Psychodynamic Therapists in Millbrook, ON
Are you feeling stuck, disconnected, or overwhelmed, but unsure of what needs to change? The struggles we face often have a story behind them, and understanding that story can be the first step toward creating space for meaningful change and building a life that feels authentic and fulfilling.
Are you feeling stuck, disconnected, or overwhelmed, but unsure of what needs to change? The struggles we face often have a story behind them, and understanding that story can be the first step toward creating space for meaningful change and building a life that feels authentic and fulfilling.
Therapy provides a safe and supportive space for us to work through your concerns around aspects of your experience. The relationship between the therapist and client is based on trust, acceptance, understanding, and confidentiality. I aim to empower each client, to make choices for their own life, which serve them in the ways that they need. I practice from the biopsychosocial approach which recognizes that we all have complex factors which influence our well being. I believe each person has within, unique strengths and gifts to contribute to this world.
Therapy provides a safe and supportive space for us to work through your concerns around aspects of your experience. The relationship between the therapist and client is based on trust, acceptance, understanding, and confidentiality. I aim to empower each client, to make choices for their own life, which serve them in the ways that they need. I practice from the biopsychosocial approach which recognizes that we all have complex factors which influence our well being. I believe each person has within, unique strengths and gifts to contribute to this world.
I use an integrative, trauma-informed approach drawing from DBT, CBT, EFT, psychodynamic, somatic, and mindfulness-based strategies.
Hi, I'm Jess and I'm glad you're here! Are negative thoughts or past experiences affecting your progress? Taking the step to seek support requires courage, and your decision is commendable. The focus is on establishing a safe, on-judgmental space where we can explore challenges, set meaningful goals, and foster personal growth. Creating a space that revolves around you and the positive change you seek is vital. Together, we will collaboratively reframe unhelpful thinking patterns, promoting resilience and overall well-being.
I use an integrative, trauma-informed approach drawing from DBT, CBT, EFT, psychodynamic, somatic, and mindfulness-based strategies.
Hi, I'm Jess and I'm glad you're here! Are negative thoughts or past experiences affecting your progress? Taking the step to seek support requires courage, and your decision is commendable. The focus is on establishing a safe, on-judgmental space where we can explore challenges, set meaningful goals, and foster personal growth. Creating a space that revolves around you and the positive change you seek is vital. Together, we will collaboratively reframe unhelpful thinking patterns, promoting resilience and overall well-being.
Tara Lalonde
Registered Psychotherapist, PhD, RP
2 Endorsed
Millbrook, ON L0A
Not accepting new clients
I have worked extensively with individual adults and couples for almost twenty years, helping them find hope, insight, and real change. Now I specialize in two specific but broad areas. First, clients who suspect or recognize that their struggles may be rooted in unresolved events, traumas, or beliefs inherited from their past. This manifests as past memories continuing to resurface, being easily irritated, overwhelming shame, fears, insecurities, and unhealthy or codependent relationships. My second area of focus is helping couples going through marital distress find healing through Focus on the Family Hope Restored intensives.
I have worked extensively with individual adults and couples for almost twenty years, helping them find hope, insight, and real change. Now I specialize in two specific but broad areas. First, clients who suspect or recognize that their struggles may be rooted in unresolved events, traumas, or beliefs inherited from their past. This manifests as past memories continuing to resurface, being easily irritated, overwhelming shame, fears, insecurities, and unhealthy or codependent relationships. My second area of focus is helping couples going through marital distress find healing through Focus on the Family Hope Restored intensives.
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My therapeutic approaches are Cognitive Behavioural, Psychodynamic, and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy.
Hello. My name is Cinthya. If you are dealing with life transitions, mood deregulations, feeling overwhelmed, anxious, sad, or more, I would love to help you. I am a caring, loving person with a passion for helping people. Working in an addiction treatment centre gives me great experience assisting clients dealing with substance abuse, stressful experiences, and past trauma. One of my goals is to help my clients heal and move past emotional crises through therapeutic modalities.
My therapeutic approaches are Cognitive Behavioural, Psychodynamic, and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy.
Hello. My name is Cinthya. If you are dealing with life transitions, mood deregulations, feeling overwhelmed, anxious, sad, or more, I would love to help you. I am a caring, loving person with a passion for helping people. Working in an addiction treatment centre gives me great experience assisting clients dealing with substance abuse, stressful experiences, and past trauma. One of my goals is to help my clients heal and move past emotional crises through therapeutic modalities.
Managing relationships, work, school, family life as well as navigating neurodivergence, transitions, loss, peer pressure, and missed opportunities can feel stressful, exhausting, and overwhelming. If you are struggling in these areas, you are not alone. Ready to try something different? Support is available to teens, adults and couples. Within a collaborative, warm, and nonjudgmental space, you will feel heard as we explore your challenges and work toward greater clarity, self-awareness, and positive change.
Managing relationships, work, school, family life as well as navigating neurodivergence, transitions, loss, peer pressure, and missed opportunities can feel stressful, exhausting, and overwhelming. If you are struggling in these areas, you are not alone. Ready to try something different? Support is available to teens, adults and couples. Within a collaborative, warm, and nonjudgmental space, you will feel heard as we explore your challenges and work toward greater clarity, self-awareness, and positive change.
Caitlyn Ann Hawkins
Registered Social Worker, Psychotherapist, MSW, RSW
1 Endorsed
Peterborough, ON K9J
Waitlist for new clients
Our bodies hold deep wisdom, through which we were healing is not only possible, we are innately wired for it. When we've lived through trauma, chronic stress, or challenging relationships, the way we experience ourselves and others can leave us feeling that hope is out of reach. Growth is possible when we are able to feel deeply seen and heard.
Our bodies hold deep wisdom, through which we were healing is not only possible, we are innately wired for it. When we've lived through trauma, chronic stress, or challenging relationships, the way we experience ourselves and others can leave us feeling that hope is out of reach. Growth is possible when we are able to feel deeply seen and heard.
I am a pre-licensed Gestalt psychotherapist and I have completed my fifth year at the Gestalt Institute of Toronto. I am also an academic in psychoanalytical/critical theory and humanist/existentialist knowledge. As an artist and an inclusive queer/bi therapist I offer relational supports for clients.
I am a pre-licensed Gestalt psychotherapist and I have completed my fifth year at the Gestalt Institute of Toronto. I am also an academic in psychoanalytical/critical theory and humanist/existentialist knowledge. As an artist and an inclusive queer/bi therapist I offer relational supports for clients.
Martin Luciani- Relationship Self Growth Life Transitions
Registered Psychotherapist, MEd
12 Endorsed
Whitby, ON L1N
On paper, you are reliable and ambitious. But internally, you feel like you're running on a treadmill that never stops. You don’t just need to "vent"; you need a strategy. For couples, the spark has been replaced by repetitive conflict or silent drift.
Hi, I’m Martín. I specialize in strengthening the two most critical connections: with your partner, and with yourself. I help individuals build self-worth based on who they are, not just what they do, and provide couples a practical roadmap to navigate communication breakdowns and find their way back to one another.
On paper, you are reliable and ambitious. But internally, you feel like you're running on a treadmill that never stops. You don’t just need to "vent"; you need a strategy. For couples, the spark has been replaced by repetitive conflict or silent drift.
Hi, I’m Martín. I specialize in strengthening the two most critical connections: with your partner, and with yourself. I help individuals build self-worth based on who they are, not just what they do, and provide couples a practical roadmap to navigate communication breakdowns and find their way back to one another.
With over 15 years of experience in family and children’s mental health, and another 10 beyond that in child development/care, I realize that life happens in many forms, with everyone experiencing and perceiving it differently. I see everyone as an individual, whose shoes I can never walk in, but hopefully I can support and walk beside for a time. All people are challenged in their lifetime, but for individuals and their families who have special needs, this is an on-going quest.
With over 15 years of experience in family and children’s mental health, and another 10 beyond that in child development/care, I realize that life happens in many forms, with everyone experiencing and perceiving it differently. I see everyone as an individual, whose shoes I can never walk in, but hopefully I can support and walk beside for a time. All people are challenged in their lifetime, but for individuals and their families who have special needs, this is an on-going quest.
I work from a trauma-informed base of psychodynamic psychotherapy and use somatic practices and guided meditations.
I am committed to helping you achieve your own personal wellness. Whatever your therapy goals, be assured that there is help for you. Our first meeting can be an assessment to determine your therapeutic needs and options. I will help you find the approach that addresses your needs and aligns with your spirit. Remember: difficult problems have solutions, and
I work from a trauma-informed base of psychodynamic psychotherapy and use somatic practices and guided meditations.
I am committed to helping you achieve your own personal wellness. Whatever your therapy goals, be assured that there is help for you. Our first meeting can be an assessment to determine your therapeutic needs and options. I will help you find the approach that addresses your needs and aligns with your spirit. Remember: difficult problems have solutions, and
You might be someone who understands difficult experiences intellectually but still feels their impact in your body—the constant vigilance, the shutdown, the exhaustion of managing everyone else's emotions.
You're deeply self-aware and reflective, but stuck in patterns that feel hard to shift. You may be looking for approaches beyond talk therapy alone, wanting to address what feels unresolved at a nervous system level. Not simply coping strategies, but wanting to feel safer in your body and relationships, access feelings without overwhelm, feel genuinely at home in yourself, and create a life that reflects who you actually are.
You might be someone who understands difficult experiences intellectually but still feels their impact in your body—the constant vigilance, the shutdown, the exhaustion of managing everyone else's emotions.
You're deeply self-aware and reflective, but stuck in patterns that feel hard to shift. You may be looking for approaches beyond talk therapy alone, wanting to address what feels unresolved at a nervous system level. Not simply coping strategies, but wanting to feel safer in your body and relationships, access feelings without overwhelm, feel genuinely at home in yourself, and create a life that reflects who you actually are.
My ideal client is someone who is coming to therapy seeking help in a true intention to help themselves and grow. Despite the common theme of depression and anxiety among society, the need for help is conducive to finding inner strength and identity that correlates with a happier life. I will never turn down anyone seeking help in the form of support and the therapeutic process.
My ideal client is someone who is coming to therapy seeking help in a true intention to help themselves and grow. Despite the common theme of depression and anxiety among society, the need for help is conducive to finding inner strength and identity that correlates with a happier life. I will never turn down anyone seeking help in the form of support and the therapeutic process.
Now accepting new clients!
Re-write your story at Chapter One Psychotherapy. When everything feels uncertain, it’s easy to feel anxious, stuck, or disconnected from yourself, especially in the changing seasons to fall and winter.
In our work together, you’ll find a space to slow down and explore your inner world. This is your time to untangle what’s holding you back and start living with more confidence and connection.
Now accepting new clients!
Re-write your story at Chapter One Psychotherapy. When everything feels uncertain, it’s easy to feel anxious, stuck, or disconnected from yourself, especially in the changing seasons to fall and winter.
In our work together, you’ll find a space to slow down and explore your inner world. This is your time to untangle what’s holding you back and start living with more confidence and connection.
My approach includes a blend psychodynamic insights with evidence-based strategies from Emotions Focused Individual Therapy (EFT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and DBT-informed skills.
You don’t have to navigate life’s big changes and hurdles alone. Whether you're grieving, managing persistent anxiety, feel like you're "too much" or "not enough", or can't shake the sadness, I offer a grounded, compassionate space to help you gain clarity and build resilience.
I believe that in our most vulnerable moments, there is room for connection and a path toward growth. My approach is warm, attentive, and genuinely collaborative. I work with individuals to help them manage the complexities of life changes, grief, depression, and relationship shifts with a focus on self-compassion and practical change.
My approach includes a blend psychodynamic insights with evidence-based strategies from Emotions Focused Individual Therapy (EFT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and DBT-informed skills.
You don’t have to navigate life’s big changes and hurdles alone. Whether you're grieving, managing persistent anxiety, feel like you're "too much" or "not enough", or can't shake the sadness, I offer a grounded, compassionate space to help you gain clarity and build resilience.
I believe that in our most vulnerable moments, there is room for connection and a path toward growth. My approach is warm, attentive, and genuinely collaborative. I work with individuals to help them manage the complexities of life changes, grief, depression, and relationship shifts with a focus on self-compassion and practical change.
Life can feel overwhelming, and that’s okay—you don’t have to face it alone. I work with people at all stages in life, supporting those navigating anxiety, low mood, stress, and everyday challenges that can make it hard to feel like your best self. In our sessions, we’ll explore what’s standing in the way of a meaningful, fulfilling life and build practical strategies, coping tools, and skills to help you feel grounded, understood, and confident handling whatever comes your way. I strive to create a space that feels welcoming, safe, and supportive, where you can feel heard, valued, and empowered to grow with confidence.
Life can feel overwhelming, and that’s okay—you don’t have to face it alone. I work with people at all stages in life, supporting those navigating anxiety, low mood, stress, and everyday challenges that can make it hard to feel like your best self. In our sessions, we’ll explore what’s standing in the way of a meaningful, fulfilling life and build practical strategies, coping tools, and skills to help you feel grounded, understood, and confident handling whatever comes your way. I strive to create a space that feels welcoming, safe, and supportive, where you can feel heard, valued, and empowered to grow with confidence.
I am a compassionate, understanding, non-judgmental counsellor who believes everyone has the right to wellness and balance. I provide insurance-friendly counselling for individuals, couples, families and children. My special area of focus is in helping my clients to free themselves from their painful, traumatic pasts and to achieve personal balance and wellness as they create a fresh start in life. Often, emotional and physical pain is resolved from the inside out as my clients and I interact, and as we work together to arrive at a deeper understanding of their condition and the solutions they seek.
I am a compassionate, understanding, non-judgmental counsellor who believes everyone has the right to wellness and balance. I provide insurance-friendly counselling for individuals, couples, families and children. My special area of focus is in helping my clients to free themselves from their painful, traumatic pasts and to achieve personal balance and wellness as they create a fresh start in life. Often, emotional and physical pain is resolved from the inside out as my clients and I interact, and as we work together to arrive at a deeper understanding of their condition and the solutions they seek.
Effort is almost never the real obstacle. More often, the brain and nervous system simply are not picking up the strategies that have been offered. You may find yourself returning again and again to the same patterns of feeling, acting, or relating, each time landing in stuck, overwhelmed, or disconnected, even when you are doing your best.
I work with teens and adults navigating ADHD, PMDD, emotional dysregulation, and patterns such as people-pleasing, avoidance, impulsivity, or approval-seeking. Together, we dig beneath the surface and build practical, compassionate tools to support lasting regulation and resilience.
Effort is almost never the real obstacle. More often, the brain and nervous system simply are not picking up the strategies that have been offered. You may find yourself returning again and again to the same patterns of feeling, acting, or relating, each time landing in stuck, overwhelmed, or disconnected, even when you are doing your best.
I work with teens and adults navigating ADHD, PMDD, emotional dysregulation, and patterns such as people-pleasing, avoidance, impulsivity, or approval-seeking. Together, we dig beneath the surface and build practical, compassionate tools to support lasting regulation and resilience.
Are you a mom or soon to be one, wanting what is best for your children but struggling to manage it all? Guilt, shame, anxiety, overwhelm, rage are just some emotions I hear moms talk about ALL the time. We are embarrassed to admit it's hard, because we think we "SHOULD" be able to do it all... the unsolicited opinions also throw another wrench our way. Well, it's time to break up with the unhelpful advice and the unhelpful mental chatter, you CAN be a more regulated mom for your children and it starts with prioritizing yourself.
Are you a mom or soon to be one, wanting what is best for your children but struggling to manage it all? Guilt, shame, anxiety, overwhelm, rage are just some emotions I hear moms talk about ALL the time. We are embarrassed to admit it's hard, because we think we "SHOULD" be able to do it all... the unsolicited opinions also throw another wrench our way. Well, it's time to break up with the unhelpful advice and the unhelpful mental chatter, you CAN be a more regulated mom for your children and it starts with prioritizing yourself.
Are you feeling overwhelmed, stuck, anxious, or facing a life transition? Perhaps your child is struggling with big emotions, or you're finding it difficult to balance life's demands. At Island Waters Counselling Services, we take the time to understand your unique story, build on your strengths, and create a personalized plan for meaningful change. Our inclusive team uses evidence-based approaches, including CBT, DBT, and Trauma-Focused Therapies, while recognizing the connection between mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being to help you move forward with confidence.
Are you feeling overwhelmed, stuck, anxious, or facing a life transition? Perhaps your child is struggling with big emotions, or you're finding it difficult to balance life's demands. At Island Waters Counselling Services, we take the time to understand your unique story, build on your strengths, and create a personalized plan for meaningful change. Our inclusive team uses evidence-based approaches, including CBT, DBT, and Trauma-Focused Therapies, while recognizing the connection between mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being to help you move forward with confidence.
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Psychodynamic Counsellors
Is psychodynamic therapy evidence-based?
Studies have found psychodynamic therapy to be effective in treating conditions like social anxiety, eating disorders, chronic pain, some personality disorders, and depression; indeed, some studies have found it to be just as effective as CBT or medication. What’s more, several studies have found that the benefits of psychodynamic therapy tend to endure—even grow—long after treatment has ended.
How long does psychodynamic therapy last?
Unlike CBT and other more structured forms of therapy, psychodynamic therapy tends to be open-ended and may not be limited to a set number of sessions. It is common for clients to be in therapy for a year or longer and to see their therapist one to three times a week, though the exact schedule and timeline may vary depending on a client’s challenges and progress. However, brief psychodynamic therapy is available, which tends to be more goal-oriented and typically unfolds over 16 to 30 sessions.
Does psychodynamic therapy work?
Research finds that psychodynamic therapy can help someone manage or reduce symptoms of diagnosable mental health conditions like depression or anxiety. The modality may also offer a range of benefits that are harder to measure but just as valuable—such as increased self-worth or healthier relationships. While no therapy type will work for everyone, research and anecdotal evidence suggest that psychodynamic therapy can be highly effective.
What are the limitations of psychodynamic therapy?
Some meta-analyses have concluded that there is little evidence to suggest that psychodynamic therapy can effectively treat certain mental health conditions such as PTSD, OCD, or psychosis, though it is sometimes used to do so. More broadly, the open-ended, free-association structure of psychodynamic therapy may be frustrating for clients who prefer a more structured, time-limited, or goal-oriented approach.