Peter Bawa Makadi

For Peter Bawa Makadi, healing begins where people feel most stuck — in the weight of anxiety, fractured relationships, and the grief that accumulates when life doesn’t go as planned. Drawing on training in CBT, DBT, EFT, and EMDR, he works with individuals, couples, and families navigating depression, trauma, immigration stress, and the particular strains of interracial and cross-cultural family life. That same attentiveness extends to the person who can never fully leave work behind — the one whose phone keeps pulling them back long after the workday should have ended, until the boundary between rest and obligation all but disappears.

Peter holds a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology alongside a Doctor of Ministry in Conflict Management and Mediation, and his practice reflects both: he brings structured therapeutic approaches together with a collaborative, spiritually aware orientation that honours each client’s faith background and cultural context. He is a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) with the CRPO, based in Oshawa, Ontario, and offers online sessions.

Adults, teens, couples, and families who are overwhelmed by relational breakdown, addiction, abuse, or loss find in Peter a patient, nonjudgmental presence focused on helping them rediscover meaning and move forward. His conviction is that the client is always part of the solution.