Carla is a Clinical Social Worker who has been practicing psychotherapy since 2018. They began their therapy practice in Ottawa and continue to serve Ontario clients virtually while firmly rooted in their home province of Newfoundland. In addition to therapy they have a passion for community-based mental health and harm reduction interventions and have worked in this capacity since 2010 in St. John’s, Vancouver and Ottawa. Their approach to working with clients is deeply relational, values-based and acknowledges the context within which individual lives unfold.
Carla believes that therapy is a collaborative venture between both client and therapist and an exercise in seeing and being seen. She endeavours to meet folks where they are and to encourage the somatic self (the body) to feel safe enough to show up as part of this process.
MSc, M.S.W., R.S.W.