April Taylor is a Registered Social Worker with over 30 years of experience supporting individuals, couples, and families through a variety of emotional, relational, and life challenges. Her extensive professional background includes child and youth mental health, family counselling, relationship difficulties, trauma, anxiety, depression, and navigating significant life transitions. April has a particular interest in helping couples strengthen their relationships, improve communication, rebuild trust, and develop deeper emotional connections.

April specializes in couples counselling, drawing from the Gottman Method and Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) to help partners better understand their relationship patterns, navigate conflict, strengthen emotional intimacy, and foster meaningful, lasting change. She works with couples experiencing communication difficulties, emotional disconnection, infidelity, breaches of trust, recurring conflict, and significant relationship transitions, including separation and divorce.  Her approach emphasizes understanding the emotional needs and experiences underlying relationship challenges while helping couples develop healthier ways of connecting.

In her work with individuals, April supports adults experiencing anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, emotional distress, self-esteem challenges, and life transitions. She is particularly interested in exploring how past experiences, attachment patterns, and relationships influence present emotions, behaviours, and interpersonal connections. Through increased self-awareness and practical strategies, April helps clients develop a greater understanding of themselves and create meaningful change.

April takes an integrative and trauma-informed approach to therapy, incorporating principles and interventions from Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), the Gottman Method, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and mindfulness-based strategies. Her therapeutic approach is collaborative, recognizing that each individual and couple brings unique experiences, strengths, and goals to the counselling process.

April holds a Master of Social Work (MSW) degree and is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Counselling and Psychotherapy. In addition to her clinical practice, she has extensive experience in clinical supervision, mental health leadership, and teaching in post-secondary education. She is a member in good standing with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers (OCSWSSW).

Above all, April believes that meaningful therapeutic change begins with feeling heard, understood, and emotionally safe. She brings warmth, compassion, curiosity, and a non-judgmental presence to her work, creating a supportive space where individuals and couples can explore challenges, gain new perspectives, and move toward healthier relationships and greater emotional well-being.