JOTY BINNING MEd, RCC

Registered Clinical Counsellor

Navjot “Joty” Binning is a Registered Clinical Counsellor who supports children, adolescents, and families with a warm, connecting, and developmentally attuned approach. She holds a Master of Education in School Counselling, a Bachelor of Education, and a Bachelor of Arts in Child and Youth Care—foundations that anchor her blend of counselling and child-development expertise.

Joty’s clinical focus includes child and adolescent mental health, anxiety and depression, ADHD and executive-function challenges, emotion regulation, school and peer-related issues, and the needs of exceptional learners. With adolescents, she supports identity development, big feelings, perfectionism, peer and social-media stress, school avoidance, and family communication. With younger children, she supports attachment and behaviour concerns using play-based, sensory, and caregiver-inclusive strategies. Across ages, she works closely with caregivers to translate insight into daily routines and practical coping skills at home.

Her practice is trauma and system-informed, and she strives to meet the unique needs of each child or teen while also addressing the systemic contexts that shape their lives, such as family systems, school expectations, community, and cultural factors. Known for warmth, steadiness, and collaboration, she blends practical skill-building with attachment and emotion-focused child and family-based strategies. 

Joty integrates evidence-informed approaches, including Emotion-Focused, Systemic Family Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy principles for children and families, alongside early-intervention practices and harm-reduction when helpful. Counselling sessions emphasize emotional understanding, body-based regulation, and shared, meaningful goals for the child and family. 

Joty views her work with clients and families as a privilege and an opportunity to work collaboratively. Clients and caregivers describe her as steady, warm, and genuinely connecting; someone who can hold complex emotions and relationships with care. In practice, that looks like co-creating simple routines for regulation, building executive-function tools for school and home, strengthening parent–child attachment through coaching and repair, and mapping supports when systems feel overwhelming. She is currently welcoming new clients at the practice.