Clinical Focus

Problems Addressed

Anxiety

This can present as mind racing, excessive worrying, physical symptoms of anxiety (e.g., heart racing, shortness of breath) or avoidant behaviours.

Depression

Persistent feelings of sadness, numbness or lack of positive feelings. These symptoms often coincide with changes that impact one’s personal life, relationships or work.

Panic

Intense physical symptoms of anxiety resulting in a panic attack that can feel life threatening or disabling.

Life Stress and Transitions

Stress within the personal realm, which can major life transitions (e.g., going to university, getting married, break-ups/divorce, fertility issues, parenting stress, financial strain, retirement).

Work Stress

On-the job or career related stress, burn-out or work dissatisfaction that results in worsening of mood or anxiety.

Trauma & PTSD

An experience of multiple experiences of trauma that can result in anxiety or mood changes affecting one’s functioning and quality of life.

Physical Illness & Disability

Addressing the psychological impact of a physical health condition (i.e., chronic), injury or disability.

OCD

Obsessions or compulsions, which are often related (but not limited) to themes of contamination, sexual/harm obsessions, checking behaviours or orderliness.

Social Anxiety

Anxiety around strangers, speaking in front of others and other situations involving interactions with people.

Low Self-esteem

Recurrent self-criticism, harsh self-thoughts and/or low self-worth. These can result in or worsen mood or anxiety symptoms as well as influence one's behaviours.

Relationship Stress

This can range from learning to cope with relationship difficulties or working on problem areas (individually) that can cause difficulties in relationships (e.g., attachment, avoidance, communication difficulties).

Populations Served

Adolescents

Our Toronto and Brampton psychologists and therapists see youths about about 11 to 18 years old (based on developmental level). Our Toronto and online therapists are well-versed in supporting youths through transitioning to college/university, coping with peer/family stress and taking care of mental health challenges while still proceeding towards their goals.

Adults

Individuals over 18 years old and usually less than 70 years old. Services may involve significant others depending on the nature of the issue.

Diverse Backgrounds

Our diverse team of Toronto therapists and online psychologists welcome people of colour, immigrants, LGBTTQ+, people from varied socioeconomic backgrounds, circumstances and experiences.

Professionals

This can include, but are not limited to, executives, healthcare professionals, teachers, engineers and entrepreneurs.

Injured Workers

Our team of trauma therapists in Toronto see workers with a physical and/or psychological workplace injury and provide psychological assessment, therapy and support under the WSIB and Community Mental Health Program.

First Responders

This includes paramedics, hospital emergency department staff, police officers or other personnel on the frontlines of an emergency. We take WSIB and Community Mental Health Program referrals.

Approaches

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)

Applicable to a number a presentations and involves examining problematic thinking patterns and behaviours in the context of emotions.

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)

An extension of CBT, focused on helping people managing distress and extreme emotions.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

A behavioural therapy that involves using acceptance and mindfulness of what is outside of one’s control, as well as commitment to behaviour change that is adaptive and in line with one’s values

Exposure and Response Prevention

An evidence-based cognitive-behavioural approach for treating OCD, involving anxiety-related exposure and decreasing problematic behaviours (like rituals) that can reinforce anxiety.

Mindfulness

The practice of non-judgmental, present-focused awareness, which is often integrated within many of the other approaches listed.

Integrity Based Therapy

Exploring one's internal value structure and its concordance with one’s decisions and actions. Focus is on greater alignment between values and choices made

Schema Therapy

Examining one’s underlying beliefs that can influence relationships and which can also impact our wellbeing and connection with others

Attachment-Based Therapy

Examining one’s attachment dynamics in relationships (i.e., anxious, avoidant) that can result in problematic relationship patterns

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