Therapists in Toronto, ON
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Kamala Shiriyeva
Registered Psychotherapist, PhD
Verified
I obtained my doctoral degree (Ph.D.) in psychology. I have 10+ experience teaching university courses at the undergraduate and graduate level. Along with my teaching, I have 20+ years of experience in providing individual and couples therapy. I specialize in depression, and anxiety (panic attacks, social anxiety, phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and generalized anxiety). Other areas of clinical interest include: chronic pain/injuries, relationship issues/distress, workplace stress, grief, trauma, and low self-esteem.
Ines Di Gasbarro
Registered Psychotherapist, MPsy, RRP, CVRP
Verified
My goal as a therapist is to provide a safe and non-judgmental space to work with individuals who experience interpersonal relationship, parenting, stress, grief, trauma, workplace struggles, anxiety, and depression issues. I teach communication skills to better foster healthy relationships and assist in personal development. I specialize in early relational wounding, shame and trauma. My background includes a special interest in mid life women struggling with self-actualization and self-attunement.
Veronika Brylinska
Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), MA
Verified
I offer dedicated, creative, non-judgmental, and safe psychotherapy to a diverse clientele of adolescents, adults, couples, and families under the supervision of Carol-Jean Paquin. I'm currently accepting new clients at affordable rates for daytime and evening appointments. Please reach out to discuss your specific needs and goals to see if I'm the best fit for you or your family.
Jennifer Goldman
Registered Psychotherapist, RP
Verified
My clients are individuals and couples seeking practical skills to improve communication, manage anxiety/depression, or work toward a healthy relationship with food and/or alcohol. My clients are diverse in race, religion, sexuality, age, and gender expression. My clients are people interested in learning more about themselves and how their worldview has been shaped.
Ashwin Mehra
Psychologist, CPsych
Verified
To grow and to heal. This is a choice we can make. If you are reading this, you have already taken a step in that direction. Perhaps you are wondering if therapy can help you take some more steps. These steps can be in many directions – doing better, achieving goals, reducing distress, managing difficult emotions, understanding unhelpful patterns, dealing with relationship issues, coming to terms with the issues of the past, or seeking answers to life’s challenging questions. We arrive in therapy with our own unique expectations. My goal is to help you take the steps towards meeting those expectations.
Centre for Psychology and Emotional Health
Psychologist, PhD, CPsych
Verified
Life is challenging and there is great benefit to a supportive, non-judgmental space to explore concerns and gain self-awareness. Over the ten-plus years I've been practicing, I've helped people improve their relationships -with themselves, significant others, family, friends and careers. I work from a humanistic, client-centered, emotion-focused frame. Together, we will enlist your emotions to direct your course and help you live the life you choose. Many struggles reflect an inability to recognize strengths. I have a deep belief in people's potential and a passion for helping people use their strengths to live authentic lives.
Preeti Rane
Registered Psychotherapist, MA
Verified
I specialize in supporting children and adolescents struggling to cope with mental health challenges that impact their functioning at home, school, or both. Some of these range from learning difficulties, school avoidance, emotional or behavioral dysregulation, mood and anxiety to relationship difficulties, or trauma and attachment difficulties. My aim is to help them find their way back to healthy development and live healthy and fulfilling lives. My approach to therapy is developmentally grounded and informed by an attachment-based framework. I also integrate various other approaches to adapt to each client’s needs.
Joanna Polley
PhD, MA, APPA
As a philosophical therapist, I offer a supportive environment in which to explore your thoughts and emotions, as well as stimulating dialogue in which you will strengthen your ability to face challenges by using creative and deeply reflective thinking. The idea is to think big and come at problems from a fresh and sometimes surprising perspective. I also help problem-solve at the level of habits, when it's time to put our philosophical reflections into practice and make desired changes at the level of daily living. The goal is to discover a greater sense of possibility and to use that to live with greater clarity and authenticity.
Heather White
Registered Psychotherapist, MA, RP, DipTIRP
Verified
The clients I treat come to therapy for a variety of reasons: for support during a challenging time; to process the near or distant past; to find out who they are and what they want; in search of new ways to relate to others and themselves. Some come with specific patterns or issues to address, and some are following a general intuition that therapy could help. I welcome inquiries from individuals as well as from pairs (romantic or otherwise). I work well with a range of folks, including those feeling intense shame, those who are suffering but fear their problems don’t count, and/or those reckoning with various kinds of privilege.
Rin (Lynn) Imai
Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), MPsy
Verified
It is a natural part of life that we question our careers and ask ourselves why we do what we do. You may be feeling unfulfilled and purposeless with your career where it feels painful to stay where you are, but it also feels painful to deal with the confusion, overwhelm, stress, and anxiety involved in thinking about what's next and how to transition your career. As a career counsellor and Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), I'm here to help you manage these emotions and make a strategic, informed decision on what career to pursue next. My approach combines psychotherapy with practical decision-making and action-planning.
Thaodra Workneh
Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), MD, BA, MEd, CCC
Verified
You are here today, maybe because you are looking for answers or some clarity. Perhaps you may have been dealing with your current situation the best way that you can, but you feel that you are stuck, unable to move forward. Whatever the dilemmas that brought you here today, I will meet you where you are in your journey and allow regard for your comfort level. I will walk alongside you in your quest to get to where you want to be in your life and your relationships.
New Point Psychotherapy
Drug & Alcohol Counsellor, OCSWSSW, CACCF
Verified
Through a combination of education and both lived and professional experience, I specialize in individual and family support for addictions, concurrent disorders and substance use issues. Client goals could range from wanting to cut out substance use all together, harm reduction, or exploring reasons behind substance use or process addictions. Clients could also include family members or others with close relationships to afflicted individuals who may need their own support.
Beth Moore
Registered Psychotherapist, MEd, RP, CCC
Verified
I offer individual therapy for variety of mental health concerns such as anxiety, depression, sexual assault, ocd, panic attacks, sleep issues and many others. My style is warm, relaxed, and empathic. I tend to share insight into patterns and ways of being that help shift your perspective and promote change. I am a Registered Psychotherapist with specific training in a variety of therapeutic modalities including cognitive-behavioural therapy.
Sierra Hanham
Registered Social Worker, MSW
Verified
You are someone who has goals! You know who you want to be! You may be in school, just starting out, or very much in the midst of your career. However, right now you can’t seem to find that motivation to execute these goals, whether big or small. You can’t seem to take the first step — so easy but so hard at the same time. Anxiety, depression, self-esteem, confidence, … or whatever is it, is getting in the way. You feel your life is on pause and you can’t pinpoint what is holding you back. Trust me, I’ve been there, and I can tell you that there is a way out!
Bonnie Altro
Registered Psychotherapist, Bonnie Altro, LLB, BCL, MEd
Verified
I use a warm and non-judgmental counselling approach that is based in an Emotion-Focused therapeutic orientation (EFT). I have also trained in Accelerated Experiential Psychodynamic Therapy (AEDP), Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). It is, however, my training in Internal Family Systems (IFS) which most informs my practice and guides my work.
Viviane Silva
Registered Social Worker, MSW, RSW
Verified
For the past 10 years Viviane has helped her clients to create a purposeful and meaningful life by identifying and changing maladaptive behaviors, self-defeating thinking patterns and ineffective emotional responses that prevent people from living the life they aspire and deserve. Viviane works collaboratively with clients to address issues such as depression, anxiety, substance abuse, lack of self-esteem and self-confidence, problem gambling, borderline personality disorder, relationship challenges, life transitions, stress and burn out.
Ashley Miller
Registered Psychotherapist, MACP, RP
Verified
Welcome! Seeking out support can be a hard first step to make, but it is a sign of listening to your wise inner self. Getting to this step is honourable. Here’s a bit of who I am. I've been practicing for over a decade working in the social services field, specifically in community and hospital-based settings. My practice includes Mindfulness, Narrative, Psychodynamic, Trauma Focused, as well as Body Oriented Therapies. I specialize in treating survivors of trauma, as well as individuals experiencing mental health, relationship, parenting, academic stressors, life transitions, and substance use issues.
Soroush Dabbagh
Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), PhD
Verified
Nowadays, human beings are confronted with lots of existential issues such as depression, anxiety, loneliness, anger and obsessive thought. As a therapist who got his Master of Art in Counselling Psychology from Yorkville University in Canada, and is a philosopher by training and got his PhD from the UK earlier; I love to build up and maintain my therapeutic alliance with the clients who deal with the issues and are planning to improve their mental health. I know that therapeutic relationship is a journey, in which the client and therapist, as co- travelers go ahead step by step throughout therapy sessions.
Katie Rice
Registered Social Worker, MSW, RSW
Verified
Specializing in grief and bereavement, chronic illness, health related anxiety, maternal mental health and parenting. "Little by little we let go of loss, but not of love" - anon. Change and loss are constant. How we process and cope with these adjustments can impact our quality of life and emotional health.
Michelle Hannah
Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), MA, BFA
Verified
I know how hard it is to feel stuck. It's painful to spend tremendous energy struggling to change and to feel like you're struggling alone. I am here to help lighten the load and support you on whatever particular journey you're on at the moment. Whether it's dealing with anxiety or depression, having difficulties with life transitions, experiencing loss (new or old), or searching for meaning, I am skilled at creating a safe space for your to share your struggles with me. Instead of trying to change or "fix" a certain aspect of yourself, I help you gain insight and understanding of who you are, as you are, at this moment in time.
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What type of mental health professional is right for me?
Some of the most common types of mental health providers in Toronto are psychologists, licensed counselors, therapists, psychotherapists, and licensed clinical social workers, all of whom diagnose mental health conditions and provide individualized treatment.
Services offered, education and credentials vary by type of mental health professional. Each professional in Toronto then may specialize in certain areas, such as depression, marriage counseling, or anxiety. Although many mental health providers are not licensed to prescribe medication, they may coordinate with a provider who can.
Both in-person and online therapy sessions are available from most psychologists.
Services offered, education and credentials vary by type of mental health professional. Each professional in Toronto then may specialize in certain areas, such as depression, marriage counseling, or anxiety. Although many mental health providers are not licensed to prescribe medication, they may coordinate with a provider who can.
Both in-person and online therapy sessions are available from most psychologists.
How to find a specialist?
You can refine your search using the filters on this page. There are several categories you can filter by to find mental health professionals with the experience you are looking for. You may want to filter for CBT Psychologists in Toronto, or Child Psychologists in Toronto.
Many find it useful to use filters to view only psychologists that have experience working with certain issues, like Toronto psychologists specializing in EMDR.
Many find it useful to use filters to view only psychologists that have experience working with certain issues, like Toronto psychologists specializing in EMDR.
What method of therapy is right for me?
When it comes to treatment methods, there's no 'right way.’ Each method of therapy can be beneficial for a variety of issues. Psychologists in Toronto specialize in therapeutic approaches such as CBT, EMDR, and Interpersonal Therapy (IPT), among others. Finding a psychologist or therapist who is a good fit for you is the most important step to discovering what type of therapy, or combination of therapeutic approaches, will meet your individual needs. Learn what to expect from different types of therapy and how they work.
How to use my insurance?
Many therapists accept health insurance. Check to see if your insurance is covered. Feel free to discuss this when you contact the therapist.