Watkins Counselling & Wellness
Supporting Connection, Healing, and Growth
Online psychotherapy for individuals, couples, teens, and families across Ontario.
Based in Smiths Falls, Ontario, with secure virtual therapy available province-wide.
We believe meaningful healing happens when skill meets heart. Our work is rooted in professional training, lived experience, and a deep commitment to compassionate care. By integrating evidence-based therapy with intuitive depth, we offer grounded, transformative support through life’s most challenging seasons.
The people behind the practice
We’re here to listen, understand, and support you in a way that feels steady and meaningful.
Joe-Ann Watkins
Nicola Wolters
Kassandra Smalley
Yas Farokhnejad
Welcome to Watkins Counselling & Wellness
You might be here because something in your life feels heavy, or because you have been carrying more than feels manageable right now. Sometimes this shows up as a quiet sense of overwhelm, a feeling of distance from yourself or someone you love, or the weight of experiences that have not fully settled.
Whatever brought you here, we’re really glad you came.
We support people and relationships through moments that ask for care, understanding, and change. Our work is rooted in emotional healing and connection. We help make sense of what you are carrying, tend to places where trust has been strained, and support reconnection with yourself and with one another in ways that feel steadier and more hopeful.
Whether what you are carrying is recent or long-held, this is a space to slow down, feel supported, and begin to heal. You do not need to have all the answers. You only need a willingness to begin.
When you’re ready, we’re here.
Joe-Ann, Kassandra, Nicola, & Yas
Support can help things feel clearer, steadier, and more manageable.
We can begin with a conversation.
We’re Here To Support You With…
Together, we’ll work on easing anxiety, building confidence, and finding ways to feel calmer and steadier in your day-to-day life.
Grief can feel heavy and isolating. Therapy offers a space to process your loss, move through difficult emotions, and find ways to carry your grief with support and care.
Making sense of change and navigating uncertainty with more clarity, steadiness, and support.
If you’ve been feeling unsure of yourself, stuck in self-doubt, or not quite like who you are, therapy can help you reconnect with your sense of self.
Neurodiversity-affirming support to better understand yourself, reduce overwhelm, and navigate the world in a way that feels right for you.
Let’s work together to improve communication, strengthen connection, and navigate challenges in a way that helps your relationship feel more secure and fulfilling.
Compassionate support for navigating recovery, overwhelm, and emotional healing following a motor vehicle accident.
Understanding how your mind works and building practical tools for focus, organization, and follow-through.
If trust has been broken, therapy can help you make sense of what’s happened, navigate the pain, and decide how you want to move forward—together or individually.
Support through pregnancy and early parenthood to help you feel more grounded, confident, and supported during this transition.
When life feels overwhelming, therapy can help you slow down, reset, and find a more manageable way forward.
A safe space to process difficult experiences, reduce overwhelm, and begin to feel more grounded and secure.
A supportive space to explore intimacy, sexual well-being, relationship concerns, and connection with openness and care.
Support for families to strengthen connection, improve communication, and navigate challenges together with care and understanding.
