Hello and Welcome! My name is Dannika. I believe that everyone is capable of change with the right tools and support, and I am excited to be with you on your therapy journey.
My own childhood experiences led me on a pathway of healing and growth as an adult and, ultimately, toward becoming a therapist. With both my personal and professional experiences, I’d like to support you on your healing journey.
My professional path has taken me into several different roles over the past fifteen years and clinically as a therapist over the past ten years, supporting couples, parents, youth, and adult individuals along the way. After a brief hiatus, Niagara has called me back to my roots as someone born and raised in this area, and I am proud to call it home once again.
While I received my professional degrees, including a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Child and Youth Studies and Sociology at Brock University, A Bachelor of Social Work Degree at Lakehead University and my Master of Social Work degree at the University of Toronto with a focus on health and mental health, I also lean on my additional training in Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy, Emotion Focused Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (Skills Focused) and more. I wholeheartedly believe that we are all complex and unique beings. Therefore, I practice as an eclectic therapist, meaning that I draw from different modalities to support you in the best possible way I can.
While I enjoy working with various people, I especially enjoy working with couples, families, parents and youth 12+ for multiple concerns. Some of my focuses include relational challenges, communication challenges, anxiety, ADHD, self-image, self-esteem and family of origin concerns.
Ultimately, I firmly believe that at the heart of therapy is connection: your connection to your therapist and a focus on improving connections in your life, whether with yourself, your significant other, your child, your family or other important people in your life.
On that note, I’d like to share a bit about myself for you to connect with me. I am a wife, a mama to two fur babies, a sister, a friend, an auntie to several nieces and nephews and a godmother to two children. You can often find me cooking and sharing social time with others, exploring and embracing nature and the outdoors, weightlifting in the gym, practicing yoga and enjoying concerts in my spare time.
If you have connected to what I have shared and are interested in learning more about me and working with me, let’s chat!