Shai Kohen, RSW
Registered Social Worker
Shai supports children, youth and adults navigating a wide range of mental health challenges, with a particular expertise in working with young people. With over 15 years of experience, his strength-based, anti-oppressive approach meets clients where they are, creating space for insight, growth and meaningful change.
Meet Shai.
Shai works with children, youth and adults experiencing a wide range of mental health challenges. He integrates a trauma-informed, client-centred and strengths-based approach, tailoring therapeutic techniques to fit each person’s unique needs and goals. Building a genuine and trusting connection is central to his work, with the aim of empowering clients to foster that same compassion and understanding within themselves and their relationships.
His focus areas include anxiety and depression, stress management, relationship difficulties and family conflict, self-harm and suicidal ideation, school-related mental health concerns, and emotional regulation. While Shai has a specialty in working with young people, he also provides counselling and support to adults facing stress, relationship challenges and life transitions, working with them toward meaningful change.
Shai has most recently worked in school settings for more than eight years, including counselling roles at Greenwood College School and Crescent School. He also spent time at the White Ribbon Campaign leading an initiative with the Toronto Argonauts that brought athletes into schools to explore locker room culture and masculinity. Earlier in his career, he provided bereavement counselling for 10 years through the Distress Centres of Toronto.
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Bachelor of Social Work, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Child therapy
Teen therapy
Young adult therapy
Adult therapy
Family therapy
Bereavement counselling
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Anxiety and depression
Emotional regulation
Stress management
Identity, self-esteem and body image
Family conflict and relationship difficulties
Self-harm and suicidal ideation
Grief, loss and trauma
Disruptive behaviours in youth
Social and coping skills
Life transitions
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Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT)
Trauma-informed Therapy
Narrative Therapy
Strength-based approach
Anti-oppressive framework
Facilitated conversations
Client-centred