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Wayne Gray

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Registered Social Worker
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Sessions start at
$180.00

Wayne is here to support you with self-esteem, racial challenges, marriage & partnership challenges, and addiction recovery ‍

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Wayne supports youth and adults seeking help rediscovering their self-worth, fortifying challenging relationships, removing hurdles that intensify substance dependence, or living with a mental health diagnosis. With over a decade of experience in community mental health and substance use, Wayne is passionate about working with youth and adults to address chronic stress, insecurity, depression and anxiety, or other mental health challenges. Couples therapy work has also been a passion for Wayne. He can support you in exploring and refining communication, context, compromise, and chemistry.

When you're in sessions with Wayne, you'll instantly feel that nothing else takes precedence, and your emotional safety is top of mind. Wayne ensures the mental space you envision being in during sessions is one he creates with you. He's there to listen to your story and guide you to a place of contentment. Bringing self-awareness to each session is a collaborative effort where you and Wayne determine focal points by answering the questions that are most meaningful to you while shifting from a deficit-focused to a strength-based mindset. Wayne will encourage you to harness your inner strengths, develop a resilient spirit, and find renewed hope for change by bringing insight, resources, tools and strategies to sessions. Wayne truly loves the community he represents, which is amplified in his anti-oppressive therapy framework: he will help you identify factors contributing to feelings of marginalization, exclusion, or being undervalued.

Outside of sessions, Wayne really enjoys a good fight- and not the kind you're thinking! He enjoys one that includes a rod and reel in both hands and a lively-spirited fish on the other end. It doesn't take much persuading for Wayne to be in the middle of a river or lake looking for that next big catch. Deep sea fishing off Florida's coastal areas is also an enormous passion. When he's not fishing, Wayne is busy with his daughters, who insist anything he does must meet their approval first. Since his daughters are now teenagers, they can't afford to let Dad do something that could be deemed "embarrassing" (if you know, you know).

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Right for you if:

You are looking for a therapist that's compassionate and understanding.
You're looking for support navigating racial challenges.
You're looking for support building your self-esteem and resilience.
You’re feeling overwhelmed and want to better manage your anxiety or depression.

Right for you if:

You are looking for a therapist that's compassionate and understanding.
You're looking for support navigating racial challenges.
You're looking for support building your self-esteem and resilience.
You’re feeling overwhelmed and want to better manage your anxiety or depression.

More about

Wayne

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Q&A

What do you do to take care of your own mental health?
I'm deliberate about being thankful for the simplest of things... reflective appreciation is so undervalued.
What would you say to a friend struggling with a mental health issue?
The challenge you may be facing in NO WAY defines who you are... You are so much more.
How do you describe therapy?
We're sitting at a table and just opened a 1000 piece puzzle. It may be blurry or have no picture to reference. Let's work on putting those pieces together... the more pieces we connect the clearer the picture in our puzzle becomes.

Master of Social Work, Ryerson University (2018)

Culturally Appropriate Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (Women’s Health in Women’s Hands Community Health Centre)

Traumatic Incident Reduction (Centre for Emotional Resolution & Change)

Trauma & Internal Family Systems Model (Mission Empowerment Team)

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (Hincks-Dellcrest Centre)

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (Lakeridge Health)

Motivational Interviewing: Introduction and Application (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health)

Brief Action Planning for Crisis & Ongoing Intervention (Canadian Mental Health Association)

Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (Canadian Mental Health Association)

Mental Health First Aid Instructor (Mental Health First Aid Canada)

Ontario Association of Social Workers

Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers

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