Jae Steele, MACP, BHSc, RP(Q), RHN

I am Jae (they/them), a compassionate and curious psychotherapist with almost 20 years of working with people in various healthcare spheres.

I am particularly suited to welcoming clients looking for support related to:

  • ADHD/neurodivergence (including identity, management, masking, and burnout)

  • addiction

  • anxiety

  • borderline personality disorder (BPD)

  • grief and loss

  • high sensitivity (HSP) and rejection sensitivity dysphoria (RSD)

  • intergenerational trauma and family systems/constellations

  • LGBTQ+ identity (sexuality, gender, relationships, creative expression and more!)

  • life transitions (school, work, moving, illness, you name it)

  • parenting (from pregnancy, to sole or co-parenting, to relationships with adult children, and everything in between)

  • premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) or premenstrual exacerbation (PME)

  • relationships (dating, partnership, ethical nonmonogamy/polyamory, separation)

  • supporting a loved one through their mental health struggles

I delight in working collaboratively with clients in holistic and trauma-informed ways, incorporating humour and mindfulness. I endeavour to be humble, with a decolonized, intersectional and otherwise anti-oppressive stance. I appreciate individual identity and collectivism. I celebrate diverse gender expression and ways of building families. I value harm reduction and various recovery pathways. I want to help improve how we give and receive care in communities, rather than in isolation.

And what did you do before you were a therapist?

My path has been far from linear. I worked and studied in the perinatal field for a decade before pursuing my Master’s degree, studying infant and early childhood mental health while working as a postpartum doula and early parenting conference organizer. Before that, I was a midwifery student, which afforded me the privilege of working intimately with hundreds of families and attending almost 200 births. Prior to all that, I wrote cookbooks, and worked as a holistic nutritionist.

What do you like to do when you’re not working?

I love cooking with and for people. I deeply appreciate walking through natural areas with my kid and my dog and getting a change of air and scenery from our busy west-end Toronto neighbourhood. I enjoy a good TV series binge but love reading, too - mostly memoirs and fiction. I’m also a quilter and a knitter. I have a habit of collecting and propagating far too many houseplants, so I occasionally sell them at my local farmers’ market to raise money for various Indigenous-led organizations.

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