Anxiety therapists in Toronto, Ontario ON, Canada CA
Anxiety or Fears
Amanda VanNoppen
Registered Psychotherapist, RP (Q), MA
At FSP, we believe that anxiety is a symptom. Together we will explore and develop a deeper understanding of your anxiety and why it came into your life, so that we can start making shifts that will help you relate to your anxiety differently.
4 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Kacper Kalin
Registered Social Worker, MSW, RSW, MTh
Together we will seek to understand the underlying psychological processes that contribute to your anxiety symptoms. We will explore your early life experiences, attachment patterns, and interpersonal relationships to gain insight into the origins of your suffering. We will work towards identifying and expressing your underlying emotions that may be driving the anxiety, such as fear, anger, or sadness, shame. We will look for more helpful ways for you to manage the anxiety states, such as identifying and challenging negative thought patterns, exploring unconscious conflicts and fantasies, and promoting your self-reflection and self-awareness.
21 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Therapy With Haley
Registered Social Worker, B.S.W., M.S.W., R.S.W.
Haley works from an eclectic approach to address the multi-faceted concerns that you bring to therapy sessions. What makes her stand out as a therapist is her focus on you in a holistic way. Coming from an anti-oppressive lens, she practices with the values of dignity, diversity, and self-empowerment at the forefront. She highly values honesty, collaboration, respect, and empathy, all of which are evident in the way she approaches all sessions. She will work with you to explore yourself and encourage healing, growth, and reaching self-identified goals while working within your window of tolerance. Haley has worked with anxiety and fear/phobia work with individuals, focusing on coping for immediate relief to allow for exploration of the root causes and make room for healing.
6 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Sexuality & ADhD Solutions
Counsellor/Therapist, Registered Therapist/Certified Coach - RSSW, AAC, CEBC, CAE
With ADHD often comes anxiety, fears and overwhelm. Often this is due to constantly questioning ourselves. Are good enough? Can we do this? Are we smart enough? That is often brought on by not being able to organize our thoughts and feelings to express what we really mean.
It can also come from years of being criticized, accused, and being unfairly judged because we are different.
Most people with ADHD have average to above average intelligence. We can accomplish as much or more than others, we just need different methods to accomplish things.
11 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Kurt Zubatiuk
Registered Psychotherapist, RP (Registered Psychotherapist), Diploma TIRP, member CAPT
Being able to talk and be listened to can be surprisingly effective at making many instances of anxiety become more manageable. The nervous system responds to being heard and understood, even when we don't feel like we can understand it on our own. Awareness of specific fears can emerge, take shape and be identified, enabling us to feel we have more agency over what we feel, and therefore in life.
17 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Therapedia Centre
Registered Psychotherapist, Registered Psychotherapist
We help clients identify the anxiety provoking thoughts, challenge them, and replace them with more adaptive thoughts. Mindfulness, art therapy, and CBT techniques are often used for these clients.
14 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Bridges Clinical Hypnotherapy Services
Hypnotherapist
Hypnosis is an excellent method to help you understand why your thoughts and feelings make you feel this way and how you can overcome them.
6 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Amy Chen
Registered Psychotherapist, RP (Qualifying), MSc, CCPA
Are you tired of feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, constantly on edge, and struggling to find peace of mind? If you struggle with anxiety or overwhelming fears, you need a therapist who understands the debilitating effects of anxiety and offer a compassionate, evidence-based approach to help you regain control over your life. Through a collaborative and personalized therapy approach, we'll work together to explore the root causes of your anxiety, develop coping strategies, and build resilience to face life's challenges with confidence. Whether you're struggling with panic attacks, social anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, or generalized anxiety disorder, I'm committed to help you find relief and regain a sense of calm. Whether you’re considering therapy or just want to learn more about the therapeutic process, reach out today to schedule a free consultation. It would be a privilege to support you in your journey of healing and growth.
0 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Jaime Brand
Registered Psychotherapist, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), Associate Certified Coach (ACC)
Anxiety and/or fear is a common experience for many of us. And regardless of the severity or intensity of fear or anxiety in your life, it can have a significant impact on your day-to-day experience, sometimes resulting in a fear of fear itself. Using an integrative and holistic approach, we can work to build up your resilience, distress tolerance, and coping skills to help you to face, accept, and mange these fears and anxieties, rather than avoiding or unintentionally maintaining them.
1 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Ms. Alison Fosbery
Registered Psychotherapist, MA
Anxiety is probably a big part of your life, as it is with most humans. It can be debilitating when you don’t have proper tools to lean on. By applying evidence based strategies, you will feel more in control when things feel overwhelming.
11 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Alison Duyck
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, MSW, RSW
When anxiety and fears take up too much space in our lives, it robs us of joy, and holds us back from realizing what we are capable of doing. I will seek to understand your situation, and work at your pace to achieve your therapeutic goals in a safe and encouraging environment.
12 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Adrienne Sharma-Richardson PhD MEd RP OCT
Registered Psychotherapist, Registered Gestalt Psychotherapist Somatic Experiencing Practitioner Gottman Trained Couples Therapist
"The Gestalt perspective is inherently relational.
Anxiety symptoms experienced in the body are understood as individual expressions of relational suffering (Roubal, Gecele, & Francesetti, 2013) when the individual’s process of contacting with other people lacks spontaneity and fluidity.
In such cases, the style of interpersonal contact is rigidly distorted by fixed relational patterns, and needs are not being met within relationships.
Relating to others and oneself according to a need to “do the right thing” could be one example of such distortions, narrowing the possibilities of experience and of creative adjustment (Robine, 2013).
The flow of figure/ground formation becomes disrupted, because the person fears taking risks to find creative ways
toward mutually satisfactory contact.
While the arousal is present, the organism is inhibited or even paralyzed.
In therapy, support is needed to transform anxiety into fluid and creative excitement.
The support comes from the therapeutic relationship, in which the needs of the client are recognized and validated.
In the safe therapeutic situation, the client’s inhibition is reduced and the arousal of her/his organism can be directed towards an expression of relationally felt needs.
A client's experience could then be:
“With the therapist I can risk being my way without judging it as right or wrong”.
The paralyzing anxiety is transformed into an excitement of discovering new creative ways of contact.
The client experiments with them first in the safe psychotherapeutic relationship and later also with other people
(Herrera, Mstibovskyi, Roubal & Brownell, 2018)."
If reading the above creates anxiety for you, you need to call me and come in feel what gestalt therapy can do.
Reading about it is not helping is it?
I didn't think so!
Call me... let's be anxious together.
You are not alone, yes I have had panic attacks before... thought I was going to die.
11 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Jane Wiltsie
Registered Social Worker, MSW, RSW, CYW
Treatment can include CBT, exposure or looking into why this fear exists.
3 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Victoria Lorient-Faibish
Registered Psychotherapist, MEd, RP, CCC, RPE
Anxiety is one of the Goliaths of our time.
There is no way around the mountain of pain and darkness; you have to go through in order to get to the light on the other side.
The work I offer works to pull out all the tools to support you on the sometimes arduous trek toward inner peace.
Part of being a spiritual warrior is having the courage to shine a light on the monsters that are keeping you stuck—to look at the obstacles to finding your self-culture squarely in the eye—and when you see the dark within, you have to name it, claim it and then transform it. This process is a kind of facing one's imagined demons so as to finally slay them!
The feelings of turmoil, self doubt, insecurity are all part of the darkness that if left untouched will take over..... The only way to neutralize and transform any part of yourself that is causing you pain and grief is to completely and courageously shine a light on it and then systematically master it through a process of detecting it, disrupting it and eventually replacing it.
Breathwork, visualization, thought logs, parts work, supplements, talk therapy as well as somatic focusing are all part of the tool box we draw from in order to neutralize anxiety holistically.
32 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Kristie Brassard & Associates
Registered Social Worker, RSW
Fear is an innate and protective emotion, that lets us know when danger may be near. We don’t want to rid of it completely, however, when fear and anxiety are being triggered in situations that are not threatening our survival, it can get in the way of our quality of life. Learning to calm the physical symptoms of anxiety, taking time to understand our anxiety more deeply, and learning to tap into our courage can really give us a sense of emotional control back.
Our therapists can help you learn to manage symptoms of anxiety, heal the vulnerable parts of you that are terrified, and live a life that feels better for you.
14 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Cimberly R Nesker
Registered Psychotherapist, B.A., MSc., PG Dip, CCC, CRPO
As of July 2019, I have also received training to offer Anxiety Coaching. This a specified set of sessions to help you to take back your life from Anxiety. Trained by Karen Day in Breaking the Worry Trance, this is an intensive deep-dive into anxiety. It is particularly useful for OCD, Social Anxiety and GAD.
16 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Veronica Chase Coaching and Counselling
Counsellor/Therapist, RPC, CCPCP
Guiding through anxiety with tools and techniques to use every day.
Anxiety is unprocessed fear, fortunetelling and over-worry/ concern about the future.
Mindfullness and conscious awareness of the now is the first step.
7 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Chris Pankewich
Registered Psychotherapist, Registered Psychotherapist (RP), Masters of Counselling Psychology (MACP)
Our relationship to anxiety and stress is often complicated. While small doses of anxiety and stress can be motivating, high levels of stress and anxiety can feel overwhelming and debilitating. Understanding our experience of anxiety and stress can help us build a different relationship to these emotions. Exploring how we experience anxiety and stress and understanding what they are trying to tell us can help us shed the emotional burdens holding us back from building the life that we want. Schedule a free consultation with me to see if we are a good fit.
4 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
ThriveWell Counselling
Registered Social Worker, MSW, RSW / RP
Many of us live with days, months or years of experiencing anxiety and fear before we seek support. This might be something you've sought help with before, or this might be your first steps in addressing long-standing or worsening anxiety. Are you interested in strategies that move beyond simply managing fear and anxiety? Do you look forward to the potential of fostering lasting change? ThriveWell Counselling, uses evidence-based approaches to addressing anxiety and fear, that may include Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT), EMDR, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Mindfulness, Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Ego-State Therapy. We work to cultivate resilience, self-compassion, and a renewed sense of well-being and ability to enjoy life free from constant anxiety and worry.
6 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Sangeeta Tanwar @ Tanwar Psychology
Psychologist, Ph.D.
Do you live in the fear of the unknown and have difficulty relaxing? Does your overthinking interfere with your sleep? Do you feel overwhelmed or feel ‘on edge’ often? Do you feel panicky? It is time to help yourself with professional consultation. You deserve to have healthier control over your apprehensions. I can provide relaxation training and introduce strategies to bring about positive changes in thought and response patterns.
5 Years Experience