Meet Our Team:

Ryan is a healer, teacher, researcher, and Doctor of Psychotherapy. They are passionate about helping others to better understand themselves and the difficulties they face. Ryan enjoys sharing their expertise in both Psychodynamic and Person-Centered Therapy, and sharing the benefits of these modalities with other therapists. Ryan is also passionate about educating practitioners to work with adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse and other forms of childhood abuse. In this vein, Ryan serves on Kingdom Abuse Survivor's Project's Board of Trustees, which is a non-profit organization that seeks to offer counselling and other supports to survivors in Fife, Scotland, UK. As a member of the LGBTQI+ community, Ryan advocates for appropriate recognition of the challenges LGBTQI+ folks face, and helps organizations to offer supportive and informed services for those folks. 

Ryan brings experience of management and administration in mental health and addictions to their work at Centred-Self, and aims to provide a supportive and friendly environment to clients seeking services and the associates who work with us. Ryan is also pleased to be involved in offering workshops and trainings to practitioners as a part of the Centred-Self team. In addition to their work at CS, Ryan is a Fellow at Maria Droste Counseling Center in Denver, CO, USA, and offers psychotherapy there. 

Hello! I'm Monica and I have spent the last decade helping people see the world around them in health care and ophthalmology.  I have always been facinated by psychology, the mind and human relationships.  So now I'm working towards a Masters of Arts in Counselling and Psychotherapy to help people see themselves in their world in a different way.   I believe that therapy offers a place for us to connect with ourselves deeply, to explore the vast possibilites our lives and to empower us to claim our sovereignty.  

Meeting you where you are, just as you are is where this journey begins and we will wrestle through the tough stuff, take detours and the road less taken while having a bit of fun along the way - together. 

Aside from the day-to-day, I am a psychonaut and Krav Maga enthusiast who is always tinkering with something - right now it's micro, balcony, container farming.  I wouldn't go a day without a high-five from my rescue pup, Olive.

Hello! I'm Maggie and I am 1.5 years old. I love being around everyone I meet - and I have never met a treat I don't love. 

I really like cuddles and playing fetch. I am still very bouncy, but I am in training to be a therapy dog and love making people feel good. 

I wanted to be the Centred Self mascot to make people smile, and also to help break the stigma against mental health. Hopefully with my goofy looks throughout this webpage you feel welcomed to get the care you need.