Stress Therapists in M4T

Your religion, spirituality, or culture has become a source of distress, or even suffering—rather than of strength. You’re struggling with feeling pressured to make choices based on cultural/religious expectations and beliefs that don’t work for you, with conflicts in interfaith or multicultural relationships, or perhaps whether to leave or join a religious community. You’ve found yourself thinking, "I don't know who I am anymore, or what I'm doing with my life." Relentless uncertainty or confusion can leave you feeling too drained to cope with life, much less enjoy it. At this point, you just want to feel "not broken."

I am a clinical psychologist registered with the College of Psychologists of Ontario. I am passionate about working with individuals struggling with anxiety (social anxiety, agoraphobia, generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, and more). I also have a strong clinical focus on obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Furthermore, I also have an interest in treating body-focused repetitive behaviours such as skin picking and hair pulling.

Do you strive hard at school or work? Are you thoughtful and supportive of others? Perhaps you put others needs before your own? All that doing and giving can take a toll and make one feel irritable, anxious or down. These feelings can contribute to a sense of overwhelm and unease.

I am a registered Social Worker with over 20 years of experience. I am dedicated to fostering emotional health and well-being for my clients. I specialize in areas such as grief, loss, perinatal mental health, depression, and anxiety and adjustment to illness. I utilize a strengths-based, trauma-informed approach to support my clients through various life challenges. Through my expertise I strive to provide an emotionally safe environment for clients to explore themselves with self-compassion, balance acceptance and change, acquire new skills, overcome obstacles and achieve their goals.

Our feelings are a compass pointing toward personal growth and movement. I have learned to listen to and respect these feelings and I can help you to do the same. My approach is honed through years of clinical work with children and families. Through this developmental lens, I can help you bring context to your concerns, see unhelpful patterns, and change portions of the picture that don’t serve you so you can show up differently in small moments and in big ones.

I believe in people before problems. My view is that we have abilities to overcome challenges, even when they seem insurmountable. What often stops us from living our lives the way we want to, is getting caught up by the problem, rather than finding solutions. I don’t shy away from problem talk, but I also encourage space for finding what works to live a more fulfilling life.

In our work together, the interpersonal perspective enables us to focus on the ways in which you have relations with yourself and with others. For some, the onset of an acute or chronic illness have shifted these relations, future goals and plans. Sometimes, the process of therapy involves learning to recognize behavioral patterns that evoke distress, or bring about unwanted outcomes. Through an atmosphere of support, you can carefully consider the decision to change, and efforts can be targeted towards building healthier, more effective patterns. Cognitive-behavioural strategies are integrated into sessions to facilitate change.

Over my years of practice I have found a focus on working with women and couples struggling with fertility, sex and intimacy, anxiety, pregnancy, postpartum mood disorders, and complex family structures. With a Masters in Social Work (MSW, RSW), and as a certified Perinatal Mental Health Clinician (PMH-C), I work to best support my clients in reconnecting with themselves, recognizing their gains, and processing and grieving their losses. Our focus is on the path ahead, while acknowledging where you came from.

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes including YOU!

Virtual office. The integrative healing approach is ideal for those seeking to heal and evolve. Traditional psychotherapeutic techniques are integrated with spiritual, energetic, and soul based insight. Psychodynamic, emotion-focused, somatic, transpersonal, narrative, trauma-informed, energy psychology, IFS, vibrational medicine approaches and techniques are included.

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Welcome! Do you need guidance to help launch you into the next phase of your life? Feeling lost or unsure of how to proceed? Are you struggling with addiction or recurrent self-sabotaging patterns? I will help you determine what is holding you back from being the person you are meant to be and where your blocks are. I use a holistic method, looking at the entire person- mental, emotional, physical and spiritual and offer a variety of healing and coaching tools. Client's will be met where they are, with a personalized program adapted to fit their unique self and situation. Whatever your situation, we can work on a plan together.

If you're struggling with anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), the pressure to please people, or the exhausting pursuit of perfection, you don't have to face these struggles alone. Discovering the path to your authentic self can feel overwhelming, especially when you constantly battle with low self-esteem and feeling like you are "not enough". I am here to walk alongside you on your journey of self-discovery, where every twist and turn reveals new insights and opportunities for growth. You have already taken the courageous step of seeking help, and that alone is a testament to your strength and resiliency.

Welcome! You may be here because you are feeling rejected, unimportant and hurt: experiencing your special other as emotionally unavailable. Maybe you feel like you're unworthy, criticized, and unimportant: like you will never be good enough. I collaborate with you to better understand your emotional responses and needs. Leading you to relationship repair, improved intimacy and emotional connection. I specialize in working with individuals and couples who want relief from the negative relational cycles that hinder their joy. I am also deeply committed to those impacted by Fertility & Maternal Mental Health.

Everyone experiences life differently, but we can make sense of it together. I provide a space in which you can talk through the challenges of life in the context of an empathic, caring and safe relationship. I approach my work as a therapist with relational and empathic listening, nonjudgmental exploration, interactive engagement, respectful challenge, and mutual participation in the therapeutic process. My work is informed by a holistic approach to respect the relational, interconnected nature of human experience. Together we will explore the emotional, cognitive, physical, sociocultural & spiritual factors that impact your life.