Guelph
Copper Park Wellness
Welcome to our Guelph Location
We are glad you are here.
In downtown Guelph, our office offers a safe, supportive space for healing at any age.
Our Guelph location is conveniently located in the heart of downtown, offering a warm and welcoming space for individuals and families seeking mental health support. We provide services for children, youth, and adults, with a team of compassionate clinicians who meet each client where they are.
This location proudly offers art therapy, music therapy alongside traditional talk therapy, allowing clients to explore healing through both creative and evidence-based approaches. Whether you're navigating anxiety, trauma, academic stress, life transitions, or emotional challenges, our Guelph team is here to support your journey toward growth and well-being.
Services at our Guelph Location
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Art therapy provides a safe and supportive space to explore thoughts, emotions, and experiences through creative expression. Through the use of art materials, guided activities, and therapeutic conversation, individuals can process difficult emotions, gain self-awareness, build emotional resilience, and develop healthy coping strategies. Art therapy can support individuals navigating challenges such as anxiety, trauma, grief, stress, life transitions, and relationship difficulties.
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Music therapy offers a creative and evidence-based approach to processing emotions, building coping skills, and enhancing self-expression. Whether through playing, listening, or songwriting, we use music as a powerful tool to support emotional healing and connection.
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Our child and youth therapy services help young people navigate challenges like anxiety, emotional regulation, self-esteem, and family transitions in a supportive, age-appropriate way. We work closely with families to create a safe space where children and teens feel understood, empowered, and equipped with tools to thrive.
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Individual therapy provides a one-on-one space to explore personal challenges, develop coping strategies, and build emotional resilience. Whether you're facing anxiety, trauma, grief, or life transitions, our therapists offer compassionate, personalized support to help you move forward.
Our Guelph Team
Kim Cooke, Registered Psychotherapist (RP)
Psychotherapy, Teen & Children, Music Therapy
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A significant aspect of my work involves addressing issues related to anxiety, depression, self-esteem, suicidal ideation, and self-harm. These are deeply personal and often painful experiences that require a compassionate and empathetic approach.
My ultimate goal is to empower my clients to lead more balanced and fulfilling lives. By combining my extensive therapeutic training with my personal insights into mental health and my unique approach to music therapy, I aim to provide a holistic and empathetic approach to therapy.
Patricia Borg, Certified Music Therapist (MTA)
Music Therapy, Child & Teen
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In my practice, I utilize a range of interventions tailored to each individual’s needs, including songwriting, improvisation, guided imagery, creative exploration, and music-assisted relaxation.
I believe in the therapeutic potential of music to facilitate meaningful connections, enhance self-awareness, and foster resilience.
I am passionate about collaborating with clients to co-create a therapeutic experience that honours their unique stories and empowers them on their path toward well-being.
On Maternity Leave until early 2026.
Jason Schmidt, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)
Psychotherapy, Child & Teen
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In our sessions, your child will experience a safe, nonjudgmental space where they can express themselves openly and begin to develop the tools they need to manage life’s challenges. I use a gentle but direct approach that builds trust while guiding them toward emotional growth and resilience. Through evidence-based techniques like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and creative, age-appropriate strategies, I help young people understand their emotions, build confidence, and feel empowered in their healing.
As a therapist, I believe in walking alongside my clients—not in front, pointing the way, or behind, pushing them forward. I walk beside them, gently encouraging and guiding them when they lose their way. Whether your child is struggling with anxiety, low self-esteem, emotional regulation, or life transitions, it’s an honour to walk that path with them.
Maria Sergio, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)
Art Therapy, Psychotherapy, Child & Teen
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That’s where art of all kinds can help expression along- giving more ways for me to witness your story. You don’t have to have any experience with art. We will explore techniques together to invite the “ahha” moments where colour, shape and texture support coping, soothing, and weaving your journey in a better direction.
I offer art psychotherapy from a feminist, anti-oppressive, client-centered approach, drawing on narrative therapy as well as over 15 years of front-line work with diverse women, 2SLGBTQ1 folks and children of all ages, who have experienced IPV, trafficking, trauma, depression, anxiety, mental health struggles, systemic barriers as well as navigating life in a polycrisis.
I celebrate neurodivergence and acknowledge the challenges of living in 2026 with sensory, creative, and expressive needs that don’t always match our situations. Children and youth who are learning about what comes easily or with more effort are welcome to explore the therapeutic space for non-judgemental and caring treatment centered around safe communication.
Here we are separated by screens and time, but it’s likely you are in the Guelph area (also known as Thadinadonnih/ Treaty 3 lands), and we are situated in a city, in a watershed, in an ecosystem. If you can be outside or look outside right now, you might see one of the native or introduced species of trees in this area that can be present with you and/or your children while we share this moment. Let the tree you can see support your mindfulness as you read, I find they are good company!
After attending the training Decolonial Mental Health Practice: Clinical and Ethical Insights from Palestine with Dr. Samah Jabr, as well as the Antiracism Course with Selam Debs, I commit as well to learn and enact liberatory practices that ultimately respect the dignity and history of my clients, knowing that healing for an individual requires understanding and advocating for a safe and healthy world for all families. As a daughter of immigration and settlers, I chose to center diverse voices in their experiences.
As part of my own unlearning and reimagining, I commit to provide natural and sustainable options for art-making as well as traditional media, because ultimately centering the body and spirit in our ecosystems is also part of healing. I invite clients to bring their own cultural materials, fabric, found objects or plants for art making to support your process, memory, and meaning making.
Environmental programming has been part of my work since 2005, focused on food security and forest stewardship with youth and families. My own neurodivergence leans heavily on the gifts and kindness of the Earth herself, reminding me every day that I am just a mammal too, blessed to meet and support other mammals.
Whatever is impacting you (internal struggle, external struggle, or a mixture of the two), I invite clients to work with me knowing they lead the way in their healing.
With gratitude for your time