Fatima Patel

Registered Psychotherapist, BA Islamic Studies, RECE, RP

Fatima is a psychotherapist who completed her master's-level training in psychotherapy at the Toronto Centre for Psychotherapy and Counselling Education. She is additionally trained in EMDR with a focus on attachment and complex trauma/PTSD.

She is also a religious scholar and an educator holding an Alimiyyah degree in Islamic and Arabic studies and a Diploma with honours in Early Childhood Education. She primarily practices in English and also speaks Urdu and Gujarati.

Fatima's core values are kindness and compassion, for ourselves and for our shared humanity, regardless of any differences. She doesn't place value in pathologizing or labelling, whether assumed or assigned, beyond understanding the meaning and impact those labels have on her clients. She sees each client as an inherently worthy person and capable of being the expert on their own life.

Her approach is integrative and holistic, tailored to each client's unique needs. It is rooted in humanistic, client-centred, relational and faith-based principles. She draws on somatic, nervous system based strategies along with mindfulness, IFS, elements of CBT/DBT and other modalities depending on what best fits your situation.

Fatima offers a safe, non-judgemental, trauma-informed space where she meets you where you are. Together, you'll explore the cognitive, relational, physical, emotional and behavioural barriers that may be keeping you from the resources you need. Her hope is to help you build self-awareness, self-acceptance and self-compassion as you navigate challenges, transitions or life circumstances, and move toward the goals you hope to achieve.

Fatima is passionate about supporting children, couples and families, and brings her background in Early Childhood Education and her own experience as a parent to that work.

Services offered

• Individual Therapy
• Premarital Counselling
• Marital Therapy
• Spiritual Counselling
• Youth & Teen Counselling

Therapeutic approaches

• CBT
• Mindfulness-based
• Relational
• Imago
• Solution-focused
• Narrative

Outside the counselling room

Making memories with her two children, Spending time in nature, Baking, Creating art

Role

Registered Psychotherapist, BA Islamic Studies, RECE, RP

Languages

English, Urdu, Gujarati

Focus areas

Marriage & RelationshipsSpiritual & Faith Concerns