Real life change
About Corner Counsellor
Genevieve Alao – MDiv, RP
Genevieve is passionate about journeying with those going through challenging life circumstances. She is committed to the change process…because real life change takes time and attention. Genevieve founded Corner Counsellor to provide affordable, accessible and appropriate one-on-one sessions, community courses and group workshops in under-served neighborhoods. Corner Counsellor is also a mentoring and launching platform for newly registered therapists. When Genevieve is not speaking at a seminar, running a workshop or working directly with clients, she is teaching students at Tyndale University & Humber College in the Department of Health and Human Services and the Faculty of Social and Community Services respectively.
As a partnering and consulting therapist within the GTA, Genevieve continues to focus on developing models for culturally relevant practice and advocate for anti-oppressive frameworks within the mental health care profession.
Self care for Genevieve includes reading, traveling, writing, exercising and going to the theater.-
Tosin Lian – MACP, CCC
Tosin is a Canadian Certified Counsellor who aims to help individuals achieve their personal goals and enhance their overall well-being.
A compassionate, adaptable, and active listener, Tosin looks forward to walking alongside you and creating a safe space where you feel heard, seen, and confident to face the tough stuff.
Tosin is interested in working with youth, young adults, women, and postnatal clients. Her areas of focus include life transitions, depression, anxiety, life concerns, relationships, and grief/loss. She comes from a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy background and has experience in Narrative Therapy, Client-Centred Therapy, and Emotion-Focused Therapy.
Self-care for Tosin involves baking, watching movies, biking, and spending time with her loved ones.
Demi Babatunde – MACP, RP (Qualifying)
Demi is a Registered Psychotherapist (qualifying), licensed under the CCPA and the CRPO.
Demi believes the world needs the unique thing that is inside each of us and works closely with clients to uncover it. Through increased awareness, strengthened autonomy, and improved view of self, clients learn to manage anxiety, gain control over addiction, forgive others/self, work through grief, and make it through difficult life transitions. Demi is competent and confident that she can help clients achieve healthier and more wholesome lives.
Areas of focus for Demi include, mood disorders (anxiety and depression), identity/ self-doubt, imposter syndrome, grief, trauma-informed approaches, cultural inclusivity, couples and family therapy. She also has experience with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Narrative therapy, and Gestalt therapy.
Demi maintains her self care by working out regularly and taking a day to rest each week. She looks forward to meeting and supporting you.
Kamal Krishnapillai – MDIV, RP
Kamal has a background in Child and Youth work and is passionate about working with youth and young adults. She joins Corner Counsellor with years of experience facilitating individual, family and group therapy for children, youth, and adults facing complex mental health challenges.
In your sessions with Kamal you can expect warmth, empathy, and a non-judgmental presence. She uses trauma-informed, client-centered approaches that meet you where you are. Kamal’s areas of focus include trauma, PTSD, grief, anxiety, depression, family and relationship issues, and parental concerns.
Kamal believes that therapy is not about having all the answers–it is about exploring, healing, and growing at a pace that feels right for you.
Self-care for Kamal includes reading mystery books and spending time in the sun. If you are curious about working with Kamal, please schedule a free virtual consultation.
Brigette Sirineo – MDiv, RP (Qualifying)
Brigette enjoys hearing peoples’ stories, building relationships with them, and seeing them thrive where they are planted. She has worked in many industries including insurance, customer service, education/tutoring, and administration. In those fields, she learned from experience that the best way to offer practical support is by meeting people where they are, as they are. It is the clearest path to understanding what is needed.
As a Scarborough native, Brigette is familiar with the challenges of living and working in an underserved community. She has years of experience working with at-risk children, youth, and young adults in various private and public institutions. She is adept at coming alongside people working through anxiety, self-esteem issues, trauma, sexuality, life transitions, cultural and/or generational issues, grief/loss, and personal development.
Brigette takes a compassionate, warm, non-judgemental, culturally-sensitive and client-centered approach.
Davian
Davian is a psychotherapist intern passionate about walking alongside individuals, couples, and families as they navigate life’s challenges. He works with clients facing depression, anxiety, loneliness, relationship difficulties, faith questions, and the search for purpose, helping them sort through life’s complexities and move toward meaningful change.Drawing from modalities such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Emotion Focused Therapy, Davian offers a warm, listening-centered approach that combines compassion with a focus on setting and achieving purposeful goals. He can integrate Christian faith into counselling for those who desire it, and has a background in crisis and suicide prevention.
Self-care for Davian includes playing basketball, hiking with his wife and young son, reading classic literature, and enjoying the occasional video game with friends or family.”
Kendra
Kendra is a student in Tyndale University’s MA Program in Clinical Counselling, and she is currently working with Corner Counsellor as a student intern. Her passion for helping others began through the many years she spent leading youth and young adults at her church. Through this experience, she learned firsthand how critical active listening, empathy, and a non-judgmental space are in helping people explore themselves and their stories.Kendra’s approach to therapy is holistic and client-centred. She believes that growth comes from understanding the full picture of who you are—not just your struggles, but also the resilience and strengths that have carried you forward. She finds immense joy in walking alongside others as they explore their full story and experience the “aha” moment of realizing their own power to create a positive change in their life.
While Kendra mainly employs Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT), she also draws from modalities like Narrative Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy. Most importantly, her approach is always tailoured to you, ensuring that each session feels right for your unique journey.
To improve mental health for individuals, couples and families everywhere.
To provide quality, affordable clinical counselling services on every corner of every neighbourhood throughout the world.
Accessible: you can find support at your convenience within a reasonable distance from your home, school, office etc. This means that everyone has equal opportunity to better their lives, families, relationships and communities.
Affordable: you pay reasonable prices, you obtain subsidy or you are covered by an insurance company. This ensures everyone can get the help they need.
Partner with governments, organizations and registered counsellors to offer low-cost/high quality programs, sessions (group or solo) and psycho-educational workshops (online and in-person) to individuals, groups, couples and families.
EXECUTE – Courageously do what has not been done
IMPACT – Change the world one sound mind at a time
EMPOWERMENT– Collaborate with whosoever is ready for real-life change
About Corner Counsellor
Genevieve Alao – MDiv, RP
Genevieve is passionate about journeying with those going through challenging life circumstances. She is committed to the change process…because real life change takes time and attention. Genevieve founded Corner Counsellor to provide affordable, accessible and appropriate one-on-one sessions, community courses and group workshops in under-served neighborhoods. Corner Counsellor is also a mentoring and launching platform for newly registered therapists. When Genevieve is not speaking at a seminar, running a workshop or working directly with clients, she is teaching students at Tyndale University & Humber College in the Department of Health and Human Services and the Faculty of Social and Community Services respectively.
As a partnering and consulting therapist within the GTA, Genevieve continues to focus on developing models for culturally relevant practice and advocate for anti-oppressive frameworks within the mental health care profession.
Self care for Genevieve includes reading, traveling, writing, exercising and going to the theater.-
Tosin Lian – MACP, CCC
Tosin is a Canadian Certified Counsellor who aims to help individuals achieve their personal goals and enhance their overall well-being.
A compassionate, adaptable, and active listener, Tosin looks forward to walking alongside you and creating a safe space where you feel heard, seen, and confident to face the tough stuff.
Tosin is interested in working with youth, young adults, women, and postnatal clients. Her areas of focus include life transitions, depression, anxiety, life concerns, relationships, and grief/loss. She comes from a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy background and has experience in Narrative Therapy, Client-Centred Therapy, and Emotion-Focused Therapy.
Self-care for Tosin involves baking, watching movies, biking, and spending time with her loved ones.
Demi Babatunde – MACP, RP (Qualifying)
Demi is a Registered Psychotherapist (qualifying), licensed under the CCPA and the CRPO.
Demi believes the world needs the unique thing that is inside each of us and works closely with clients to uncover it. Through increased awareness, strengthened autonomy, and improved view of self, clients learn to manage anxiety, gain control over addiction, forgive others/self, work through grief, and make it through difficult life transitions. Demi is competent and confident that she can help clients achieve healthier and more wholesome lives.
Areas of focus for Demi include, mood disorders (anxiety and depression), identity/ self-doubt, imposter syndrome, grief, trauma-informed approaches, cultural inclusivity, couples and family therapy. She also has experience with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Narrative therapy, and Gestalt therapy.
Demi maintains her self care by working out regularly and taking a day to rest each week. She looks forward to meeting and supporting you.
Kamal Krishnapillai – MDIV, RP
Kamal has a background in Child and Youth work and is passionate about working with youth and young adults. She joins Corner Counsellor with years of experience facilitating individual, family and group therapy for children, youth, and adults facing complex mental health challenges.
In your sessions with Kamal you can expect warmth, empathy, and a non-judgmental presence. She uses trauma-informed, client-centered approaches that meet you where you are. Kamal’s areas of focus include trauma, PTSD, grief, anxiety, depression, family and relationship issues, and parental concerns.
Kamal believes that therapy is not about having all the answers–it is about exploring, healing, and growing at a pace that feels right for you.
Self-care for Kamal includes reading mystery books and spending time in the sun. If you are curious about working with Kamal, please schedule a free virtual consultation.
Brigette Sirineo – MDiv, RP (Qualifying)
Brigette enjoys hearing peoples’ stories, building relationships with them, and seeing them thrive where they are planted. She has worked in many industries including insurance, customer service, education/tutoring, and administration. In those fields, she learned from experience that the best way to offer practical support is by meeting people where they are, as they are. It is the clearest path to understanding what is needed.
As a Scarborough native, Brigette is familiar with the challenges of living and working in an underserved community. She has years of experience working with at-risk children, youth, and young adults in various private and public institutions. She is adept at coming alongside people working through anxiety, self-esteem issues, trauma, sexuality, life transitions, cultural and/or generational issues, grief/loss, and personal development.
Brigette takes a compassionate, warm, non-judgemental, culturally-sensitive and client-centered approach.
Davian Mikelson, Psychotherapy Intern
Davian is a psychotherapist intern passionate about walking alongside individuals, couples, and families as they navigate life’s challenges. He works with clients facing depression, anxiety, loneliness, relationship difficulties, faith questions, and the search for purpose, helping them sort through life’s complexities and move toward meaningful change. Drawing from modalities such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Emotion Focused Therapy, Davian offers a warm, listening-centered approach that combines compassion with a focus on setting and achieving purposeful goals. He can integrate Christian faith into counselling for those who desire it, and has a background in crisis and suicide prevention. Self-care for Davian includes playing basketball, hiking with his wife and young son, reading classic literature, and enjoying the occasional video game with friends or family.” Kendra Jalmasco, Psychotherapy Intern
Kendra is a student in Tyndale University’s MA Program in Clinical Counselling, and she is currently working with Corner Counsellor as a student intern. Her passion for helping others began through the many years she spent leading youth and young adults at her church. Through this experience, she learned firsthand how critical active listening, empathy, and a non-judgmental space are in helping people explore themselves and their stories. Kendra’s approach to therapy is holistic and client-centred. She believes that growth comes from understanding the full picture of who you are—not just your struggles, but also the resilience and strengths that have carried you forward. She finds immense joy in walking alongside others as they explore their full story and experience the “aha” moment of realizing their own power to create a positive change in their life. While Kendra mainly employs Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT), she also draws from modalities like Narrative Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy. Most importantly, her approach is always tailoured to you, ensuring that each session feels right for your unique journey.To improve mental health for individuals, couples and families everywhere.
To provide quality, affordable clinical counselling services on every corner of every neighbourhood throughout the world.
Accessible: you can find support at your convenience within a reasonable distance from your home, school, office etc. This means that everyone has equal opportunity to better their lives, families, relationships and communities.
Affordable: you pay reasonable prices, you obtain subsidy or you are covered by an insurance company. This ensures everyone can get the help they need.
Partner with governments, organizations and registered counsellors to offer low-cost/high quality programs, sessions (group or solo) and psycho-educational workshops (online and in-person) to individuals, groups, couples and families.
EXECUTE – Courageously do what has not been done
IMPACT – Change the world one sound mind at a time
EMPOWERMENT– Collaborate with whosoever is ready for real-life change
Services
Counselling
Individuals, couples and families | clinical psychotherapy online, over the phone, in-person | various presenting issues including (but not limited to) anxiety, depression, relationships, faith, addiction, trauma and grief/loss
Workshops/Groups
Facilitating training for staff | teaching workshops | forums for groups | integrated teaching for churches | grief support groups | addiction recovery groups | inner healing
Speaking/Training/Lectures
Seminars | Talks about mental health & mental illness | Lectures on Marriage, Counselling skills, Family Dynamics
anxiety therapy canada
Feeling anxious, overwhelmed, or stuck because of past trauma? You’re not alone. At Corner Counsellor, we offer support that meets you where you are—online, in a private and safe space. Whether you’re looking for an anxiety therapist in Toronto or help processing difficult memories, we’re here to walk with you at your own pace.
christian counselling canada
At Corner Counsellor, we believe that faith can play a powerful role in healing. That’s why we offer Christian counselling in Canada for those who want mental health support guided by Christian values.
addiction counselling canada
At Corner Counsellor, we understand how challenging it can be to face mental health struggles, especially when addiction becomes part of the story. That’s why we offer addiction counselling in Canadato help people regain control of their lives.
Depression Counselling Canada
At Corner Counsellor, we understand that living with depression can feel like carrying a weight you can’t put down. That’s why we offer compassionate and professional Counselling for depression in Canada, support that is personal, thoughtful, and focused on helping you feel like yourself again.
Grief Therapy Canada
At Corner Counsellor, we understand how heavy life can feel sometimes. Whether you’re coping with a recent loss, dealing with ongoing emotional challenges, or simply feeling overwhelmed by life, we’re here to help you find your way.
Marriage Counselling Canada
Welcome to Corner Counsellor, your trusted partner in Emotional recovery after separation in Canada. We are a dedicated mental health counseling and clinical psychotherapy service provider offering compassionate, personalized support
personal growth therapy canada
Welcome to Corner Counsellor, where we offer trusted Therapy for low self‑esteem in Toronto and beyond. We’re a mental health counselling and clinical psychotherapy service provider dedicated to helping individuals build confidence, overcome past wounds, and discover sustained personal growth.
Grief Therapy Canada
At Corner Counsellor, we understand how heavy life can feel sometimes. Whether you’re coping with a recent loss, dealing with ongoing emotional challenges, or simply feeling overwhelmed by life, we’re here to help you find your way.
Marriage Counselling Canada
Welcome to Corner Counsellor, your trusted partner in Emotional recovery after separation in Canada. We are a dedicated mental health counseling and clinical psychotherapy service provider offering compassionate, personalized support