Sadie Kirby

Hi, I’m sadie!

I’m really glad you’ve landed here.

Taking the step to explore therapy can be a big one. Whether you’re feeling overwhelmed, stuck in old patterns, navigating painful experiences, or sensing that something in your life wants to shift, you don’t have to move through it alone. I believe healing happens when we have the space to be seen, heard, and supported with care and compassion.

I’m a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO), and I hold a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology from Yorkville University. I work with adolescents and adults of all ages and bring a warm, grounded, and collaborative presence to the therapy space. My hope is to create an environment where you feel safe to show up just as you are, messy parts, tender parts, curious parts, and everything in between.

My work is trauma-informed, holistic, and deeply client-centred. I specialize in EMDR and hypnotherapy and integrate somatic and experiential approaches that include parts work (Internal Family Systems), expressive arts, mindfulness, emotion-focused therapy, motivational interviewing, and acceptance and commitment therapy. Sometimes healing happens through conversation; other times it emerges through connecting with the body, creative expression, movement, or just slowing down enough to listen to what our inner world is trying to tell us.

I tend to see many of the things we call “symptoms” as intelligent adaptations or protective responses our system developed to help us survive difficult experiences. Rather than trying to push these parts away, we can learn to meet them with curiosity and compassion. In doing so, new possibilities for healing, integration, and change often begin to emerge.

I support people navigating a wide range of experiences, including trauma and post-traumatic stress, anxiety, depression, grief and loss, relational challenges, identity exploration, substance use, shame, family conflict, and childhood abuse, neglect, and abandonment trauma. I am passionate about working with individuals within the 2SLGBTQIA+ community and welcome diverse identities, relationship dynamics, and ways of being in the world. My practice is grounded in an anti-oppressive, attachment-informed lens where your autonomy, lived experience, and story are deeply respected.

Before becoming a therapist, I spent many years working in service roles while raising my two children as a single parent. Those experiences shaped my understanding of resilience, community, and the many ways people attempt to cope through life’s challenges. I later transitioned into the social services sector, where I worked in crisis response, suicide intervention, trauma support, and youth mentorship within the non-profit world. These experiences continue to inform the compassion and humility I bring into this work.

Outside of therapy, creativity and connection are big parts of my life. I love co-creating community spaces where people can gather, share meals, tell stories, and feel a sense of belonging. Playfulness and curiosity are important parts of how I move through life, and they often find their way into my work as well. I’m also deeply nourished by time in nature, intentional gatherings, games, crafting, improv, and expressive movement practices like ecstatic dance and contact improvisation. Music, movement, and creativity are some of the ways I reconnect with my own sense of vitality and joy.

At the heart of it all, I believe that each of us carries an innate capacity for growth and healing. Therapy can be a place to slow down, listen inward, and rediscover the wisdom that already lives within you. If you feel that this approach resonates, I would be honoured to walk alongside you on your journey.