48 Dundas St West Belleville, Ontario
Mon – Fri: 9 AM – 5:00 PM, Sat – Sun: Closed
Moving to London, Ontario brings unique challenges. You're navigating a new city while managing the invisible weight of displacement, cultural adjustment, and the pressure to rebuild your life from scratch. Whether you're connecting with London's growing Portuguese and Latin American communities or finding your way through settlement services that don't quite speak your language, the emotional toll is real. Loneliness, grief, and uncertainty can feel isolating when no one around you shares your reference points.
LK Psychotherapy exists because your mental health matters in ways that go beyond surface-level coping. We're a multilingual, BIPOC-led practice offering therapy online to London clients who deserve space where their immigration story isn't background information. Your culture, your losses, your resilience, your lived experience as an immigrant or newcomer becomes the foundation of our work together, not something we add in later.
Moving to London, Ontario brings both opportunity and significant stress. Newcomers and immigrants often face multiple pressures at once: finding stable employment in unfamiliar job markets, navigating housing shortages, managing financial strain, and rebuilding social networks from scratch. For many in London's growing immigrant communities, particularly those concentrated in specific neighborhoods, the isolation can feel overwhelming. These challenges don't simply fade once you've settled in. They accumulate, affecting sleep, relationships, and your sense of belonging in a place that should feel like home.
What researchers call acculturation stress is the emotional weight of straddling two worlds while trying to survive in a new one. Many immigrants in London struggle silently because seeking help feels impossible or unsafe. Language barriers make it hard to express what you're experiencing. There's often stigma within your own cultural community about mental health. Some people have learned not to trust systems that haven't served them well before. And honestly, when you're working multiple jobs or managing family expectations from across the world, therapy can feel like a luxury you can't afford to prioritize, even when you desperately need it.
LK Psychotherapy understands these realities because our clinicians have lived them. We work with immigrant and newcomer clients in London by centering your cultural identity, not as something separate from your mental health, but as central to your healing. We help you navigate the specific pressures you face: family expectations that may conflict with your own values, grief about what you've left behind, and the complicated process of building a new identity. You don't have to explain your background to us or justify why you're struggling. You can be fully yourself here.
Our founder's own journey as an immigrant in Canada is the foundation of our clinical approach. We are not learning about your experience from a textbook.
LK Psychotherapy was founded by Lethicia Foadjo, an immigrant and MSW RSW whose personal experience shapes a practice built for people whose stories are not the default.
Language and faith matter in therapy. Our team brings cultural fluency across multiple languages and an awareness of religious and community contexts that affect how healing happens.
We do not just welcome diversity. We actively work against the systems that make it harder for immigrants, racialized people, and newcomers to access quality care and thrive in it.
LK Psychotherapy serves immigrants and newcomers in London through secure, confidential virtual sessions. No referral required. Free 30-minute consultation to start.
Simple, straightforward access to professional care. No long waitlists, no gatekeeping.
A 30-minute call to share what you are carrying and explore whether LK Psychotherapy is the right fit. No pressure, no commitment.
We take time to connect you with the clinician best suited to your background and language preferences.
Private, secure therapy from your home in London. Evenings and weekends available to fit your schedule.
Real progress on the things that matter: your sense of self, your relationships, and the life you are building in a new country.
Yes, immigrant mental health therapy is readily available near London, Ontario through LK Psychotherapy's virtual services. Our BIPOC-led, multilingual practice operates from Belleville and reaches clients across Ontario, including those in surrounding communities like Woodstock, St. Thomas, Stratford, and Ingersoll, where many immigrants and newcomers have built their lives. We provide culturally responsive counselling that understands the unique challenges of immigration, from settlement stress to identity questions. For First Nations and Inuit clients, Non-Insured Health Benefits (NIHB) are available and accepted. Virtual sessions mean you can access therapy from home, at times that fit your schedule, with a therapist who speaks your language and understands your background.
Acculturation stress refers to the psychological impact of adapting to a new culture, including language pressure, shifting values and norms, loss of community and support networks, discrimination, and the exhaustion of constantly navigating an unfamiliar environment. Research consistently shows that immigrants face higher rates of depression, anxiety, and isolation, particularly in the first years of settlement. LK Psychotherapy takes an affirming, non-stigmatizing approach to working with acculturation stress and the grief of displacement.
Yes. LK Psychotherapy has multilingual clinicians on staff and takes language and cultural background into account when matching clients to their therapist. We understand that doing therapeutic work in a second language adds an additional layer of difficulty and that some concepts do not translate directly across cultures. Please mention your language preference during your free consultation and we will do our best to accommodate you.
Psychotherapy services in Ontario are not covered under OHIP. However, LK Psychotherapy accepts a wide range of third-party insurance plans through direct billing. LK Psychotherapy offers direct billing to Sun Life Financial, GreenShield Insurance, and Medavie Blue Cross (including Canadian Armed Forces and Veterans Affairs). We also accept Non-Insured Health Benefits (NIHB) for First Nations and Inuit clients, and over 20 plans through Telus Health eClaims including Canada Life and Desjardins. A sliding scale is available for clients without coverage.
The weight of starting over in a new country is legitimate. You don't have to carry it alone. LK Psychotherapy works with London's immigrant and newcomer communities virtually, bringing lived cultural understanding and genuine affirming care. Your story matters. Your struggles matter. Let's talk about what support looks like for you. Book your free consultation today.
MSW RSW — Registered Social Worker (OCSWSSW & ACSW)
My greatest joy will be to accompany you on a journey of growth, self-fulfilment, and healing. There will be ups and downs, great laughs and tears, which will all be part of your journey. I want to be found with you and I want you to find empowerment in the right places, in others and in yourself.
LK Psychotherapy was built to serve people whose stories are not the default, and to make deep, lasting healing genuinely accessible. Drawing from evidence-based research and best practices in emotional, cognitive, and behavioural science, we craft a therapeutic space for you to deepen your self-understanding and build a toolbox to strengthen your relationships, personally and professionally.
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