Nadia Stolpner, MSW RSW, has been practicing counselling and psychotherapy for 17 years. For the past 8 years, she was a Counsellor/Psychotherapist with the George Brown College's Counselling and Student Wellbeing team where she worked with a diverse group of adults and young adults experiencing challenges with a range of mental health and personal wellbeing issues.
Nadia has been creating and facilitating therapeutic dance/movement and mindfulness-based group programs for the past 17 years in private practice and with George Brown College, University of Toronto Multifaith Centre, Ontario College of Art and Design University, Sheena's Place, YWCA Elm Centre and other organizations.
Nadia is a social worker registered with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers and a member of the Ontario Association of Social Workers.
She brings compassion, warmth and a gentle attuned approach. An intuitive person and an empath, she has a gift of seeing the inherent wholeness within people, and often is aware of their strengths, gifts and abilities. She enjoys being a supportive and nurturing collaborator on the journey towards more presence, transformation and happiness.
Training:
Counselling and Psychotherapy
- Master of Social Work degree, University of Toronto (2007)
- Dance/Movement Therapy, courses with West Coast Dance/Movement Therapy
- Body-oriented Transformational Counselling Foundations Training, Lifespace Institute
- Certificate in Solution-Focused Counselling, University of Toronto School of Social Work
- Narrative Therapy training, The Hincks-Dellcrest Centre
Mindfulness
- Mindfulness-based Group Practice, Sunnybrook Psychiatry Institute for Continuing Education
- Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Professional Training with Jon Kabat-Zinn and Saki Santorelli
- Sensory Awareness workshops with Lee Klinger Lesser, Judyth Weaver, and other teachers
- Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program with Roy Hintsa
- Mindfulness-based therapeutic groups with Paul Badali at Integra Children's Mental Health Centre
- Regular personal practice
Movement/Dance & Other Expressive Arts
- Movement Medicine workshops with Ya'Akov Darling Khan, Susannah Darling Khan, Jo Hardy
- Art of Trauma Program (using expressive arts with clients who have a history of traumatic experiences), The CREATE Institute
- Azul Conscious Dance Training with Amara Pagano
- Soul Motion Foundations Training with Saskia Schreiber, Winky Wheeler, Vincent Martinez-Grieco
- 5 Rhythms workshops with Layah Singer-Wilson, Silvija Tomčik,Tammy Burstein, Bettina Rothe and other teachers
- Authentic Movement with Alton Wasson, Leslie French, Julie Leavitt, Simona Aronow and other teachers
- Continuum Technique with Emily Conrad and Susan Harper
- Therapeutic Dance and Expressive Arts workshops with Tamalpa Institute faculty as well as with Dan Leven, Daria Halprin, Erica Ross
- Primordial Movement workshops (movement that originates in the body intelligence) with Lorenna Bousquet-Kacera
- Jewish Embodied Spirituality trainings (Jewish mysticism, dance movement therapy, and authentic movement) with Julie Leavitt, Simona Aronow, Rabbi Diane Elliot and Latifa Berry Kropf
- Regular personal practice
