i.
You tell us your story.
A thoughtful intake — twenty minutes, not a Typeform sprint. We ask about culture, family, faith, language, what has and hasn't worked in therapy before, and what you are hoping to be held with.
No. 01 — On Finding Your Person
Therapy that
knows where
you come from.
Touch is a private practice that matches second-generation BIPOC women in Canada with therapists who understand their culture, their families, and the parts of their story they have not yet said out loud.
Intergenerational silence·Family expectations·Faith without erasure·Honour-based pressure·Diaspora grief·Body autonomy·Racial trauma·The space between two languages·Daughters of immigrants·Quiet survival·Intergenerational silence·Family expectations·Faith without erasure·Honour-based pressure·Diaspora grief·Body autonomy·Racial trauma·The space between two languages·Daughters of immigrants·Quiet survival·
№ 01The Gap
You have been
explaining yourself your whole life.
You have tried therapy before. Maybe a few times. You found a kind person, you paid your copay, and somewhere in week three you began the long work of translating: explaining why your mother calls every day, why you cannot simply move out, why what looks like control to your therapist looks like love at home — and what looks like love to your therapist looks, some nights, like control.
You stopped going. Not because therapy did not work, but because the cost of being understood was too high. You were paying to teach.
Touch exists for the women who stopped going.
“The first hour of therapy should not be spent on a glossary.”
№ 02The Method
We match by hand,
not by algorithm.
ii.
We consider.
Our founder reads every intake personally. Within seventy-two hours, you receive one recommended therapist with a written note explaining why we paired you.
iii.
You meet.
A free fifteen-minute introductory call. If the fit is right, you continue. If not, we try again — no questions, no charge.
№ 03A Letter
Toronto, the spring of 2026.
I started Touch because I was tired of recommending therapists to friends and watching them stop going after three sessions. I am a clinician. I knew the people I was sending them to. They were good. But good was not enough — not for the woman who needed someone who understood why she had not told her parents she was in therapy at all.
Touch is a small practice on purpose. We do not aim to be the biggest therapy platform in Canada. We aim to be the one a woman tells her sister about — and her sister actually goes.
If that is the kind of practice you have been looking for, I would like to meet you.
— Dheeksha Reddy
BSc, BA, MSc, MPH, BSW · Founder, Touch.
№ 04An Invitation
For therapists who do
this work already.
Touch is recruiting a small founding cohort of BIPOC therapists, social workers, and counsellors across Canada. We are looking for clinicians with depth in racial, intergenerational, faith- based, and gender-based trauma — the work most platforms only put on a filter.
A flat monthly fee, hand-curated referrals, and a community of peers who actually understand the work.
Read the invitation