Monique is a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) and Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC) who is passionate about helping teens, adults, men, and families navigate life’s challenges with greater confidence, emotional resilience, and self-awareness. She believes meaningful change happens when people feel genuinely understood, supported, and empowered to move toward a life that aligns with their values.

Monique specializes in supporting high-conflict teens, adults, and men experiencing anxiety, emotional dysregulation, anger, relationship challenges, family conflict, low self-esteem, stress, life transitions, and depression. She has a particular interest in working with adolescents who struggle with emotional outbursts, behavioural concerns, school-related stress, parent-teen conflict, peer relationships, and difficulty managing overwhelming emotions. She helps teens better understand themselves, develop healthy coping strategies, strengthen communication skills, and build more positive relationships at home, at school, and within their communities.

Monique also has extensive experience supporting men’s mental health. She works with men navigating anger management, emotional regulation, communication difficulties, relationship concerns, fatherhood, workplace stress, anxiety, depression, and major life transitions. She recognizes that many men have been taught to suppress emotions or carry challenges alone. Through therapy, Monique helps clients explore the emotions beneath their reactions, develop healthier ways of expressing themselves, strengthen relationships, and build emotional resilience without judgment or shame.

Her therapeutic approach is person-centred, trauma-informed, and strengths-based, integrating Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) with evidence-based strategies tailored to each client’s individual needs. She believes therapy should provide both insight and practical tools. Together, you will identify the patterns that may be keeping you stuck while learning effective skills for managing emotions, reducing conflict, improving communication, setting healthy boundaries, and creating meaningful, lasting change.

As a Canadian-born South Asian therapist, Monique understands how culture, family expectations, identity, and intergenerational experiences can shape mental health and relationships. She is committed to providing culturally responsive, inclusive care where clients from diverse backgrounds feel respected, understood, and supported in exploring both their personal experiences and cultural identities.

Whether you’re a parent seeking support for a teen struggling with conflict or emotional regulation, a young person feeling overwhelmed, or a man looking to improve your mental health and relationships, Monique offers a compassionate, collaborative, and non-judgemental space where lasting growth can take place. Her goal is to help clients strengthen emotional well-being, improve relationships, build resilience, and move forward with greater clarity, confidence, and self-compassion.