Iram Mansoor

Sometimes you know your child is struggling, but you’re not quite sure what they need, or how to help.

Maybe your child is having big emotions, struggling with behaviour, finding school difficult, or becoming more withdrawn. Maybe your teen is navigating anxiety, friendships, grief, trauma, or the challenges that come with growing up. Or maybe you’re supporting a neurodiverse child and finding that the strategies that once worked no longer seem to be enough.

You don’t have to figure it out on your own.

Iram works with children, teens, and families, creating a space where young people can slow things down, feel understood, and begin making sense of what they’re experiencing. Her approach is collaborative and strengths-based, with an emphasis on helping clients build practical tools while also understanding the emotions, relationships, and experiences underneath the challenges.

Iram has experience supporting children, teens, and families across school, community, and child and family mental health settings. She has worked with the Durham Catholic District School Board, providing counselling and mental health interventions to students and families experiencing anxiety, depression, trauma, neurodevelopmental differences, and behavioural concerns. In this setting, she worked collaboratively with students, caregivers, school teams, and community providers to help address barriers to emotional wellbeing and school engagement.

She also completed her clinical placement with Kinark Child and Family Services through the SNAP program, where she provided individual and group counselling to children experiencing mental health and behavioural concerns, as well as support to their caregivers. Her work included screening, assessment, treatment planning, and working within a family-systems framework, recognizing that supporting a child often means supporting the relationships and environment around them as well.

Today, Iram continues this work in her role with Northstar (formerly Durham Family Court Clinic), where she provides community-based individual and family counselling to neurodiverse and justice-involved youth ages 12–20 and their families. Her work includes supporting anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, emotional regulation, substance use, and other mental health challenges. She also works collaboratively with families, schools, healthcare providers, probation officers, and community agencies to help coordinate care and connect young people with the support they need.

With experience supporting neurodiverse youth and families, Iram understands that every child communicates, processes, and responds differently. She takes the time to understand the whole picture rather than focusing only on the behaviour or concern that brought a family through the door. Her goal is to help children and teens better understand themselves, develop skills that work for them, and feel more confident navigating the challenges in front of them.

Iram’s therapeutic approach draws from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Emotion-Focused Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, grief therapy, and Trauma-Focused CBT. She adapts these approaches to the individual rather than expecting every client or family to fit the same therapeutic model. Her work is grounded in trauma-informed, culturally responsive, equity-informed, and client-centred care.

Iram also brings experience working with children outside of traditional clinical settings. Her longstanding experience as a Children Educator has involved creating age-appropriate learning environments that support children’s development, participation, belonging, and engagement. This experience continues to shape the way she connects with younger clients and meets them at their developmental level.

At the centre of Iram’s work is the belief that children and teens deserve to feel understood before they are expected to change.

Therapy isn’t about “fixing” a child or making them fit a particular expectation. It’s about helping them understand themselves, recognize their strengths, develop practical tools, and feel supported in the relationships and environments around them.

Iram believes therapy works best when clients feel heard, respected, and involved in the process. She takes the time to build trust, move at the client’s pace, and work collaboratively toward goals that are meaningful to the child, teen, and family.

Her experience includes supporting anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, neurodevelopmental differences, emotional regulation, behavioural concerns, and family challenges, with a particular interest in working alongside children, teens, and the families who support them.

Iram also speaks English, Urdu, Hindi, and Punjabi.

If you’re wondering whether therapy might be the right next step for your child, teen, or family, Iram offers a free 20-minute consultation, available in person in Pickering or virtually anywhere in Ontario. It’s a low-pressure opportunity to ask questions, share what has been happening, and get a sense of whether Iram might be the right fit.