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Rising Up Through Muddy Waters

Supporting individuals, families, caregivers, and professionals navigating complicated emotional, behavioural, learning, and neurodevelopmental challenges.

We believe that underneath many puzzling symptoms and behaviours is a complicated and beautiful brain deserving of understanding, safety, dignity, and support.

Together, we work toward greater clarity, stronger relationships, and more meaningful ways of living, learning, and healing.

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How We Help

We provide compassionate, strength and values-based supports tailored to the unique needs of children, youth, adults, caregivers, and professionals.

Clinical Services

Counselling, therapy, caregiver support, and practical strategies focused on safety, dignity, relationships, and everyday functioning.

Screening & Functional Assessment

Specialized social work and allied health approaches that help people better understand symptoms, strengths, barriers, and support needs.

Education & Professional Development

Training, consultation, and capacity building for schools, agencies, caregivers, clinicians, and community partners.

Integrative & Holistic Supports

Mindfulness, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), yoga-informed approaches, neurodevelopmental understanding, and collaborative care.

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Providing compassionate support across Ontario – Education and training across the Globe.

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Angela Geddes

Registered Social Worker CYW, BA Psych, MSW, RSW, YTT

For over 30 years, Angela has had the opportunity to learn from and support individuals and families experiencing life’s challenges that interfere with mental health and wellness.

Today, Angela leads a growing team of passionate professionals who share her commitment to building greater awareness, understanding, and capacity within communities and support systems. Together, they work across education, healthcare, child welfare, and community services to create more inclusive, informed, and compassionate approaches to care — with a particular focus on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), mental health, and developmental differences.

Grounded in research and lived experience, the team’s work is centered on helping people feel safe, understood, and supported so they can live with dignity, connection, and opportunity.

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Books & Resources

  • Book titled 'A Complicated & Beautiful Brain' by Angela Geddes on a white surface with two dried yellow flowers and a pen nearby

    A COMPLICATED & BEAUTIFUL BRAIN


    » 2ND EDITION NOW AVAILABLE «

    A guide to understanding the effects of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure (PAE) and what Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) looks like across the lifespan.

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  • A person in a blue sweater and jeans sitting cross-legged and holding a book titled "Not Your Typical Parenting Guide" with a cover image of a wooden head silhouette with a ship wheel inside.

    NOT YOUR TYPICAL PARENTING GUIDE


    » 2ND EDITION NOW AVAILABLE «

    Tips and strategies to support common areas of challenge for people with complex neurodevelopmental disorders (CND) that can include attention and concentration, behavioural, social, emotional, mental health, and sometimes learning difficulties.

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  • Egg shells with smiling faces drawn on them, filled with green sprouts growing inside, on a white surface with a bokeh background.

    A PRACTICAL APPROACH TO CND FOR PARENTS AND CAREGIVERS


    FREE DOWNLOAD

    This booklet was created to provide important considerations for caregivers now that they are certain that their children are struggling and are not developmentally quite on target.

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Professional Education & Training

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    TRAINING FOR SOCIAL WORKERS

    This 10-hour training program aims to enhance our assessment and support services for individuals with complicated mental health and learning difficulties.

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    EDUCATION PACKAGES FOR POST-SECONDARY SCHOOL PROGRAMS

    The goal of this training is to augment current curriculum which will leave students better positioned to screen, identify and support some of our most vulnerable in more relevant ways.

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    COMMUNITY & AGENCY EDUCATION

    Comprehensive training for social service agency leadership and staff from various sectors and/or anyone interested in building a more inclusive system.

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A Complicated & Beautiful Brain

2ND EDITION | BOOK BY ANGELA GEDDES

“It’s a beautiful book that allows you to pursue further information. The book is practical… it gives you pathways to do something. I absolutely love this book. I think it’s one of the best books that has hit the market recently in respect to FASD.” ~ Dr. Peter Choate

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I believe we all need ‘helpers’ from time to time…

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