Come as you are. Grow as you’re ready.

Where your healing becomes a dance between who you’ve been, who you are, and who you’re becoming.

  • Agape

    Agape is the love that sees, accepts, and holds without condition. It is patient, generous, caring, and restorative, even when clarity asks us to step into discomfort with courage. While we as humans may never embody this love perfectly, we can participate in it, become a vessel of it, and grow in compassion, practice presence and reflect care in our relationships.

    At Agape Psychotherapy & Wellness, this love guides the way we sit with clients. Our aim is to embody and reflect this love: not to fix, but to walk alongside; not to judge, but to honour your story; not to rush, but to create space for healing and wholeness.

  • Our Vision

    A world where everyone can live fully in alignment with their values, knowing that they are deeply loved and worthy. We believe healing isn’t about erasing your wounds or chasing perfection. It’s about living with openness, choice, and love, even in a world that remains fractured. We envision communities where healing is holistic, relational, and rooted in love and compassion, where individuals can integrate mind, body and spirit, to cultivate connection, creativity, and well-being.

  • Our Mission

    To create healing spaces rooted in the principles of Agape, where clients can feel fully seen, accepted, and supported. We guide individuals in exploring their emotions, bodies, minds, relationships, and spirits, fostering self-awareness, resilience, and personal growth. Our work helps clients reconnect with their authentic selves, embrace their multidimensional identity, and experience freedom, wholeness, and hope.

  • Our Approach

    Using a culturally sensitive and trauma-informed approach, we explore your emotions, body, relationships and spirit, so you can reconnect with your authentic self and live more fully.

For deep thinkers, sensitive hearts, and creative souls ready to reconnect with themselves, mind, body, and spirit.

Step into a space where your complexity is welcomed, your patterns are explored with care, and your growth is supported through movement, creativity, and reflection. If you’ve ever felt the pressure to perform, hold everything together, or stay “strong,” you’re not alone. Healing isn’t a task; it’s a living, breathing process.

Here, you’re gently invited to soften and explore your story, your nervous system, and your inner world with curiosity, compassion, and care. You don’t have to have it all figured out to begin healing and self-discovery.

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In-person and remote options

Our office is conveniently located in Downtown Ottawa, Ontario. Can’t make it into the office? No worries – we’ve got you covered with teletherapy.

Our services

  • Psychotherapy

  • Counselling

  • Dance Movement Therapy

  • Workshops

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The Therapist

Shaianne is a Christian, Caribbean Black psychotherapist in Ottawa, Ontario who supports creatives, multidimensional, neurodivergent, highly sensitive, or high-achieving individuals in exploring and releasing emotional blocks, reconnecting with their inner identity, navigating relationships and embodying personal and spiritual growth through movement, creativity, and reflective therapy. Offers Counselling and Psychotherapy, Dance and Movement Therapy Services either in-person or online (virtual therapy). Somatic (Body-based) and Expressive Arts

Shaianne Young

Registered Psychotherapist, MA

Pronouns: She/Her

    • Anxiety Disorders:

      Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Phobias, Social Anxiety

    • ADHD & Neurodivergence

    • Body Image

    • Creative & Expressive Blocks

    • Cultural & Identity Struggles

    • Depression

    • Life Transitions

    • Perfectionism & Self-Criticism

    • Relationship Challenges & Attachment Patterns

    • Self-Esteem & Self-Worth

    • Spiritual/Faith-based Exploration & Wounds

    • Stress & Burnout

    • Trauma:

      Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Childhood/Developmental Trauma, Attachment, Complex, Racial and Sexual Trauma

    • Values Alignment & Discovering Your “Why”

    • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

    • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

    • Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT)

    • Culturally-Informed Therapy

    • Dance Movement Therapy (DMT)

    • Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT)

    • Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT)

    • Expressive Arts Therapy

    • Internal Family Systems (IFS)

    • Parts Work

    • Person Centred Therapy

    • Process-Oriented

    • Psychodynamic Therapy

    • Relational & Attachment-Based Therapy

    • Strength-Based

    • Trauma-Informed

    • Psychotherapy (16+)

    • Dance Movement Psychotherapy

    • Dance Movement & Wellness Groups

    • Workshops Facilitation

    • Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Psychology, Minor in Management

    • Master of Arts Degree in Counselling, Psychotherapy and Spirituality

    • Dance Movement Therapy masters’ level training at the National Centre of Dance Therapy

    • College of Registered Psychotherapist of Ontario (CRPO): Registered Psychotherapist

    • Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA)

    • Dance Movement Therapy Association in Canada

    • American Dance Therapy Association

    • Association for Size Diversity and Health

    • English

    • French

    • Tuesday 9:00a - 6:00p

    • Wednesday 9:00a - 6:00p

    • Thursday 9:00a - 6:30p

    * In-person sessions are available on Thursdays from 2:15 pm to 6:30 pm.

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“A flower doesn’t earn sunlight; it receives it simply by existing, and with the right conditions, it will flourish.

In the same way, you deserve love and connection, not for what you do, but because you are, and you may just need the right people, spaces, and practices to support your growth.”

— Shaianne Young

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