What makes you feel connected to yourself and others? And when you’re feeling cut off, or checked out, what’s getting in the way? We need to be in touch with ourselves and in harmony with our communities to thrive. But sometimes, we can sabotage ourselves in support of the people around us. Or we might move away from people who care about us when we need them the most. Does that sound familiar?

In relationships of all kinds, we bring our past into the present. You’ve probably had that experience, and you may know what it feels like to carry the weight of your personal history into a new chapter of your life. You want to remember the things that have hurt you, but these old wounds might be leading you in circles.

Therapy offers us a way to address that problem. It can be a space to attune more deeply to your vulnerable parts while receiving the connection and care we all need to heal. When we’re able to turn toward these raw places, it’s an act of self-support. This work helps you stay resourced in yourself, your relationships, and your community.

Approach

​ My approach to therapy is relational and psychodynamic, drawing from attachment theory, IFS (parts work), and somatics. These frameworks can help you understand how your emotional and relational patterns can become inflexible and prevent you acknowledging and meeting core needs. By practicing present-moment awareness and processing, you can form new pathways, change how you react, and process with more resilience and agility. While you build these skills, I’ll support you in identifying how they impact you in practical terms.

From my personal experience dealing with trauma and its effect on relationships, I know how isolating it can feel, and you don’t have to do this alone. We need safety and connection to be present with difficult emotions like depression, anxiety, and shame. By working together, we can find ways to restore your sense of security in self. ​ ###About Me  As a pre-licensed professional and MA in Counselling Psychology student under clinical supervision, I offer affordable pricing and benefit from the peer and professional support I receive as a student practitioner. Before training to be a therapist, I worked as an artist and for community arts organizations and festivals. In those spaces, I had the privilege of learning from diverse creatives who shared their perspectives through art.

I deeply value the truth of our lived experience, and I approach counselling from a feminist, anti-oppressive, and collaborative stance that recognizes the impact of structural inequality and collectivist approaches to enacting systemic change. My practice is trauma-informed, inclusive, and welcoming to queer and trans people.

>Focus and Expertise  Relationships • Relationship issues • Breakups Anxiety • Depression • Grief • Shame • Guilt Identity • Transitions • Self-esteem • Self-doubt Dating • Non-monogamy • Polyamory • Kink • Sex  Queer • LGBTQ+ • Non-Binary • Transgender

Let’s Connect

I offer sliding scale, low-cost, affordable therapy sessions virtually from Toronto, Ontario. If you’re interested in emotional and relational patterns and curious about personal growth and enacting change, I think we’ll work well together. Success in therapy is all about compatibility. To find out if we’re a good fit, I offer a free 30-minute consultation. Let’s set up a time to chat!

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Carolina Alvarado

RP & Clinical Supervisor

Carolina is a Registered Psychotherapist, educator, and clinical supervisor whose work centers on trauma, migration, culture, and embodiment. She works with individuals, couples, groups, and student therapists supporting healing as both a personal and relational process.

Her approach is integrative, relational, and body-centred, informed by psychodynamic, attachment, somatic, and social justice frameworks. Carolina’s work emphasizes nervous system regulation, grounding, and resilience, while exploring how early relationships, cultural narratives, and systemic forces shape identity and emotional well-being. She brings cultural humility and systemic awareness to therapy, creating a collaborative space for reflection, insight, and meaningful change.

As a clinical supervisor Carolina offers thoughtful and engaged mentorship. She supports emerging therapists in cultivating ethical grounding, reflective capacity, and an embodied clinical presence. Her supervisory style balances warmth with rigour, encouraging depth, curiosity, and professional integrity.

She holds a Juris Doctor (law degree) and a Master’s in Social Justice and Equity Studies, foundations that continue to inform her commitment to justice-oriented, culturally responsive practice. Carolina believes that healing and justice are intertwined, and that reconnecting to body, story, and community opens pathways toward integration and possibility.

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Most of us develop ways of coping that once made sense. We learn to stay strong, stay independent, stay accommodating, stay in control. Over time, those same patterns can begin to feel heavy. You might notice you overthink more than you used to. You react strongly to certain situations and do not fully understand why. You feel responsible for everyone else’s emotions but unsure how to tend to your own.

Often, present day stress does not exist in isolation. It interacts with earlier experiences that shaped how safe you feel in relationships, how you handle conflict, and how you respond to disappointment or change. When something in your life shifts, even in subtle ways, it can activate parts of you that formed a long time ago.

In our work together, we slow down and get curious about those patterns. As a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) in clinical supervision, my approach is grounded in psychodynamic therapy, which means we look beneath the surface of symptoms to understand the emotional themes and relational experiences influencing you today. As we make sense of these connections, your reactions often begin to feel more understandable and less overwhelming. I also integrate Emotion Focused Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help you process intense emotions and build practical strategies when helpful.

Therapy is all about understanding you. It is a space where you can explore your inner world with honesty and depth, and begin responding to your life in ways that feel more intentional and aligned with who you are.

If this way of working resonates, I welcome you to book a free 30 minute consultation so we can explore whether it feels like a good fit.

I offer sessions in English and Arabic.

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Are you someone who has spent years holding it all together on the outside while quietly carrying pain that society has never truly witnessed? Perhaps you are still waiting for the world to admit that your struggle was valid, even when it didn’t fit neatly into a category. Society often ranks our suffering, telling us it doesn’t count unless it’s visible or severe enough. Maybe you find yourself repeating the same patterns, wondering why the past keeps showing up.

I know this weight because I have lived it: from being fat-shamed to slim-shamed, and navigating the complexities of colorism and immigrant expectations from every angle. These experiences taught me that suffering does not need society’s permission to be real. Your story matters simply because you are feeling it.

Together, we will understand why you feel the way you do, release self-blame, reclaim agency, and rebuild trust in yourself. As a Pre-Licensed Professional and MA in Counselling Psychology student under clinical supervision, I use Psychodynamic and Person-Centred approaches to support you in navigating anxiety, relationship issues, and identity formation.

What to Expect

In our sessions, you can expect an intentional, unhurried space where your story is held, not managed. The fact that you are here, recognizing it is time for something to change, is a testament to the resilience you already carry. We move at a pace that respects your readiness, ensuring you will always be cared for. In our work together, we uncover the roots of your struggles while staying grounded in your current needs, fostering a collaborative dialogue in which you are the expert of your own life.

I offer a space where your experiences are met with compassion, so you can begin to see the quiet strength that has kept you going, even if it felt like you were barely holding on.

Recognizing that something needs to shift is already a beginning. I provide virtual, affordable, low-cost, and sliding scale therapy across Canada in English, Hindi, and Punjabi. If this resonates, please reach out to book a free 30-minute consultation.

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Lanie Chalmers

RP & Clinical Supervisor

As an integrative psychodynamic psychotherapist, I utilize emotion-focused, parts work, and somatic techniques to enhance capacities, foster integration, and promote embodiment. My approach is trauma-informed and relational, supporting the exploration of various aspects of identity, including gender, sexuality, spirituality, culture, race and whiteness. I specialize in working with anxiety, depression, trauma, CPTSD, and diverse relationship structures. My framework acknowledges the profound impact of intergenerational and systemic traumas on individual and collective psychological, emotional, physical, and spiritual health.

My identities as a white-presenting, mixed-race, and queer person, coupled with my community involvement and educational background, shape my commitment to anti-oppression. This value informs my understanding of power dynamics and privilege within therapeutic and supervisory relationships.

As a clinical supervisor, I bring the same integrative, psychodynamic, and trauma-informed lens to supervision that I bring to therapy. I support therapists in developing both strong clinical thinking and embodied presence—helping them integrate emotion-focused, parts work, and somatic approaches in ways that are grounded, ethical, and attuned.

My supervisory style is relational, reflective, and experiential. I foster the safe and effective use of self (SEUS), encouraging supervisees to explore their internal responses, attachment patterns, and countertransference as meaningful clinical data. Together, we deepen conceptualization skills while also strengthening nervous system awareness, emotional capacity, and tolerance for complexity in the room.

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I understand what it’s like to navigate systems not built for you, to feel disconnected in a world that asks you to mask or conform. It can make you feel out of alignment, overwhelmed, or lost – aware that something needs to shift, but unsure how to find the way. You don’t have to navigate it alone. Together we can slow down and explore what’s hard to put into words and meet all parts of you with care.

My work is informed by a deep understanding of trauma, attachment, and the impact of oppressive systems. As a queer person with ADHD, I bring lived experience to this work. I’m especially drawn to working with grief in all its forms, including how living in our current world disconnects us from our bodies, our communities, and our sense of belonging.

How I Work

My approach is relational, trauma-informed, and guided by deep respect for your pace and needs. Depending on what you need in any given moment, we might work with younger parts of you and the beliefs and protective strategies they carry, bring in some somatic awareness to help you embody your emotions and your experience, or use creative expression for when words aren’t enough. Together we’ll move at your pace, trusting in your inner wisdom.

I work from a trauma-informed, anti-oppressive lens, which means I acknowledge how intergenerational trauma, systemic oppression, and marginalization shape our mental health and lived experiences. I work to create a space where your identities, histories, and complexities are honoured.

As a Pre-Licensed Professional and art psychotherapy student under clinical supervision, I offer affordable therapy with low-cost and sliding scale rates.

I know reaching out can feel vulnerable. We can meet for a free 30-minute virtual consultation where we can get to know each other, explore what you’re looking for, and see whether working together feels like the right fit. There’s no pressure – just a chance to connect and ask any questions you might have.

I believe we don’t come to therapy to be fixed. We come to remember who we truly are beneath the layers of survival and adaptation, to find our way back home to ourselves.

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My name is Mariana, and I am a psychotherapist in training under clinical supervision offering sessions in English and Portuguese .

I support clients experiencing anxiety, depression, life transitions, and relationship challenges. This may include navigating immigration and cultural adaptation, career or identity changes, and times of emotional overwhelm or feeling stuck.

I value creating a safe and reflective space where you can slow down, reconnect with yourself, and move forward with greater clarity and balance.

I bring over five years of clinical experience in private practice in Brazil. I am currently completing my clinical training in Canada , under professional supervision.

I work from a systemic and mind–body perspective, using practical cognitive tools while keeping your needs and pace at the center of our work.

Together, we explore your behaviours, emotions, strengths, and how your mind and body are connected, gently turning insight into practical changes in your daily life.

It will be an honour to work with you!

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Are you the “strong one” the high achiever, first-born, or the one everyone relies on?

The one who holds it together for everyone else… but quietly feels overwhelmed, exhausted, or stuck in the same relationship patterns?

Many of my clients come in feeling like they should be able to handle it on their own yet something still feels off. Maybe you’re tired of overthinking, overgiving, or carrying responsibility that no one ever really named.

I’m a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) and MA in Counselling Psychology student working under clinical supervision. As someone who understands the weight of cultural expectations, faith, and being “the responsible one,” I approach this work with both professional training and genuine empathy.

My approach is direct, thoughtful, and deeply relational. I won’t rush you or offer surface-level solutions. Instead, we’ll slow things down and explore the patterns beneath the surface the ones shaping how you show up in relationships, how you carry responsibility, and how you see yourself.

Drawing from psychodynamic, somatic, attachment-based, family systems, and trauma-informed approaches (including Gottman Method Level 1), I help you move beyond just coping toward real understanding and change.

Therapy with me is a space where you don’t have to have it all together. You can show up as you are honest, uncertain, even frustrated and we’ll work through it together.

If you’re ready for deeper, meaningful work, I invite you to book a consultation. I’d be honoured to connect.

Top Areas of Support: - Relationships - Couples Counselling - Family Conflict & Enmeshment - ADHD - Anxiety & Depression - Cultural Identity - Faith Concerns

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Are you feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, or unsure of yourself?

Maybe a new chapter or shift has you feeling unrecognizable to yourself? Whether you’re dealing with a breakup or a break-down, a new diagnosis, or moving out for the first time, you probably feel some confusion, fear, and loneliness and wish to feel more assured in yourself and more connected to those around you. As a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) and MA student under clinical supervision, I work with people navigating life transitions, self-esteem, and identity issues and offer a space where you don’t need to hold everything together or have all the answers— we’ll untangle what you’re carrying together. I offer free 30-minute consultations and invite you to connect today!

I help people struggling with who they are find comfort and confidence within themselves, clarity in what they want, and meaningful connections to others and to themselves (because we really can find empathy for our inner critics)! In our work together, we’ll look at the patterns in your life and the meaning you make from your experiences, while considering how you wish to move forward.

Through my years working closely with people, I have found that difficult work becomes easier when it is shared. You don’t need to struggle alone! We can gently explore what you are dealing with using curiosity, compassion, and even a little humour (now and then). Together, we can decide what needs to be held, what may be ready to shift, and what can be let go.

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Hi, I’m Renata. I’m a therapist in training working under supervision, with over 10 years of experience in mental health.

Are you feeling anxious, emotionally drained, or mentally overwhelmed, like everyday life is getting heavier? You don’t have to face this alone. I also support people navigating life in a second language and periods of transition, such as moving to a new country or other significant changes that can intensify this sense of overwhelm.

Sometimes it can be hard to put into words what’s going on inside, or to feel truly understood, even when you try. I’m here to listen with care and help you make sense of what’s been weighing on you.

Therapy can be a space where you don’t have to carry everything on your own or perform any role. Together, we can slow things down and explore your experiences at a pace that feels supportive and manageable. Here, you can be yourself without pressure or judgment.

My work is guided by a psychodynamic approach, offering a calm, supportive space where you can speak freely, deepen your understanding of your emotions, and begin to notice patterns shaping your wellbeing, relationships, and sense of self.

I offer sessions in English and Portuguese, all online.

If this resonates with you, you’re welcome to book a free 30-minute consultation. You don’t have to feel ready to begin. You’re welcome to come as you are, and we can take the time to connect and see if this feels like a good fit.

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