Barbie Liss

Barbie is a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) and a certified Life Coach, working with individuals, couples, and family relationships. Barbie brings mindfulness and trauma-informed healing to anxiety, trauma, and the challenge of life transitions.

MINDFUL INTEGRATED THERAPY
With a holistic and integrated therapeutic approach, Barbie walks alongside her clients to nurture self-awareness and acceptance to all aspects of self. In a space that brings safety, compassion, and non-judgement, Barbie works with clients to release shame and relieve distress, increase self-esteem, and walk toward empowered resilience. Through awareness of the mind-body connection, Barbie works with you to hold compassion to your story as you dig to find roots of negative beliefs, thoughts, and behaviours, and begin to plant seeds for a new narrative.

TRAUMA-INFORMED COUNSELLING
Barbie has profound lived experience through vicarious trauma and supporting survivors of sexual assault. As a Jewish woman with two of her three kids part of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, Barbie’s therapeutic space is welcoming and inclusive. Personal experience and education has brought passion to practicing intersectional feminism, healing generational trauma, supporting survivors of gender-based violence, and those navigating the path of self-reclamation. She challenges ageism and the idea that life has any kind of timeline.

THIS STORY IS YOURS TO WRITE
Barbie worked many years as a personal trainer in a women’s gym, is certified in Energy Healing and Reiki, and has led international women’s retreats. Since participating in a groundbreaking restorative justice circle addressing the impacts of sexual violence, Barbie has been an advocate for survivor-centred justice. With the belief that it is never too late to start a new chapter, Barbie is here to explore your story with you, to reframe unhelpful beliefs, and to build tools needed to create your next chapters with fulfilment, purpose, and joy.