I view psychotherapy as a way to help gain understanding, clarity and a different perspective. When we adjust or shifting our perspectives, explore our inner resources, and identify our challenges, we start the journey to a more fulfilling life. I believe in collaboration and a nonjudgmental partnership. With the goal to ultimately help clients to define their own version of success, create new patterns of behavior and engage fully in their lives.

Some people need nothing more than a safe environment to express their innermost thoughts, feelings and emotions. My core objective as a counsellor is to be as empathetic and non-judgemental as possible. Others need more structure, more feedback, and more direction. I work collaboratively with each of my clients to develop a strategy that best meets their needs. If a traditional counselling format does not suit someone, I also offer e-counselling and walk therapy options.

A safe and professional therapeutic relationship will allow you to heal and grow. Psychotherapy will help you work through the specific difficulty you are having, allowing you discover a new life, full of meaning and growth. You will evolve both within your thoughts, and emotions, and discover deep connections both within yourself and others. I have a deep compassion to work with people's difficulties, and discovering true potential. Finding the right therapist is really important, and therefore a free consultation is offered. Contact me to start your path of healing and growth. www.kenwalton.org ken@kenwalton.org 416-659-1617

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.

I am trained in the Contemplative Psychotherapy practices such as mindfulness and compassion studies, and integrate this work in all of our sessions. Using grounding exercises such as breath work, visualization and others, we will work towards creating skills that you can use outside the session. Please feel open to ask me more about these practices when we meet.

Psychotherapy is a term that covers a broad range of techniques and approaches. It is different from coaching, which tend to provide practical skill based approaches to change. I integrate both coaching and psychotherapy to get help my clients effect the changes they want in their lives. The tools and skills from both of these disciplines I base in the science of neuroplasticity. Neuroplasticity is an area of neuroscience that has taught us that our brain and its wiring is is not fixed, but it is malleable like plastic. Using the primary keys to neuroplastic change we build tools and sculpt our session together to get powerful, effective and long term change.

People come to psychotherapy both to remove their stress and emotional pain AND to achieve their true potential. Using a variety of interventions, I will show you how to reduce emotional stress, heal anger and hurt, overcome fear and insecurity, and move into your true strength and personal power. You will learn strategies that you will be able to use to continue your healing, growth and development for the rest of your life.

I have a down-to-earth approach and a sense of humour. Your individual personality, your problems, and your comfort level will determine how we work together. With over 20 years of experience and on-going training, I have lots of therapeutic techniques to offer you. Sometimes I will make suggestions, provide feedback, or give you information that I think might be valuable to your healing. But, ultimately it is your healing path we will travel. I will support you to feel more at home in your body and at peace in your mind.

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.

In psychotherapy we learn to understand ourselves and how we play a role in creating our own reality. We come to understand the roles that we take on in our lives and the narratives that we tell ourselves. Through psychotherapy we can understand the essence of who we are and reach a point of self-acceptance. It is through self-acceptance that we are able to stop judging ourselves and simply focus on the steps we want to take to effect change. By positively reinforcing our attempts to do so, we are in the best position possible to take healthy steps forward. We can then make choices & take actions that will assist us in our daily lives, maximize our moments of joy and minimize our suffering.

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.

My goal as your counsellor and coach is to create a compassionate and supportive “safe space” in which you can freely explore your emotional needs and uncover the blocks that have been preventing you from achieving your desired results. I am open-minded, and my client’s wellness is of the utmost importance to me. This means that our work together may touch on all aspects of your life, depending on your specific therapeutic needs - we may explore your work life, family traditions, cultural and spiritual beliefs, and sexual identity. My counselling work is deeply steeped in mindfulness and acceptance-based contemplative philosophies, but I also borrow from other evidence-based approaches.

James Hillman once said, "We've had a hundred years of psychotherapy and the world is getting worse." While there are many occasions where the validation and listening endemic to psychotherapy makes sense, there are times where we over assume that "feeling better" and "changing behavior" are the same. Grey Matters International, Inc. goes after the forgotten brain laws to behavior change that therapists miss when processing hours and hours of dialogues with people. Utilizing a cutting edge technology to facilitate the emotional process of change, we can make the therapy process way more effective, faster, and with less money spent. Contact kevin@kevinflemingphd.com or 877-606-6161.