Meet the staff
Rose Locco | Cert. Master Coach | Clinical Hypnotist | P2S Owner
Since 2017, Rose has coached hundreds of clients with their life and business challenges.
With over 30 years of life and work experience, Rose blends her life and business knowledge into her coaching, guiding you towards the goals you want to achieve, improving your performance, communication, both personally and professionally, and boosting your confidence. She will guide you towards the life, relationship, business and career you have always wanted.
Rose works with individuals that want to be on top of their game. Clients at all levels that want to take their life and business to the next level. Businesses that want to catapult their sales and team to higher performance. Business owners that want to scale and grow their business.
She is also a Certified Clinical Hypnotist and will help you get rid of fears and phobias, quit smoking, lose weight and improve all other parts of your life through hypnosis.
Rose brings to her coaching:
Owned and operated a Sales and Marketing company, grew it to 1500 staff worldwide and took it to IPO. Company was listed in Canada's Top 100 Small to Mid Size Companies to Work and do Business with.
MBA, BSc, RT in Engineering
CHRP, Certified Sales Professional, Project Manager, Business Consultant
Certification in Clinical Hypnosis (University of Toronto)
Rose has travelled to most continents, a UN Volunteer since 1999 and an outdoor enthusiast.
Connect with Rose on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/roselocco
Deion Francis | Cert. Master Coach
Deion Francis is an Image Curator and Certified Master and Professional Coach.
Deion is also a compelling Transformational Speaker, Program Development Specialist, Radio Show Host and the Author of the upcoming book CHANGE.
She has developed and launched signature mindset, growth and empowerment seminars and workshops since 2016, and has gone on to develop the Pathway Way to Transition Coaching Program , a step by step guide to assist newcomers’ in their personal and professional transition.
Her organic one on one coaching approach allows her business and personal clients to Identify, engage and utilize their hidden and natural skillsets to achieve optimum and lasting results.
Her goal is to continuously provide individuals and businesses with solution tools, products and services for the purpose of successful transition and growth.
As an Image Curator and Certified Master Coach her quest is to make coaching an accessible resource to those in need and an essential part of daily living.
Dr. Shelley Evans | Mental Health Specialist | PhD DNM DHM
A seasoned and versatile professional, Dr. Shelley has wide-ranging experience and expertise in physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental health services as a private practitioner, consultant, and community volunteer.
She offers an empathetic approach, excellent communication skills, innovative ideas, and an exemplary work ethic.
Her experience includes program management, business operations, and documentation and records.
With a background in behavioral counseling, psychoeducation, natural medicine, and spiritual development, she excels at integrating diverse theoretical and practical techniques to deliver positive real-world outcomes for clients to achieve personal empowerment and recovery from debilitating disease and physical challenges; addiction, trauma, and family crisis, and other issues.
She also delivers support services for veterans and indigenous populations.
Ekene Balogun | Therapist /Counsellor
Ekene has an MA in Counselling Psychology and has worked with children, youth, Individuals, and families for over 22 years.
She started her career working with “high risk”/vulnerable youths, young mothers, and victims of sexual, physical, and emotional abuse in London UK. and has a wealth of experience working with individuals that have experienced trauma, domestic violence, depression, grief, self-harm, anxiety, stress, bullying and anger.
Ekene graduated in 2004 with a BSC in Social Science & Criminology.
After graduating she worked with the Metropolitan Police in London UK, then went onto work with the biggest charity in London NSPCC to protect children from child abuse.
Ekene gained extensive experience was the driving factor that encouraged her to look beyond the behavior and towards the root.
After migrating to Canada in 2012, Ekene went onto to complete a Masters in Counselling Psychology and endeavors to find the unique blend that is best for her client. She uses Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Trauma focused Therapy and Solution Focused Therapy.
Ekene enjoys working with individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds and aspires to provide a caring, respectful, warm, and collaborative environment for every client.
Throughout the years of working with people, there are three words that keep Ekene grounded, “life goes on!” Often life happens and we may experience challenges, uncertainty and barriers that can become a huge stumbling blocks in our personal journey.
There is a famous quote that says, “Life is 10% of what happens to us and 90% is how we react to it”. Ekene believes we gain important pieces of wisdom through experience and Ekene’s goal is to reconnect individuals with the hope that change can happen, barriers can be broken, and that the quality of a person’s life can be maximized. n
Ian MacKillican | Certified Coach
As a professionally trained, certified, & experienced Developmental Success & Mindset Coach, Ian is committed to taking a holistic approach in order to help clients optimize their health, happiness, vitality, performance, and achieve their greatest potential.
Through a series of conversations and deep intuitive listening, Ian helps individuals explore their values, challenge their limiting beliefs, foster self-awareness through reflection while building confidence & gaining clarity through self-discovery.
Ian works closely with clients to help them create positive habits & changes in their life through thoughtful, purposeful actions that move them towards their desired outcomes & goals.
Ian believes in empowering clients to create a life of wellness, vitality, resiliency, meaning, and fulfillment.
Jane Gardner | Certified Coach
Jane is an experienced Coach, Mentor and Leader, who empowers individuals to continually grow, evolve, and embrace the value they bring to the world.
She is a Certified Professional Coach, focusing on Leadership and Life Coaching.
Jane enjoys being able to create an impact by building meaningful and authentic connections with her clients. Her goal is to help others feel more energized, confident, and empowered as they continue on their path forward.
In her role as a Coach, she believes that empathy is her best superpower!
Prior to becoming a Coach, Jane spent almost 15 years in various corporate environments, including Investment Banking and Legal Services, with a focus on team engagement, performance management and leadership development.
Jane is a Certified Professional Coach (CPC), Energy Master Practitioner (ELI-MP) and a COR.E Leadership Dynamics Specialist (CLDS) from the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC). She is an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) through the International Coaching Federation, and holds a Bachelor of Arts (BA) from the University of Guelph.
Paul Pasternak | Certified Coach
Paul is a certified professional and personal coach through the Co-Active Training Institute with over twenty-five years of experience supporting clients’ career advancement and career decision making.
With over two decades of experience, Paul offers a quality of engagement and learning that will support you to thrive. Whether you want to advance your career, navigate in a new direction or make powerful personal life changes--Paul will support your success.
Some of the coaching topics Paul is known for include:
Career Visioning & Advancement
Powerful Resumes and Covering Letters
Effective interview and networking strategies
Outstanding Personal Branding
Enhanced Work Performance
Advanced Interpersonal Communication
Effective Leadership Skills
Work-Life Balance
Creating Abundance
Time Management
Finding New Employment
Mindset Coaching
Having made several life transitions, Paul knows what it takes to remain calm, focused, and create a strong foundation for your success.
You will benefit from Paul’s collaborative support style to identify your challenges and leverage your strengths. He is committed to personal growth and has followed a daily meditation practice for over twenty years.
Coaching clients in a variety of sectors including education, retail, finance, oil & gas, health care and small business.
Most recently he worked as an advisor with the University of Waterloo's coop education department.
Paul holds a BA (Hons) from the University of Western University.
Yani Sizov | Certified Coach
Yani is a certified mindset and career coach, a business analyst, and a relentless go-getter.
After building a successful career in high tech, she decided to combine her analytical skills with her passion for motivating and inspiring others into a coaching method that changes not only how you act but how you think.
She had over 4 different careers before reaching where she is today, lived in 3 countries, speaks 3 languages, was in 2 metal bands, has 1 cat, and is happily married to 1 husband!
She merges NLP, visualization, the law of attraction principles, and her education in psychology into a holistic method to get you to transform from the inside out.
Sarah Nazim | Certified Coach
Sarah is an ICF certified coach who is passionate about helping people achieve their full potential.
Her own self-discovery journey is what led her to the field of coaching after years working in the business world.
She specializes in career coaching, life purpose discovery and dating burnout/perpetual singlehood.
When she’s not working she dabbles in music and other artistic pursuits!
Sarah is committed to bringing out the best in her clients while holding them accountable to their goals.
Maria Tiara Fernando | Counsellor
Tiara is Canadian Certified Counsellor.
Her areas of specialties include:
-trauma
-stress-reduction
-relationships/interpersonal communication
Her passion is helping clients reach their personal goals through various approaches. She believes that everyone deserves a safe space where they can be open and vulnerable, and she always takes the time to build a trusting and genuine relationship and believes that together, we can set goals to overcome the challenges you may be facing.
Tiaras brings with her:
Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology
She is also in the process of completing her PhD in Forensic Psychology.
Ileana Jiménez | Wellness Counsellor/Certified Coach/Nutritionist
Ileana is passionate to help others strengthen their ability to feel their emotions safely via building awareness of embodied emotion, self-compassion, and acceptance. She believes everyone has an innate motivation to flourish and the power to create the life each of us truly want.
She brings forward her own personal experience along her education to provide support for others navigating life and health challenges whether is anxiety, depression, stress, anger, chronic health issues, emotional dysregulation, substance use, life transitions, or exploring life purpose.
Her own personal health journey healing from endometriosis and chronic digestive disorders redirected her career from teaching to going deeper into holistic practices. She believes that physical and mental wellbeing is impacted by trapped emotions in the body due to unresolved trauma, therefore integrates emotional healing into her work to provide a more integrated support to help others in similar paths.
Ileana is a Holistic Wellnes Counsellor, Certified Life Coach and Registered Holistic Nutritionist. She has a background working with children in learning settings and vulnerable communities, and supporting adults with diverse abilities through life skills facilitation. She started her career on the helping field facilitating learning programs to vulnerable children in a children’s home while studying preschool education, which inspired her to learn more about childhood trauma.
Ileana follows a holistic approach under a trauma-informed practice and is person-centered. Her therapy style is informed in Somatic Therapy, CBT, DBT, Mindfulness, Motivational Interviewing, Somatic Attachment Therapy, Inner Relationship focusing, breathwork and transpersonal approaches.
She also offers holistic nutritional support to her clients who are interested on supporting their mental health naturally (optimal brain function, anxiety, depression, trauma, irritability, mood swings, chronic stress, adrenal fatigue, emotional overwhelm and nervous system overactivation).
Ileana’s areas of specialization include:
-Personal development and life skills
-Anxiety and Depression
-Anger
-Boundaries
-Chronic stress and health challenges
-Spiritual Wellness
-Inner child work
-Addictions and Substance use
-Emotional dysregulation
-Unhelpful thinking patterns and overfunctioning
-Self-confidence and self-esteem
-Nutritional coaching/counselling for mental health, digestive health, stress and adrenal fatigue
-Nutritional support for optimal brain function, anxiety, depression, irritablity, mood swings, and
emotional overwhelm and nervous system hyperactivation.
Elior Nerel | Life Coach
Eli has been working in the fields of enhancing health, well-being and overall life success for over 10 years. She is passionate about bringing inspiration and practical tools for people to achieve the life of their dreams. She believes in the human spirit and innate gifts we all hold, and she trusts that as a coach she can support you to uncover your greatest potential and unlock your inner clarity, vitality, confidence and success.
Areas of specialization:
Enhancing Holistic Health & Wellness
Healthy exercise, nutrition, weight loss and embodiment practices
Compassionate and non-judgemental listening
Positive Mindset and inner child healing
Recovering from Trauma, Addictions and substance use
Conflict resolution and developing successful and harmonious relationships
NVC (Non-violent communication)
Emotional and mental health tools to cope with everyday challenges Spiritual practices such as meditation, mindfulness and intuitive guidance
Eli brings with her:
Bachelor's degree in Indigenous healing and wellness and communication
Associate degree in Social Work
Certification in Personal training, Nutrition and Weight loss
Certification in mental health and crisis intervention
Certification in Horticultural & Nature therapy
Eli welcomes all genders & ages in a way that fits you best- either individually, in a family setting or in groups
Florencia Glover | Therapist / Counsellor
With a licensure in Psychology and a MA in Counselling Psychology, Florencia counts on the experience and expertise to tailor the treatment to your needs. Her passion is working with emotions and how they affect our everyday life. By using an integrative approach to counseling she will help you create your life as you want it. Working together you will find a safe space to support you on your personal journey toward self awareness and discovery.
Florencia comes with over 7 years experience working with Adolescents, Adults and Elders in various different demographics including:
Christian
Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender,
Jewish
Latino American
People with Disabilities,
Both Men and Women
Her treatment approach includes: Biopsychosocial, Cognitive/Cognitive-Behavioral, Compassion Focus Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Interpersonal, Person-Centered, Psychodynamic, Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Approach Description: Some of my training includes CBT, DBT, trauma-informed, addictions, and psychodynamic among others.
Some of her training also includes CBT, DBT, trauma-informed, addictions, and psychodynamic among others.
Onyinye Anadozie, MACP, CCC | Therapist / Counsellor
Onyi is a multiculturally competent Canadian Certified Counsellor, Nurse and a Level II
Gottman Couples Therapy Graduate.
She enjoys supporting individuals to achieve their greatest potentials. Onyi is a graduate of Yorkville University, New Brunswick, where she obtained a Master of Arts in Counselling
Psychology (MA) degree. She specializes in Immigrants & Refugees, Victims of Abuse, anger management, ADD/ADHD, Cognitive Disability, family counselling, anxiety disorder, depression, grief, attachment, and relationship repair using Narrative Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution Focused therapy , Trauma Focused CBT etc.
Onyi cherishes family values and respects other peoples’ family and cultural value
systems. She has a passion for helping those who are struggling with life challenges or
mental health issues as she is no stranger to difficulties that required resilience.
Onyi brings with her:
Registered member of the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA), College of Licensed Practical Nurses of Alberta (CLPNA),
British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM).
Oluwaseun Bamidele Akin-Fasae, PHD, MEd | Therapist / Counsellor
Olu has a PhD in Counselling Psychology and a Masters in Adolescents Psychology and Youths Counselling.
She is a seasoned academic and counsellor spanning over 10 years. She is a non-certified professional member of CCPA.
Olu has a passion for helping adolescents navigate the identity crisis/challenges encountered at that period of development.. Also, she loves assisting and guarding people develop their self-esteem and boost their feelings of self-worth.
Olu brings with her:
PHD in Counselling Psychology
Masters in Adolescents Psychology and Youth Couselling
Hossein Kaji, MA , PHD | Therapist / Counsellor
As a psychotherapist who is interested in existential themes, I have worked with clients who
suffer from different issues such as anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, addiction, loneliness,
and anger. I have a MA degree in Counseling Psychology and a PhD in Philosophy. I use various
approaches such as Cognitive Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness-Based
Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Dialectical behavior therapy for adolescents (DBT), Person
Centered Therapy (PCT), Existential Therapy, Logotherapy, Narrative Therapy, and Solution
Focused Therapy (SFT).
I always focus on building up and maintaining a firm therapeutic alliance with clients. I
believe that a therapeutic relationship is the most important factor for the journeys I have with
clients; I and my clients start, continue, and finish journeys in which we both reach out to new
perspectives. For me, this is the key step of the journey.
As a philosopher who is interested in Stoicism, which is the foundation of CBT, DBT, and
MBCT, I regard the close relationships between my clients’ thoughts, behaviours and emotions
as the main aspect of psychotherapeutic journey.
Specialties with various age groups:
Anxiety
Depression
Addiction,
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Obsessive – Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD)
Issues:
Grief
Relationship Issues
Self Esteem
Stress
Client Focus
Speak: Arabic and Farsi
Treatment Approach
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT),
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT),
Dialectical behavior therapy for adolescents (DBT),
Person Centered Therapy (PCT),
Existential Therapy,
Logotherapy,
Narrative Therapy,
Solution Focused Therapy (SFT).
Hossein brings with him:
Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology, from Yorkville University.
Registered Psychotherapist Qualifying with the CCPA
Ph.D. in Philosophy, IRIP, Iran.
