Sarah Chiddy (She/Her)

• Abuse (childhood/familial)
• Abuse (intimate partner violence)
• Adoption
• Aging and Age-Related Concerns
• Anger
• Anxiety
• Blended Families
• Body Image
• Climate Anxiety/Climate Grief
• Creative Blocks
• Depression
• Dreamwork and Dream Interpretation
• Existential Concerns
• Fatphobia and Sizeism
• Gender Identity
• Health and Illness
• Immigration and Newcomer Experiences
• Infertility and Fertility
• Intergenerational Trauma
• LGBTQ2SIA+
• Life Crisis and Transitions
• Loneliness and Isolation
• Loss and Grief
• Parenting and Co-Parenting
• Polyamory and Non-traditional Relationships
• Relationships
• Sadistic Tendencies
• Separation and Divorce
• Sex and Kink
• Spirituality and Psychotherapy
• Stress
• Trauma

• Family Therapy
• Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Individual Therapy

I work with people on a weekly basis.

We will generally start with me getting to know a bit about your history—your family; your childhood; the cultures and communities you are part of; and anything else that is important for me to know from the start about who you are.

Once I have some of this background information, you will take the lead in our sessions, talking about what is most present for you. I will listen and share what comes to me when you speak. We will pay attention to your inner world and the outside world we live in, and how they each affect the other.

Our goal is for therapy to be somewhere for honest, brave, and free conversation, where you can explore and honour all of your experiences in the presence of another person. It’s important that anything at all can be discussed in our conversations, and that all of your feelings in their full complexity are welcome—your fear, your anger, your shame, your joy.

I take you and this work seriously and ask the same of you. What you bring is important, and will be treated that way.

Adult Family Therapy

Relationships between family members are complex, and can be inescapable. Whether or not we live together (or ever have), the relationships between children and our caregivers stay with us for our lifetime. Prolonged conflict, estrangement, or ambiguous disconnection can all cause deep distress for everyone involved. More and more, adults and the people who raised them or were meant to raise them are looking for help from therapists to open communication where there has been rupture.

I work with families of adults (primarily parents/caregivers and their adult children) who want to try and shift things in the way they relate to each other. I use the framework of Attachment Based Family Therapy to help you and your family members identify and work to heal attachment wounds.

For more than a decade, I worked in the non-profit sector running youth programming, doing project management, and fundraising. Working in a variety of large and small organizations with complex interpersonal dynamics made it clear to me that the inner lives and unconscious motivations of the people I worked with were what interested me most.

Following an in-depth academic and experiential training program through the Centre for Training in Psychotherapy (CTP), I became a Registered Psychotherapist with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO). I also hold a Masters in Theological Studies from Harvard University.

My own life experiences as a parent, as a queer white cis woman born in Canada to South African parents, as a spouse, and a long-term therapy patient inevitably inform my view of the world. I am an intersectional and trans-inclusive feminist striving towards an anti-racist practice. Our similarities or differences in these areas or others may simply be present or may be useful in our work.