The Collaborative: Stratford Psychotherapy and Consulting
Maggie Blake
Co-Founder | Child & Youth Counsellor | Child Safety & Wellbeing Consultant
About Maggie
Maggie Blake is a Child & Youth Counsellor and Child Safety & Wellbeing Consultant with nearly two decades of experience working with children and youth. She holds an MA in Child & Youth Work and an MA in Acting and brings together expertise in child development, mental health, safeguarding, trauma-informed practice and professional performance environments.
Maggie specializes in supporting child and adolescent performers working in film, television and theatre, particularly when productions involve sensitive, distressing or emotionally complex material. She works directly with professional productions through Good Ship: Centre for Child Safety & Wellbeing in Entertainment, which she founded to bring specialized child-development, safeguarding and mental health expertise into entertainment.
Her production work can include script and sensitive-material consultation, pre-production planning, production-team training, Child Safety Riders, counselling and emotional support for minors, and dedicated on-set or rehearsal support. Maggie is also a former professional child performer and brings firsthand understanding of the unique demands, relationships and power dynamics of professional performance environments to this work.
Visit Good Ship: Centre for Child Safety & Wellbeing in Entertainment
Maggie continues to see a small number of children and adolescents in private practice at The Collaborative. She is not currently accepting new private-practice clients. She continues to accept film, television and theatre production inquiries through Good Ship.
Maggie's Approach
Maggie’s approach is relational, strengths-based and developmentally informed. She draws from talk therapy, play-based approaches, skill building and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, adapting her work to the individual child or young person.
Across both counselling and professional performance environments, Maggie’s work is grounded in relationship, psychological safety and the belief that children and young people should feel heard, respected and meaningfully involved in decisions that affect them.
Education and Professional Background
Master of Arts, Child & Youth Work
Toronto Metropolitan University
Master of Arts, Acting
Royal Central School of Speech & Drama
Research & Knowledge Mobilization Lead
Boost Child & Youth Advocacy Centre
Child Performer Advocacy Director
Stratford Festival
Contact
206 Ontario Street, suite 101
Stratford, Ontario
N5A 3H4
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