Mental Health Counselling
At Rooted Family Wellness Centre, our caring team of Registered Social Workers (RSWs) and Registered Psychotherapists (RPs) (learn more here) provide compassionate, evidence-based support to help you navigate life’s challenges. Whether you are experiencing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, postpartum challenges, or relationship concerns, we are here to guide you toward healing and growth.
Personalized Care for Your Needs:
Our therapists bring diverse approaches—including CBT, DBT, mindfulness, and trauma-informed practices—to create a personalized plan that meets you where you are. We offer a safe, non-judgmental space to process emotions, build coping skills, and reconnect with your strengths.
Flexible Session Options
We understand that therapy works best when it fits into your life. That’s why we offer:
- In-Clinic Counselling – Supportive sessions in a welcoming, private space at our wellness centre.
- Virtual Counselling – Flexible therapy you can join from home or any location across Ontario.
- Walk-and-Talk Therapy – Combine the benefits of movement, nature, and conversation (offered by Leigh Berry). Available at South March Highlands, Trillium Woods (Blue Heron Trail), Walter Baker Park (Kanata, stroller-friendly), and Old Quarry Trail (Kanata South, stroller-friendly).
- In-Home Therapy – Serving Kanata, Stittsville, and West Carleton. Ideal for those with limitations leaving home, including new moms with infants (ages 0–3) who want in-person care while balancing baby’s naps and feeding schedules (offered by Leigh Berry).
- Couples counselling- Offered by Krista Fraser-King.
Insurance Coverage & Consultations
Our services are covered by most extended health benefits plans. Please check your coverage for RSWs or RPs. We also offer free virtual consultations to help you find the best therapist for your needs.
At Rooted Family, we believe in walking alongside you—whether in-clinic, virtually, in nature, or in the comfort of your home—as you take steps toward greater ease, connection, and wellbeing.
Meet Our
Mental Health Counsellor
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Stephanie Borgen, RSW, CC-PMH
**CURRENTLY ACCEPTING NEW IN-PERSON CLIENTS** Stephanie is a Psychotherapist with over five years of experience supporting individuals from diverse backgrounds on their mental health journeys. She takes a holistic, client-centered approach, integrating mindfulness, dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), attachment therapies, and interpersonal therapy (IPT) to provide personalized care. Whether navigating anxiety, depression, trauma/PTSD, grief, addictions, relationship challenges, self-esteem, life transitions, or family dynamics, Stephanie creates a safe, judgment-free space for healing and growth. She is committed to honoring each client’s unique experience, ensuring they feel heard and supported. As a Canadian Certified Perinatal Mental Health (CC-PMH) Therapist, Stephanie specializes in supporting expectant mothers and families through conception, pregnancy, postpartum, and beyond. With lived experience in fertility challenges, birth, and postpartum mental health, she understands the complexities of this transformative time. Stephanie provides compassionate, evidence-based psychotherapy for those facing fertility struggles, birth trauma, and pregnancy loss. She offers in-person sessions for teens and adults, with services covered by most extended health benefits plans.
Leigh Berry, RSW/MSW
**CURRENTLY ACCEPTING NEW VIRTUAL, IN-HOME & WALK AND TALK CLIENTS** Leigh is a Registered Social Worker, trained Holistic Nutritionist, and a mom to two little ones who are her greatest teachers. She has been registered with the College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers since 2010 and holds a Master of Social Work from the University of Toronto. Passionate about maternal and parental well-being, she supports moms struggling with emotional overwhelm, life transitions, and challenges such as anxiety, postpartum mental health, and emotional eating. Leigh believes that true healing begins by turning inward, creating space for self-awareness, and reconnecting with one’s authentic self. With a trauma-informed, client-centered, and holistic approach, Leigh integrates various therapeutic modalities, including DBT, ACT, mindfulness-based practices, somatic healing, and internal family systems therapy. She strives to create a safe and compassionate space where clients feel supported in their journey toward growth and healing. Leigh offers virtual sessions, walk-and-talk sessions in the park, and in-home sessions, providing flexibility to meet clients where they feel most comfortable and supported.psychotherapy for individuals (16+) and her services are covered by most extended health benefits plans.
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Krista Fraser-King, RP
*CURRENTLY ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS- INDIVIDUAL OR COUPLES VIRTUAL COUNSELLING** Krista is a Registered Psychotherapist with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario since 2022. She holds a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology from Yorkville University and believes in a collaborative, strengths-based approach that empowers clients. With lived experience in fertility treatments, perinatal loss, and parenting during the early pandemic, Krista understands the profound transitions of the perinatal period and provides compassionate support. Krista specializes in perinatal mental health, fertility, attachment, relationships, anxiety, grief, trauma, and self-compassion. She integrates psychodynamic therapy, emotionally focused therapy, strengths-based CBT, EMDR, and Gottman Method therapy. A Gottman-trained therapist with advanced perinatal mental health training, she offers virtual psychotherapy for adults and couples in Ontario. Krista does not provide direct billing; receipts are issued for insurance submission. Please confirm coverage with your provider.
Samantha Gray, RP
**CURRENTLY ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS** Samantha is a Registered Psychotherapist with over 10 years of Mental Health Counselling experience. She fosters resilience by emphasizing compassion, trust, safety, and choice in therapy. Taking a holistic approach, she integrates Emotion-Focused, Cognitive-Behavioural, Dialectical-Behavioural, Interpersonal, and Attachment Therapies. Through her own experience with Postpartum Mental Health, Samantha developed a deep passion for supporting parents through the vulnerable and transformative perinatal period. By building a village of support, she found ways to navigate intrusive thoughts, guilt, grief, and identity shifts, gaining confidence and hope. Now, Samantha hopes to be part of her clients’ village, guiding them to align with their values and intuition. She teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and mindfulness while dismantling unhelpful patterns. Samantha specializes in anxiety, depression, PTSD, trauma, substance use, and eating disorders. She offers in-person and virtual care for adults (18+), with services covered by most extended health benefits plans.
Rachel Simzer, RSW
** CURRENTLY NOT ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS** Rachel is a Registered Social Worker with multiple years of experience supporting individuals and families from all walks of life. She believes that each person’s journey is different, and deserves to be heard and honoured. As a counsellor, Rachel works from a strength-based approach that values the client as the expert on their situation, and aims to support and empower clients during their work together. She has experience working with a variety of issues including depression, anxiety, trauma, grief, and relationship challenges. Rachel’s passion is working with women and their families during the perinatal period, including working with concerns such as postpartum depression and anxiety, birth trauma, pregnancy/infant loss, and identity navigation. She practices from an eclectic approach, pulling from models such as cognitive behavioural therapy, brief solution-focused work, dialectical behavioural therapy, and interpersonal therapy. She also recognizes the importance of the genuineness in therapeutic relationships, and always brings humanity to each sessions. Rachel is committed to supporting adults, teens, and families as they navigate life’s challenges with compassion, humour, warmth, and authenticity. Rachel provides services in English virtually and in-person for teens and adults.
Michele Pomerant, RP
**CURRENTLY NOT ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS** Michele Pomerant is a Registered Psychotherapist who works at building a safe and therapeutic relationship that provides the emotional and mental health support that is so very needed at such a transitional time. She recognizes the core of any therapeutic treatment begins with a client-centred approach that is built on the foundations of empathy, compassion and is always judgement free. As a therapist, Michele works with anxiety, depression, grief and loss, anger management, guilt, self-esteem, identity, perfectionism, boundary setting, addiction and is trauma-informed. She works from an integrative model, drawing on aspects of CBT, Mindfulness-Based CBT, Interpersonal Therapy, Attachment Therapy and Emotionally Focused Therapy, working with clients in a collaborative manner to find the best fit. Michele is passionate about working with parents in the perinatal period and has a long history of working in different settings, offering support and guidance. She is trained in Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorder and Advanced Perinatal Mental Health Psychotherapy.
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