about ALexei zavitz
Alexei Zavitz (formerly Juno) is a workplace mental health consultant, clinician, and educator specializing in the wellbeing and sustainability of frontline service providers, and mental healthcare and social service organizations.
With over a decade of experience in social services, harm reduction, housing, and bereavement care, Alexei works with organizations navigating the complex psychological demands placed on their staff — including burnout, vicarious trauma, moral injury, and internal workplace conflict.
Alexei is the founder of the Grief, Loss and Wellness Initiative (GLoW), Canada’s first worker wellness program designed specifically for frontline workers responding to the overdose crisis, for which he was recognized with United Way Toronto’s Innovation and Creativity award.
His consulting practice supports organizations across Canada to build healthier, more sustainable workplaces through leadership coaching, conflict mediation, program design, and training in workplace mental health.
Alexei holds a Master of Psychospiritual Studies from Emmanuel College at the University of Toronto, is currently pursuing an additional MA in Practical Theology, and is also formally educated in social service work, end of life/death studies, and visual arts. His work is also informed by lived experience of mental illness, addiction and life-changing bereavement. His academic research focuses on ecotheology, treating moral injury in service providers, and theistic Anarchism.
Outside of his professional life, Alexei is an ultramarathon trail runner, solo backpacker and mountain enthusiast, avid traveller, and parent to a rescue xoloitzcuintli named Toci.
Mission
Apporai Consultancy and Counselling seeks to foster individual and organizational wellness, sustainability, and transformation. Our work is rooted in models of transformative/restorative justice, harm reduction, de-carceration, and opposition to systemic violence such as white supremacy and colonialism.
Within organizations, we aim to address burnout, vicarious trauma and loss, lateral violence and conflict within staff teams, grounding these efforts in a commitment to solidarity and unity. For individuals, we aim to provide liberatory, spiritually-minded care for those moving through periods of change, loss, and growth.