What is Psychotherapy?
Psychotherapy is a compassionate, evidence-based approach to emotional, mental and nervous system healing.
Through guided exploration and self-discovery, therapy helps you uncover patterns, build resilience and develop lasting inner strength.
Together, we create space for self-reflection, meaning-making, and transformation to support you in living with greater clarity, authenticity and alignment with your values.
Your therapist acts as a trusted partner and catalyst for change, walking with you on your holistic journey toward emotional wellness, mental clarity and nervous system grounding.
We view well-being through an integrative lens, recognizing that your mental, emotional, physical and stress states are deeply interconnected. When one area feels out of balance, others are affected, too.
Psychotherapy helps you understand how these aspects of yourself interact, creating a foundation for harmony and growth.
Research continues to demonstrate the powerful connection between mind and body. At our holistic psychotherapy practice in Toronto, we integrate this knowledge to help you achieve transformative, lasting change, not just symptom relief.
What happens in a session?
Therapy begins with an informal intake assessment, typically over the first 1–5 sessions. This process allows your therapist to fully understand your background, current challenges, and goals, so we can tailor therapy to your unique needs. We’re still working through current challenges concurrently.
A safe, trusting relationship is at the heart of effective psychotherapy. Together, we’ll build rapport, create a collaborative partnership, set meaningful goals and progress through the process toward healthy change.
Our integrative psychotherapists draw from a variety of holistic and evidence-based approaches, including:
Psychodynamic Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness, Positive Psychology, Solution-Focused Therapy (SFT), Somatic Therapy, Feminist Therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR), Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFiT), Bowenian Therapy, and Compassionate Inquiry.
We offer in-person therapy in Toronto’s west end (Bloor West Village, High Park, Junction & Roncesvalles) and secure online therapy across Ontario, allowing you to connect from wherever you are.
Each session is 60 minutes (50 minutes of therapy + 10 minutes for administration).
We also offer Walk Therapy sessions. In Walk Therapy, we meet in the High Park area of Toronto’s west end. Connecting in nature is a very grounding experience and, combined with the physical benefits of walking, enhances production and release of happy hormones. This counts as both therapy and self-care and can be a very healthy and meaningful way to enhance therapy, nurture the mind-body connection, create energy and feel more grounded. Walk Therapy sessions are held in the Spring, Summer & Fall and are weather-permitted.
We do not prescribe the number of sessions to be attended – that depends on each unique person’s presenting concerns. We do require consistent engagement and participation at regularly scheduled appointments, either weekly or bi-weekly to start. Cadence will increase or decrease based on symptom de-escalation or escalation and progress towards goal attainment.
Appointments are scheduled especially for you. Our Cancellation Policy requires a minimum of 48 hours notice. Late cancellations and no shows impact the therapeutic process, as well as the therapist’s schedule. When this happens, it will be charged, as it creates a hole in the schedule that may not be filled. If it happens repeatedly, it can impact the therapeutic relationship. It is important to make psychotherapy a priority to maximize the effectiveness of the process.
Our office is conveniently located at 2333 Dundas St. West, in the west end of Toronto (steps from Dundas West station on Line 2).
Benefits of Therapy
Emotional & mental health challenges are often treated with prescription medication.
Medication management treats symptoms on a short-term basis and can result in relapse when further challenges arise in one’s life, or the end of the prescription is reached.
Psychotherapy helps clients work through challenges, find meaning and learn healthy, effective ways to cope with future challenges. The process of talk therapy has been proven to result in positive, lasting change, improved coping skills and has a significantly lower relapse rate than medication management.
Clients can experience a reduction of anxiety and depression, higher levels of happiness, improved self-esteem and self-confidence, overall well-being and a deeper sense of meaning and purpose.
Areas of Focus
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Stress Management
- Overwhelm & Burnout
- Emotional Regulation
- Individual Counselling
- Pre-Marital Counselling
- Couples Counselling
- Family Counselling
- Trauma
- Self-Esteem, Self-Worth & Self-Confidence
- Body Image & Eating Disorders
- Mindfulness
- Chronic Illness & Pain Management
- Lifestyle Transitions
- Relaxation Techniques
- Meaning & Sense of Purpose
- Career Counselling
- Anger Management