Cedarway Therapy

12/24/2025

Meet our team, Alec Toller!

Alec’s work is grounded in curiosity, collaboration, and helping people stretch beyond what they thought was possible. He is especially thoughtful in supporting those navigating intrusive thoughts and moments that feel overwhelming or hard to make sense of.

If you’d like to connect with Alec for a complimentary 15-minute phone consultation, please reach out to us!

12/19/2025

Meet our team, Aly Hirji!

Aly works collaboratively with individuals and couples, offering a supportive space grounded in communication, trust, and care. Their work is informed by emotion-focused and solution-focused approaches, with an emphasis on culturally sensitive practice and sex-therapy-informed care.

If you’d like to connect with Aly for a complimentary 15-minute phone consultation, please reach out to us!




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12/12/2025

Meet our team, Nisha Damani!

Nisha supports adults navigating life’s heavier moments — from anxiety and grief to relationship challenges and major transitions — with warmth, cultural understanding, and care. She offers a space that feels grounded, non-judgmental, and genuinely supportive.

As a South Asian and Muslim therapist, Nisha brings a deep awareness of identity, systemic barriers, and the courage it takes to reach out for support. She walks alongside clients as they build resilience, reconnect with themselves, and move toward meaningful healing.

Interested in connecting with Nisha? Reach out to book a complimentary 15-minute phone consultation

12/08/2025

Family gatherings during the holidays can bring connection — and sometimes old patterns.

You might notice yourself slipping back into roles you outgrew years ago:

• the peacemaker
• the responsible one
• the quiet one
• the fixer
• the “easy” child

These roles often formed to keep the family functioning, but they don’t always reflect who you are today.

You’re allowed to show up as your current self — not the version others remember

11/25/2025

Meet our team, Farhat Javed!

Farhat is a Registered Social Worker who provides trauma-informed and culturally sensitive counselling for individuals, couples, and families. She supports clients through challenges such as anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and relationship concerns with warmth and empathy.

Fluent in English, Pashto, Urdu, Hindi, and Panjabi, Farhat creates an inclusive and non-judgmental space where clients feel seen, understood, and empowered to heal and grow.

If you’d like to connect with Farhat for a complimentary 15-minute phone consultation, please reach out to us!

11/17/2025

Go out!
Meet people !
Workout !
Go for a walk !

Are you actually aware of your given needs in a given moment? When we feel drained or low, we tend to turn to what we think we should be doing instead of what we need.
It’s important to know what you need at given time. What may work for your friend may not work for you and so good intended advice may rub you the wrong way. What may work one day may not work the next day. For example, chilling out with friends may be awesome and rejuvenating one week. However, the next week you may feel drained by those very friends and want to spend some time reading a book, or walking, or doing something very different.

spend some time and make a list of things that rejuvenate you. And the next time you start to feel drained and low pause and look at that list carefully and ask yourself what do I need in this moment?

11/14/2025

11/14/2025

Friendships matter
Friendships grow
Friendships wither
Friendships fall apart
Friendships can be healing but only when they’re meaningful!
Remember not all friendships are alike, not all give the same, not all take the same from us, not all are as fulfilling!

11/12/2025

Friendships are one of the greatest source for growth and for healing. It’s important to acknowledge that as we pass through time so do our needs in friendships. Hope this post helps you reflect on what you need from friendships and how you show up for others!

Have your friendship needs changed with time ?

11/10/2025

Meet our team, Ilham Jilani!

Ilham is a compassionate Registered Social Worker with over a decade of experience supporting youth, adults, seniors, and families. She provides culturally competent and faith-sensitive counselling to help clients navigate anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, and life transitions.

Her practice is trauma-informed, client-centered, and grounded in anti-oppressive values. Ilham is passionate about creating a safe and inclusive space where clients feel seen, heard, and empowered to heal and grow.

If you’d like to connect with Ilham for a complimentary 15-minute phone consultation, please reach out to us!

11/09/2025

Here’s a post that recognizes the effects of chronic stress on our mental health. But it hopes to also recognize that many of us have certain stressors which don’t have solutions right now. However, it’s important to recognize that there is power in acts of self-care and healing. And for many of us to show up for things, people, and causes that matter self-care and healing is a nonnegotiable. It’s an everyday practice.

11/05/2025

This post is about learning to put yourself first and listening to your needs. Many people come to therapy overworked, overwhelmed and feeling resentful. While there are many reasons that can lead one to feeling these ways - many times when exploring deeper we find that we don’t know how to put ourselves first. Remember choosing yourself first in an act of stretch not selfishness.