ABOUT NISSA FRANCIS

I have been on a spiritual journey that keeps my grounded and connected to the community. Through my life I have witnessed my community struggle with mental health. I am proud to be part of the solution, assisting to increase the quality of life within my community. I supported clients and their families who live with or are touched by autism. This work really touched my soul as I assisted with increasing communication skills, socialization, community integration, and life skills training.

I then branched out exploring more of my interests including low barrier mental health support for complex disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar, borderline personality, psychosis, chronic depression and substance use. I began making a difference by completing mental health intakes. I witnessed the struggles to navigating the mental health system. From this point forward I stayed working in mental health assessments, intakes, inpatient psychiatric hospitals, and facilities that offered alternatives to hospitalization.

I am now at a part of my journey where my passion is to work with clients one on one, couples and with families. I really enjoy attended our Indigenous community dinners and helping the community to heal on a larger scale outside of medicine and more in a holistic way. I believe in medical support, but I also believe that healing the self as a whole: physical, emotional, spiritual and mental is where some major changes can happen for clients.

Let’s work together and explore where you are now, and where you want to be! Let’s make a healing plan and I can walk with you on your journey of healing to help improve your quality of life and be your best self!