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About Nada

Compassionate, Culturally Responsive Counselling for Women Navigating Stress, Anxiety and Self-Doubt 

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Nada Johnson, MSW, RSW supports women who are navigating anxiety, low self-esteem,  stress, trauma, and difficult life transitions.

She has particular experience supporting high-achieving Black and racialized women who are balancing professional demands, cultural expectations, systemic pressures, and significant responsibilities—while quietly carrying emotional exhaustion, self-doubt, and chronic stress.

Many of the women Nada provides counselling to are capable, responsible, and deeply resilient, yet feel overwhelmed by the pressure of always having to hold everything together for everyone else.

A Space Where You Don’t Have to Explain Yourself: 

For nearly a decade, Nada has supported women experiencing:

  • Burnout and emotional overwhelm

  • Anxiety and chronic overthinking

  • Racialized stress and workplace inequities

  • Family conflict and cultural pressures

  • Major life transitions

  • The lasting impact of trauma

She offers a warm, culturally responsive space where clients can slow down, process their experiences, and reconnect with themselves—without feeling dismissed, misunderstood, or pressured to minimize what they’ve been carrying.

How Nada Works: 

Nada’s approach is trauma-informed, culturally responsive, collaborative, and grounded in deep respect for each client’s lived experience.
 

Therapy with Nada focuses on helping women:

  • Reduce stress, anxiety and emotional overwhelm

  • Strengthen boundaries in work and relationships

  • Process workplace stress, trauma, and racialized experiences

  • Rebuild confidence and trust in themselves

  • Navigate life transitions with greater clarity and steadiness

  • Feel more grounded, balanced, and emotionally connected

Nada holds a Master of Social Work and is a Registered Social Worker in Ontario. Her work is informed by training in trauma-informed care, feminist approaches, anti-oppressive and anti-racist practice and culturally responsive therapy.

A Note on Other Work: 

 

In addition to individual therapy, Nada also offers family mediation and organizational consulting through separate services. Details about these offerings can be found on their respective pages here. 

Clients often describe Nada as compassionate, direct, and thoughtful — someone who can hold space for difficult conversations while remaining grounded and practical.

At the core of her work is a steady belief that healing and meaningful change are possible, even when the path forward feels uncertain.

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Nada maintains ongoing professional development and below are some of the  certifications and training that she has completed: 

  • The Influence of Trauma on Substance Use Certificate 

      Relias 

  • Managing Anger Certificate 

      Relias 

  • The Connection Between Substance Use and Intimate Partner Violence Certificate 

        Relias 

  • Understanding Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Recovery-Oriented Practice Certificate 

        Relias 

  • Achieving and Maintaining Abstinence From Substance Use - RLMS Certificate

        Relias 

  • Achieving and Maintaining Abstinence From Substance Use - RLMS Certificate

        Relias 

  • Family Mediation Certificate 

        Herzing College

  • EMDR Trained Therapist - Certificate 

      The Institute for Creative Mindfulness

  • Certificate in Trauma Counselling for Mental Health Professionals

      Sickkids Centre for Community Mental Health Institute

  • Certificate in Adverse Childhood Experiences - Healing Childhood Trauma

      Crisis and Trauma Resource Institute

  • Certificate in Suicide Intervention Skills - Promoting Life 

      Crisis and Trauma Resource Institute

  • Certificate in Questions in Counselling 

      Crisis and Trauma Resource Institute

  • Certificate in Trauma - Strategies for Counsellors 

      Crisis & Trauma Resource Institute

  • Certificate in Managing Mental Health in the Workplace ( Rights & Responsibilities)

       Achieve: Centre for Leadership

      

  • Certified Racial Trauma Clinician

      Steven D. Kniffley Racial Trauma Therapy Model  

  • Certified Brainspotting Practitioner

      Brainspotting 

  • Completion of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for Trauma Themes 

      Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute 

  • Certified in Tree of Life - Narrative Therapy Advanced practitioner 

       Phola-Ngo

  • Certified Advanced Courrage Complex Trauma Practitioner (Culturally Responsive)

       Phola-Ngo​

  • Certificate in Essentials of CBT: The Beck Approach 

       Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavioural Therapy 

  • Narrative Therapy (Course),

       York University 

  • Oxfam Summit and Day of Action - Ending Equality and promoting Women's Rights

       Oxfam Canada

  • Trauma and Resilience: Surviving and Thriving (Workshop)

       ChildSavers

  • Certificate in Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training

        LivingWorks 

  • Certificate in Anti-Bias and Inclusion 

       Crisis and Trauma Resource Institute

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  • Certificate in Harm Reduction: A framework for Change, Choice, and Control  

        Crisis and Trauma Resource Institute

  • Certificate in Anxiety - Practical Intervention Strategies

        Crisis and Trauma Resource Institute

  • Certificate in Depression- Practical Intervention Strategies

        Crisis and Trauma Resource Institute

  • Certificate in Critical Incident Group Debriefing 

        Crisis and Trauma Resource Institute

  • Certificate in Trauma Informed-Care: Building a Culture of Strength 

        Crisis and Trauma Resource Institute

  • Certificate in Trauma-Informed Care and Healing Centred Engagement 

       ChildSavers

  • Certificate in Cultural Competence and Unintended Bias

        Arizona Trauma Institute

  • Certificate in Nonviolent Crisis Prevention Training Refresher 

       The Yonge Street Mission 

  • Racism and Discrimination as Risk Factors for Toxic Stress (webinar)

      AcessAware

  • Certificate in Refugees and Trauma: Understanding and Supporting Resilience 

       Crisis and Trauma Resource Institute

  • Certificate in Youth Wellbeing: Combatting Anti-Black Racism 

      Youth Research and Evaluation Exchange (YouthRex)

  • Mentoring Vulnerable Youth Certificate

       City of Toronto

  • Critical Youth Work Certificate 

       YouthRex

  • Maximizing Governance: Public Policy (Applied Learning Session #3)

       Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants

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Ready to book?

The first step is to book a  complimentary phone consultation. This is a conversation about your goals and needs and how Nada maybe of assistance. 

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