Carl Yao
Accepting new clientsRegistered Social Worker • RSW
Services: Individual Therapy, Couples Therapy
Language(s): English, Mandarin
Carl’s Bio
Life can feel overwhelming when you are managing difficult emotions, navigating relationships, or adjusting to a new chapter. Counselling can offer space to slow down, understand your experiences, and explore your potential.
Carl’s approach is collaborative, client-centred, and culturally responsive. Together with his clients, he explores emotional experiences and relationship patterns, helps them understand the connections between thoughts, feelings, and behaviours, and develops coping strategies suited to each person’s needs. He respects the knowledge clients bring about their own lives and believes their priorities should guide the work.
Having moved from China to Canada for his education, Carl appreciates how culture, language, family expectations, and belonging can shape our experiences.
You do not need to have everything figured out before beginning. Carl’s aim is to provide a warm, nonjudgmental space where you feel heard, can reconnect with your strengths, and explore meaningful change at your own pace.
Education
- Master of Social Work, University of Toronto
- Bachelor of Arts, Psychology and Philosophy, Western University
Certifications
- Registered Social Worker, Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers (OCSWSSW)
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