Sina Zha
Sina Zha
Senior Counsellor and Psychotherapist
Senior Parenting Instructor
Sina is experienced in working with families with youth and children. She is good at dealing with anxiety (social, academic, separational etc.), depression, OCD, school refusal and other emotional dysregulations. She offers helpful strategies in parenting, communication, siblings as well as parent-child relationships.
Background and Education
Sina Zha is a registered social worker, and she completed her Bachelor of Social Work at Toronto Metropolitan University with a minor in psychology and accomplished Master of Social Work at University of Toronto in 2009 specializing in children and families. She’s trained and experienced in a number of therapy approaches, including DBT, ACT, CBT for children and Youth, Narrative Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy as well as Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) approach.
Work Experience
Besides counseling work, Sina is also a certified instructor for Circle of Security (an attachment-based parenting course aimed at improving parent-child relationships and parenting capacity). She’s been offering mindfulness programs for children and other parenting workshops since 2016 as a family support worker in a community health center in Etobicoke. She’s interested in Yoga practice and became a certified mindful yoga teacher in 2020. She has been offering mommy and baby mindful yoga classes in the community and provides postpartum support to moms. She’s passionate about planting seeds of mindfulness in families so they will have tools to face daily challenges and stress.