Oshawa Team - Mind Matters

Christine Johansen

Clinical Director, Supervisor, Registered Psychotherapist, MACP, PsyD Candidate

Child & Youth Development
Trauma & Attachment
Interpersonal Relationships

Donna Sherman

Registered Nurse Psychotherapist, Clinical Supervisor | Lead Therapist

Certified CBT Therapist
Certified CPT Therapist for PTSD
Grief and Bereavement

Sarah Ologun

Mental Health Counsellor, OAMHP

Child & Youth Development
Couples Therapy
PTSD & Grief

Heather Boorsma

Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)

Anxiety
Depression
Life Transition

Marcie Menzies

Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), MACP

Child & Youth Development
ADHD/ASD
Mood Disorders

Hannah Snider

Registered Psychotherapist, MACP

Child & Youth Development
ADHD/ASD
Self Esteem/Confidence

Rachel Daley

Art Therapist, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)

Child & Youth Development
Seperated Families/Parenting
Trauma

Jacalyn Caswell

Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)

Youth Development
Life Transitions
Mood Disorders

Alex Bernacki

Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), MACP

Self Esteem/Confidence
Anxiety
Depression

Rachel received her Art Therapy Diploma from The Toronto Art Therapy Institute in 2005. She is delighted to be a new team member at Mind Matters Psychotherapy and Education!

Rachel’s thesis was entitled Art Therapy As A Medium To Express Insecurity In Latency-Aged Children.

After completing her coursework at TATI, she was hired to join the Birth-to-Six Specialized Therapy Unit at The Hincks-Dellcrest Centre, which is now The Garry Hurvitz Centre for Community Mental Health at SickKids Hospital in Toronto. Rachel worked with individual children, families and with parent-child dyads.

In addition to her training and credentials in art therapy Rachel has 16 years of experience teaching predominantly children and adolescents from 18 months old to 16 years, at the Avenue Road Arts School in Toronto.

Rachel’s teaching culminated in her position as the Associate Director of the School.

She has facilitated art workshops with seniors and found the experience truly gratifying. In her career, Rachel has incorporated bringing art to underserved and low-income children and youth of all ages in the GTA, including with Arts For Children & Youth Of Ontario, now VIBE Arts.

Engaging clients in the art-making process as a therapeutic modality is a natural and intuitive way to bring forth a fundamental awareness of their inner worlds.

Rachel is passionate about art as a reflection of inner psychology and a source of perspective and self-compassion. Her evaluation of creative instincts propels her to be a life-long student and a voracious reader of various psychological literature snd modalities including mindfulness, trauma response, vagal nerve toning to activate the parasympathetic nervous system, mind-body connection, and the psychology of chronic pain.

Rachel collaborates with her clients to understand their experience with complex emotions such as shame, anxiety, grief and trauma and to help disentangle the body’s natural defence systems and find healthier coping methods.

Rachel looks to the past, as much as current research to bring appropriate techniques into her art therapy room for her clients.

At Mind Matters, Rachel offers Art Therapy and Counselling to individuals of all ages experiencing anxiety, depression, stress, relational and behavioural issues, attachment challenges, emotional regulation, issues regarding self-esteem and identity, and issues related to coping with and processing trauma and PTSD. Rachel has extensive knowledgable of art & play therapies and techniques and she is a member of CATA, OATA and OAMHP.