1:1 Leadership Coaching

for women, queer, neurodivergent, immigrant & BIPOC leaders in social work, mental health services, community-based & social services, advocacy & social impact, and nonprofit sectors

in Ontario, Nova Scotia, Alberta

Lead from a Place of Power, Integrity and Wholeness

You’re a leader navigating complex systems. You care deeply about your team, your mission and your community. But you’re also carrying a lot – burnout, conflict, self-doubt, systemic barriers, and emotional overwhelm.

This leadership coaching space is for you if you’re looking for a trauma-informed, identity-affirming, deeply relational and pragmatic space to reflect, reset and lead with greater clarity, confidence, care and accountability.

What 1:1 Leadership Coaching Offers

🌱 Power with Purpose
Explore how you use – and experience – power, based on Julie Diamond’s Diamond Power Index™. Learn to align your inner authority with your external role and show up with clarity and purpose.

🧠 Courageous Leadership
Integrate tools from Brené Brown’s Dare to Lead™ to build shame resilience, navigate tough conversations, and cultivate trust, vulnerability and integrity in your leadership style.

🌿 Authentic, Anti-Oppressive Practice
Draw from Anima Leadership’s framework to lead with equity, humility and grounded presence – especially across differences in your organization and on your teams. We explore identity, power, privilege and belonging, in real time.

🌟 Strengths-Based Clarity
Use VIA Character Strengths at Work to identify and expand the unique traits that already make you a strong and values-driven leader.

Together, We Can Explore

  • Chronic stress and burnout prevention

  • Navigating ethical tensions and spiritual / moral pain

  • Leadership isolation and identity-based impostor syndrome

  • Conflict resolution and team dynamics

  • Boundary-setting and sustainable decision-making

  • Workplace accommodations or role transitions

  • Rebuilding self-trust and visioning forward

This is not just professional coaching. It’s a healing, strategic and identity-affirming space to help you lead from your wholeness – not from survival mode.

Who I Work With

This coaching space is especially for:

  • Nonprofit and grassroots leaders

  • Program managers and team leads

  • Community organizers and activists

  • Executive directors and operations staff

  • Equity-focused leaders and culture shifters

  • Women, queer, racialized, immigrant and neurodivergent folks in leadership roles

You don’t need a specific title. If you’re holding responsibility, care or influence – you are a leader.

Format + Fees

  • Free 15-Minute Phone Consultation to explore fit and goals

  • Ongoing Virtual / Video Sessions (60 mins)

    • Recommended frequency of sessions:  every 2-6 weeks, depending on your availability, budget, goals and needs

    • Minimum 8-10 session commitment encouraged

  • Fee: $200/hr + HST

Let’s Work Together

If you’re ready to lead from a place of groundedness, clarity and deep self-trust, I’d be honoured to support you.

OR email me to discuss coaching for your team or organization!

Frequently Asked Questions

  • I’m a Registered Social Worker (RSW) in Ontario, Nova Scotia, and Alberta.

  • I work with women, queer, BIPOC, immigrants and neurodivergent folks between the ages of 18–55, as well as organizations that serve these communities.

    I specialize in supporting marginalized and minoritized people whose experiences and identities are often overlooked by dominant systems.

  • I provide:

    • 1:1 Clinical Consultation

    • Group-based / team-based Clinical Consultation

    • 1:1 Leadership Coaching

    • Educational workshops (on select topics)

    *for professionals, leaders and teams in the social work, mental health, community & social services, advocacy & activism sectors.

  • I most often support professionals and teams navigating chronic stress and burnout, including:

    • Vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue

    • Ethical or spiritual pain

    • Systemic barriers and oppression

    • Challenging workplace and team dynamics

    We go beyond stress management to:

    • strengthen clinical, communication and leadership skills

    • navigate ethical dilemmas

    • address team conflicts

    • explore workplace accommodations

    • explore professional development goals

  • My work is:

    • Trauma-Informed

    • Anti-Racist and Anti-Oppressive (ARAO)

    • Intersectionally Feminist

    • Neurodivergent Affirming

    • Queer Affirming

    • Sex Positive

    • Harm-Reduction-Based

    • Strengths-Based

    I use a holistic, eclectic and integrative approach – drawing on multiple modalities to meet the unique needs of each professional, team and organization.

  • My background includes:

    • Undergraduate &/or Graduate Degrees in Psychology, Cultural Anthropology and Social Work

    • Clinical Training in:

      • Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)

      • Internal Family Systems (IFS)

      • Mindfulness

      • Narrative Therapy

      • Sex Therapy

      • Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)

      • Somatic Attachment Therapy (SAT)

    • Leadership Training in:

      • Anima Leadership’s DEI framework for navigating race, identity and power in leadership positions and the workplace

      • Brené Brown’s Dare to Lead™ program

      • Julie Diamond’s Diamond Power Index (DPI™) framework and 360 leadership assessment

    • I have worked in a variety of roles and organizations in Toronto’s nonprofit sector (2012–2021) and in my clinical private practice since 2017.

    • I speak Farsi fluently.

  • I’ve provided consultation, coaching and workshops to:

    • Athena’s Sexual Assault Counselling & Advocacy Centre

    • Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies (CAEFS)

    • Egale Canada

    • Friends of Ruby

    • Indexing Society of Canada (ISC)

    • Rainbow Railroad

    • The Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver

    • and more…

    • For 1:1 Clinical Consultation or Leadership Coaching, click the BOOK NOW button to schedule a free 15-minute phone consult.

    • For team-based or organizational services, email me to arrange a 30–45 minute video consult to discuss your needs and budget.

    • 1:1 Clinical Consultation = $180 / hr + HST

    • Group-based / Team-based Clinical Consultation = $250 / hr + HST

    • 1:1 Leadership Coaching = $200 / hr + HST

    • Virtual Workshop Facilitation = $500 / hr + HST

    • Consultation on Organizational / Team Needs = $180 / hr + HST

    • Organizational Document Review & Analysis = $150 / hr + HST

    • Organizational Document Preparation / Creation / Customization = $150 / hr + HST

  • I recommend meeting virtually every 2-6 weeks, depending on your availability, budget, goals and needs.

    Our work together can be short-term, time-limited / goal-specific, or long-term, depending on your professional goals and needs.

  • You can count on me to:

    • Be fully engaged, honest and compassionate

    • Share new perspectives and practical tools

    • Offer relevant books, articles, podcasts, videos and other resources

    • Encourage reflection and sustainable action

    • Bring warmth, humour and balance to our sessions