Hello, I'm Yasmeen Rafiq, Clinical Director and Owner of Meaningful Connections.

Here at Meaningful Connections, we help couples deal with unhealthy relationships, fights, and community conflict. Our goal is to help you stop emotional disconnection with your partners. We want you to feel more emotionally connected in your significant relationship, able to manage your stress and anxiety and live the life of your dreams.

Let’s Discover How We Can Help

Through therapy, you will develop stronger emotional bonds with your partner and live a happier, more fulfilling life. We provide practical tools and strategies for coping with stress and anxiety and teach you how to be in control of your thoughts, so you can enhance your intimate relationships.

Our goal is to help you feel more emotionally connected within your significant relationships, manage your stress and anxiety, and live your life to the fullest.

Our Sessions Are Focused On You

The sessions will provide you with the opportunity to express your feelings and let yourself be heard. You will feel safe and comfortable when you are expressing yourself and learning about yourself.

There is no "one size fits all" approach to Therapy. Our sessions will be tailored to meet your particular needs. It is important to us that you feel comfortable and safe in a nonjudgemental environment.

As A Practice, We Embrace The Following Values

• We believe that you can feel safe and free in your relationship

• We believe that emotions heal when they are witnessed and validated

• We believe that therapy works when both of us are committed to your healing

• We believe that the biggest thing standing in your way is the fear that life always has to be the way that it is now

• We believe that marriages become stronger when the parties learn to turn to each other for love and support instead of turning away in anger

Yasmeens Journey To Opening Meaningful Connections

I’m no different from the clients I see. Like everyone else, I'm human. I've been through both wonderful and difficult experiences that have shaped who I am and how I help.

As a mom of three kids and a partner in an interracial marriage, I have had my fair share of struggles on the therapist's couch. There are many issues facing couples and individuals, including cultural differences, marital problems, and intimacy issues. Through starting a private practice and providing therapy, I am dedicated to genuinely giving back to others and I am passionate about diversity and inclusion.

Media Engagements:

• Guest Speaker on CBC Ontario Today Radio Show,

• Featured in the CBC news article Preserving culture and tradition is possible in interracial marriages, couples say