Master Level Clinical Therapist Alyia Chan- Sayied

Alyia Chan- Sayied, founder of Mainspring Counselling Services is a committed and engaging individual and group therapist. Alyia has completed a Bachelor of Social Work Degree at Ryerson University and a Master of Social Work Degree at York University. 

Registered as a Social Worker in both Ontario and Alberta, Canada.

Advanced training and certification in: 

• Trauma- informed Counselling
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
• Dialectical Behavioural Therapy
• Crisis Intervention
• Narrative Therapy
• Relationship Management ( marriage, divorce, romantic relationships)
• Solution Focused Therapy
• Motivational Interviewing
• Mindfulness
• Grief and coping

 Alyia understands the complex issues that affect women such as relationships and changes within relationships, career and family issues; she offers effective therapeutic tools to assist with these challenges. Alyia is skilled at creating warm, open and non-judgemental spaces where clients increase their self awareness, receive support and tools to achieve personal and relational growth. Alongside providing therapy at Mainspring Counselling, she also works at a local hospital in a program supporting youth and adolescent mental heath and psychiatric interventions. 

Areas of Expertise: 

• Trauma Survival
• Narcissistic Abuse Survival
• Sexual Assault Survival
• Meditation and meditative practises
• Life changes, transitions and support in decision making
• Relationship issues ( romantic relationships, marriage, divorce, familial matters  and dynamics)
• Service navigation
• Mental health changes  and challenges
• Families with a chronically ill member or child
• Miscarriage, fertility issues, infertility and the loss of an infant
• Topics impacting racialized youth and women

Community integration is important to Alyia, and she has been offering workshops, seminars and panel discussion participation within Durham and the GTA. She became the head of Trauma Treatment with One Free World International, which provides support for survivors of war torture, human trafficking and sex slavery from the all affected areas of the world.