Chanderbhan Counselling Services provides individual and couples psychotherapy services to the Toronto, Mississauga, North York and surrounding areas. This practice believes in collaborating with you to develop a plan to suit your unique needs and goals. We offer affordable psychotherapy for teens, adults and couples. This practice believes in a client-centered and culturally aware treatment approach.

People often come to therapy to get rid of painful and difficult feelings. Rather than getting rid of our feelings, therapy is a skilled process of helping us understand ourselves so we can use our feelings to navigate our lives. Even the very painful feelings hold vital information for us to become sure-footed in our life. Just like in martial arts, we use the momentum of the attacker and redirect it to ensure our safety ; in therapy we use the information from the painful feelings to clarify what we need to create more safety in our lives so we can thrive. It is a valuable process of allowing our feelings to work for us to create satisfying joyful lives.

Psychotherapy is the use of psychological methods to help a person change behavior and overcome problems in a positive manner. Its aim is to help people understand the thoughts behind feeling anxious or depressed and addressing these thinking patterns. Psychotherapy will help you change behaviors and habits that are limiting you, to experiencing your fullest potential.

Understanding why we do what we do can bring greater clarity. But understanding is only part of the answer. I will help you uncover the patterns in your behaviour and discover their roots -- and I will help you to form new and healthier ways of being. The past has shaped us, but it doesn't have to imprision us. Let me help you to create a better tomorrow.

Are you ready to start: Feeling different in your life? Understanding where you are at and how you got there? Being different in your relationship both to yourself and with others? Then you are ready to start psychotherapy. You might come in the grip of a particular crisis or with a mounting sense that something has to change. Together we will explore what life is like for you: how you are with yourself and with others, how you are right now and what you know of how you came to be in this place. We will look at all of the parts that make up you and we’ll do it at your pace, with care, safety and empathy. You’ll notice yourself changing and others will too.

Go beyond psychotherapy Feeling better is the first goal. A gentler, more realistic approach to creating lasting change and discovering practical ways to improve how you interact with your world. This is not at all like typical psychotherapy. As a certified consulting life coach, certified instructor and author of the Path Within® I help individuals and couples to discover rapid and practical ways to get their lives back on track. Learning to discover your true intent and core self, helps you deal with so many of your difficult questions in a whole new way.

Psychotherapy is defined as "Treatment, by means of psychotherapy technique, delivered through a therapeutic relationship, an individual's serious disorder of thought, cognition, mood, emotional regulation, perception or memory that may seriously impair the individual's judgment, insight, behaviour, communication or social functioning." Psychotherapy is a Controlled Act in the province of Ontario which means it is a healthcare activity that is restricted to certain professions. Psychologists are one of a handful of professions that can conduct psychotherapy. and are uniquely suited to perform this important service with a high level of expertise, professional ethics, and regulation.

Psychotherapy and counselling is first and foremost about having a positive space where we can feel accepted, validated and able to explore our thoughts, feelings and how we react and respond in our relationship and life. It is also about uncovering and practice how we can live more positively and balanced - intuitively, we know what we need more of in our lives to live more happily and healthy. My approach is to help clients, even young children, move towards increased emotional regulation and more positive relationships.

I provide a safe space in which you can talk through the challenges of life in the context of an empathic, caring, and supportive relationship. I approach my work as a therapist with nonjudgmental exploration, relational and empathic listening, respectful challenge, interactive engagement, and mutual participation in the therapeutic process. My work is informed by a holistic approach that respects the relational, interconnected nature of human experience. Together, we will explore the physical, psychological, sociocultural, historical, and spiritual factors impacting your life.

Psychotherapy helps people who are in distress. Sometimes childhood trauma or significant losses make mood regulation difficult. I help people from an attachment framework which means helping them feel more secure in themselves and relationships through increased self knowledge. Your anger, anxiety, panic or depression may be a sign for you to seek help. Relationship difficulties about whether to stay or leave or how to deal with present or past relationships can be the source of your distress. I will help you examine your life from the perspective of your significant relationships. All of us deserve to find greater satisfaction and love in our lives. Psychotherapy with me can help you.

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.

My approach is holistic, and consists of an eclectic combination of modalities - but is most importantly based on a Humanistic model, which has its foundation in respect for the individual and the belief that all human beings have the right to reach their full potential. By talking through various life situations, emotional responses, beliefs and behaviours, I assist my clients in identifying patterns that have been holding them back, and cultivating tools to address these patterns and heal the wounds that are at the root of them. Building upon inherent strengths and wisdom are also key components of my practice - a combination which provides the support to move forward with confidence.

In my view, most clients seek therapy when they feel alone in the face of overwhelming life challenges. Regardless of the approach, effective psychotherapy requires the therapist to understand and tune into what is therapeutically needed for the client to thrive. Sometimes clients need to expand their awareness of their inner experiences & life circumstances or develop greater emotional competence in coping with emotional distress (i.e. anxiety, shame, anger). Other times they need to find safety and resilience in facing a traumatic life event or find courage to bond deeply in an intimate relationship. An important part of therapy is to learn what's needed & help client achieve that goal.