Our Team

Circles Coach

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Gillian has been working in Muskoka as a professional facilitator for 12 years, focussing on therapeutic recreation and personal empowerment. Gillian’s focus is to create a safe space where people can overcome their fears, experience personal growth and self-acceptance in community with others. Using music as a tool and deep listening as a method, her participants range across diverse groups: adults with addictions, troubled youth, sexual assault survivors, students in school and seniors with dementia, to name a few. She’s provided independent programming for the YWCA over the years and now joins the team with Circles North.

Gillian trained as a circle facilitator in Toronto before moving to Muskoka. She studied Sociology, Communications and Philosophy and History at U of T and York University. She is a proud member of her local Lion’s Club. In her free time she enjoys camping, hiking and playing music with friends.

Circles Coordinator

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Hannah joined the YWCA Muskoka team in 2025, bringing a passion for creativity, equity, and an anti-oppressive, trauma informed approach. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts and is currently pursuing postgraduate studies in Art Therapy.

Her professional background focuses on accessible client-centred care, working as a Personal Support Worker before transitioning to Recreation Coordinator in retirement communities. Hannah has been actively involved in local initiatives, including coordinating youth programming through the Young Adult Centre with Gravenhurst Against Poverty and facilitating grief art workshops with Hospice Muskoka. These combined experiences have shaped her commitment to fostering inclusive, safe spaces where people feel supported, empowered, and connected.

Hannah is a born and raised Muskoka local — acknowledging that she is a settler on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabeg, she is committed to ongoing learning and action toward reconciliation.

Getting Ahead Coordinator

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Justin joined the YWCA team in 2020, bringing with him experience supporting young people, underserved and marginalized communities in the District of Muskoka, Toronto, and in a remote community in North Western British Columbia. He has been fortunate enough to serve at government agencies, community arts spaces', social purpose enterprises and Band-run charter schools. Justin strives to approach his work and service from a client-first perspective, and is passionate about anti-opressive principles, inclusion and contributing to equitable solutions for service-users, clients, and participants.