Elizabeth Fry

Counselling Services

Our counsellors work from a women-centered, non-judgmental approach and utilize a counselling model that integrates the individual needs and concerns of our clients.

Elizabeth Fry Toronto provides a broad range of counselling services to women who are, have been, or are at risk of conflict with the law, both in the community and institutions.

*All our programs provide language interpreters free of cost through the Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic

COUNSELLING AVAILABILITY

Monday – Friday | 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
All individual services are free of charge.

For general inquiries call 416-924-3708, to access all services

General Counselling Services

Provides one-on-one and group counselling supports and workshops to women in the community dealing with a broad range of social, economic and justice disadvantages. Through these services, women are provided with timely, accurate information pertaining to their legal rights, health and safety and alternatives to at-risk behaviours. Some of the counselling programs include:

  • Healing from abuse & trauma
  • Parenting
  • Immigrant family law
  • Anger management
  • Theft and fraud
  • Domestic/gender-based violence
  • Substance use
  • Gambling support

For intake and assessment please contact:

Sherrette Thomas, General Counsellor, 416-924-3708 ext 243
sthomas@efrytoronto.org

Juliana Bruyn, General Counsellor, 416-924-3708 ext 249
jbruyn@efrytoronto.org

Reintegration
Counselling Service

Provides one-on-one and group counselling for women on provincial probation and parole. Using a harm reduction framework, clients are provided with the skills and resources necessary to develop alternatives to theft, fraud, substance use behaviours, and poor decision-making.

For more information please contact:

Emily Irwin, Reintegration Counsellor, 416-924-3708 ext 232

eirwin@efrytoronto.org

TREM (Trauma Recovery and Empowerment Model)

*TREM NOTICE*

Please note the TREM program will be concluding by March 2024.  As a result, we are no longer able to accept referrals for this program.  Please consider alternative supports offered by our counselling team by calling our reception at 416-924-3708.

TREM Provides trauma informed one-on-one and group counselling and psychoeducational supports for women in the criminal justice system who have experienced gender-based violence, focusing on rebuilding a safe and stable life for women to avoid further conflict with the law.

For intake and assessment please contact:

Nana Boateng, TREM Counsellor, 416-924-3708 ext 261
nboateng@efrytoronto.org

Chloë Foisy-Marquis, TREM Counsellor, 416-924-3708 ext 262
cmarquis@efrytoronto.org

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