Find a Therapist in Oak Ridges, Ontario.

Psychotherapy is a form of talk therapy that offers a safe and supportive space to explore your struggles and how they may be impacting your thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. Through approaches such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT, we can work together to identify unhealthy patterns and develop healthier ways of thinking and coping. These therapeutic tools can support you in improving your mental health, increasing emotional resilience, and creating lasting, positive changes.

Our team has over a decade of experience in working with individuals in reaching their personal goals. We join clients on their journey of self-discovery, growth and change as defined by their desired outcomes for therapy. We use narrative and emotionally focused modalities to help clients make meaning of their life, relationships and choices as well as work through painful experiences. Our style is marked by a collaborative approach that creates a safe space for exploration and for issues to be resolved.

Therapy is a space just for you to pause, reflect, and work through the things that have felt heavy or stuck. Whether you’re dealing with anxiety, relationship challenges, low self-worth, or just figuring out who you are, we’ll meet you where you’re at. It’s a space to feel supported, understood, and empowered. Together, we’ll help you reconnect with yourself and start moving towards the life you want to live.

Psychotherapy is talk therapy. I can an eclectic approach drawing on several modalities including psychodynamic, narrative, dialectical behavioural and solution- focused. The way we approach your healing will be specific to you and your needs. Our work together will be collaborative as we engage in an ongoing dialogue aimed toward your healing and growth, ensuring that you feel heard, respected and validated. Reach out for a free consultation; I look forward to talking with you.

Are you seeking a therapy approach that goes beyond simply talking about your problems? If you're looking for a deeper understanding of yourself, and long-lasting healing that impacts all aspects of your life - including your career, relationships, and spirituality, I would be delighted to work with you. I use an integrative approach to psychotherapy, drawing on relational psychodynamics and somatic awareness. Together, these two foundations can help you feel safe, calm, and stress-free in your body. This foundation of ease and empowerment provide you with new tools to enact change in the aspects of your life that you feel are holding you back.

I primarily use Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT) to support individuals, couples and families to get the supportive relationships they need to be safe, secure and grow in life. EFT is designed to provide opportunities to express vulnerable emotions to loved ones so that one can be clearly understood and valued by the most important people in your life. Even in individual therapy, there are powerful techniques used to safely access unacknowledged (often painful) emotions in connection to oneself and others. EFT is based on our knowledge of the importance of close bonds with others and has over 20 years of research that verifies its success. Call me for a confidential consult.

I believe that self-knowledge is the greatest strength we can possess as individuals and the key to enjoying life more fully. Having lived in different countries, experienced diverse cultures, and spoken different languages, I've learned that it's possible to approach challenges and problems in different ways, according to what makes each person feel most secure and confident. My wish is that everyone lives their own life fully and freely, guided by their own decisions. I want to share this wish with you.

I am a transformative and depth psychotherapist. This means that I look beyond the symptoms in order to assist my clients in discovering a more meaningful and fulfilling way to cope with life's inevitable dips and conflicts. It does little long lasting good to treat only the consequences of deeply ensconced processes that we have little knowledge of. While working with me, my clients and I go to where the root cause of their issues reside and gently and safely observe them and understand them with the ultimate goal of gaining control over them.

I specialize in giving individual psychotherapy for those that have experienced trauma or narcissistic abuse. My scope of practice involves treating trauma, PTSD, CPTSD, narcissistic abuse, child abuse, sexual assault/abuse, depression, anxiety, overcoming grief, managing life problems/situations, and navigating illness and change. My therapy is caring, helpful, and supportive, while also being ideally suited to achieve results. Evening and weekend sessions available. All clients are treated with dignity and respect.

In psychotherapy, I provide a safe and supportive environment where you can explore your thoughts, emotions, and experiences without judgment. My approach is collaborative, meaning we work together to understand your concerns, uncover patterns, and identify new ways of coping. Drawing from evidence-based techniques and a compassionate presence, I aim to help you build resilience, improve relationships, and foster personal growth. Clients often leave feeling more self-aware, empowered, and equipped to navigate life’s challenges.

In addition to finding relief from symptoms such as anxiety and depression, I believe it is also necessary to look at the source of those symptoms. Not doing so would be akin to treating a physical ailment without looking for the cause. It is from this deeper work that lasting change and growth can come. As a depth-oriented psychotherapist, I work with people to gain insight, find meaning in their lives, and find more effective ways of being and relating to others. It is through this process that change, growth, and wholeness result. We all want happier, more fulfilling lives. I will help you work toward your goals.

I believe that working from a client-centred approach is essential in fostering lasting change. As such, I view each client as an expert in their own lives and integrate their goals in the therapeutic process. My approach draws on Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Interpersonal Therapy (therapy through relationship), Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, and neurophysiological research. I specialize in mental health, addictions, trauma, ABI, depression, anxiety, and other emotion and attention regulation difficulties. I offer short-term counselling and long-term psychotherapy to youth, adults, and couples in groups and individually.

A psychodynamic approach to counselling focuses on patterns of relationship, often helpful in understanding how early experiences might be affecting you in the present. Especially helpful for untangling ‘baggage’ which may be holding you back in your current relationships and attitudes to others. Understanding how your current attitudes and ways of interacting with others are caught up in old hurts can free you to choose more constructive ways forward.

Many people have ideas about how therapy should look or feel based on what they have seen in movies or tv, and some of those ideas can be scary or intimidating. Therapy should be a safe space where you feel comfortable sharing and exploring your thoughts, feelings, and experiences with someone who offers you empathy, authenticity, and acceptance. I believe that clients are the experts in their lives and will work collaboratively with you to explore the stories you hold about yourself and the world around you to find meaning, facilitate change, and highlight your strengths and successes. Book a free consultation to learn more about my approach and explore if we are a good fit.

I provide counselling and psychotherapy services to individuals, couples and families in different categories of concern, which may include psychological health, couple & family difficulties and workplace struggles. My approach to personal development is gentle, yet direct, practical and solution oriented. Working with me will help you develop an objective understanding of your obstacles and the ways you sabotage yourself - by increasing your authenticity and courage to change and transform what is not working to what is acceptable and desirable to you.

Trained Therapists at The Family Enhancement Centre provide Psychotherapy and counselling to Children, Youth, Adults, Couples and Families for different emotional and mental health problems. Services are available in areas of communication issues, conflict resolution, relationships, addictions, trauma, stress, anxiety, self-esteem, depression, abuse (physical / emotional / sexual), parenting and anger management.

Talk therapy provides an opportunity to learn skills that will keep the emotional "trash can" empty and help develop a healthy self. Healthy emotions stimulate the human fueling system promoting positive growth, strength to create solutions and manage life challenges. Maintaining a healthy emotional/spiritual system is as important to life as sustaining a healthy heart. The emotional, physcial and spiritual persons are team players in the "game of life". Each player has a specific position in the game of life and is dependant on the other players to score health and wellness. Ignoring any one of these players for too long will affect their ability to score life goals: happiness, peace.

Meeting with a psychotherapist has one primary aim: to share ways of improving and sustaining one's mental health and wellbeing. It may include revisiting past experiences that were impactful; practicing skills and techniques in the present; or talking about ideas and strategies to use in the future. Sometimes, psychotherapy involves having an in-the-moment experience that brings about a profound change of perspective or a new emotional truth. Whichever direction your own psychotherapy takes, we know that the single biggest contributor to a positive counselling experience is your relationship with your therapist. I can help you find the best path forward for you. Reach out today to begin.

The foundation of therapy is a trusting and supportive relationship where people can feel safe to explore themselves and the world around them. Each person comes to therapy with a unique story and as a therapist, I believe in providing a treatment experience that is as unique as the individual themselves. I provide therapy using a strengths-based and collaborative lens and foster healing through connection and empowerment. Book a free consultation to see if we are a good fit.

Psychotherapy is commonly known as talk therapy. The main goal with psychotherapy is to help individuals with their mental health. Psychotherapists practice from a variety of evidence-based modalities. Together, we will determine your goals and decide which approach to take. Please contact me to schedule a free 15-minute consultation where we can explore your presenting concern, determine if we are a good fit for therapy and I can answer any questions that you may have.

I provide compassionate, personalized psychotherapy designed to meet your unique needs. Drawing from evidence-based therapies like Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and mindfulness techniques, I support you in exploring your emotions, understanding patterns, and developing practical skills to cope with life’s challenges. Whether you’re facing anxiety, stress, trauma, or relationship struggles, I create a safe, nonjudgmental space where healing and growth can happen. Together, we’ll work toward building resilience, fostering self-awareness, and creating meaningful, lasting change.

Art therapy and counselling support deeper self-exploration, emotional processing, and integration of difficult life experiences. This may involve talking, creative expression, and somatic awareness, depending on your needs, and is guided by collaboration, consent, and a pace that feels safe and supportive. Art therapy can support you in gaining greater self-insight, self-awareness, and sense of mindfulness in order to live a more fulfilling life.

As a psychotherapist, my goal is to provide clients with a safe and supportive environment to explore their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Through psychotherapy, clients can gain greater insight into their own personal challenges and develop effective coping mechanisms to address them. One of the key benefits of psychotherapy is that it can help clients to identify and address the underlying causes of their emotional and mental distress. By exploring their past experiences and current challenges, clients can gain a greater understanding of their own unique needs and develop strategies for managing their symptoms.

You can work through your life issues! Psychotherapy is different from counseling. Counseling is working with current life issues and discussing them, processing emotions, and creating action plans to improve issues. Psychotherapy is deeper healing work where we explore how your current life in various areas has potentially been impacted by your early life and your life until now, and the beliefs and schemas that you formulated through those. We work with both the past and present simultaneously to heel wounds that occurred, big or small, and how to transform those into shifted behavior in the now. We will work with your thoughts, your emotions, and your behaviors in a manner that is unique.

Therapy with me is a space where you don’t have to have it all figured out. Together, we’ll explore what’s been weighing on you and identify what meaningful, realistic change can look like in your life. Clients often say they feel seen, grounded, and better able to cope after our sessions. My approach is compassionate, down-to-earth, and collaborative—focused on helping you understand yourself more deeply, shift long-standing patterns, and move through life with more clarity, confidence, and self-trust.