Welcome To Peniel Counseling

Founder · Counselor · Humanitarian

Dr. Oluwatosin
“Tosin” Faremi

Christian Counselor · Mental Health & Addiction Therapist · Minister · Humanitarian · Mother

“My scars became strength. My tears became testimony. My challenges became the foundation of my calling.”
Dr. Oluwatosin Faremi, founder of Peniel Counseling

The RestorerFaith, skill, and care in service of healing.

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CounselingHealing hearts and relationships

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MinistryFaith-informed guidance

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CommunityService across nations

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FoundationPractical care in Nigeria

Her storyWhen pain became purpose / 01

A life refined by experience and redirected toward healing.

Born and raised in Nigeria, Dr. Faremi was determined, ambitious, and business-minded from a young age. Her journey into counseling, however, began long before the degrees.

She endured betrayal, harassment, heartbreak, and silent battles that revealed both the fragility and resilience of the human heart. Seeking a new beginning, she moved to the United States to further her studies. What she expected to be a doorway to success became a profound season of refining.

Through emotional storms, spiritual battles, and circumstances that tested her faith, pain began to reveal purpose. Her own healing journey became the foundation of a calling: to walk with others as they rebuild strength, clarity, peace, and hope.

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Roots

A determined beginning in Nigeria, shaped by ambition, family, and early life experience.

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Refining

Study, transition, adversity, and faith transformed personal pain into deeper understanding.

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Calling

Counseling, ministry, and humanitarian service became one mission of restoration.

Training & service

Professional depth. Human understanding.

Dr. Faremi’s work combines advanced education, mental health training, ministry, community involvement, and the insight of lived experience.

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PhD in Counseling

Advanced study supporting compassionate and informed counseling practice.

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PhD in Ministry

Spiritual leadership and faith-informed care when clients desire it.

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Mental Health & Addiction

Education and training in emotional wellness, dependency, and recovery support.

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Public Administration & HR

Master’s-level understanding of people, organizations, and community systems.

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Ministry & Community

Ordained ministry and volunteer service with Prison Fellowship Ontario.

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Speaker, Coach & Mother

Care shaped by communication, leadership, family life, and practical wisdom.

Her workRestoring hearts, minds & spirits / 02

Support for the places where life feels most difficult.

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Marriage & intimacy

Restoring communication, trust, closeness, and healthy partnership.

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Relationship recovery

Support through divorce, heartbreak, loss, and relational change.

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Mental health

Practical care for emotional struggle, stress, and inner stability.

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Addiction support

Compassionate guidance through dependency and recovery.

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Trauma & healing

Space to process painful experience and rebuild a sense of safety.

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Youth development

Emotional tools, identity, confidence, and resilience for young people.

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Life transitions

Clarity and direction through career, migration, and major change.

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Spiritual growth

Faith-informed reflection and personal growth when desired.

Dr. Tosin Faremi seated
Her approachWhole-person care for real life.
How she counsels

Practical tools, emotional care, and room for faith.

Dr. Faremi’s holistic approach recognizes that healing can involve the mind, emotions, relationships, lived circumstances, and spiritual life.

Emotional wellnessPsychological toolsSpiritual insightReal-life strategies
“I walk with people until they rise into peace, purpose, and inner strength.”
Beyond the counseling room

Restoration made practical through the Peniel Foundation.

In Nigeria, the Foundation supports children who need school supplies, widows and widowers, struggling families, and vulnerable individuals. It extends Dr. Faremi’s mission from personal healing into community care.

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Peniel Foundation community outreachPeniel Foundation charitable work
Her purpose
“When your heart feels lighter, when your smile returns, when hope rises again—that is when I know my assignment is fulfilled.”

Her work now reaches people across Nigeria, the United States, and Canada through counseling, ministry, speaking, workshops, and community outreach.

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