Who Am I?

Kody Muncaster

  • They/He

  • Queer and non-binary

  • Zen Buddhist Priest-In-Training

  • History of involvement in neo-paganism

  • Sex positive

  • sex work affirming

  • Kink-aware

  • Polyam-affirming

  • Neuro-affirming

What makes me different from other therapists?

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Offerings Include:

 

  • I hold a Doctorate in Gender and Sexuality Studies, giving me a deep understanding of feminist therapy, gender dysphoria, HIV/AIDS, and our complex relationships with sexual identity and sexual trauma.

  • I also have a MA in Buddhist Studies, I have taught university courses in Buddhism and Psychotherapy, and I am training to be a Zen Buddhist Priest. This allows me to weave Buddhist psychology into sessions, with beginner and advanced self-compassion meditations for deep healing.

  • I studied neo-paganism broadly, Wicca, tarot, reiki, and yoga for several years and am highly familiar with the witchy world.

  • I’m not just trauma informed, I am a trauma therapist. I serve as a guide for those healing complex traumas related to child abuse, intimate partner and domestic violence, sexual abuse, spiritual abuse, and cult survivors. I blend embodied, somatic practices and nervous system regulation with methods for healing trauma that don’t necessarily require reliving it.

  • Trauma lives in the body. I value a bottom-up approach to therapy, which helps folks learn to identify where they feel emotions in the body, and how they might release the physical contraction and give themselves compassion.

  • I hold anti-oppressive, queer, decolonial, and crip/Mad/disability affirming space for activists, working to empower you to heal yourself so that you can better heal those around you.

I acknowledge the dark. I have been there before. Together, we can find a way through.

How Do I Work?

Individual Therapy Session Cost: $160/session

Maggie does offer a sliding scale but doesn’t update her website often enough to reflect the availability of reduced-rate sessions. Please let her know what rate would work for you and they will see what’s possible.

Internal Family Systems

Internal family systems therapy is a powerfully transformative, evidence-based model of psychotherapy. If you saw the movie Inside Out, you already have a taste of what IFS is all about. We believe the mind is naturally multiple. Our inner parts contain valuable qualities and our core Self knows how to help us become whole. In IFS, all parts are welcome, and if we approach all parts with curiosity, compassion, and care, our protective parts start to relax so our true selves can begin to heal the vulnerable, wounded parts they protect.

 

Psychedelic Harm Reduction

Psychedelic Harm Reduction and Integration (PHRI) is a clinical model that incorporates principles of harm reduction psychotherapy and psychedelic-assisted therapy, providing a framework for examining and working with psychedelic experiences in clinical care without providing the actual psychedelic experience as part of treatment.

Integration

Integration is a process in which we work together to incorporate the insights of your ritual, spiritual or psychedelic experience. The integration process is a time to assess what occurred before, during, and outside of your experience, to help bridge the gap between the lessons offered up by the experience and ongoing life. Integration is a process of focusing inward, making implicitly felt meanings explicit, addressing physiological stress, and encouraging the development of psychologically flexible coping skills.

 
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Practice-Based Evidence

The importance of maintaining humility and an undogmatic stance is important since this allows me to learn from our interactions. Being experienced does not mean I knowing everything or knowing more than anyone else. Rather, I am willing to be surprised by new ways of thinking and being. In essence, you teach me how to practice and better serve you when we are together.

Ritual

Rituals in therapeutic interventions are sensory, attentive and intentional acts that are performed in a structured, imaginative or aesthetic way, making use of symbols, symbolic language, and symbolic action to create or direct meaning. Rituals allow us to honor, let go of, and transform our experiences often deepening the work that we do together. Ritual is a practice of not only finding but making meaning in our world.

 
 

Strength - Based

Strength-based therapy is a type of positive psychotherapy that focuses more on your internal strengths and resourcefulness, and less on weaknesses, failures, and shortcomings. This focus sets up a positive mindset that helps you build on you best qualities, find your strengths, improve resilience and change worldview to one that is more positive. A positive attitude, in turn, can help your expectations of yourself and others become more reasonable.

“There are three legs to the cauldron that is my therapeutic approach; spiritual practice, personal healing, and political activism.

— Inspired by Starhawk and the Reclaiming Tradition

Qualifications

Registered Social Service Worker,
Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Depression & Anxiety
PsychWire

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Level 2 Accreditation
Association of Psychological Therapies

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Buddhism
Toronto Centre for Applied Buddhism

Buddhist Grief Counselling Certificate
Toronto Centre for Applied Buddhism

Buddhist Psychology and Gestalt Therapy
Toronto Centre for Applied Buddhism

Building Inclusivity Through Anti-Racism
Western University

Compassion-Focused Therapy: Level 2 Accreditation Association of Psychological Therapies

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy: Level 2 Accreditation Association of Psychological Therapies

Cognitive Behavioural Techniques University of New Brunswick

PhD in Gender and Sexuality Studies
University of Western Ontario

Master of Arts in Buddhist Studies
University of South Wales

Ontario College Diploma in Social Service Work
George Brown College

Cognitive Processing Therapy Mastery Course for Treating Trauma and PTSD
PESI

Complex Trauma Certification Training
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Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy, Parts Work, CPT, and Polyvagal Therapy PESI

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: Level 2 Accreditation Association of Psychological Therapies

Mindful Self-Compassion Centre for Mindful Self-Compassion

Motivational Interviewing for Gay Men Struggling with Sex & Drugs GPS

Reiki Level 1 & 2 INSERT School

Yoga Teacher Training Vedanta

Somatic Attachment Therapy Certificate Embody Lab

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Though we can hurt, we can heal; though each one of us can be destroyed, within us is the power of renewal.

— Starhawk, Dreaming the Dark