Bio

My name is Caro Ibrahim and I am a migrant of colour living on this land, Turtle Island. I honour the land and the peoples of the land where I live and call home. Cultivating an understanding of myself, the multiple intersections that hold me, developing self-awareness and recognizing historical and present systems of disadvantages and privileges informs my therapy container and the interventions I engage as I journey with my clients.

Living Knowledge is what I learned and continue to learn through my own experiences in the many communities I belong to and the communities I am in good relations with.

What does one’s experience mean for the collective and how does the collective experience impact generation after generation? What is systemic power and how does it impact one’s body, mind and spirit? How does one’s belief system impact their mental health and day-to-day life? Those are themes I welcome and invite you to wrestle with along the therapeutic journey.

Certification and Licensure:

• Registered Psychotherapist (RP) - Independent Practice with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario.

• Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC) Professional Member and certified by the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA).

• Full Member of the Canadian Professional Association for Transgender Health (CPATH).

Continued Education/Training:

• Cultural Safety & Countertransference: Working in Communities You Belong To - Ontario Association of Social Workers - OASW Learning Centre, 2023

• 8th Annual In My Mind (IMM22) LGBTQ+ Peoples of Color Mental Health Conference, 2022.

• Trans Health Symposium, 2021.

• San’yas Indigenous Culture Safety Training, 2021.

• Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) Certification, 2021.

• A Therapist’s Path for Exploring Implicit Bias and Racial Trauma, 2020.

• Indigenous Perspectives on Trauma-Informed Care Conference – Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, 2019.

• What is Narrative Practice? 2019.

• Ongoing individual supervision.

Our First Session:

Our first session is where you get to know me, my process, and what ongoing consent looks like in therapy. I will also get to know you, what brought you to therapy and what you want to focus on in sessions. It will look and feel like a conversation that is all about you, on your terms, and according to your own pace.