From Anxiety To Ease
Create Relief
Cultivate Self-Trust
Expand Beyond Survival
From Anxiety To Ease
Create Relief
Cultivate Self-Trust
Expand Beyond Survival
Meet the founders
Ellen Schlesinger & Melanie Banka Goela
Ellen and Melanie are both lawyers turned psychotherapists/coaches who met while working as Student Success and Wellness Counsellors at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto. Together they co-founded From Anxiety to Ease, a practice dedicated to fostering the mental health and wellbeing of lawyers worldwide. They provide individual coaching and counselling, implement customized mental health programming at law firms and teach online mental health courses for lawyers.
In their work as therapists, coaches and facilitators, Ellen and Melanie foster a safe and open environment in which participants easily receive relevant information and practice effective tools to champion their vitality. They value facilitating reflection, curiosity, conversation and experiential exercises, while ensuring a space that supports diversity, equity and inclusion.