A woman with long, wavy reddish-brown hair smiling, wearing a black and white patterned top and layered gold necklaces, sitting against a light-colored wall.
A woman with long, wavy reddish-brown hair smiling, wearing a black and white patterned top and layered gold necklaces, sitting against a light-colored wall.

Registered Social Worker #17968  

Hi, I’m Kendra Anselmo

My approach to therapy is relational and integrative, weaving together parts work, somatic therapy, relational attunement, and emotional resonance. I aim to support you in making sense of your experiences, recognizing and offering compassion to the ways you’ve learned to survive, and ultimately setting down the burdens and narratives that no longer serve you, or were never yours to carry. Together, we can create the space to gently meet your inner parts, offering each one safety, empathy, and the chance to be witnessed.

I also recognize that distress doesn’t exist in a vacuum, but is shaped and sustained by systemic, historic, and social forces. With this in mind, I make space for a critical consciousness of the systems that impact us all, and invite you to collaborate with me in naming their harms and identifying opportunities for resistance.

I believe that each of us finds our own unique pathway to healing. I strive to honour your inner healing intelligence, with the understanding that you are the expert of your own life and story. My role is to walk alongside you, co-creating a space where you feel safe enough to explore, connect with your inner wisdom, and move toward healing in a way that feels right for you. At its core, I hope our work together feels like a partnership where you feel seen, heard, and empowered.

What Shapes My Practice

Three values that guide every session.

I believe that you already possess the power and ability to heal. The goal is never to tell you who to be or how to feel, it is to walk alongside you and help you to identify opportunities to reconnect with your own inner wisdom and loving self energy.

You are the expert

Healing is not only cognitive. Trauma lives in our nervous systems and is healed in relationship. In our work together, I aim to bring the body into the conversation, making space for here-and-now experiences that offer the nervous system what it needs to feel safe and seen.

The body keeps the score

Distress does not exist in a vacuum. Systemic, historic, and social forces shape our experiences. This work makes space for that reality, naming harms and identifying opportunities for resistance and resilience.

Context matters