Supporting you in navigating life's challenges and uncertainties with more understanding, acceptance, flexibility, and resilience.

Melissa Mulongoy is a Registered Psychotherapist dedicated to providing high-quality mental health care and psychotherapy services, with a primary focus on serving the Black community. She centres your needs in every aspect of treatment and wellness, ensuring you feel seen, heard, and supported throughout the therapeutic process.

Melissa holds a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology from Yorkville University. Her perspective as a therapist is informed by a decade of global work with non-governmental organizations focused on women’s empowerment, child protection, gender-based violence, and human rights. Her experiences across Africa, Latin America, North America, the Caribbean, and Asia have shaped her deep understanding of what it means to be human in diverse cultural and systemic contexts.

Therapeutic Approach 

Melissa’s practice is grounded in a client-centred, humanistic, existential, and systemic approach. This means therapy is guided by your lived experience, and supports self-discovery, insight, and meaning-making. She draws from a variety of evidence-based modalities, including:

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
• Compassion & Mindfulness-based Therapies
• Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) 
• Internal Family Systems (IFS) 
• Narrative Therapy
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

Specialties 

Melissa works primarily with adults, and supports those navigating:

• Depression
• Anxiety 
• Stress & Burnout
• Neurodiversity (ADHD & Autism)
• Trauma