Chronic Pain Therapists in Woodbridge, ON

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Martina Banaj
Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), MA, CCTP
1 Endorsed
Online Only
If you're feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, living with chronic pain, navigating a difficult relationship, or going through a major life transition, you don't have to face it alone.
You might feel like you're grieving the person you once were. I know this feeling too well, which is why its important for me to explore the connection between your mind, body, and nervous system as a whole. I provide a warm, collaborative space where we'll work to understand your mind, identify recurring patterns, reduce distress, build resilience, and help you reconnect with the life you want to live, at a pace that feels safe and sustainable.
If you're feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, living with chronic pain, navigating a difficult relationship, or going through a major life transition, you don't have to face it alone.
You might feel like you're grieving the person you once were. I know this feeling too well, which is why its important for me to explore the connection between your mind, body, and nervous system as a whole. I provide a warm, collaborative space where we'll work to understand your mind, identify recurring patterns, reduce distress, build resilience, and help you reconnect with the life you want to live, at a pace that feels safe and sustainable.
(289) 536-0978 View (289) 536-0978
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Frances D'Amato
Registered Social Worker, MSW, RSW, BA
Online Only
Hello and welcome! I offer services to children, adolescents, adults, couples and families for a range of issues such as anxiety, depression, postpartum depression, sexual abuse, poor body image, eating disorders, addictions, low self-esteem, loss and grief and other mental health concerns. I believe that each person is a unique individual with their own personality, thoughts, feelings, and experiences. In therapy, I view you as the expert of your life.
Hello and welcome! I offer services to children, adolescents, adults, couples and families for a range of issues such as anxiety, depression, postpartum depression, sexual abuse, poor body image, eating disorders, addictions, low self-esteem, loss and grief and other mental health concerns. I believe that each person is a unique individual with their own personality, thoughts, feelings, and experiences. In therapy, I view you as the expert of your life.
(905) 936-4747 View (905) 936-4747
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Talk to Heal Counselling Services
Registered Psychotherapist, RP
Woodbridge, ON L4L
Is anxiety getting in the way of living? Do you often wonder if your personal life should be better? Are you living in your past - unable to move forward? Do you find yourself disconnected from yourself or your partner? Do you feel safe in your family? Now more than ever, people are feeling anxious, overwhelmed, and unsure about how they are supposed to manage different and all demanding aspects of their day-to-day life including, their time, careers, and their families. Pushing away your needs and not taking time for yourself might look like an easy solution at first, but long term it can create mental and physical challenges.
Is anxiety getting in the way of living? Do you often wonder if your personal life should be better? Are you living in your past - unable to move forward? Do you find yourself disconnected from yourself or your partner? Do you feel safe in your family? Now more than ever, people are feeling anxious, overwhelmed, and unsure about how they are supposed to manage different and all demanding aspects of their day-to-day life including, their time, careers, and their families. Pushing away your needs and not taking time for yourself might look like an easy solution at first, but long term it can create mental and physical challenges.
(416) 831-2363 View (416) 831-2363
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Ivana Mitchell
Registered Social Worker, MSW, RSW, RP, CDWF
3 Endorsed
Online Only
Are you ready to learn strategies to overcome unproductive thought patterns and behaviours that get in your way? Wanting to cultivate satisfying relationships and meaningful connections with others? Do you wish to gain skills to embrace all emotions without being ruled by them? Are you ready to take risks, be courageous, and love with your whole heart? I am a Registered Social Worker, Registered Psychotherapist, and a Certified Daring Way(tm) Facilitator and I would like to help!
Are you ready to learn strategies to overcome unproductive thought patterns and behaviours that get in your way? Wanting to cultivate satisfying relationships and meaningful connections with others? Do you wish to gain skills to embrace all emotions without being ruled by them? Are you ready to take risks, be courageous, and love with your whole heart? I am a Registered Social Worker, Registered Psychotherapist, and a Certified Daring Way(tm) Facilitator and I would like to help!
(647) 490-2245 View (647) 490-2245
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Nilou Nikou
Registered Psychotherapist, MA, RP2
Woodbridge, ON L4L
At our psychotherapy practice, our mission is to provide compassionate and effective therapy to individuals, couples, and families in a safe and supportive environment. Our goal is to help our clients overcome challenges, heal emotional wounds, and achieve their full potential.
At our psychotherapy practice, our mission is to provide compassionate and effective therapy to individuals, couples, and families in a safe and supportive environment. Our goal is to help our clients overcome challenges, heal emotional wounds, and achieve their full potential.
(647) 249-7847 View (647) 249-7847
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Stable life therapy
Registered Psychotherapist
3 Endorsed
Woodbridge, ON L4L
If you feel ALONE, ABANDONED, REJECTED or MISUNDERSTOOD, Equine-Assisted Therapy could be a good fit for you. Animals , particularly HORSES, have pure hearts that touch human souls. I provide psychotherapy in collaboration with horses. Being outdoors with theses beautiful animals gives you an opportunity to connect to yourself. You can be present and in the moment. I offer an experiential type of therapy in nature that provides insight into who you are and what you can do to change recurring behaviours. EQUINE-ASSISTED THERAPY provides an opportunity to connect to yourself in new ways.
If you feel ALONE, ABANDONED, REJECTED or MISUNDERSTOOD, Equine-Assisted Therapy could be a good fit for you. Animals , particularly HORSES, have pure hearts that touch human souls. I provide psychotherapy in collaboration with horses. Being outdoors with theses beautiful animals gives you an opportunity to connect to yourself. You can be present and in the moment. I offer an experiential type of therapy in nature that provides insight into who you are and what you can do to change recurring behaviours. EQUINE-ASSISTED THERAPY provides an opportunity to connect to yourself in new ways.
(647) 697-5546 View (647) 697-5546
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Nina Rubinovich
Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), MACP, B Ed
2 Endorsed
Online Only
I have been helping my clients in managing mental health concerns, emotional distress, and pain, as well as navigating settlement journey in the new country, grief, loss, and other challenging life experiences.
In my work, I have been using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Mindful-Based approach and elements of other modalities, such as Gestalt, Solution Focused Therapy (SFT) and Narrative Therapy.
I have been helping my clients in managing mental health concerns, emotional distress, and pain, as well as navigating settlement journey in the new country, grief, loss, and other challenging life experiences.
In my work, I have been using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Mindful-Based approach and elements of other modalities, such as Gestalt, Solution Focused Therapy (SFT) and Narrative Therapy.
(365) 298-3249 View (365) 298-3249
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David Fairweather - Psychotherapist
Registered Psychotherapist, RP
Woodbridge, ON L4L
I work online so therapy stays consistent—meet from wherever suits you and don't miss sessions when illness would disrupt care.
You may be intelligent, capable, and self-aware, yet still feel stressed, stuck, or caught in patterns you can’t seem to shift. You might struggle with anxiety, overthinking, habits, sleep, or a quiet sense that things shouldn’t feel this hard. What you’re looking for isn’t more advice or effort—it’s a way forward that feels clearer, simpler, and less exhausting.
I work online so therapy stays consistent—meet from wherever suits you and don't miss sessions when illness would disrupt care.
You may be intelligent, capable, and self-aware, yet still feel stressed, stuck, or caught in patterns you can’t seem to shift. You might struggle with anxiety, overthinking, habits, sleep, or a quiet sense that things shouldn’t feel this hard. What you’re looking for isn’t more advice or effort—it’s a way forward that feels clearer, simpler, and less exhausting.
(647) 691-4854 View (647) 691-4854
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ProWellness Inc.
Psychologist, PhD, CPsych
Woodbridge, ON L4H
Dr. Papazoglou recently completed his postdoctoral appointment at Yale University School of Medicine. He completed his doctoral degree (PhD) in psychology as Vanier Scholar at the University of Toronto (U of T). He completed his doctoral clinical training at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (psychological trauma clinic; sexual behaviours clinic). Dr. Papazoglou is a former Police Major of the Hellenic Police Force and European Police College, and he holds a master’s degree in applied psychology from New York University (NYU) as Onassis Scholar. His research focuses on stress, trauma, and resilience.
Dr. Papazoglou recently completed his postdoctoral appointment at Yale University School of Medicine. He completed his doctoral degree (PhD) in psychology as Vanier Scholar at the University of Toronto (U of T). He completed his doctoral clinical training at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (psychological trauma clinic; sexual behaviours clinic). Dr. Papazoglou is a former Police Major of the Hellenic Police Force and European Police College, and he holds a master’s degree in applied psychology from New York University (NYU) as Onassis Scholar. His research focuses on stress, trauma, and resilience.
(437) 747-7211 View (437) 747-7211
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Kritika Mehta- Trauma, EMDR
Registered Psychotherapist, MSc, RP
6 Endorsed
Woodbridge, ON L4L
Some of what you carry was handed to you: the anxiety, the silence, the need to hold everything together. Therapy is where you get to decide what you keep and what ends with you. Maybe you grew up in a home where emotions were not safe to express, or where you had to become an adult long before you were ready. Now the old patterns keep showing up, in your relationships, your work, the way you speak to yourself, and no amount of doing everything right seems to quiet them. You do not need the perfect words to start. You just need a space where the whole story is finally allowed.
Some of what you carry was handed to you: the anxiety, the silence, the need to hold everything together. Therapy is where you get to decide what you keep and what ends with you. Maybe you grew up in a home where emotions were not safe to express, or where you had to become an adult long before you were ready. Now the old patterns keep showing up, in your relationships, your work, the way you speak to yourself, and no amount of doing everything right seems to quiet them. You do not need the perfect words to start. You just need a space where the whole story is finally allowed.
(647) 955-2806 View (647) 955-2806
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Maria Pitiakoudis
Psychologist, PsyD, CPsych
1 Endorsed
Online Only
I am a licensed Clinical Psychologist registered with the College of Psychologist of Ontario. I have a Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology and an M.A. in Counseling Psychology from the Adler School of Professional Psychology in Chicago. My clinical training is integrative, and includes a directive Cognitive Behavioral method, a more introspective Psychodynamic approach, as well as a holistic Mindfulness style. I incorporate various therapeutic modalities into my clinical practice in accordance with the individual needs of each patient. I am fluent in English and Greek. I currently conduct virtual therapy.
I am a licensed Clinical Psychologist registered with the College of Psychologist of Ontario. I have a Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology and an M.A. in Counseling Psychology from the Adler School of Professional Psychology in Chicago. My clinical training is integrative, and includes a directive Cognitive Behavioral method, a more introspective Psychodynamic approach, as well as a holistic Mindfulness style. I incorporate various therapeutic modalities into my clinical practice in accordance with the individual needs of each patient. I am fluent in English and Greek. I currently conduct virtual therapy.
(855) 976-9803 View (855) 976-9803
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Agnes Kaufman
Registered Psychotherapist, MA, RP
1 Endorsed
Serves Area
Welcome! I have substantial experience working with clients experiencing anger management concerns, substance abuse, anxiety, depression, post traumatic stress disorder, cultural and boundary disputes and domestic violence as well as couple counselling and those with relationship challenges I have worked with clients of all ages, starting as young as 10 years of age. I also provide clinical consultation/supervision for other therapists.
Welcome! I have substantial experience working with clients experiencing anger management concerns, substance abuse, anxiety, depression, post traumatic stress disorder, cultural and boundary disputes and domestic violence as well as couple counselling and those with relationship challenges I have worked with clients of all ages, starting as young as 10 years of age. I also provide clinical consultation/supervision for other therapists.
(888) 340-4325 View (888) 340-4325
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Gagan Vasudeva
Registered Social Worker, MSW, RSW
1 Endorsed
Serves Area
At Calm Minds, I support adults who are navigating the effects of recent or past trauma. Trauma may show up as anxiety, depression, emotional overwhelm, feeling drained and burnt out, self-doubt, relationship difficulties, or feeling stuck in patterns that no longer feel helpful. Using a compassionate, trauma-focused approach, I help therapy participants build resilience, strengthen coping skills, and gently process experiences that may still be held in the body and nervous system. This work supports greater emotional regulation, improved self-understanding, and a deeper sense of safety, balance, and connection in daily life.
At Calm Minds, I support adults who are navigating the effects of recent or past trauma. Trauma may show up as anxiety, depression, emotional overwhelm, feeling drained and burnt out, self-doubt, relationship difficulties, or feeling stuck in patterns that no longer feel helpful. Using a compassionate, trauma-focused approach, I help therapy participants build resilience, strengthen coping skills, and gently process experiences that may still be held in the body and nervous system. This work supports greater emotional regulation, improved self-understanding, and a deeper sense of safety, balance, and connection in daily life.
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Maimoona Batool
Registered Psychotherapist, RP, CCC, CPT
12 Endorsed
Serves Area
Are you feeling overwhelmed, stuck, anxious, or carrying experiences that continue to affect your relationships, parenting, or sense of self? Or are you seeking support for your child’s emotional outbursts, anxiety, behavioral challenges, or life transitions? As a Certified Play Therapist (CPT), I work with children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families navigating trauma, emotional regulation, grief, and healing. Using play therapy, EMDR, and creative approaches through a holistic, trauma-informed lens, I offer a safe and compassionate space to support growth, resilience, and meaningful change.
Are you feeling overwhelmed, stuck, anxious, or carrying experiences that continue to affect your relationships, parenting, or sense of self? Or are you seeking support for your child’s emotional outbursts, anxiety, behavioral challenges, or life transitions? As a Certified Play Therapist (CPT), I work with children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families navigating trauma, emotional regulation, grief, and healing. Using play therapy, EMDR, and creative approaches through a holistic, trauma-informed lens, I offer a safe and compassionate space to support growth, resilience, and meaningful change.
(289) 272-8415 View (289) 272-8415
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York Region Healing Arts
Registered Psychotherapist, BA, Hons, MA, RP, ECPC
Serves Area
Are you looking to make some positive changes in your life? Are you tired of being stuck in a rut? If you are struggling with life transitions, relationship difficulties, stress, anxiety or depression we provide a warm environment to explore those struggles in order to work with you to create the life that you want to live. Stefanie is a registered psychotherapist and certified life coach and utilizes skills from both areas to work through those difficulties. We also offer flexible scheduling times such as weekdays, evenings, and weekends.
Are you looking to make some positive changes in your life? Are you tired of being stuck in a rut? If you are struggling with life transitions, relationship difficulties, stress, anxiety or depression we provide a warm environment to explore those struggles in order to work with you to create the life that you want to live. Stefanie is a registered psychotherapist and certified life coach and utilizes skills from both areas to work through those difficulties. We also offer flexible scheduling times such as weekdays, evenings, and weekends.
(289) 277-0520 View (289) 277-0520
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Patricia A Weinberg
Registered Psychotherapist, MA, RP
Serves Area
Supportive Family Services is a group practice for adults, children, and youth, offering individual, family, and couple’s therapy. We focus on each client’s strengths, abilities, and feelings to help them move forward, create meaningful change, and work toward a happier life. Our team supports relationship and behavioural concerns, academic challenges, and stressful life situations. Services are offered in English and Spanish, with most insurance plans providing coverage for our services and reduced‑fee options through our internship program.
Supportive Family Services is a group practice for adults, children, and youth, offering individual, family, and couple’s therapy. We focus on each client’s strengths, abilities, and feelings to help them move forward, create meaningful change, and work toward a happier life. Our team supports relationship and behavioural concerns, academic challenges, and stressful life situations. Services are offered in English and Spanish, with most insurance plans providing coverage for our services and reduced‑fee options through our internship program.
(289) 236-3253 View (289) 236-3253
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Tristan A Blacha
Registered Psychotherapist, MACP, RP
Serves Area
The first step of seeking help for what troubles us mentally and emotionally is often the most difficult one. Through a humanistic approach, I endeavour to make the subsequent steps easier than walking them alone. I regard each person as inherently valuable, unique, with the potential for greater fullness of living. When one discovers and lives more in accordance with their personal values, I believe it is then that an individual can be secure, confident, and happy. Being able to form a real connection where one feels genuinely heard and understood can aid in healing and uncovering those values.
The first step of seeking help for what troubles us mentally and emotionally is often the most difficult one. Through a humanistic approach, I endeavour to make the subsequent steps easier than walking them alone. I regard each person as inherently valuable, unique, with the potential for greater fullness of living. When one discovers and lives more in accordance with their personal values, I believe it is then that an individual can be secure, confident, and happy. Being able to form a real connection where one feels genuinely heard and understood can aid in healing and uncovering those values.
(365) 607-5903 View (365) 607-5903
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Pouria Jabari
Registered Psychotherapist, MACP
4 Endorsed
Serves Area
You are here because part of you — like a voice from within — is whispering, “now I need some help.” You feel you need an outsider perspective and someone who can accompany you on your journey to figure things out. I work mainly with clients dealing with: 1- Emotion dysregulation — either you don’t really know how you feel inside, or when you do, emotions are so strong that they lead you to react in ways that don’t feel like you or who you want to be. 2- Burnout In professionals — chronically exhausted, mind never turning off, always processing beyond your control.
You are here because part of you — like a voice from within — is whispering, “now I need some help.” You feel you need an outsider perspective and someone who can accompany you on your journey to figure things out. I work mainly with clients dealing with: 1- Emotion dysregulation — either you don’t really know how you feel inside, or when you do, emotions are so strong that they lead you to react in ways that don’t feel like you or who you want to be. 2- Burnout In professionals — chronically exhausted, mind never turning off, always processing beyond your control.
(289) 402-3495 View (289) 402-3495
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Victoria Ferri
Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), MA, RP (Q)
1 Endorsed
Serves Area
Chronic stress, trauma, and toxic relationships don’t just leave emotional wounds, they rewire how we feel safety, build closeness, and self-protect from pain.
My work is grounded in a "bottom-up approach" that values your lived experience and your nervous system’s wisdom. I integrate somatic therapy, EFT and trauma work to unwind survival patterns held in both mind and body. These approaches don’t just offer coping tools... they help shift the deep imprint of anxiety, depression, PTSD and childhood trauma.
Chronic stress, trauma, and toxic relationships don’t just leave emotional wounds, they rewire how we feel safety, build closeness, and self-protect from pain.
My work is grounded in a "bottom-up approach" that values your lived experience and your nervous system’s wisdom. I integrate somatic therapy, EFT and trauma work to unwind survival patterns held in both mind and body. These approaches don’t just offer coping tools... they help shift the deep imprint of anxiety, depression, PTSD and childhood trauma.
(365) 832-6321 View (365) 832-6321
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Brittney Rossi
Registered Psychotherapist, MA, BASc, EMDRIA
12 Endorsed
Online Only
Not accepting new clients
Are you experiencing burnout due to narcissistic abuse, co-dependency, people-pleasing or workplace bullying? Are you a couple seeking support with communication, conflict, connection, intimacy, and rekindling positive vibes in your relationship? As an RP with extensive lived experience, I can support you through this journey. Sitting side by side with my clients through this rollercoaster we call life is my purpose. Insight, growth, self-development, self-awareness, empowerment, other-awareness and resourcefulness are the fruits of therapy with me. I provide EMDR Therapy to individuals for affair recovery and relational trauma.
Are you experiencing burnout due to narcissistic abuse, co-dependency, people-pleasing or workplace bullying? Are you a couple seeking support with communication, conflict, connection, intimacy, and rekindling positive vibes in your relationship? As an RP with extensive lived experience, I can support you through this journey. Sitting side by side with my clients through this rollercoaster we call life is my purpose. Insight, growth, self-development, self-awareness, empowerment, other-awareness and resourcefulness are the fruits of therapy with me. I provide EMDR Therapy to individuals for affair recovery and relational trauma.
(289) 301-8835 View (289) 301-8835
Chronic Pain Counsellors
How does chronic pain therapy work?
Engaging with a psychotherapist to help treat chronic pain does not mean that one’s pain is all in their head. Therapy for chronic-pain patients has been shown to benefit both the mind and the body, targeting physical symptoms and increasing daily functioning. In other words, for many, addressing their emotional health through therapy affects their physical health. A therapist can help a client challenge unhelpful thoughts about pain and develop new ways to respond to it, such as distraction or calming breathing techniques. Studies have found that therapy can be as effective as surgery for certain cases of chronic pain and many doctors recommend trying psychotherapy in advance of considering invasive surgery.

What are the most effective treatment options for chronic pain?
Stress, anxiety, depression, catastrophising, ruminating, lack of activity, and social withdrawal all make chronic pain worse. Addressing these issues, research shows, can help people gain control over their pain symptoms. Therapeutic approaches such as cognitive behavioural therapy, biofeedback, and mindfulness-based stress reduction, along with greater pain-management education, have been found to help people reduce fear and disability.

Are there new treatments for chronic pain?
Many cases of chronic pain, particularly those involving back pain, remain medically unexplained. But there is evidence that changes in the brain or nervous system are caused by previous physical ailments such as tissue damage; in such cases, the brain may continue to send out pain signals despite the physical cause having healed. To aid patients under these circumstances, a recently developed treatment known as pain reprocessing therapy (PRT) is designed to help the brain “unlearn” this response. A PRT practitioner helps individuals to reduce the “threat value” of their ongoing pain signals until they can reappraise them as less threatening and fear-inducing. They also help an individual to develop new emotional regulation skills.

How long does therapy for chronic pain take?
There is no set timeline for recovery from chronic pain, especially as there may be a range of physical and psychological causes for any individual’s discomfort, but most patients should expect to see a therapist for a number of weeks or months, typically spanning at least 12 sessions. Studies of pain reprocessing therapy found that many individuals’ experience of pain lessened in eight sessions over four weeks.