About the Therapist
Bareen Naqvi
Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)
CRPO Registration #20167
Warm, thoughtful psychotherapy for adults and couples seeking greater clarity, steadiness, and connection.
Like many people, Bareen is more than any one role or title. She is a woman, wife, mother, daughter, sibling, immigrant, and traveller who spent more than 20 years in corporate management before following her passion for the helping profession.
My Approach to Therapy
A Compassionate, Non-Pathologizing Approach
I meet clients with compassion and adopt a non-pathologizing approach that helps clients understand the different “parts” of themselves—such as the part that worries, the perfectionist part, the part that avoids, the part that people-pleases, or the part that feels it is not good enough.
A central part of Internal Family Systems is helping clients reconnect with what the model calls Self-energy—the calm, compassionate, curious, and grounded qualities that can sometimes feel harder to access during challenging times. In our work together, we may explore how to relate to the inner world with more clarity and care, so that even the parts carrying anxiety, worry, anger, guilt, or protection can be better understood rather than judged.
Understand Your Inner World
Notice patterns such as worry, perfectionism, avoidance, people-pleasing, or self-criticism with greater curiosity and less judgment.
Reconnect With Self
Strengthen access to calm, compassion, clarity, confidence, and groundedness during emotionally difficult moments.
Create Meaningful Change
Develop new ways of responding to anxiety, relationships, work stress, and recurring patterns that no longer feel helpful.
Areas of Focus
What We Can Explore Together
People come to therapy for many different reasons. Some may be navigating a specific challenge, while others may feel disconnected, overwhelmed, uncertain, or ready to understand themselves more deeply.
Therapy can offer space to explore what is happening beneath the surface and develop a more compassionate relationship with thoughts, emotions, patterns, and relationships.
Anxiety and Emotional Overwhelm
Anxiety, persistent worry, stress, irritability, or difficulty feeling calm and grounded.
ADHD and Self-Understanding
Diagnosed or suspected ADHD, executive-function challenges, procrastination, emotional regulation, and late-diagnosed ADHD.
Anger and Emotional Regulation
Understanding what may be happening beneath anger and developing more intentional ways of responding.
Relationships and Couples
Relationship stress, communication challenges, recurring conflict patterns, and infidelity.
Difficult Relationship Experiences
Narcissistic abuse recovery, shame, guilt, self-criticism, and emotionally difficult relationships.
Work, Burnout, and Life Transitions
Burnout, workplace stress, caregiver stress, identity questions, major transitions, grief, loss, or loneliness.
Self-Esteem and Feeling Stuck
Feeling disconnected, uncertain, repetitive patterns, low self-worth, or difficulty trusting inner wisdom.
Meaning and Existential Concerns
Spiritual, existential, values-based, or meaning-related concerns approached respectfully and without imposing religious beliefs.
Trauma and Nervous-System Awareness
Exploring protective responses, triggers, emotional patterns, and ways of relating to difficult experiences with greater care.
You do not need to have everything figured out before starting therapy. Many clients begin simply knowing that something feels heavy, confusing, repetitive, or difficult to carry alone, and seek greater clarity by reconnecting with their inner wisdom.
Professional Development
Additional Training
- Frank Anderson’s Internal Family Systems Trauma Treatment Program: A Four-Month Online Intensive
- Gottman Level 1 Couples Counselling Training
- Polyvagal Practice Summit: Somatic and Sound-Based Therapies for the Nervous System
- Hypnosis and Guided Imagery in Therapy: Practical Methods of Bringing Visualization Techniques Into Practice
- Gabor Maté’s Compassionate Inquiry in Action: An Experiential Course for Healing Deep Trauma Wounds
- Changing the ADHD Brain: Moving Beyond Medication
Taking the First Step
Begin With a Brief Conversation
A complimentary 20-minute consultation provides an opportunity to ask questions, briefly discuss what brings you to therapy, and determine whether working together feels like a good fit.