FAQ

During our first session, we'll collaborate to understand your needs and establish the foundation for therapy. I'll create a welcoming space for you to openly share your concerns., I'll ask questions to better understand your challenges, emotions, and therapy goals. This initial conversation is crucial for building a trusting relationship. Feel free to ask questions and express any concerns throughout our sessions. Your comfort and well-being are my top priorities.

As a trauma-informed therapist in Toronto, I offer therapy in English and Spanish to help you explore your emotions, understand patterns, and feel more connected to yourself.

Being trauma-informed means I recognize how past stress, loss, or disconnection can impact your body, emotions, and relationships today. I focus on creating safety, trust, and choice in each session—especially when strong emotions or body sensations arise. Feeling triggered is normal during healing, and my role is to help you stay grounded and supported as we integrate what surfaces.

I use an integrative approach because every person’s experiences, emotions, and nervous system are unique. By blending evidence-based therapies—such as psychodynamic, CBT, somatic, mindfulness, and compassion-focused techniques—I can tailor each session to your needs. This flexible approach helps you heal more effectively, regulate your nervous system, and build lasting emotional resilience.

Each session is designed to meet you where you are, combining creativity with evidence-based therapeutic tools to support your healing and emotional growth.

• Regulating the nervous system first: Using somatic exercises, breathwork, or grounding techniques, we help you feel safe, present, and supported before exploring deeper emotions.

• Exploring past experiences: Understanding patterns, triggers, and the impact of past stress or trauma on your thoughts, emotions, and relationships today.

• Adding practical tools for present-day challenges: Coping strategies for anxiety, intrusive thoughts, emotional overwhelm, or relationship difficulties.

• Creative, integrative exercises: Using projective cards, expressive techniques, and mind-body interventions to help you access and express what may be hard to articulate.

A core principle of my approach is trauma-informed care. I have personally experienced the difficulty of wanting to share thoughts and emotions but feeling triggered instead—where expressing myself only made me feel worse. This experience showed me how essential it is to regulate the nervous system first, creating a sense of safety before exploring or integrating challenging emotions and memories.

Even when strong feelings or anxiety arise, my sessions are designed to help you feel grounded, supported, and capable of processing what comes up. Using an integrative therapy approach, I combine mind, body, and creative techniques—such as somatic exercises, mindfulness, and expressive tools—to make your healing process safe, effective, and tailored to your unique needs.

This trauma-informed approach ensures that therapy is not only effective for anxiety, emotional triggers, and past trauma but also compassionate, personalized, and empowering for every client in Toronto.

The fee for a 50-minute session is $185. Fees for workshops may vary. Please email me to inquire.

I specialize in working with adult individuals.

No, I specialize in individual therapy only.

In English and Spanish

No. Sessions are conducted online using a secure platform only.

Payment can be made by e-transfer and is due the same day of the session.

I offer weekly or bi-weekly sessions at consistent, predetermined times exclusively reserved for you.

The duration of therapy sessions will vary based on your specific goals. Some clients find that a few sessions provide them with the necessary tools and an opportunity to express themselves. Others choose to attend therapy for several months, appreciating the ongoing support it provides in their lives. The number of sessions required will be determined collaboratively, ensuring your needs are met throughout your therapeutic journey.

Your appointment time is saved especially for you. In case you need to cancell or reschedule the the session, I require at least 24 hours notice. Missed appointments with less than 24 hours of notice will be charged at the full fee.

If you have benefits or insurance coverage, it's common for Registered Psychotherapists to be included in the coverage. To know the specifics of your coverage, I recommend checking with your insurance provider. Following our appointment, I will provide you with a receipt that you can submit to your insurance provider for reimbursement purposes. No refunds will be provided if you are not covered.

Psychotherapy services by a Registered Psychotherapist are not covered under OHIP but are covered by many extended health benefit plans.

All client information shared during our sessions, whether verbally, in writing, or in any other form, will be treated with the utmost confidentiality. I adhere to the ethical guidelines and standards set by the Ontario College of Registered Psychotherapists. Personal identifiable information will never be discussed or disclosed directly or indirectly without your consent. Your privacy and confidentiality are of the highest importance to me.

However, there are certain circumstances in which I am legally obligated to break confidentiality in order to ensure the safety of the client or others. Such as:

• Risk of harm to oneself or another individual

• Suspected child abuse or neglect for a minor or elder.

• A court of law subpoenas clinical records related to a specific incident.