Joss Martinez (She/Her/Hers),
intern counsellor

Joss has always been passionate about helping others. Since her early youth, she has been part of support groups helping members of various communities, including members of disadvantaged groups. Her life experiences and the different challenges she has faced as an immigrant moving to a new country by herself and adapting to a new culture have inspired her to pursue a career as a counsellor. She enjoys working with different modalities to achieve well-being, such as reiki, energy healing, meditation, and sound therapy. She uses these tools to support the therapeutic process when appropriate.
She works with individuals who are facing a range of issues such as depression, anxiety, difficulty establishing or maintaining healthy relationships, symptoms resulting from past trauma, cultural adaptation, migration, and settlement. She has worked with individuals of different ages, genders, and cultures. These diverse experiences allow her to offer a tailored approach that respects and reflects the individual’s unique identity.
She believes that all our social identities interact and contribute to our life experiences, and by understanding how we respond to those experiences, we can recognize how the circumstances and past experiences have shaped us. This allows us to find more appropriate responses in times of struggle.
She works from a person-centred framework which means that she uses different theoretical orientations to develop a therapeutic style for each client. Solution Focused Therapy, Internal Family Systems, and Narrative Therapy are just some of the therapeutic modalities that we can explore while working together.