Children and youth
Support from age 5 up for emotional regulation, behavioural concerns, and school-related stress, at a level that fits the child's age. Read about child and youth therapy.
Meet Natalie
Natalie Besharat
Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), CRPO #23041
Natalie is a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) and a Canadian Certified Addiction Counsellor. She works with children from age 5, youth, adults, and families, and offers care in English.
Most of her work is with children, youth, and families. She also supports people through trauma and other difficult life experiences, addiction, emotional regulation, and behavioural concerns.
Natalie is warm and collaborative in session. Sessions are paced around what the client, or the family, can hold.
In session
An approach shaped around each client.
Natalie's work is integrative and trauma-informed. She draws from behavioural,psychodynamic, and mindfulness-based approaches, including Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. Which approach she uses is chosen for the client rather than set by one fixed model.
Family sessions usually look at communication, recurring conflict, parenting concerns, and the behavioural and emotional patterns that show up between family members.
Areas of support
Natalie works with children from age 5, youth, adults, and families.
She also works with anxiety,depression,grief,self-esteem, and stress.
Families
Parents and children together, or the family as a whole, including work on parenting concerns.
Trauma and difficult life experiences
Trauma-informed support for experiences that are hard to talk about or still affecting everyday life, including grief and loss.
Addiction
Support for addiction concerns, informed by her certification as a Canadian Certified Addiction Counsellor.
For parents and caregivers
You do not need the perfect words before reaching out.
Looking for support for a child can mean carrying the worry and the practical questions at the same time. You do not need to choose a therapy approach first. You can begin with what you have noticed and what has become harder lately.
Start with what you see
Big feelings, a change in behaviour, school stress, or tension at home can be enough to begin the conversation.
Ask the practical questions
Ask about age, fit, how family members may be involved, and which service on Natalie's booking page is the right one to choose.
Keep the whole child in view
The concern may be what brought you here, but it is not the whole child. Sessions are paced around the person, or the family, in front of Natalie.
Approach
Natalie's training and credentials.
- Credentials: Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), CRPO #23041. Verify on the CRPO public register.
- Additional certification: Canadian Certified Addiction Counsellor. This is a separate certification, not part of her CRPO registration.
- Education: Master of Science, McMaster University.
- Professional memberships: Canadian Association of Psychoanalytic Child Therapists, and the Ontario Association of Mental Health Professionals.
- Client focus: Children from age 5, youth, adults, and families.
- Languages of care: English.
- Modalities: Integrative and trauma-informed, drawing from behavioural, psychodynamic, and mindfulness-based approaches, including Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR).
- Does not provide: Psychological assessment, diagnosis, or medication. Does not see children under 5.
Start with a calm first conversation.
Ask questions, discuss fit, and decide whether therapy with Natalie feels like the right next step.