Mary Jane Beavis | Registered Psychotherapist in Ottawa and Online Across Ontario

Mary Jane Beavis is a Registered Psychotherapist with more than 14 years of experience supporting adults through difficult, complex, and deeply personal experiences. Before co-founding Inner Core Psychotherapy, she spent over a decade at The Ottawa Hospital, where she worked as a psychotherapist and spiritual care practitioner alongside individuals, couples and families facing illness, loss, trauma, uncertainty, depression, anxiety and major life transitions.

Her years in hospital-based care shaped the way she works today. Mary Jane brings warmth, compassion, steadiness, and respect to therapy, creating a space where clients can slow down, feel understood, and explore what is happening beneath the surface. She values the therapeutic relationship and believes meaningful change is more possible when people feel safe, accepted, and supported.

Mary Jane holds a Master of Arts in Counselling and Spirituality and a Graduate Diploma in Couple Counselling from Saint Paul University. She is also a Certified Canadian Counsellor (CCC), a Certified Spiritual Care Practitioner with the Canadian Association for Spiritual Care, and a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP). She has Complex Trauma Certification Training Level 1 & 2 (CCTP/CCTP-II).

She provides individual psychotherapy in both English and French and welcomes adults from diverse identities, cultures, backgrounds, and life experiences. Spirituality or religion can be included in therapy when it is meaningful to the client, but it is never assumed or imposed.

Outside of her work, Mary Jane enjoys spending time with family, volunteering in her community, being in nature, reading, and making homemade preserves and sourdough bread.