https://www.hannahmcgechie.com/home daily 1.0 2025-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6003be0f3753c24df24488f4/1610892424697-IXL4EC4LYWJ97SL45E2Y/DSC_0362-final-fixed-cropped.jpg Hannah McGechie - Hello, I’m Hannah! I am a queer, white, cisgender woman (she/her pronouns), living and working on unceded Annishnabe Algonquin territory (Ottawa, Ontario). I am a Registered Social Worker, psychotherapist, and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, and provide therapy to individuals ages 12+. My work in the field of mental health began in 2007 and I completed my Masters of Social Work at Carleton University in 2011. I spent the following decade working in the social services sector with children, youth, and adults from 2SLGBTQ+ communities. I opened my independent psychotherapy practice in 2021. I am a member in good standing with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers and the Ontario Association of Social Workers, and seek regular supervision and consultation. I’ve also done extensive training around narrative approaches to therapy and working with trauma from a nervous system level through the Vancouver School of Narrative Therapy, the Narrative Therapy Centre, and Somatic Experiencing Ottawa. My approach to therapy is grounded in social justice and anti-oppression, and guided by narrative, feminist, and somatic experiencing frameworks. Interested in working with me? Please reach out today. https://www.hannahmcgechie.com/about-me daily 0.75 2025-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6003be0f3753c24df24488f4/1610913522940-RE815XHXSX770GB5EI7T/angelina-litvin-K3uOmmlQmOo-unsplash.jpg About Me - Hello, I’m Hannah! I am a queer, white, cisgender woman (she/her pronouns), living and working on unceded Annishnabe Algonquin territory (Ottawa, Ontario). I am a Registered Social Worker, psychotherapist, and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, and provide therapy to individuals ages 12+. https://www.hannahmcgechie.com/contact daily 0.75 2024-06-11 https://www.hannahmcgechie.com/services-and-fees daily 0.75 2025-02-28 https://www.hannahmcgechie.com/my-approach daily 0.75 2025-02-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6003be0f3753c24df24488f4/1610915721546-QQALP5GCU3SS2XAGOI1I/pexels-karolina-grabowska-4195410.jpg My Approach - My Approach My approach to therapy is grounded in social justice and anti-oppression, and guided by narrative, feminist, and somatic experiencing frameworks. This means that I bring a few core beliefs to each therapeutic relationship: You – not me or anyone else! - are the expert in your own life, body, and experiences. Each therapeutic relationship is different. I will strive to follow your needs, passions, and curiosities during our time working together. Our lives are shaped by the stories we and others tell us about who we are, as well as the stories our bodies and nervous systems hold. When we decide to come to therapy, it’s often because stories about problems (and about how WE are a problem) are dominating our lives. My role is to help you examine these stories and your relationship to them, and to explore, create, and sometimes change them. Our bodies and nervous systems are always doing what they can to move towards safety. Even patterns that we don’t like or that aren’t serving us are rooted in survival. Through tuning into the body and its innate tools for healing, we can get unstuck and move towards ways of being that feel more in line with our preferences and how we want to live in our bodies. We all have power, make choices, and resist oppression and injustice, every day. The contexts in which we do all of these things vary greatly. They are informed by our identities, the communities we belong to, and systems and structures that perpetuate privilege and oppression, such as racism, settler colonialism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, and sexism. https://www.hannahmcgechie.com/erica-webster daily 0.75 2025-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6003be0f3753c24df24488f4/b5d0bac7-5c22-4f3c-a415-63b698049e45/Headshot.jpg MSW Student Sessions - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6003be0f3753c24df24488f4/9db508cc-e9da-4aa9-807c-ce88d1560370/infinity.png MSW Student Sessions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6003be0f3753c24df24488f4/c6ac4f1f-9694-42f8-b4ac-02c20e273e03/rainbow.png MSW Student Sessions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6003be0f3753c24df24488f4/ee0b5083-fe55-4d32-8e56-92dfcac6b7f3/heart.png MSW Student Sessions https://www.hannahmcgechie.com/services-and-fees-1 daily 0.75 2024-12-17 https://www.hannahmcgechie.com/individual-therapy daily 0.75 2025-09-17 https://www.hannahmcgechie.com/somatic-therapy daily 0.75 2025-03-04