I provide trauma-informed therapy for adults who feel overwhelmed, emotionally disconnected, or stuck in patterns that no longer serve them. If you’re navigating anxiety, relationship challenges, burnout, or a major life transition, therapy can offer a place to slow down and feel supported. My work is relational and integrative, drawing from psychodynamic, attachment-based, somatic, and polyvagal-informed approaches. Together, we focus on creating safety, understanding how past experiences shape the present, and building greater emotional awareness, regulation, and self-compassion, at a pace that feels right for you.
Client Focus
Session Format: Individual sessions.
Age Specialty: Adult, Teen, Young Adult
Demographic Expertise: Jewish, LGBTQ+, Men, Women clients.
Languages: English and Polish
Treatment Approach
- Art Therapy Uses creative activities like drawing, painting, or sculpture as a way to express emotions. It is especially helpful when words are hard to find.
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Combines CBT with mindfulness to help regulate emotions, tolerate stress, and build stronger relationships. Originally designed for borderline personality disorder, it’s now used more broadly.
- Internal Family Systems (IFS) Helps clients heal by working with different ‘parts’ of themselves, like inner critics or wounded children. It fosters harmony within the self.
- Psychodynamic Therapy Explores unconscious thoughts and patterns that influence current behavior. It builds insight into how the past impacts the present.
- Somatic Therapy Helps clients notice how emotions are stored in the body. It uses breath, movement, and awareness for healing trauma and stress.
Approach Description: My approach to therapy is integrative, relational, and trauma-informed. I draw from psychodynamic therapy, somatic therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), and art-based approaches to support both insight and emotional regulation. This allows us to work with thoughts, emotions, body responses, and inner parts in a way that feels grounded and adaptable to your needs.
Psychodynamic therapy helps us explore how past experiences and relational patterns continue to shape present-day emotions, reactions, and self-beliefs. IFS offers a compassionate way to understand different parts of you, especially those shaped by trauma, protection, or overwhelm, without judgment. Somatic therapy and polyvagal-informed work support nervous system regulation by bringing awareness to the body and helping you feel more present and safe.
DBT-informed strategies are used when helpful to build practical skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. Art therapy may be gently incorporated as an optional, non-verbal way to access emotions and experiences that are difficult to put into words, no artistic skill required.
Together, we move at a pace that feels safe and collaborative. The goal is not to push change, but to create understanding, stability, and greater capacity to relate to yourself and others with more ease and self-compassion.
Education & Credentials
Dagmara Guy RP, Dip. Psych.
- Female
- License # CRPO License #19112
- Licensed in ON
- Practicing Since 2023
Education: I hold a BA in Psychology and completed a five-year psychotherapy training program at the Ontario Psychotherapy and Counseling Program (OPCC). My clinical work is grounded in psychodynamic, attachment-based, and somatic approaches, with additional training in nervous system and trauma.
Finances
Fees
- Average Session Fee 140
- Accepts Insurance
- I provide direct billing to Sunlife, Manulife, Green Shield, Blue Cross, Desjardins Insurance and others.
Dagmara Guy Practice Details
Therapy Sessions
- Available In-Person in Toronto, ON M6G 1L3 and Toronto, ON M5R 2S2
- Available Online for residents of Ontario
- Online Therapy Details: I use Jane App for video therapy sessions.
My practice is a space for adults who feel overwhelmed, emotionally disconnected, or stuck in patterns that no longer feel like a good fit. Many of the people I work with are navigating anxiety, burnout, relationship challenges, trauma, or major life transitions and are looking for a place where they can slow down, feel understood, and begin to make sense of what’s happening beneath the surface.
I take a relational, trauma-informed approach to therapy, integrating psychodynamic, attachment-based, somatic, and polyvagal-informed work. Rather than focusing only on symptoms, we explore how past experiences, relational patterns, and nervous system responses may be shaping your present-day reactions, emotions, and sense of self. This work helps create more awareness, choice, and self-compassion over time.
Therapy with me is collaborative and paced to your needs. You don’t need to arrive with a clear story or specific goals together, we make room for curiosity, reflection, and emotional safety. I pay close attention to the therapeutic relationship, as it often becomes a meaningful saying to notice and gently shift long-standing patterns around closeness, boundaries, and self-worth.
I work with clients who may feel disconnected from their emotions, stuck in overthinking, or unsure how to regulate when stress or conflict arises. Sessions often include gentle somatic awareness, emotional processing, and practical nervous system support, while staying grounded in insight-oriented therapy. The aim is not to “fix” you, but to help you feel more grounded, present, and aligned with how you want to live and relate.
I offer both online therapy across Ontario and in-person therapy in Toronto, conveniently located near Christie subway station. If you’re considering therapy and wondering whether this approach might be a good fit, you’re welcome to reach out for a consultation.