Virtual and In-Person Counselling for adults in Mississauga, Brampton and Ontario wishing to become more confident in the face of life’s challenges.

Ontario Punjabi woman putting hands on head, feeling anxious and depressed

You’re stressed. From work. From school. From home. From life.

On the outside, it looks you’ve got it all together. But that’s not how you feel.

You overthink your decisions, you worry about what other people might say. You’re overwhelmed and anxious. You feel stuck. You’re tired and you just don’t know what to do.

You’ve tried the massages, the meditations, talking to friends and family, even taking vacations.

It’s. Still. Not. Enough.

Imagine if you could:

  • actually relax and feel good about everything that you have worked so hard to accomplish

  • feel comfortable without having to do everything to perfection

  • live life in service of the values that YOU choose and feel proud of those choices

  • show up more consistently at work, school and in your relationships with confidence and poise

  • get out of your head and start enjoying experiences

  • stay in control of your emotions so that they don’t control you

Meet Hardeep Ajmani, Registered Social Worker and Psychotherapist

Punjabi therapist standing outside in nature smiling and ready to support South Asians needing a listening ear

I have wanted to be a therapist since I was 16 years old. Growing up as a Punjabi Sikh second generation kid, I internalized the high expectations for academic success, trying to make my parents proud and gain their approval and I struggled to manage the competing demands of two cultures.

I am now proud of my South Asian heritage, and I honour that there are ways that it has impacted my mental health. Not until I was in therapy for work stress and burnout, did I realize that I embodied perfectionistic and anxious tendencies. That knowledge and the work I put in to break the patterns, helped me live a more confident, settled existence. It didn’t happen overnight.

I hold an intense respect for the therapeutic process and the relationship that a person creates with their therapist. In 19 years of clinical practice in the mental health field, I have strived to ensure that the people I work with get the highest support.

I’m so excited to help you see yourself the way you were meant to be seen. Your confident and settled existence is waiting.

What can I help with?

  • Imposter Syndrome

  • Race Based Stress

  • Academic/Work Stress

  • Perfectionistic Thinking

  • Lack of Motivation/Productivity

  • Self Esteem and Confidence

  • People Pleasing Tendencies

  • Navigating Cultural and Parental Expectations

  • Withdrawal from Others

  • Never feeling good enough

  • Need for parental approval

  • Burnout

  • Social Anxiety

  • Overthinking

  • Parenthood Anxiety

  • Understanding what values you hold

We’ll do great work together if……

  • You can commit time and energy outside of session to practice skills and mindset shifts

  • You can attend weekly or bi-weekly sessions initially to jump-start your healing

  • You want to be held accountable (supportively)

  • You are scared but ready to step out of your comfort zone

  • You are open to learning about mindfulness, self-reflection, and our body’s role in wellness

  • You recognize that change takes time and effort

  • You prefer a therapist who swears, calls out the patriarchy/colonization, likes to share knowledge and talks with her hands

You will be disappointed if…..

  • You’re looking for immediate resolution for your pain and suffering

  • Life is way too busy to practice skills or reflect outside of session

  • You’re looking for just the skills and strategies and want to be told what to do

  • You feel a strong sense of urgency to feel better

  • You want someone to agree with you

  • You don’t believe your past has a bearing on the present or future and don’t want to talk about it

  • You believe that it is my job to “fix” you

The land from which I practice is part of the Treaty Lands and Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit. For thousands of years, Indigenous peoples inhabited and cared for this land, and continue to do so today. In particular I acknowledge the territory of the Anishinabek, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Ojibway/Chippewa peoples; the land that is home to the Metis; and most recently, the territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation who are direct descendants of the Mississaugas of the Credit.