Counselling & Coaching: The WOMB Guelph

Individual & Couples Counselling

At our clinic, we offer compassionate individual and couples counseling to support you through life's most challenging moments. Whether you're navigating marriage issues, struggling with the complexities of motherhood, facing fertility challenges, or grieving the loss of an infant, our experienced therapists are here to help. Through a combination of counseling and psychotherapy, we create a safe and nurturing space where you can explore your emotions, gain deeper insights, and develop practical strategies to heal and grow. We understand the emotional toll these experiences can take, and we are committed to guiding you toward lasting resilience and connection.

Fertility Mindset Coaching

Fertility mindset coaching is a supportive and empowering approach that helps couples on their journey to conceive by addressing the emotional and mental aspects of fertility. Through personalized coaching, individuals and couples can learn to overcome feelings of stress, anxiety, and frustration that often accompany the trying-to-conceive process. By focusing on cultivating a positive and resilient mindset, fertility coaching helps to reduce negative thought patterns, improve emotional well-being, and create a stronger connection between partners. With tools to manage the ups and downs of the fertility journey, couples can approach conception with greater confidence, calm, and clarity, increasing their overall sense of hope and well-being.

Play Therapy

Play therapy with psychotherapists provides a safe and supportive environment where children can express themselves and work through their emotions in a non-verbal way. Through creative activities like drawing, playing with toys, and role-playing, children are able to explore their feelings, fears, and experiences, helping them better understand and communicate their emotions. Play therapy encourages emotional growth by allowing children to process difficult situations, develop coping strategies, and build self-esteem. It is an effective approach for children struggling with anxiety, trauma, behavioral issues, or social challenges, offering them a pathway to emotional healing while building trust and confidence in their ability to express themselves.

Get to know our counsellors & coaches!

Kelly Broadhurst

  • Kelly is a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) with a strong commitment to providing compassionate, client-centered care. She brings a wealth of experience in grief counseling and a trauma-informed approach to therapy, believing that everyone possesses the inner wisdom needed for personal growth. Kelly completed an intensive five-year program in psychodynamic psychotherapy and has additional training in grief, loss, and bereavement from King’s University College, Western University.

    At The WOMB Guelph, Kelly honors the uniqueness of each person’s journey towards well-being, supporting clients through anxiety, depression, life transitions, low self-esteem, and trauma. She utilizes a diverse range of therapeutic modalities, including psychodynamic psychotherapy, mindfulness techniques, attachment theory, and narrative therapy. Kelly is dedicated to creating a safe, non-judgmental, and collaborative space where clients can explore their experiences, develop strengths, and foster healing.

    Kelly is actively involved in professional communities, including the Canadian Association of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and the Bereavement Ontario Network. Her dedication to continuous learning and growth reflects her commitment to providing holistic, high-quality care. Kelly is most proud of her 4 adult children.

Poonam Gole

  • Poonam Gole is a Fertility Mindset Coach, certified through the International Coaching Federation and iPEC, the top accredited Life Coach Certification Programs globally.

    She uses evidence-based coaching to help women going through fertility challenges and treatments like IVF. She has successfully helped women shift their mindset and support their mental health to overcome fear, guilt, and self-doubt; reduce stress and overwhelm, manage burnout, build resilience, and improve confidence on their journey to motherhood.

    She is a mother of two, a fertility-challenged woman who has gone through pregnancy loss, multiple IUI, and IVF treatments in her journey to motherhood. Her struggles motivated her to shift her coaching practice from Career Transition Coaching to Fertility Mindset Coaching. Through her and her clients’ experiences, she realized that mental health is one of the most ignored aspects during this challenging phase of life and very little support is readily available to women.

    Since then, she has been on a mission to help fertility-challenged women master their mindset and walk the path toward motherhood with confidence & joy.

Ashley Mariani

  • Ashley Mariani is a registered social worker specializing in couples perinatal mental, emotional and sexual health, while also fiercely advocating against obstetric violence.

    Ashley has seen the implications of birth traumas impact on the mental, emotional and sexual lives of couples and strives to help couples and individuals in prevention and resilience building. Ashley’s academic background includes degrees in sexuality, counselling, individual and couples work. The lens she works most passionately from is rooted in the body’s innate wisdom, the nervous system. Ashley works with her clients from a holistic framework that utilizes, movement, nutrition, plant medicine, vagus nerve toning, and functional medicine.

    Ashley is also a mother to three free spirited children, including twins.

Michelle Baer

  • Michelle is a Registered Psychotherapist, and Canadian Certified Counsellor specializing in Play Therapy and Creative Arts Therapies with children and families. She has an MA in Creative Arts Therapy, a post-graduate Certificate in Play Therapy (CAPT Levels 1-3) and Theraplay Level 1. Michelle has over 15 years of experience in a variety of settings including a paediatric hospital, community counselling centre, children’s mental health agency, and virtual teleplay.

    She has expertise working with children and youth ages 3-17yrs coping with:

    • Anxiety • Family transitions (new sibling, post-partum, grief/loss) • Attachment and parent-child dynamics • Parenting highly sensitive children • Neurodiversity (ADHD/ASD/SPD, etc) • 2SLGBTQ+ children & families • Emotional and behavioural expression & regulation • Trauma

    She uses nondirective and directive techniques incorporating CBT, Sandtray, puppets and role play, brain-body and expressive arts experiences in an engaging, fun and dynamic therapy process with gentle curiousity in a nurturing environment.

    Michelle is a creative, and playful therapist, who is passionate about supporting children and families in sharing their stories, witnessing, validating and guiding them through the process of healing, growth and change.

    She lives in Guelph with her partner and their 2 kids, 2 cats and a dog, where they enjoy spending time in nature together, baking yummy things, singing and dancing, sometimes all at the same time.

Kerri Mooney

  • Kerri is a Registered Social Worker with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers and a Canadian Certified Perinatal Mental Health Clinician. Kerri has worked as a Social Worker supporting families in various stages of their lives for the last 8 years and has two children of her own.

    Kerri believes in a collaborative approach to counseling and acknowledges the importance of holding space for all to feel supported, heard, understood, and validated. Kerri is a client centered therapist and truly believes the most important piece of your work together is the relationship you forge.

    Kerri tailors her approach to meet each individual’s needs & therapeutic goals pulling from various modalities such as Solution-Focused, Strength-Based, Narrative, Family Systems, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), and Mindfulness.

    Kerri has specialized training in perinatal mental health & supporting individuals through trying to conceive, pregnancy, postpartum, pregnancy & infant loss, and the highs and lows of parenthood. Kerri is also one of the group facilitators for the Pregnancy & Infant Loss Support Group held at The WOMB Guelph.

    Whether it is difficult emotions, managing relationships, dealing with stress & overwhelm, life changes & transitions, struggling with identity & role strain, or grief & loss - Kerri is here to walk alongside you, no matter where you are on your journey.

    Kerri wants to provide you and your family with the support, information, and tools to feel more like “you,” whatever that looks like. Book a free phone consult if you want to learn more about what it might look & feel like to work with Kerri.

Michelle Green

  • Michelle is a Registered Psychotherapist and Certified Canadian Counsellor. She holds a Masters of Arts Degree in Psychotherapy and Spiritual Care. Michelle has a history of working with diverse populations of clients including children, adolescents, families, and women who have experienced abuse and violence. She has completed numerous post-graduate trainings in trauma therapy, family & couples therapy, attachment and family of origin work, children’s therapy, and Perinatal (Fertility, Birth and Postpartum) Mental Health. 

    Michelle is passionate about assisting caregivers in growing their capacity to be authentic in care for themselves. She recognizes that struggles in the Perinatal period (and in parenting at any time) are not limited to those who identify as mothers, and that not all new parents are coupled, married, cisgendered, or heterosexual. She also recognizes and honours that not all birthing parents identify as mothers.

    She strives to support caregivers however they show up, to care for their whole selves with love and tenderness through the difficult, beautiful, messy and even sometimes disappointing world of parenting. Her therapeutic work with caregivers focuses on helping them to build compassionate relationships not only with their children, but also with themselves. Her approach to clients is Relational, Family Centred, Feminist, and Narrative informed. She employs an integrative approach to her therapeutic work in order to best fit the presenting needs of the client. Her graduate training in Spiritual Care and Psychotherapy also allows her to offer care in a unique and holistic manner that acknowledges the full person in their healing and growth.