Mary Benedetti

As a social worker and mental health professional at Toronto’s world-renowned Hospital for Sick Children, Mary Benedetti spent five+ years helping both children and parents navigate life-changing health and mental-health challenges.

She was also co-supervisor of the SickKids’ Family Therapy Seminar (which was led for 12 years by Your Therapy Lead Clinician Anu Chahauver), offering family-therapy training to psychiatry residents, psychology interns and students in the University of Toronto’s Masters of Social Work program.

In her private practice, Mary works with adults, children, teens and families facing a variety of relational and mental-health challenges. She brings a personable, collaborative and dynamic strengths-based approach, drawing on, and building from, each individual’s core values and strengths, to help them discover opportunities for growth and healing. Although family, work and personal situations can be messy and bring many challenges, Mary believes we can all build lives with greater purpose, connection and fulfillment.

Mary also has a passion for life-long learning in both her professional field, and a variety of other subjects, including arts, culture and science, especially ecology, which goes along with her love of spending time outdoors. She’s also the person all her friends ask when they’re looking for a great new podcast.