Rakshanda Khan, MA, DTATI, RP CRPO Registration #: 009036 CATA Professional Membership #: 54102684

Hi!

I’m Rakshanda.

I’m a Registered Psychotherapist (RP) and Registered Art Therapist (RCAT) practising in Aurora, Ontario. I support adults, children, youth, and families in finding their strength and resilience. My practice is built on the understanding that our personal struggles are often intertwined with larger social and intergenerational stories. I maintain an intentionally curated space where all genders, orientations, abilities, and backgrounds are honored. Here, art, imagination and dialogue become tools for reconnection, curiosity, exploration and liberation.

As a cisgender South Asian immigrant and a parent of a neurodivergent child, I navigate intersecting identities that deeply inform my practice. I am committed to understanding each person within their sociopolitical and biopsychosocial context, using a neurodiversity-affirming, strengths-based, and anti-oppressive framework.

My approach is built upon a deep reverence for the wisdom held in the body and the stories told through image, symbol, and metaphor. My practise integrates evidence-based trauma-informed expressive arts, somatic practices, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Emotionally Focused Individual and Family Therapies, TF-CBT and Internal Family Systems. I believe in somatics and restorative arts as pathways to reclaiming our narratives.

Outside of my practice, my own healing is nurtured by nature, swimming, watercolor painting, djembe drumming, community activism, and the continual practice of showing up—for myself and for others.

Values and Approach

I enjoy working with folks of all genders and orientations, and from diverse backgrounds, with a particular focus on immigrant and racialized communities. I have over 8+ years experience working with children, youth and young adults.

My approach is built on collaboration, and a deep reverence for lived experience. I believe that you know yourself best and that you have all the resources you need to thrive. My role is to support you by affirming, strengthening, at times questioning and challenging, so you can uncover for yourself how to align your heart, body, and mind with what is true and authentic to you.

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