I am a person-centered and trauma-informed therapist who uses an integrative approach informed by internal family systems therapy and mindful self-compassion practices.
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I recognize the effects that trauma and lived experiences uniquely have on each individual person. I combine therapeutic techniques and approaches in response to your own unique needs, circumstances, and therapeutic goals.
About me
Savannah Nast
As your therapist, I’ll work with you to adapt and grow with your trauma, develop coping skills, and help reroute any that may no longer be serving you, as well as building up your feelings of safety, compassion, validation, and care.
I work with teens and adults who are looking to process trauma, develop coping methods, going through life transitions, and mental health challenges such as anxiety and depression. As your therapist, I’ll meet you where you’re at and find approaches that work best for you, your needs, and your personal history and experience.
My professional and educational background includes studies in sexuality, gender, anti-oppression, and human development, as well as working for 8 years in the HIV sector with diverse populations. I have an anti-oppressive, feminist, and inclusive approach to psychotherapy.
I am a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO).
I have a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology, as well as two Bachelor’s degrees in Sexuality and Psychology.
In my personal life, I have been committed to my own healing and psychotherapy work since 2007, thanks to the support and guidance of my own psychotherapists. I am a queer, white, cisgender woman, and I am committed to a life of anti-oppressive, anti-racist, and decolonization work.
I share my life with my husband and our cat and dog (who can make the occasional guest appearance in session), and I have been fortunate to have lived across a variety of cities throughout Ontario, Quebec, and B.C..
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Outside of therapy, I enjoy spending time with friends (local and long-distance), reading, writing, running, kayaking, bingeing TV shows, doom-scrolling, and attempting to find some kind of balance between work/life & rest/joy.
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Psychotherapy with Savannah is located on the traditional homeland of the Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee. I am grateful to live, work, and share joy on these lands.
Indigenous peoples have been living in Cataraqui, Kingston, for over 9,000 years. Cataraqui was colonized in the 1600s by the arrival of the French and English people.
This territory is covered by the Dish with One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement between the Haudenosaunee, the Anishinaabe, and the allied nations to peaceably share and care for the lands and resources around the Great Lakes.