Attachment-based Therapists in West Toronto, Toronto, ON

I believe healing happens in engaging the particularities of our stories. My goal in therapy is to hold compassionate space for your story; and to encourage you to look at it with new eyes. Whether you're working on relationships, work or personal growth I offer a holistic, integrative approach with a focus on your goals and preferences. My main methods integrate emotion-focused, person-centred, internal family systems, cognitive and attachment based theories.

Hello and welcome! I'm a queer, transmasculine therapist with a background in health and community-based work, as well as in music, writing and theatre. My psychotherapy practice centres experiential strengths-based and trauma-informed approaches with the intention of increasing my clients' capacity to safely connect to themselves and to move toward ways of living that affirm them in their wholeness. I aim to be an active and supportive presence in your healing process, and to work in a way that is guided by the political frameworks I value in my everyday life: anti-oppression, anti-capitalism, harm reduction, and abolition.

I have worked as an individual and family therapist with youth, adults and caregivers in community mental health settings for ten years. I use an integrative approach in my practice and draw from a range of therapeutic modalities depending on your specific needs, situation and your hopes for therapy.

I am a white, queer, non-binary and politicized therapist with availability to work with individuals and couples who are residents of Ontario or Newfoundland & Labrador. I who brings a whole lot of warmth, curiosity, and openness to my work supporting people across diverse backgrounds, identities, and experiences to live with more connection, choice and ease. My approach is strengths-based and informed by anti-oppressive, harm reduction, anti-racist, and Mad values. The care that I offer is sex and kink positive and affirming of queer and trans identities and non-normative relationship structures.

Living in today’s world as a "big feeler", 2SLGBTQ+ person, ally, non-monogamous person, someone who uses substances, or someone who struggles with relationships, can feel exhausting and overwhelming. It can also feel hard to know who the safe supports are (the ones who won’t judge your experience or push you to embrace normative frameworks). You might be seeking support with trauma, anxiety, anger, inner criticism, people-pleasing, emotional dysregulation, harm reduction, identity issues, or feeling othered. Whatever your experiences are, I am proud of you for doing the brave thing of reaching out for help.

Greetings! I consider it both an honour and a privilege to be held in a position of trust and to listen and respond to my clients’ unique, rich life stories. Since 2014, I have accumulated extensive clinical experience using cognitive-behavioural therapy and relational, person-centred interventions to treat adults with various psychological, emotional, and spiritual challenges. Irrespective of my therapeutic approach and the presenting issue, I place the highest priority on creating a warm and empathic, safe, non-judgemental space where my clients and I can collaborate to come up with workable short- and long-term solutions.

Taking the first step toward therapy can be challenging and overwhelming. My goal is to provide a safe and supportive space where you can feel comfortable sharing any challenges you may be facing. I work from a strengths-based perspective, guided by cognitive behavioural, attachment based and mindfulness based therapeutic approaches.

Are you struggling in your relationships with others? Relationships are complex and could be complicated. Yet, as human beings, we need others, and when there are challenges in our relationships we suffer and struggle. We all need to be loved and cared for, yet we often push away the very people we want to be close to. Rejection or the fear of it, could be so painful and makes us withdraw, isolate or hurt back. As a result, we may feel inadequate, unlovable, unworthy, and hopeless. Deep down, we want to feel connected with the important people in our lives; we want to feel good about ourselves, and at peace.

I am a registered Psychotherapist with a MA in Psychology from McGill University. All of my services are directly supervised by a registered Psychologist who is an ongoing source of clinical guidance and feedback in my work. Research in the area of 'common factors' emphasizes the client-therapist relationship and factors that are unique to you and your life circumstances as important predictors for therapy success, and it informs my approach to support you in creating positive change. I meet clients non-judgmentally, and my approach is uniquely dynamic, collaborative, and solution-focused, with therapeutic presence and authenticity.

Thanks for visiting my profile. I have been practicing Counselling with children, teens, and adults in Mexico and Canada for 25 years. Do you feel ready to engage in positive changes with consistent and reliable guidance? I offer my clients a safe space, empathy, confidentiality, respect, free of judgment. You may be suffering from a difficult life event, feeling stuck, lonely, or a lack of excitement in your life.

Only accepting clients for posted group! Are you seeking a warm, compassionate space to process and express your locked up emotions? Or perhaps, are you trying to figure out how to navigate explosive or heavy feelings? Have you been carrying the burden of shame on your shoulders for too long, and are now looking for a place to let go of that weight? Sometimes understanding and connecting with your internal experience can feel impossible, especially in a world that tells you to focus on everything but yourself. Maybe now, you’re feeling ready to create a space that is just for you, where you can feel seen in all your messiness.