Helping the Greater Toronto community heal through the powerful mind, body, spirit connection.
Spirit of Health is an integrative therapy clinic based in Brampton and serving all of Ontario through virtual consults.
Our mission is to help teens and adults suffering from mental health concerns with a personalized, holistic, and integrative approach that leverages therapy, nutrition, mindfulness, and physical activity so they can live healthy and fulfilling lives.
Our founders have over 20 years of experience working with people experiencing mental health concerns. Combined with their personal experiences and local community engagement, they noticed a repeated pattern.
This pattern was that many community members were experiencing gaps in their mental health treatment, difficulty navigating mental health systems, and discrimination.
They found that people needed a more integrative therapeutic approach that recognizes the whole self and how each part (mind, body, and spirit) connects to overall mental health.
The need for a more integrative approach to mental health recovery is now becoming more recognized, with mental health research acknowledging that people require traditional supports along with other approaches like nutrition and physical activity to facilitate lifelong healing.
Spirit of Health combines all these learnings into our approach by drawing on holistic practices to help find balance between the mind, body and spirit.
As an integrative therapy clinic, we understand the importance of providing a safe space for patients of all intersecting identities, backgrounds, and beliefs. Our team are inclusive of everyone, offering quality mental health support grounded in our values below.
Spirit of Health honors and acknowledges that we offer our services on land that Indigenous peoples have inhabited from the beginning and in part of the Treaty Lands and Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit. As settlers, we’re grateful for the opportunity to meet here, and we thank all the generations of people who have taken care of this land – for thousands of years.
Long before today, there have been aboriginal peoples who have been the stewards of this place. In particular, we acknowledge the traditional territory of the Anishinabek, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), Ojibway/Chippewa peoples and home to the Métis; and most recently, the territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation who are direct descendants of the Mississaugas of the Credit.
We recognize and appreciate their historical connection to this place. We also recognize the contributions of Métis, Inuit, and other Indigenous peoples in shaping this community, mainly our province and Turtle Island. As settlers, we also connect their contributions to our commitment to Truth and Reconciliation in our communities, particularly to bring justice for murdered and missing indigenous women and girls across our country.
From psychologists and psychotherapists to nutritionists, yoga facilitators, and reiki team, our clinic comprises some of the best health team in Ontario, all coming together to heal the whole self through integrative mental health treatment. We partner with team who live by our values, are fully qualified, and have extensive experience working with people experiencing mental health concerns.
At Spirit of Health, we don’t just help individuals heal in our private integrative therapy clinic. We also offer customized packages for local organizations.
These packages can focus on supporting and improving employee mental health and wellbeing or creating organizational change that increases psychological safety in your work setting.
Across all packages, we work to address the stigma that’s often the main barrier to people seeking help, and give people an opportunity to unlearn and relearn about mental health.
Whether you choose a full-day or half-day package in your environment or via Zoom, our trained team will ensure your attendees walk away with key learnings that will promote change at an individual and systems level.
Some of the additional benefits of our workshops include improved work attendance, productivity, collaboration, and team morale, while helping you create an inclusive space and reduce workplace conflict. We can also assist with co-creating mental health and wellness programming in your organization or business.
Dr. Gursharan Virdee is a clinician, researcher and mental health equity advocate. She received her Doctorate in Psychology from the University of London (UK) and pursued a career in Clinical and Counseling Psychology in Ontario, Canada. Dr. Virdee works with adults and adolescents experiencing mood and anxiety disorders, psychosis, addictions, self-harm and trauma. She has worked in settings ranging from tertiary inpatient services to community mental health teams and not-for-profit organizations.
Dr. Virdee works from an anti-oppressive and trauma-informed lens and seeks to empower individuals, communities, and systems to improve holistic wellbeing. She is trained in several evidence-based therapies, including cognitive behavioral therapies, mindfulness-based therapies, dialectical behavior therapy, cognitive adaptation training, cognitive remediation training and motivational interviewing. Dr. Virdee has a special interest in culturally-appropriate treatments and can provide treatment in Punjabi. She is also a sought-after speaker, trainer, consultant, and media commentator.
As an international expert in South Asian mental health, Dr. Virdee’s research focuses on expanding the understanding of mental health recovery for diverse communities, specifically immigrant and racialized communities. She currently leads The Roshni Project, a multi-phase research and knowledge mobilization project focused on young South Asian women experiencing mood and anxiety disorders. She is also an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Toronto and a Collaborator Scientist at CAMH.
Her vision is to create a community of support to facilitate powerful “whole-self” healing accessible to all.
Mandeep Bhachu has been working with people across the mental health spectrum for more than two decades.
With 15 years in policing, 5 years in mental health inpatient units, and 10 years volunteering with youth through Big Brothers Big Sisters of Peel, his experience is rich and varied.
With a lifelong passion for helping people, Mandeep Bhachu is dedicated to providing the highest quality mental health support for their patients.
He wants to create an environment where all aspects of care related to mental health are carefully tended to with compassionate, well rounded mental health care.
Championing a mind-body-spirit approach to mental health support, Mandeep Bhachu is committed to addressing all aspects of his patient’s health with flexible, personalized support that gives them the power to transform their lives.
Living with a chronic illness for over 15 years, Mandeep Bhachu has personally experienced concerns with his mental health and physical capabilities
Because of this, it made him think about the many contributing factors of mental health, and how incorporating additional supports like diet, physical activity, access to a psychotherapist, and yoga can improve mental health on a deeper level by connecting the mind, body, and spirit.
Growing up in this local community and through volunteer roles, Mandeep Bhachu realized that we need a clinic that brings all these supports together under one roof.
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