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Normandy is currently accepting new clients, offering in-person and video therapy sessions.

Alexandra is currently accepting waitlist requests at alexholdingspace@gmail.com

Holding Space Psychotherapy Booking: Welcome!

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Individual Therapy

All are welcome. Your therapist at Holding Space will listen deeply to help you better understand your difficulties, connect with your strengths and needs, and help you to envision and access your path to wellbeing. Offering huge doses of respect and empathy, our approaches are relational/neurobiological and assist you to understand yourself and your relationships at the deepest levels. This ki... Read More

All are welcome. Your therapist at Holding Space will listen deeply to help you better understand your difficulties, connect with your strengths and needs, and help you to envision and access your path to wellbeing. Offering huge doses of respect and empathy, our approaches are relational/neurobiological and assist you to understand yourself and your relationships at the deepest levels. This kind of tuning in can help you in every type of relationship, including with yourself, family, children, partners, friends, and colleagues.

Couples Therapy

All Couples are welcome. Your therapist ‘tunes in’ to both partners’ experiences in order to understand the needs, longings and patterns of relating that you each bring to your relationship. Relationship difficulties often stem from patterns that were learned in the past as a means of coping. Negative repetitive cycles can leave partners disconnected and at an impasse, or in the turmoil of conf... Read More

All Couples are welcome. Your therapist ‘tunes in’ to both partners’ experiences in order to understand the needs, longings and patterns of relating that you each bring to your relationship. Relationship difficulties often stem from patterns that were learned in the past as a means of coping. Negative repetitive cycles can leave partners disconnected and at an impasse, or in the turmoil of conflict. We truly believe in the real potential for growth and building new patterns together.

We offer calm, non-judgemental, and warm presence which supports couples to feel heard and to gain empathy for each other so that they can free themselves from the painful snags, barriers, or breakdowns in trust and safety that they experience. We are also ready to connect and assist with the intense emotional distress that couples may be struggling with.

Therapists & Counsellors: Clinical Consultation

My experience over the last 30 years includes private practice, community non-profit, community health care and teaching as an adjunct field supervisor with the University of Toronto Graduate Studies Social Work program. In consulting with, and supporting therapists I repeatedly experience profound respect for the energy, capacity and commitment my colleagues offer to their clients’ wellbein... Read More

My experience over the last 30 years includes private practice, community non-profit, community health care and teaching as an adjunct field supervisor with the University of Toronto Graduate Studies Social Work program.

In consulting with, and supporting therapists I repeatedly experience profound respect for the energy, capacity and commitment my colleagues offer to their clients’ wellbeing. I easily lean into the role of being supportive, encouraging, challenging and protective.

The cornerstones of my theoretical framework include the centrality of relational practice, attachment theory, relational neuroscience, embodied mindfulness, developmental psychology, trauma theory and an inclusive anti-oppression framework.

Alexandra Lihou Gibson MCP, RCC, CCC, PMH-C

I have a BA in Counselling and Human Development, a Masters of Counselling Psychology and have specialized in Reproductive Mental Health. I have been licensed as a Canadian Certified Counsellor and as a Registered Clinical Counsellor since 2013 and share my time between private practice and at the Reproductive Mental Health Program at Royal Columbian Hospital.

The majority of my practice is with women who struggle with mental health concerns that arise or become worsened in pregnancy and post-partum period, as well as with infertility, miscarriage, birth loss, traumatic birth, and the transition to parenthood. I also counsel women suffering from PMS, PMDD, and Peri-Menopause.

As a therapist, I take a collaborative approach with my clients. I enjoy getting to know each person I work with and together we develop a treatment plan and set therapeutic goals based on their individual needs. I utilize Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Interpersonal Therapy, Feminist Theory, Attachment Theory, distress tolerance skills, stress management techniques and mindfulness practices. I practice individual and group therapy. I also work to bring attention to women’s mental health concerns and aim to reduce social stigma in the community. Most recently I spoke at the House of Commons in Ottawa advocating for Motion 110. I was honoured to speak on my clients behalf, advocating for increased government support for bereaved families.

I have a BA in Counselling and Human Development, a Masters of Counselling Psychology and have sp... Read More

Normandy Shewfelt
(She/Her/Hers) MSW RSW RCC

Please note that Normandy’s practice is currently full.

I practice from a relational and embodied approach that is supported by current research in relational neuroscience. I seek to develop therapeutic relationships that are integrative and emotionally regulating. My intention is to support my clients capacity for authenticity, wholeness, and connectedness in relationships.

“Being in Mandy’s presence is to experience the gift of being heard with deep respect and care - the very foundation of healing. Her dedication to doing her own work and to the study of relational neuroscience has allowed her to deepen into a rare kind of wisdom. In a very humble way, she facilitates a safe warm space for healing and growth.”

  • Bonnie Badenoch, PhD, ​Author of “The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships”

Please note that Normandy’s practice is currently full. I practice from a relational and embodie... Read More

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