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Psychotherapy

Offers support through guided conversations that help you manage anxiety, stress, trauma, and emotional difficulties, promoting healthier thinking and stronger well-being.

What is Psychotherapy?

Psychotherapy is primarily a talk-based therapy and is intended to help people improve and maintain their mental health and well-being. 

Registered Psychotherapists work with individuals, children, teens, couples, and families in individual and group settings. 

Who seeks psychotherapy services?

Individuals usually seek psychotherapy when they have thoughts, feelings, moods and behaviours that are adversely affecting their day-to-day lives, relationships, and the ability to enjoy life. Some of the common  benefits from psychotherapy services include:

For individuals

  • learn how to understand and manage symptoms of anxiety, depression, stress, trauma, chronic pain, addiction, and insomnia

  • learn coping skills and strategies


For couples 

  • learn communication skills

  • improve connection 

  • learn to resolve relationship conflicts


For families

  • deal with parenting difficulties

  • improving parenting – child relationship


For children and teens

  • 1-to-1 and small group counselling 

  • learn self-regulation and manage challenging behaviours

  • learn emotion regulation 

  • increase self-confidence

  • understand and manage social anxiety 

  • learn assertive communication, be mindful and  build friendship 

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Benefits of Seeing a Psychotherapist

  • Provides a safe, confidential space to express feelings

  • Helps reduce stress, anxiety, and emotional distress

  • Builds healthier coping strategies and resilience

  • Improves relationships and communication

  • Supports personal growth and overall mental wellness

How does a psychotherapy session look?

  • Discussion of your concerns, thoughts, and feelings

  • Explanation of the therapy process, benefits, and expected outcomes

  • Setting clear, mutually agreed-upon goals for treatment

  • Structured session with a clear beginning and end

  • Exploration of problems and review of progress

  • Safe, confidential environment maintained by professional boundaries

  • Guidance, coping strategies, and support from the therapist

What are the treatments approach/modality?

Our registered psychotherapists will be competent to use a part of one or more of the categories of prescribed therapies, including but not limited to:

  • Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies

  • Somatic therapies 

Our ASD program

Our psychotherapists specialize in providing mental health services for children and teens diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

At our clinic, we offer psychotherapy to support children and teens with ASD through:

  • One-to-one counselling and/or social skills groups

  • Learning to identify emotions, calm the body, and manage stress

  • Developing emotional and self-regulation skills

  • Improving social-emotional and interpersonal skills

This service is one of the Ontario Autism Program (OAP)’s core clinical offerings and can be accessed using OAP funding or through your insurance psychological benefits.

We are committed to providing these essential mental health services to children with special needs in our community. We live here, and we proudly serve our own community!

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