By Michael Holker, HBA, BSW, MSW — Registered Social Worker | Psychotherapist · Published September 2026
Quick facts
For most of the time this practice has existed, it has been one person.
That had advantages. It also had a hard ceiling, and the ceiling had a name. For months I have been telling people who reached out — people who had finally worked themselves up to reaching out — that I could not see them right away. For a population already carrying the sense that their needs are an imposition, "let me put you on the list" is not a neutral sentence. I have said it more times than I want to count, and it never stopped costing something to say.
So we grew.
Euodia Leung, MSW, RSW is a Registered Social Worker and psychotherapist at Becoming Yourself Counselling & Consulting, a neurodiversity-affirming virtual practice serving adults across Ontario, Canada. She provides online therapy for anxiety, depression, self-esteem, trauma, life transitions, relationship challenges, and identity, including work with young adults and post-secondary students, and is currently accepting new clients with no waitlist.
Euodia is a Registered Social Worker in good standing with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers. She completed her Bachelor of Social Work at Toronto Metropolitan University and her Master of Social Work at the University of Waterloo, and she works virtually with clients across Ontario.
She is accepting new clients now, and she has no waitlist.
If you have been putting this off because you assumed a therapist accepting new clients in Ontario would still mean a month of waiting, that assumption is now out of date.
I want to explain the fit, because I think it says something about what you can expect.
When Euodia describes her work, she calls therapy a process of essence unfolding. I did not give her that language. She arrived with it.
This practice is called Becoming Yourself for a reason, and the reason is that same idea: the work is not construction but uncovering. You are not being built into someone new. You are being helped back toward something that was there before the adapting started. Two clinicians arriving independently at the same premise is not a small thing — it is most of what determines whether a practice has a coherent philosophy or just a shared booking system.
Here is how she puts it:
"Growth doesn't begin by becoming someone else. It begins by understanding who you've been all along."
We met as colleagues years before Becoming Yourself existed. What stood out to me then was not how she worked but why: the conviction that people open up when they feel genuinely understood, and that the care that helps neurodivergent clients feel safe is the care everyone deserves. When the chance to practise together arrived, the foundation was already years old.
Euodia asks her clients a question I have thought about a great deal since I first heard it:
"So, what has helped you get through until now?"
Sit with what that question assumes. It assumes you got through. It assumes something worked. It assumes the strategies you are currently criticizing yourself for were, at some point, helpful.
Most people arrive in therapy ready to list what is wrong with them. Many have a well-rehearsed inventory of their own coping mechanisms, held up as evidence of failure — the same inventory that fuels the shame spirals we have written about before. Euodia's position is that those patterns deserve to be understood rather than corrected: where they came from, what they were for, whether they still serve you.
That is a fundamentally different posture from "let's fix your distorted thinking," and for people who have been managing something difficult for a long time, it tends to be the difference between therapy that lands and therapy that does not.
Euodia's approach is integrative and evidence-informed. She is trained in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Mindful Self-Compassion, Motivational Interviewing, and trauma-informed practice — and she does not simply run people through a protocol. She has experience with structured psychotherapy, and she also knows it is not a fit for everyone; you are welcome to ask her about it.
She works transdiagnostically, which is worth explaining plainly. Rather than treating a diagnosis and its symptom list, she looks at the underlying patterns — the experiences, beliefs, and coping strategies shaping how you think, feel, and relate to yourself and other people. For anyone who has collected several partial diagnoses without ever feeling that any of them explained the whole picture, that is a meaningful distinction.
Her work is collaborative, relational, client-centred, trauma-informed, and strengths-based. In her own words: "My role isn't to tell you who you are or who you should become."
Euodia also works with young adults and with college and university students, a stage where nearly everything is a transition at once: leaving home, choosing a direction before you have enough information to choose one, academic pressure that no longer responds to the strategies that carried you through high school, and the first serious encounter with the question of who you are when nobody who has known you since childhood is in the room.
Much of it gets dismissed as a phase. It is not a phase. It is one of the densest periods of identity formation in a life, and it arrives alongside the point at which most mental health conditions first surface.
Euodia worked with post-secondary students in a college setting before moving into private practice. She knows the rhythm of the academic year — term structure, exam periods, reading weeks — and she has sat with a great many students in the position you may be in right now. Sessions are virtual, which matters more for students than almost anyone: your therapy does not end when you go home for the summer, and it does not restart from zero when you come back.
The philosophy. Neurodiversity-affirming, humanistic, client-centred, trauma-informed. We do not treat difference as pathology, and we do not run people through protocols built for a nervous system they do not have. Our neurodivergent therapy in Ontario page describes the approach in full.
The format. Virtual sessions across Ontario by video or phone, through a private telehealth platform — online therapy in Ontario means the practice comes to you, wherever in the province you are.
The first step. A free 20-minute meet-and-greet. No forms to perfect, no commitment, no recounting your history just to find out whether the fit is right.
The standard. Both of us are Registered Social Workers in good standing with the OCSWSSW — in Ontario, a registered social worker is accountable to a regulatory college, and many extended health plans cover RSW services.
The waitlist. For Euodia's caseload, there isn't one.
More range, without dilution. My work stays concentrated on late-diagnosed and recently diagnosed neurodivergent adults — ADHD, autism, AuDHD, and giftedness or twice-exceptionality. Euodia brings depth in anxiety, depression, trauma, relationships, and identity, and she also works with clients exploring neurodivergence. That overlap is deliberate. Plenty of people arrive with anxiety and leave understanding something about how their brain has always worked. Plenty of others arrive with anxiety that is simply anxiety, and deserve a therapist who treats it as such rather than making everything about neurotype.
A real referral option. If you and I meet and the fit is not right, that is now a warm handoff inside the same practice rather than a list of names and good luck. We wrote about what to look for in how to choose a neurodivergent-affirming therapist in Ontario — and the honest answer is that fit matters more than loyalty, and there is no wrong door here.
Consider booking with Euodia if:
Consider booking with me if you are seeking focused work on ADHD, autism, AuDHD, or giftedness and twice-exceptionality.
Not sure? Book a meet-and-greet with either of us. Getting you to the right person matters more than getting you to a particular one.
You can book a free 20-minute meet-and-greet via our contact page or directly through our booking portal.
Sessions with a Registered Social Worker are $175 for 50 minutes. Many extended health plans cover RSW services — worth checking whether your plan specifies "Registered Social Worker." You can read Euodia's full profile here.
Yes. Euodia Leung, MSW, RSW is accepting new clients across Ontario as of September 2026, with no waitlist. The first step is a free 20-minute meet-and-greet.
There is currently no waitlist for Euodia's caseload. You can book a free meet-and-greet and typically begin sessions shortly after.
No. You do not need a doctor's referral to see a Registered Social Worker or psychotherapist in Ontario — you can book directly. Some extended health plans ask for a physician's note for reimbursement, so it is worth checking your specific plan.
Private therapy in Ontario typically ranges from about $120 to $250 per session depending on the provider's designation. At Becoming Yourself, sessions with a Registered Social Worker are $175 for 50 minutes, the initial 20-minute meet-and-greet is free, and many extended health plans cover RSW services.
No. Euodia is accepting new clients with no waitlist, which is often the deciding factor for students whose campus counselling service has a multi-week wait or a session cap. Sessions are virtual, so therapy continues through summers, co-op terms, and moves between campus and home.
If anxiety, depression, trauma, self-esteem, or a life transition is what is loudest right now — or you are a student or young adult — start with Euodia. If you want focused work on ADHD, autism, AuDHD, giftedness, or twice-exceptionality, start with Michael. Not sure? Book a meet-and-greet with either of us; getting you to the right person matters more than getting you to a particular one.
Michael Holker is a Registered Social Worker and neurodiversity-affirming therapist in Ontario, with lived experience of neurodivergence. He offers virtual therapy for adults with ADHD, autism, AuDHD, giftedness, and twice-exceptionality. Learn more about working with Michael →
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