Therapists for Teens and Adolescents in Toronto, ON
I have experience working with adolescent and adult populations during major life transitions, moments of distress, and more.
Are there moments when you feel overwhelmed, anxious, tired, or stressed? Do you find yourself fixating on things you cannot control? Do you feel sad, angry, or depressed and don't know why? Do you feel disconnected from yourself? or with others? It may seem daunting to talk about and have someone listen to your concerns, and that is completely normal. You are not alone.
I have experience working with adolescent and adult populations during major life transitions, moments of distress, and more.
Are there moments when you feel overwhelmed, anxious, tired, or stressed? Do you find yourself fixating on things you cannot control? Do you feel sad, angry, or depressed and don't know why? Do you feel disconnected from yourself? or with others? It may seem daunting to talk about and have someone listen to your concerns, and that is completely normal. You are not alone.
Taking the first step toward therapy is an act of courage and self-care. Many individuals and couples come to therapy feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or uncertain of what the next step is. They may struggle with anxiety, depression, ADHD, emotional regulation, or disordered eating. Partners may experience communication difficulties or relational strain. I'm here to support clients in finding clarity, relief, and creating practical strategies to respond differently, feel understood, strengthen their sense of self, and cultivate healthier relationships. My goal is to create a safe space where you feel heard and empowered.
Taking the first step toward therapy is an act of courage and self-care. Many individuals and couples come to therapy feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or uncertain of what the next step is. They may struggle with anxiety, depression, ADHD, emotional regulation, or disordered eating. Partners may experience communication difficulties or relational strain. I'm here to support clients in finding clarity, relief, and creating practical strategies to respond differently, feel understood, strengthen their sense of self, and cultivate healthier relationships. My goal is to create a safe space where you feel heard and empowered.
My treatment approach focuses on two areas to help you with your current difficulties. The first is a focus on identifying what I call your "backstory"- meaning the experiences you have had with people throughout your life. We all learn certain patterns of how to be with other people, and how to regard ourselves, from our "backstory." Sometimes these patterns interfere with our ability to lead mentally healthy and fulfilling lives.
My treatment approach focuses on two areas to help you with your current difficulties. The first is a focus on identifying what I call your "backstory"- meaning the experiences you have had with people throughout your life. We all learn certain patterns of how to be with other people, and how to regard ourselves, from our "backstory." Sometimes these patterns interfere with our ability to lead mentally healthy and fulfilling lives.
I am always accepting new clients and online booking is available. I have advanced clinical training and education in mental health. I provide psychotherapy, including talk therapy, supportive counselling, CBT, exposure therapy, motivational interviewing and solution-focused counselling to individuals that are seeking help with life stressors. Many of my patients need support in a caregiver role, want to improve relationships, live with serious mental illness, need medication literacy, are off work due to a mental health disability, are experiencing grief, depression, anxiety or generally feel unable to cope or function as usual.
I am always accepting new clients and online booking is available. I have advanced clinical training and education in mental health. I provide psychotherapy, including talk therapy, supportive counselling, CBT, exposure therapy, motivational interviewing and solution-focused counselling to individuals that are seeking help with life stressors. Many of my patients need support in a caregiver role, want to improve relationships, live with serious mental illness, need medication literacy, are off work due to a mental health disability, are experiencing grief, depression, anxiety or generally feel unable to cope or function as usual.
Taking the first step to begin therapy can be difficult. I'm here to provide you with a safe and non-judgmental space where we can explore the factors that have shaped your present circumstance. By deepening your understanding with self-compassion, we can help you connect to your inner strengths and wisdom, and empower you to change habits of thinking and behaving that are no longer serving you. Whether you are struggling with low mood, negative thinking, difficulties managing stress or anxiety, feeling unsatisfied in your relationships or work, or feeling generally unfulfilled or stuck in your life, therapy can help.
Taking the first step to begin therapy can be difficult. I'm here to provide you with a safe and non-judgmental space where we can explore the factors that have shaped your present circumstance. By deepening your understanding with self-compassion, we can help you connect to your inner strengths and wisdom, and empower you to change habits of thinking and behaving that are no longer serving you. Whether you are struggling with low mood, negative thinking, difficulties managing stress or anxiety, feeling unsatisfied in your relationships or work, or feeling generally unfulfilled or stuck in your life, therapy can help.
What would it be like to feel more at ease in your body and more trusting of yourself?
Life can feel overwhelming when anxiety, burnout, or perfectionism begin to take over. Especially during periods of transition, self-discovery, or constant pressure to “keep it together.” You may feel stuck in your head, disconnected from your body, or unsure how to build confidence and self-trust. Therapy can be a space to slow down, make sense of these experiences, and reconnect with yourself in a more grounded way.
What would it be like to feel more at ease in your body and more trusting of yourself?
Life can feel overwhelming when anxiety, burnout, or perfectionism begin to take over. Especially during periods of transition, self-discovery, or constant pressure to “keep it together.” You may feel stuck in your head, disconnected from your body, or unsure how to build confidence and self-trust. Therapy can be a space to slow down, make sense of these experiences, and reconnect with yourself in a more grounded way.
Pain in life is inevitable, but you don’t have to face it alone. Whatever stage of life you find yourself in, I offer a supportive space to slow down and make sense of what you’re going through. I work with adults navigating anxiety, low mood, relationship challenges, sexuality, identity exploration, and life transitions. I bring a neurodivergent-affirming lens that values difference and makes room for how you experience the world. My goal is to provide you with a new emotional and relational experience that supports meaningful change, not just insight.
Pain in life is inevitable, but you don’t have to face it alone. Whatever stage of life you find yourself in, I offer a supportive space to slow down and make sense of what you’re going through. I work with adults navigating anxiety, low mood, relationship challenges, sexuality, identity exploration, and life transitions. I bring a neurodivergent-affirming lens that values difference and makes room for how you experience the world. My goal is to provide you with a new emotional and relational experience that supports meaningful change, not just insight.
“Take a deep breath. Inhale peace. Exhale happiness.”- A.D. Posey
“Take a deep breath. Inhale peace. Exhale happiness.”- A.D. Posey
I offer support for children, teenagers, MVA clients, immigrants, and refugee populations, creating a space where you don’t have to hide parts of your experience.
I specialize in CBT, MBCT, and person-centered approaches, shaping each session around your individual needs. I aim to create a safe, non-judgmental space where you can explore your experiences and grow at your own pace.
I offer support for children, teenagers, MVA clients, immigrants, and refugee populations, creating a space where you don’t have to hide parts of your experience.
I specialize in CBT, MBCT, and person-centered approaches, shaping each session around your individual needs. I aim to create a safe, non-judgmental space where you can explore your experiences and grow at your own pace.
As a lover of film and stories, I believe our lives unfold like narratives. Sometimes we get stuck in a chapter shaped by trauma, self-doubt, or expectations that were never truly ours. Together, we gently explore the story you’ve been carrying and begin rewriting it in a way that feels more honest and empowered. Our work may include connecting with your inner child and tending to the parts of you that feel unseen, unheard, or difficult to sit with on your own. With curiosity and compassion, we create room for those parts to be understood. Through this process, you can begin to move from surviving your story to actively shaping it.
As a lover of film and stories, I believe our lives unfold like narratives. Sometimes we get stuck in a chapter shaped by trauma, self-doubt, or expectations that were never truly ours. Together, we gently explore the story you’ve been carrying and begin rewriting it in a way that feels more honest and empowered. Our work may include connecting with your inner child and tending to the parts of you that feel unseen, unheard, or difficult to sit with on your own. With curiosity and compassion, we create room for those parts to be understood. Through this process, you can begin to move from surviving your story to actively shaping it.
Feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or stuck is something many of us face. Life can be so hard, and seeking support is an incredible act of self care. I’ve had the privilege of walking alongside many clients as they grow and make strides in their healing. As a therapist, I encourage authenticity and leaning into the messy and at times uncomfortable feelings that come up day to day. Growth often happens when we can sit with those feelings in a safe space while practicing curiosity, kindness, and self-compassion. My focus areas include anxiety, depression, trauma, self-esteem, relationships (couples), career stress, and parenting.
Feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or stuck is something many of us face. Life can be so hard, and seeking support is an incredible act of self care. I’ve had the privilege of walking alongside many clients as they grow and make strides in their healing. As a therapist, I encourage authenticity and leaning into the messy and at times uncomfortable feelings that come up day to day. Growth often happens when we can sit with those feelings in a safe space while practicing curiosity, kindness, and self-compassion. My focus areas include anxiety, depression, trauma, self-esteem, relationships (couples), career stress, and parenting.
We offer individual, couples, and teen therapy, along with low-cost and sliding-scale options.
Accepting NEW clients! - At Our Space, we understand how difficult it can feel when life stops making sense or when you find yourself stuck in patterns that keep repeating. Whether you are navigating stress, anxiety, trauma, relationship challenges, depression, grief, or identity concerns, you do not have to face it alone. Therapy is a space to slow down, make sense of your experiences, and begin to reconnect with yourself.
We offer individual, couples, and teen therapy, along with low-cost and sliding-scale options.
Accepting NEW clients! - At Our Space, we understand how difficult it can feel when life stops making sense or when you find yourself stuck in patterns that keep repeating. Whether you are navigating stress, anxiety, trauma, relationship challenges, depression, grief, or identity concerns, you do not have to face it alone. Therapy is a space to slow down, make sense of your experiences, and begin to reconnect with yourself.
Starting therapy can feel vulnerable, especially when things feel overwhelming or hard to make sense of. In therapy, we will focus on what is concerning you right now, while also exploring how past experiences may be influencing present challenges, often through patterns we may not have previously noticed. With over six years of experience working with adults, young people, and families, I support clients with concerns including anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship challenges.
Starting therapy can feel vulnerable, especially when things feel overwhelming or hard to make sense of. In therapy, we will focus on what is concerning you right now, while also exploring how past experiences may be influencing present challenges, often through patterns we may not have previously noticed. With over six years of experience working with adults, young people, and families, I support clients with concerns including anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship challenges.
Do you find yourself missing out on things because of anxiety and self-doubt? In today’s world of social media, comparison, and 24/7 news updates it’s understandable that as humans we’re feeling more overwhelmed, doubtful and on-edge than ever. Our brains are designed to keep us safe, not happy, and therefore, it’s understandable that anxiety gets the best of us sometimes! With the proper knowledge and tools, we can learn to better understand our anxious brain and develop a healthier relationship with anxiety and worry that will allow us to live a full and meaningful life.
Do you find yourself missing out on things because of anxiety and self-doubt? In today’s world of social media, comparison, and 24/7 news updates it’s understandable that as humans we’re feeling more overwhelmed, doubtful and on-edge than ever. Our brains are designed to keep us safe, not happy, and therefore, it’s understandable that anxiety gets the best of us sometimes! With the proper knowledge and tools, we can learn to better understand our anxious brain and develop a healthier relationship with anxiety and worry that will allow us to live a full and meaningful life.
As a clinical psychologist, I work with youth and adults who feel stuck in patterns of anxiety, low mood, stress, anger, or disconnection, and want to better understand their internal experiences.
I draw on evidence-based methods and integrate cognitive-behavioural and emotion-focused therapies. Together, we work to understand the processes shaping your thoughts, emotions, and actions, while building practical strategies to deepen insight, strengthen resilience, and respond to challenges in ways that align with your personal values.
As a clinical psychologist, I work with youth and adults who feel stuck in patterns of anxiety, low mood, stress, anger, or disconnection, and want to better understand their internal experiences.
I draw on evidence-based methods and integrate cognitive-behavioural and emotion-focused therapies. Together, we work to understand the processes shaping your thoughts, emotions, and actions, while building practical strategies to deepen insight, strengthen resilience, and respond to challenges in ways that align with your personal values.
I support career-focused adults who are navigating the complex demands of work, parenting, and everything in between. Many of the clients I work with are high-achieving professionals who feel overwhelmed, stuck in self-doubt, or on the edge of burnout while trying to juggle multiple roles. As a working parent myself, I understand how heavy this balancing act can feel, and how easy it is to put your own needs last.
I support career-focused adults who are navigating the complex demands of work, parenting, and everything in between. Many of the clients I work with are high-achieving professionals who feel overwhelmed, stuck in self-doubt, or on the edge of burnout while trying to juggle multiple roles. As a working parent myself, I understand how heavy this balancing act can feel, and how easy it is to put your own needs last.
I have over 6 years of experience working in community, and particularly with youth and young adults amidst transitions.
Greetings! I am a Muslim, queer-allied, trauma focused therapist. No matter where you are in your journey, I welcome you to explore, reflect on, and create a compassionate relationship with your inner world. I draw primarily from a dialectical behavioral and attachment framework, as well as parts work and psychodynamics. These frameworks are useful for anyone grappling with trauma, depression/anxiety, ADHD, grief, relationship challenges, and others. My goal is to empower clients to build internal capacity and strengthen their relationship with their internal landscape to better cope with the realities of the world.
I have over 6 years of experience working in community, and particularly with youth and young adults amidst transitions.
Greetings! I am a Muslim, queer-allied, trauma focused therapist. No matter where you are in your journey, I welcome you to explore, reflect on, and create a compassionate relationship with your inner world. I draw primarily from a dialectical behavioral and attachment framework, as well as parts work and psychodynamics. These frameworks are useful for anyone grappling with trauma, depression/anxiety, ADHD, grief, relationship challenges, and others. My goal is to empower clients to build internal capacity and strengthen their relationship with their internal landscape to better cope with the realities of the world.
It is a privilege for me to provide individual therapy to adolescents and adults during times of great distress, change, and loss.
Therapy requires both physical and emotional safety, which I help develop and maintain as a foundation for the challenging emotions, thoughts, and multicultural experiences introduced. I draw from a contextual behavioural background, helping individuals pursue value-based action. I have specialized training with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and EMDR.
It is a privilege for me to provide individual therapy to adolescents and adults during times of great distress, change, and loss.
Therapy requires both physical and emotional safety, which I help develop and maintain as a foundation for the challenging emotions, thoughts, and multicultural experiences introduced. I draw from a contextual behavioural background, helping individuals pursue value-based action. I have specialized training with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and EMDR.
I work with individuals and couples who feel caught in repeating patterns or places of stuckness, and want to work with the embodied threads beneath them. These threads may include body sensation, emotion, narrative, relationship, and sense of self. Many clients come in around trauma, relational stress, family patterns, life transitions, or dynamics that insight alone has not shifted. My approach is steady, collaborative, and somatic, informed by my previous 20 years in osteopathic practice and my study of neurobiology, which shape how I attend to the body, regulation, perception, and the organization of experience.
I work with individuals and couples who feel caught in repeating patterns or places of stuckness, and want to work with the embodied threads beneath them. These threads may include body sensation, emotion, narrative, relationship, and sense of self. Many clients come in around trauma, relational stress, family patterns, life transitions, or dynamics that insight alone has not shifted. My approach is steady, collaborative, and somatic, informed by my previous 20 years in osteopathic practice and my study of neurobiology, which shape how I attend to the body, regulation, perception, and the organization of experience.
Available Evenings and Weekends. “Owning our own story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it”, Brene Brown. We’re not meant to struggle alone. I’m a trauma-informed EMDR and CBT therapist who helps people move from emotional overload and self-doubt to clarity, confidence, and connection.
Many of my clients are caregivers, professionals, or partners who feel stuck managing everyone else’s needs while neglecting their own. In our work together, we identify unhelpful thinking patterns, rebuild emotional balance, and create realistic steps toward healthier relationships and sustainable self-care.
Available Evenings and Weekends. “Owning our own story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it”, Brene Brown. We’re not meant to struggle alone. I’m a trauma-informed EMDR and CBT therapist who helps people move from emotional overload and self-doubt to clarity, confidence, and connection.
Many of my clients are caregivers, professionals, or partners who feel stuck managing everyone else’s needs while neglecting their own. In our work together, we identify unhelpful thinking patterns, rebuild emotional balance, and create realistic steps toward healthier relationships and sustainable self-care.
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FAQ - Teenage and Adolescent Therapists
What does therapy for teenagers look like?
When a therapist works with a teenager, the pair will talk about what the teen is struggling with and explore solutions, which may involve interpersonal skills, coping strategies, medication, or lifestyle changes related to sleep, diet, and exercise. Different therapists employ different modalities, but most involve a combination of conversation and skill building.
How long does therapy for teenagers generally take to work?
There’s variability in teenagers’ experiences and challenges; some may begin to improve from therapy within a few weeks while others may take several months or longer. Teens can discuss their progress with their therapist periodically to assess how they’re improving and any changes to the treatment plan that could potentially accelerate that progress.
How do you encourage a teenager to go to therapy?
It’s helpful to express your concern and love while framing therapy as an opportunity to explore a tool that could help improve their life; just like they practice baseball or dance, now they can practice their emotional skills. Give your teen control over the process where you can—maybe by weighing in on choice of therapist and signaling that therapy involves confidentiality, so a parent need not know all that is discussed in sessions.
How do you prepare teens for therapy?
You can prepare your teenager for therapy by describing what the process will look like and setting expectations for timeline, if requested. You can explain that the first session may begin with an assessment phase, that they can describe their experiences but that the therapist will ask questions too, and that it may take time to feel comfortable opening up. Ask how they’re feeling about the process and answer any questions calmly and supportively.