Anxiety therapists in Forest Hill North, ON
Browse Anxiety therapists in Forest Hill North, Ontario, Canada. Compare credentials, specialties and therapeutic approach. Contact a therapist to learn more.
Anxiety
Ekta Abhay Lather
Registered Psychotherapist, Registered Psychotherapist
Anxiety can feel incredibly isolating, but it's important to remember that you're not alone in this experience. Many people struggle with feelings of fear and apprehension, especially during challenging times. It's completely normal to feel overwhelmed, and recognizing those emotions is the first step toward managing them.
Finding effective coping mechanisms can make a significant difference. Techniques like mindfulness and deep breathing can help center your thoughts and bring a sense of calm. Cognitive behavioral strategies can also provide valuable tools to challenge negative thought patterns.
Don’t hesitate to reach out to your support system—friends, family, or professionals—who can offer understanding and assistance. Sometimes, just sharing your feelings can lighten the load you’re carrying. You have the strength to face your fears, and with time and practice, you can regain a sense of control over your life. Your feelings are valid, and taking steps to address them is a courageous move toward healing.
4 Years Experience
In-Person Near Forest Hill North, ON
Online in Forest Hill North, ON
Anxiety
Kayla Schofield
Registered Psychotherapist, RP
Fear and anxiety can be scary to tackle. Creating a safe space to explore your fears is the first step. Learning healthy coping strategies while retraining your brain to recognize what true threats are for you.
6 Years Experience
In-Person Near Forest Hill North, ON
Online in Forest Hill North, ON
Anxiety
McDowall Integrative Psychology and Healthcare
Psychologist, Psychologist, Registered Psychotherapist, Pre Registration Professionals
You are not alone. Especially in today’s hectic and fast-paced society, anxiety is experienced by most people at some point in their lives. Low levels of anxiety are usually considered normal and can even be motivating. However, when it becomes too much to bear and starts to affect your daily life, anxiety can cause and contribute to numerous mental and physical problems.
It is important to know that anxiety and stress go hand-in-hand. When stress starts to build up in your life, you may feel anxious more often. This anxiety can develop into a disorder if left unchecked. Sometimes there is a clear precipitating factor, such as a traumatic event, that can lead to uncontrollable anxiety. However, most of the time people just experience a general feeling of constant unease, worry, fear, or agitation that persists over time. Whatever the cause, there is help available; no one has to suffer through this alone.
How McDowall Integrative Psychology & Healthcare can help you.
At McDowall Integrative Psychology & Healthcare, we take pride in providing our clients with a warm, confidential and safe environment so you will feel open to discuss whatever is on your mind. Making you feel comfortable each and every time you visit is very important to us.
Some stress at work is normal, but if you find yourself under a lot of pressure and this negatively affects other areas of your life such as your social, personal, and physical domains, then you might benefit from our counselling services.
We provide a confidential, compassionate, and non-judgmental environment where you can speak to one of our therapists about the issues you are experiencing. We will help you implement some coping strategies or improve your existing ones in order to improve your well-being, not simply during your work day but throughout the long-term. We look forward to working with you through the pressures you are facing and help strengthen your resilience to external and internal contributors of stress.
21 Years Experience
In-Person Near Forest Hill North, ON
Online in Forest Hill North, ON
Anxiety
Vaughan Counselling and Psychotherapy o/a Zormin Counselling and Psychotherapy
Registered Psychotherapist, RP, RP(Q), RSW, C.Psych., C.Psych.Assoc., ND
Therapists at VCP focus on guiding individuals toward resilience and peace of mind. Their expertise lies in identifying the root causes of anxiety and providing evidence-based techniques that empower clients to face their fears head-on. Through a compassionate and tailored approach, they help individuals develop coping strategies that promote emotional well-being and enhance their overall quality of life.
7 Years Experience
In-Person Near Forest Hill North, ON
Online in Forest Hill North, ON
Anxiety
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.
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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.
13 Years Experience
In-Person Near Forest Hill North, ON
Online in Forest Hill North, ON
Anxiety
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.
8 Years Experience
In-Person Near Forest Hill North, ON
Online in Forest Hill North, ON
Anxiety
Lori-Ann Wesley
Registered Psychotherapist, M.A., R.P., C.C.T.P.
Anxiety and fears need to be looked at from cause to gain personal power. Tools that help one be in the present moment are also invaluable.
29 Years Experience
In-Person Near Forest Hill North, ON
Online in Forest Hill North, ON
Anxiety
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.
18 Years Experience
In-Person Near Forest Hill North, ON
Online in Forest Hill North, ON
Anxiety
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.
34 Years Experience
In-Person Near Forest Hill North, ON
Online in Forest Hill North, ON
Anxiety
Joel Mayer
Registered Psychotherapist, MDiv
Anxiety involves uncertainty about the future and a desire to gain more control over your distress. Together, we will work on ways to help you reconnect more with the present moment, relate more helpfully to anxious thoughts, better manage self-judgments, and move closer to the people and things that are important to you.
8 Years Experience
In-Person Near Forest Hill North, ON
Online in Forest Hill North, ON
Anxiety therapists in Forest Hill North, ON Statistics
Anxiety therapists in Forest Hill North, ON average 11 years of experience and charge around $172 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The top treatment approaches are Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) (77%), Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) (54%), and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) (52%).
Average years in practice
11 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$172
Accept insurance
80%
Offer sliding scale
60%
Gender ID
| 73% |
Female |
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| 24% |
Male |
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| 2% |
Non-Binary |
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| 1% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 62% |
In Person and Online |
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| 38% |
Online Only |
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Top Treatment Approaches
| 77% | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) |
| 54% | Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) |
| 52% | Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) |
| 50% | Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) |
| 49% | Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) |
| 41% | Narrative Therapy |
| 37% | Internal Family Systems (IFS) |
Ages Served
| 99% | Adult |
| 68% | Young Adult |
| 58% | Teen |
| 55% | Senior |
| 23% | Children |
Client Focus
| 58% | Women |
| 47% | Men |
| 40% | LGBTQ+ |
| 29% | Christian |
| 29% | Persons with Disabilities |