Raquel Griffin, MSW RSW (She/Her)

Registered Social Worker

Licensed in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Ontario

Raquel Griffin

I am a Registered Social Worker who works with individual adults (aged 18-65 years). I primarily work with concerns such as disordered eating, anxiety, depression, trauma, and grief/loss. Authenticity, empathy, accessibility, and collaboration are what I center in my approach. I invite each client to turn inward with curiosity to make sense of their inner pain and find strategies to rebuild their life.  

ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) is my therapeutic home base. This means helping clients to have a more flexible relationship to painful emotions and thoughts through mindfulness practices and acting in a way that aligns with one’s core values. I am continuing education, ongoing consultation, and supervision in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy (EMDR), an evidence based therapy for post traumatic, stress, anxiety, and depressive related symptoms. I also have training using approaches such as Motivational Interviewing, Narrative Therapy, Solution Focused Brief Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy modalities including Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy and Exposure Therapy for phobia and anxiety related disorders. I also offer WPATH assessments.

I value and practice harm reduction in effort to meet people where they’re at and empower them to make changes that feel most doable and important for them instead of just expecting clients to “stop behaviours”. As a Certified Intuitive Eating Counsellor, I integrate Intuitive Eating principles, helping clients to improve interoception skills or to remove barriers to interoception. I operate from Health At Every Size principles, Fat Liberation values, and a non-diet approach within a social justice framework; in short, this means I believe in rejecting normalized, pathologizing, and inaccurate claims about weight being an indicator of health or moral value.

My background is in community mental health services and I have worked for a variety of agencies, including government, public health, non-profit, and university settings. I am a co-founding member of The Aleo Collective. Whether you are needing space to make sense of your lived experience, unpack the past, or find a way to feel inner peace within your body, I would be happy to help. Together, we can make space for discomfort and move towards healing.

Professional Consultation/Supervision

I offer clinical supervision for RSWs pursing their Clinical Specialist Registration. I also offer consultation to other health providers and organizations. I have had the privilege of collaborating on projects for community organizations including: the National Eating Disorder Information Centre, Sheena’s Place, and TransCare+. I provide individual therapy, WPATH assessments, Professional Consultation, and Clinical Supervision for RSWs pursuing their Clinical Specialist registration.