Get to know . . .

Kelly McDonnell

Founder + Therapist / MA, MBA, RSW, RPshe/her/hers

While I am not currently taking new clients, you are in the right place. Bliss is home to a team of therapists I have personally chosen for their skill, warmth, and integrity. I trust them completely, and we would be honoured to help you find the right fit.

Therapy for the soulfully ambitious. Rooted in warmth, clarity, and lived experience.

You are strong and capable, the one others turn to. Yet inside, it can feel different. The pressure, the losses, the betrayals, and that quiet question of “Is this all there is?” can be exhausting. If this feels familiar, you are not alone.

For more than 15 years I have supported people through life’s turning points: heartbreak, burnout, career changes, and parenthood. Some come to explore intimacy, spark desire, and create more fulfilling sex lives, because these experiences are not extras. They are at the core of feeling alive, connected, and whole. And for many, therapy is the doorway to long-awaited breakthroughs that change everything.

These seasons can shake you, but they can also bring you back to yourself. My role is to help quiet the noise and guide you toward a life that feels honest, rooted, and unmistakably your own, where breathing deeper and laughing louder come more naturally.

Therapy with me is co-creative. You bring your story, your resilience, your longing. I bring presence, perspective, and a space that can hold all of it. Together, something shifts. Healing is not only about loosening the armour that once kept you safe, it is about expanding into who you are becoming: clearer, braver, more connected, and more fully alive in love, in work, and in yourself.

At Bliss, healing does not mean shrinking. It means expanding. All identities, bodies, relationships, and lived experiences are welcome here. Real change does not just help you survive, it helps you live fully.

Offering Sessions in . . .

Individual Therapy
Relationship Therapy
Sex Therapy
Group Work
Private: Clinical Supervision

I’m the therapist for you if:

You are a high-achieving human, an executive, business owner, creative, or visionary, someone others lean on. You carry a lot with grace, even as the pressure quietly chips away at parts of you no one sees.
You are moving through loss, betrayal, or major life transitions and want to rebuild your sense of self.
You want to explore your attachment style and childhood patterns with depth and compassion, not surface fixes.
You crave healthy, secure relationships with yourself and others, relationships that feel safe, electric, and real.
You and your partner(s) are navigating sexual desire differences or emotional distance, and you want to find your way back to connection.
You long to feel more alive, more connected, and more at home in your own skin.
You are looking for a therapist who shows up fully, with warmth, humour, open-mindedness, and heart.

Clinical Specialties:

Therapeutic Approach

My work is relational, trauma-informed, and integration-focused. I draw from:

Humanistic, Attachment-Based & Relational Therapy
Psychodynamic, Depth-Oriented & Trauma-Informed Approaches (including EMDR)
PACT for Couples, Sex Therapy & Somatic-Mindfulness Integration
Systems Therapy & Intersectional, Culturally and Identity-Affirming Practice

More About Kelly

Every day, I am in awe of the resilience of the human spirit, the way we break, heal, and become. The way relationships, both with ourselves and with others, can wound us, and also bring us back to life. I know this not just as a therapist, but as someone who has lived it too.

My path to therapy began with a deep curiosity about connection, how we relate to ourselves, to each other, and to the systems we move through. That curiosity carried me from studying Psychology and Sociology to completing a Master’s in Forensic Sexology in Australia. Later, I earned an MBA in Health Care Administration and a Black Belt in Lean Process Improvement because I believe healing should be accessible, designed with clarity and care rather than complication.

Bliss Counselling + Psychotherapy has always been a team practice, united by a progressive ethos: therapy that is modern, relational, inclusive, and designed for real life. Today, I focus on shaping Bliss’s next chapter, mentoring clinicians, leading creative initiatives, and developing programs and spaces that support meaningful transformation across personal, relational, and community levels.

I am a Registered Social Worker (RSW), Registered Psychotherapist (RP), and member of AASECT. More than any credential, I am endlessly curious about people, relationships, and the process of becoming. Whether I am sitting with a client, designing a healing program, or creating space for connection, my work is always guided by care, courage, and humanity

At my core, I am a compassionate witness, a partner in healing, and a mirror. I am here to help you make sense of your story, return to your true self, and create relationships where you can feel safe, seen, and deeply connected.

Many Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) and extended health care plans will cover services rendered by a Registered Social Worker and/or Registered Psychotherapist.

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