improve communication, rebuild connection, and navigate life’s challenges together with greater understanding.

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Your Care Team

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Registered Social Worker offering couples and individual therapy in Toronto

Sara Hashmi Registered Social Worker

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Sara is a Registered Social Worker, who is passionate about working with women, through all the beautiful, painful and chaotic seasons of life. She has experience working with children, youth, adults, couples and families.

​She recognizes every human comes with a variety of experiences in life, and takes a strengths based and trauma informed approach to counselling. She is passionate towards helping clients to strengthen their self care, and learn to nurture, soothe and care for their body, mind and soul. She takes a warm, gentle and authentic approach in helping clients to overcome challenges and strengthen coping strategies through difficult transitions, including pregnancy, birth, postpartum and through the fertility journey.

She takes an eclectic approach to counselling, incorporating models of therapy including Mindfulness- based techniques, Family Systems, Narrative and Relational approaches. She has experience supporting clients through perinatal grief and loss, relationship challenges, perinatal depression and anxiety, chronic health challenges and family traumas. Sara is a mother of a little boy, and continues to be inspired by her own healing journey, to help women find their own power within. Her hope is to support you on your healing journey, and help you to shine the light within yourself.

Additional Certifications:

  • Birth and Reproductive Trauma Program- Canadian Perinatal Mental Health Trainings
  • Family Therapy Training Program- The George Hull Centre for Children and Families
Toronto Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)

Kat Bayan Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)

Hello! I’m Kat, a parent of three and a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) offering individual and couples counselling at Yoga Mamas. With over a decade of experience in perinatal healthcare and peer support, my practice is deeply informed by principles of anti-oppression, inclusivity, and cultural safety. I’m committed to providing compassionate and comprehensive care tailored to each individual’s unique journey. 

I house my practice in Filipinx Liberation Psychology and Relational Cultural Theory. This dual approach guides me to focus on relational dynamics and cultural attunement in therapy, while finding grounding in an eclectic practice that draws on various therapeutic techniques like Narrative Therapy, Somatic Therapy, Polyvagal Theory, and Internal Family Systems (IFS) to address your needs.

My background in midwifery also plays a significant role in my approach. The skills I developed through midwifery—such as harnessing agency and autonomy, offering emotional support and validation, being attuned to both physical and emotional needs, providing crisis care, engaging community and supporting people through significant life transitions—enhance my ability to provide thoughtful care through your own perinatal journey.

Topics close to my heart include: parental identity, relational dynamics and disconnection, obstetric violence, birth trauma, racism and discrimination, grief and loss, blending families, sex and pleasure, and raising interracial children. 

My hope is to journey with you as you establish clarity and insight, reconnect with your embodied wisdom and your restore trust in your innate ability to parent yourself, your children and/or your wider community. Your story is important, and I am eager to understand where you are, the challenges you face, and the future you envision. It would be an honour to support you on this journey.  

Related Certifications & Experience:

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Susan Haller, Registered Social Worker

​Susan Haller
​MSW, RSW, Registered Social Worker, Psychotherapist

Susan is a trained clinician with over 25 years experience providing exceptional care to self identified women across the lifespan. She has worked in the community, hospitals,
primary care and private practice. She has a Master of Social Work from Wilfrid Laurier University and advanced ongoing training and supervision in Perinatal Mental Health.

Susan is the mother of 5 adult children which has provided her with a rich lived experience in parenting. She is also a grandmother of 6, keeping her up to date on the joys and challenges of present day parenthood.

Planning to become a parent or not to become a parent, navigating fertility challenges and/ or losses, becoming a parent, dealing with an infant, toddler, school aged child, or
teen can be stressful. Navigating a shifting partner relationship or family relationships, managing mood and physical changes can be difficult.

Entering perimenopause or menopause and managing the accompanying physical and emotional changes can also be challenging.

Any major transition can be complicated and messy and at the same time joyful. It’s OK to hold seemingly opposites together at the same time, since life is rarely black and
white.

Susan invites you to talk about whatever you are experiencing in your stage of life, to try to make sense of it in a way that brings you understanding of yourself and the important
others in your life.

Registered Social Worker providing therapy in Toronto

Lisha Cash, Registered Social Worker

Lisha Cash
MSW, RSW, Registered Social Worker, Psychotherapist​

Lisha is a counsellor and psychotherapist in Toronto. She completed her Master of Social Work at the University of Toronto, with a specialization in children and families. Lisha has a special interest in working with women as they navigate life and role transitions, specifically in the areas of pregnancy, motherhood, co-parenting, fertility, and loss. 

Lisha’s approach focuses on building a therapeutic relationship that encompasses trust and respect, while creating an environment that is safe for clients to explore the most sensitive areas of their lives. Working together with her clients, Lisha helps to identify their strengths and abilities, while helping empower clients to harness these in order to overcome obstacles in their lives. 

Each person is unique, therefore, Lisha utilizes a trauma-informed, eclectic approach to counselling, drawing from various theoretical orientations based on the client’s needs and presenting issues. These may include, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Mindfulness-based practice, and Solution-Focused frameworks. Lisha has received perinatal mood and anxiety disorders training by Postpartum Support International, which focused on the components of care surrounding pre and postnatal depression and anxiety, with advanced training in psychotherapy.

Lisha’s passion for this work was further ignited when she became a mom herself in 2018. 

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