Rising Up Through Muddy Waters
Supporting individuals, families, caregivers, and professionals navigating complicated emotional, behavioural, learning, and neurodevelopmental challenges.
We believe that underneath many puzzling symptoms and behaviours is a complicated and beautiful brain deserving of understanding, safety, dignity, and support.
Together, we work toward greater clarity, stronger relationships, and more meaningful ways of living, learning, and healing.
How We Help
We provide compassionate, strength and values-based supports tailored to the unique needs of children, youth, adults, caregivers, and professionals.
Clinical Services
Counselling, therapy, caregiver support, and practical strategies focused on safety, dignity, relationships, and everyday functioning.
Screening & Functional Assessment
Specialized social work and allied health approaches that help people better understand symptoms, strengths, barriers, and support needs.
Education & Professional Development
Training, consultation, and capacity building for schools, agencies, caregivers, clinicians, and community partners.
Integrative & Holistic Supports
Mindfulness, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), yoga-informed approaches, neurodevelopmental understanding, and collaborative care.
Providing compassionate support across Ontario – Education and training across the Globe.
Angela Geddes
Registered Social Worker CYW, BA Psych, MSW, RSW, YTT
For over 30 years, Angela has had the privilege of learning from and supporting individuals, families, and communities navigating life’s challenges that impact mental health, and wellbeing.
Angela is widely recognized for her compassionate, practical, and strengths-based approach to supporting individuals who are often misunderstood, overlooked, or misdiagnosed. Her work focuses on complex mental health and neurodevelopmental disabilities across the lifespan, including the impacts of trauma, prenatal alcohol and substance exposure, that can affect emotional regulation, behaviour, relationships, and daily functioning.
Today, Angela leads a growing team of passionate professionals committed to creating support systems with fewer “wrong doors” by offering training and resources that build skills and capacity across all helping professions and sectors. Together, they provide specialized direct services including; assessment, advocacy, education, and practical person centered supports that help individuals and families feel safer, better understood, and more meaningfully supported.
Angela and her team are equally passionate about prevention and early identification through promoting healthy pregnancies, reducing stigma, and increasing awareness of the lifelong impacts associated with prenatal alcohol and substance exposures.
Grounded in both research and lived experience, Angela’s work centers on safety, dignity, connection, inclusion, and helping people build lives that reflect their strengths, values, and potential.
Angela’s Books
A COMPLICATED & BEAUTIFUL BRAIN
“It’s a beautiful book that allows you to pursue further information. The book is practical… it gives you pathways to do something. I absolutely love this book. I think it’s one of the best books that has hit the market recently in respect to FASD.” ~ Dr. Peter Choate
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