About Us

Mission, Vision & Values

At the Delton Glebe Counselling Centre (the Glebe) we provide affordable, high quality, and compassionate care,
welcoming people of diverse backgrounds, cultures, life experiences, faith and spirituality.

We provide professional therapists who are either members of the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario, or the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers, or are supervised graduate Masters level Interns working towards becoming a member of either of those professional colleges.

We Believe That

  • Talking helps.
  • Along with talking, other ways of addressing your concerns (art or play therapy for example) can be helpful.
  • Challenges in life are opportunities for learning and growth.
  • You bring your life experiences, values and beliefs into the therapy process.
  • These together with the therapist’s personal and professional experiences can address your concerns.
  • Everyone has the right to receive mental health services.
  • Some of your concerns will resolve in a few sessions while others may take longer. The amount of time in therapy is determined by you and your therapist.
  • When clients and therapists work together, healing and change can happen.
  • Faith and spirituality can be important resources for healing and change.

Our History

The Delton Glebe Counselling Center is named after Rev. Dr. Delton J. Glebe
(1919-2011), a Lutheran pastor, who was Principal-Dean and Professor of
Pastoral (Spiritual) Care and Counselling at what is now Martin Luther
University College (1970-1984). He was a clinical member of the American
Association of Marriage and Family Therapy as well as a charter member and
former president of the Canadian Association of Pastoral Education.

Delton was a pioneer in the research and teaching of grief, death and dying.
Opened in October 2013, The Delton Glebe Counselling Centre aims to extend
the leadership and legacy of the late Delton Glebe.

Martin Luther University College

The Delton Glebe Counselling Centre, a community program of Martin Luther University College (formerly Waterloo Lutheran Seminary), provides mental health services as a non-profit organization. The Glebe was established as an agency that has both professional therapists and a place where graduate students of the Spiritual Care and Psychotherapy Program at Martin Luther University College, as well as the Masters of Social Work program at Wilfrid Laurier University, can train as therapists and complete the practicum portion of their program under the supervision of Kristine Lund, RP, our Clinical Director.

By serving students and our community this way, we offer quick access to high quality, affordable, mental health care. The Delton Glebe Counselling Centre is sponsored, in part, by the Eastern Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada.

Kristine Lund | Founder & Clinical Director

Neta Deonarain-Gear | Executive Director

Rev  |  M. Div  |  PhD  |  RP

Personal Statement:

“Therapy is an opportunity for the therapist and client to collaboratively work together to address the client’s present concerns. Clients come with life experiences and self-knowledge that, together with the support and professional resources of a therapist, can address the necessary healing and change. It is a privilege to accompany clients in their healing and change process.”

Areas of special interest:

“Working with couples, healing from traumatic experiences, anxiety, depression, life’s transitions, grief/loss, interpersonal concerns, questions of identity.”

BA   |   BSW   |   MA   |   FM   |   RSW

Personal Statement:

“I am very excited to be leading the Glebe as the Executive Director. Through collaboration and partnership with the community, I hope to move forward the inspirational and innovative work that occurs regularly at the Glebe. I am committed to increased accessibility to service excellence through accountability, compassion, and competence. Clients put their trusts in us and we aim to hold that sacred.”

Areas of special interest:

“I have worked in the fields of Child Welfare, Domestic Violence, Mental Health and Addictions, Community Healthcare, Post-Secondary Education and Brain Injury. My roles have included research and senior leadership. I value generative conversations.”

Meet Our Team

Katie Abrams, MA (cand.)

Vanessa Torrance, MA (Cand.)

Erin Laughton, MA (Cand.)

MA (Cand.)

Katelyn Mackay, MA (Cand.)

Michelet Dormeus, MA (Cand.), MDiv

MA (Cand.), MDiv

Amy Carapanta MA (Cand.)

MA (Cand.)

Stephen Wright, MA (Cand.)

Tracey Sebastian, MA (Cand.)

MA (Cand.)

Tasha Matar, DTATI (cand), RSW

DTATI (cand) (Art Therapist candidate)

Anjali Majeethia, RP(cand)

Eveliina Ahonen, MA (Cand.)

MA (Cand.)

Christina Droumtsekas, DTATI (Candidate)

RP (Qualifying), DTATI (Candidate)

Melanie Brakel, DTATI, RP

DTATI, RP

Laila Brand, RP, MA

MA, RP

John Dinner, MA, RP (Qualifying)

MA, RP(qualifying)

Kyoung Kim (김경중), PhD, RP, MA, CCC

PhD, RP, MA, CCC

Alyssa Strachan, RP, MA

RP, MA

Dr. Bob Doering, Ph.D., C.Psych.

Ph.D., C.Psych.

Ethena Williams M.Div. RSW

M.Div. RSW

Yoke Kennedy, MSW, RSW

MSW, RSW

Michael Chow, RP

RP

Pamela Loughton, MA, MDiv, AHPCE, Ph.D., (cand), RP

MA, MDiv, AHPCE, PhD (Cand), RP

Jennifer Helmuth, RP, MA

RP, MA

Eleanor Wright, MA, RP

MA, RP

Kathy Bazinet, B.A., BEd., M.A., RP

B.A., BEd., M.A., RP

Christina Hennelly, MSW, RSW

MSW, RSW

Karen Hultin, M.A., MSW,RSW, SEP

MSW

Joseph Thomas RP (Qualifying)

RP (Qualifying)

Lindsay Thompson, MSW, RSW

MSW, RSW

Florence Juma, RP, MEd., MDiv.,

RP, MEd., MDiv.

Nicholas Balaisis, RP, PhD

RP, PhD

Anne Schnarr, MSW, RSW, Social Worker, Jungian Psychoanalyst

MSW, RSW, Social Worker, Jungian Psychoanalyst, CPT/S (retired)

Chad Bouma MSW, RSW

MSW, RSW

Ala AI Thibeh, RP

M.Div, PhD, RP

Dr. Peter Kuhnert, MD, MDiv, FCFP

MD, MDiv, FCFP

The Delton Glebe Counselling Centre is a program of Martin Luther University College