a team built around one shared belief: real change starts at the root.
Every therapist at Perception brings their own background, style, and set of modalities — but they all work from the same foundational commitment: that lasting change doesn't come from managing symptoms. It comes from understanding what's underneath them. Trauma-informed, somatic, and depth-oriented work is the thread that runs through everything we do here, regardless of who you work with.
Finding the right fit matters as much as finding the right clinic. Browse the profiles below to get a sense of each therapist's approach and who they work best with — or take our 2-minute match quiz and we'll point you in the right direction. Either way, every new client starts with a free 15-minute consultation. No forms, no pressure, no commitment. Just a conversation.
a team built around one shared belief: real change starts at the root.
Every therapist at Perception brings their own background, style, and set of modalities — but they all work from the same foundational commitment: that lasting change doesn't come from managing symptoms. It comes from understanding what's underneath them. Trauma-informed, somatic, and depth-oriented work is the thread that runs through everything we do here, regardless of who you work with.
Finding the right fit matters as much as finding the right clinic. Browse the profiles below to get a sense of each therapist's approach and who they work best with — or take our 2-minute match quiz and we'll point you in the right direction. Either way, every new client starts with a free 15-minute consultation. No forms, no pressure, no commitment. Just a conversation.
meet your therapist
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Naomi works with adults who feel stuck — not necessarily in crisis, but quietly disconnected from their own momentum. Maybe something shifted and you can't quite name when. Maybe you've always had a sense that there's a version of yourself you haven't fully reached. Naomi creates space for that exploration without rushing it.
Her approach is humanistic, somatic, and depth-oriented. She draws from polyvagal theory, attachment, somatic experiencing, and mindful self-compassion to help clients reconnect with what their body and emotions are actually telling them — and learn to trust that information again. Naomi believes that healing happens in relationship, and she brings genuine warmth and presence to every session.
Naomi works best with clients navigating life transitions, a sense of being stuck or plateauing, low motivation, identity questions, and the quiet weight of feeling like something is off without being able to fully explain it.
Services in English · Virtual sessions across Canada
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Haifa works with people who are doing everything they're supposed to be doing — and still feeling overwhelmed, burnt out, or stuck in patterns they can't seem to break. On the outside, things might look fine. Inside, there's an exhaustion that rest doesn't fix and a low-grade sense that something needs to change.
Her approach integrates CBT, somatic experiencing, solutions-focused therapy, and mindfulness — not as a checklist, but as tools she weaves together based on what each person actually needs. Haifa's work is grounded in helping clients reconnect with their own clarity and inner strength, while also giving them practical strategies that work in real life — not just in session.
Haifa works best with clients navigating burnout, anxiety, overwhelm, emotional dysregulation, self-esteem and self-worth, relationship patterns, life transitions, and the feeling of running on empty without knowing how to stop.
Haifa offers flexible scheduling including evenings and weekends.
Services in English and Farsi · Virtual sessions across Canada including Ontario and Alberta
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Daya works with adults who have a sense that something deeper is driving their patterns — the recurring relationship dynamics, the inner critic that won't quiet, the feeling of being at a crossroads with no clear direction. She doesn't just help clients understand their experience intellectually. She helps them feel it differently — at a body level, a relational level, and a historical level — so that something actually changes.
Her approach is psychoanalytic and depth-oriented at its core, woven through with holistic, somatic, and integrative practices. Sessions with Daya tend to be exploratory, unhurried, and focused on what's underneath the surface — the early experiences, the attachment patterns, the parts of self that have been managing quietly for years.
Daya works best with clients navigating deep-rooted patterns, trauma, relationship challenges (individual or couples), identity and self-worth, life transitions, and the ache of knowing something needs to change without knowing what.
As a Farsi-speaking therapist, Daya also works with Iranian and Afghan clients seeking care in their first language.
Services in English and Farsi · In-person in Edmonton · Virtual in Alberta
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Zorro is a Pomeranian Shepherd mix and Perception's resident therapy dog. He works alongside Daya in in-person sessions, offering the kind of calm, unconditional presence that sometimes makes it easier to go to the hard places in a session. His role isn't decorative — research consistently shows that animal-assisted therapy reduces physiological stress responses and supports emotional regulation in session.
Zorro is also the star of his own children's book series on anxiety and emotional resilience — because healing has no age limit.
He enjoys long walks, doing tricks, and accepting treats with great dignity.
Location: In-person sessions in Edmonton only.
