You're not falling apart. You're in the middle of something.
Individual therapy in Toronto and online across Ontario,
for the stretch between what was and what's becoming.
You've likely been managing this for a while. Functioning, showing up, sounding fine. Nothing is technically wrong. And still, something keeps asking for your attention ~ a tiredness that rest doesn't touch, a feeling you can't name, a pattern you could describe precisely and still can't step out of.
That's not a sign you're failing. It's usually a sign that something has outgrown the shape you've been keeping it in.
You don't have to be in crisis to deserve this, and you don't need a reason that sounds serious enough. If it's been circling you, that's reason enough.
What we're going for is this: less effort spent managing yourself. More room to want things. The pattern loosening rather than being better understood. A life that doesn't ask you to be quite so impressive about it.
Individual Therapy sessions are 50 minutes and $170
Individual Therapy
burnout
boundaries
self-criticism
numbness
anxiety
trauma
self-worth
people-pleasing
sexuality
perfectionism
overthinking
grief
loneliness
attachment wounds
imposter feelings
resentment
shame
life transitions
emotional overwhelm
relationship patterns
gender-identity
You might recognise some of this
You're the reliable one, and you've been it for so long you're not sure what you'd want if nobody were watching.
You can feel yourself saying yes while something in you says no.
You've done the reading. You know the terms. You can name the pattern and you're still living inside it.
You're exhausted in a way that doesn't correspond to how much you've done.
You know exactly what happened, and you're still carrying what it left behind.
Or none of the above, and just a sense that something isn't right. That counts too.
“What emerges was built from what came apart”
Three things that are true here
You can arrive unsure. Some people come with a feeling they can't name, some with a history they can describe precisely and still can't put down. Both are a place to start.
There's no protocol. No worksheets unless you want them, no script you're being moved through, no arrival point you're being steered toward.
Nothing happens without your say. Not a technique, not a topic, not Reiki. We talk first, always.
The approaches I work with
I'm an integrative therapist, which means the work follows you rather than a manual. Most sessions draw on more than one of these, and which ones depends entirely on you.
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Tracing a pattern back to where it first made sense. Useful when something keeps repeating and understanding it hasn't been enough to shift it — because the reason it formed is usually older and more protective than it looks.
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Looking at what your earliest relationships taught you about what closeness costs. Often where the answer sits for people who find intimacy exhausting, or who can be close to someone and still feel alone.
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Working with the parts of you that want contradictory things. The part that needs rest and the part that won't allow it are both trying to protect you — and neither one responds well to being overruled.
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Following what's held in the body rather than the story you've built around it. Tension, exhaustion and reactions that seem out of proportion are information, not malfunction. Slower, stranger, and often quicker than talking.
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Getting underneath the feeling you present with to the one you're protecting. Anger is often grief. Numbness is often too much at once.
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For when what's happening isn't only psychological — a sense of being pulled toward something, or of having outgrown a version of your life without knowing what replaces it. This can mean following what surfaces in dreams and recurring images, drawing on alchemical psychology and its older understanding that dissolving comes before forming, or occasionally using an oracle card as a prompt — not for prediction, but for what it opens up when an image gets past the part of us that has an answer ready. Available if it resonates, entirely absent if it doesn't.
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Sessions can include Reiki — an energy-based practice that works with the body's own capacity to settle. Most people describe it as a depth of rest that's hard to reach through talking alone. It's never assumed and never automatic; if you're curious, we'll talk about it first.
Frequently Asked Questions
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With a free 15-minute consultation, by video through the Jane platform. We'll talk a little about what's brought you here. You don't need to have it worked out or explain it well; that's the work, not the price of entry. If it feels like a fit, we'll find a time for a first session. And if it doesn't, I'll gladly help you find someone who suits you better. I mean that genuinely — the right fit matters more than it being me.
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Online across Ontario and several other Canadian provinces, or in person on Monday evenings at 1179 King St W, Toronto. If sitting in a room isn't your thing, there's the option of walking instead.
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Individual sessions are 50 minutes and $160.
I also hold a small number of reduced-fee spaces, because cost shouldn't be the reason someone doesn't start. Places are limited and depend on what's free at the time, but it's always worth asking — just mention it when we speak and we'll have an honest conversation about what's workable. You won't need to justify yourself or provide paperwork.
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We'll find a rhythm that suits you, though the work tends to need some continuity to build on — things surface between sessions, and long gaps mean much of each hour goes on catching up. Starting off with a bit more regularity gives it somewhere to grow from, and we can space things out once it's established.
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For as long as it's useful, and no longer. Some people come for a few months around something specific and leave when it's done. Others stay longer because the work keeps opening up. There's no correct length, and it's not something I'll let quietly drift — we'll talk about it openly as we go.
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Often, yes. Many extended health plans cover psychotherapy provided by a Registered Psychotherapist — though it's worth checking your plan for that exact wording rather than "psychologist" or "social worker," since the terms aren't interchangeable to insurers. I'll give you a receipt with my CRPO registration number to submit. I'm not able to direct bill, so payment comes to me and your insurer reimburses you.