Drug Abuse Therapists in M6S

Do you struggle with constant rumination or worry? Do you experience self-doubt, or find yourself to be your own harshest critic when it comes to your thoughts, feelings, or actions? Do you experience mood swings, or struggle to express and identify your own emotions? Anxiety and low mood can be powerful emotional states, but they do not have to continue controlling your life. I work with youth and adults experiencing mood disturbances, anxiety, self-esteem challenges, life transitions, stress, relationship challenges, and more. I also support people struggling with ADHD, challenges with substance use, and histories of trauma.

It's exhausting to spend a lot of time worrying, overthinking or dealing with overwhelming thoughts. Feeling powerless over your worry or anxiety can also impact your life in a negative way. You might be avoiding situations that make you worry or feel anxious, have a hard time sleeping, feel not good enough or do things in a certain way to keep the anxiety manageable in the moment. Worry does not have to run your life.

If you're feeling anxious, overwhelmed, stuck, and disconnected from yourself, you have come to the right place. Let me walk alongside you and offer you a safe and supportive space to explore your experiences and learn new, empowering ways of responding to your challenges. I'm a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) and Certified Yoga Teacher, and I blend mindfulness, neuroscience, and psychology with my own mental health and addiction recovery tools to offer clients a unique, holistic approach to healing. I've been where you are and I know this: you don't have to do this "work" alone.

I obtained my PhD in Clinical & Counselling Psychology at University of Toronto and am a Registered Psychotherapist and Citizen of the Métis Nation of Ontario. I've worked clinically with a range of individuals and issues, including relationship difficulties, overwhelming emotions, perinatal challenges, fat/body acceptance and general life events. I have worked extensively with women, trauma survivors, 2SLGBTQ+ & Indigenous (First Nation, Inuit & Métis) peoples on their healing journeys. I believe psychotherapy is founded on building a safe and collaborative space where therapist & client work together to achieve greater well-being.

As a Social Worker with over 7 years of experience, I specialize in guiding individuals through challenging times, particularly in the realm of trauma recovery. My primary focus is delving into the roots of your thoughts, feelings, and behaviours that may be hindering your progress. Life's pressures can be overwhelming, often leaving us feeling lost and down. I understand the weight of worthlessness, guilt, shame, anxiety, and depression that can take hold. In the case of trauma, its impact can be profound, affecting various aspects of our lives.

As a therapist, my goal is to help you to navigate through the difficult situations, life changes and events. Together, we can focus on skills that foster resiliency in the face of inevitable life challenges and stressors. I have several years of experience working with teens and adults dealing with anxiety, depression, grief, relationship issues, substance use and other mental health concerns. I appreciate the complexities and challenges that life has to offer especially from a cultural and racial lens.

Hi I am Julia, (she/her pronouns) and the fact you are looking for therapy is an incredible first step. I have dedicated my career to helping adults and youth find there way back to themselves and out of really difficult, harrowing and challenging circumstances in their life. My career began supporting youth who were sex trafficked and has since organically evolved into supporting young people and adults living with the effects of trauma, sexual abuse, sexual assault, gender violence, depression anxiety, as well as a full spectrum of mental health concerns. I work with individuals of all genders and sexuality.

I am not your expert - you are.  I am willing to co-create with you an atmosphere in which meaningful conversations can take place with a hope that we explore at least three things together: We can recapture some of your skills of living and knowledges of life and try to apply them to your present life circumstances. Part of the process is pure creation. I don’t not know what we may end up talking about. We have never met before. The very fact gives a chance to create ideas neither of us would be able to come up with on our own. Also I am willing to share with you my ideas coming from my both professional and personal experiences. 

Sometimes life gets hard and our inner experience becomes heavy, overwhelming or just plain confusing. Like many others, you may long to feel light again or reconnect with who you once were. As a Registered Psychotherapist (qualifying), I believe the process of psychotherapy helps you feel less alone, less burdened and more understood. I recognize that it takes courage to take that first step in the healing journey and thus, I believe in meeting you wherever you are at. My experience comes from working with individuals living with grief and loss, trauma, substance use concerns, mood issues, and general feelings of being “stuck."

We know young people and families well. Helping teens and families feel better is what we do best, and we offer a range of therapy services provided by empathetic, caring staff. Our therapists regularly help our clients with issues such as anxiety, depression, body image, anger management, bullying, self-esteem, self harm, complex family dynamics, school issues and more. In therapy with them, you can expect warm and client-centred care, and they will help you co-create and cultivate new ways of being with improved communication, restored connection, and healing.

We humans suffer because we don’t get what we want and get what we don’t want. Most of us want to find a quick cure to our emotional pain. Quick cures sedate the pain which is the source of Wisdom, Compassion, Understanding and Real Love. My approach is for the person who wants to answer the timeless questions of: “Who am I?”, “Where did I come from?”, “Where am I going?” from their own depths and to their full understanding. It is in this journey, through self-inquiry, that they become happier, wiser and more compassionate.

I offer Individual psychotherapy that is an inner journey of self-exploration focused on you, so you can find clarity of purpose in your life. With couples, I provide a safe space where both partners can share their thoughts, feelings and concerns strengthening their connection to one another. Additionally, I help my clients, their partners, and family learn how to cope with the challenges of addiction (and other traumas), while providing them with the support they need as they progress through recovery toward mental health, general self-efficacy and wholeness.

Specialized individual, couple and sex therapist with over 20 years experience. My style is calm, gentle and direct, focused on helping you make meaningful change quickly. Regardless of who I am working with, my aim is to strengthen you and your relationships, and to help you make important decisions thoughtfully and with care. My current areas of focus include relationship conflict, trauma, sexuality and infidelity.

Providing a balance of support and challenge, my approach to healing is holistic and comprehensive. I believe that each individual has all of the inner resources they need to achieve a sense of balance and equanimity. My role is merely to provide a safe, non-judgmental container in which they can reach their own integration - cognitively, emotionally and somatically. I aim to assist the individual's journey-making process through offering new ways at looking through the lens which often gets obscured by many mitigating factors. Clarity is the goal.

Do you struggle with low self-esteem and high inner critics? Does it feel difficult to fully trust in yourself and to like all parts of yourself? Do you experience anxiety, a fear of failure and/or a fear of rejection? And yet, you want to build a healthy, trusting and loving relationship with yourself (even though there is a part of you that doubts you can)? I would love to support you in the journey, as this is my jam. I specialize in Trauma, Self-Esteem, Anxiety, Depression and relationship challenges. I am entering my 20th year as a therapist, and feel so honored to do this work.

Hello, I’m a Registered Social Worker (MSW) and Psychotherapist working virtually with clients in Ontario. I provide a safe and caring space to explore the struggles you are facing and guide you towards understanding, healing and overall balance in life. I work from an integrated, holistic approach. This means therapy is collaborative - you already have many strengths and inner wisdom; I shed light and guide you to identify how thought patterns, reactivity and perhaps old wounds keep you stuck. Through evidence-based, mind-body and spiritual approaches we work together so you can start to live with more balance, clarity and joy.

While the specific reasons people seek therapy vary, we come to the work because we recognize that some psychic and emotional pain is preventing us from living our most dynamic and meaningful lives. Therapy is a process of inner work that allows us to work through those barriers. In a supportive, non-judgemental therapeutic relationship we can begin to encounter the unknown and disavowed aspects of ourselves and in doing so learn from these parts of ourselves, heal and integrate, and transform our relationship to ourselves and others.

I have extensive experience practicing clinical psychology with teens, adults and couples. When patients are open to examining the issues in their experience of unhappiness and worry - a positive outcome is within sight. The first step is to recognize the issues by name and begin exploring them. It requires openness and a non-judgemental attitude of curiosity. It means being kind, patient and compassionate towards one's self as the difficult issues are discussed. It also entails trusting the therapist as a fellow traveller in the process as one who is able to help clarify the emotional terrain and work towards a solution.

Are you feeling overwhelmed by a difficult situation in your life? You don't feel like your usual self, or may be going through change or loss that has impacted you in unexpected ways. I’m a trauma specialist focusing on depression, anxiety, grief, and relationships to self and others. I will help you change your negative thinking and let go of limiting beliefs about yourself. You'll begin to understand the connections between your thoughts, emotions, and actions, and be supported to live life fully, aligned to your highest values. You may be searching for meaning and purpose or wanting to feel more satisfied in your relationships.