Heather Awad

The first session with Heather Awad isn’t about having the right words — it’s about finally having somewhere to put them. She creates a collaborative space where clients can begin, at their own pace, to untangle the past experiences, losses, and relationship strains that have quietly kept them stuck. With 18 years of practice across Canada, Egypt, and the Netherlands, Heather brings a culturally responsive lens to work with individuals, couples, and families — and she offers sessions online, so support is accessible wherever people are.

She works with adults and young people carrying trauma, PTSD, postpartum depression and anxiety, pregnancy loss, fertility stress, relationship difficulties, immigration and cross-cultural adjustment, and struggles with self-worth and identity. For clients whose work now follows them home through a phone that never quite switches off — that blurred edge between professional and personal life showing up as exhaustion, irritability, or disconnection — she helps separate what belongs to the past from what belongs to the present moment.

Heather draws on CBT, EMDR, Schema Therapy, Narrative Exposure Therapy, and Solution-Focused approaches, tailoring each to the individual. Sessions are available in English and Arabic.