Gestalt therapists in Thunder Bay, ON
Browse Gestalt therapists in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. Compare credentials, specialties and therapeutic approach. Contact a therapist to learn more.
Gestalt
Choosing To Heal
Registered Psychotherapist, PhD, RP
Choosing To Heal is grounded on the belief that healing begins when you decide to care for your well-being. Here, you are welcomed into a safe, compassionate, and non-judgmental space where your lived experiences are honoured. Our trauma-informed, client-centred approach recognizes the ways past and present experiences can shape your emotions, beliefs, and relationships. Through safety, choice, and collaboration, we support you in making sense of your story, easing emotional distress, and building resilience so life can feel steadier, more connected, and more hopeful.
Our CRPO-registered psychotherapists provide culturally responsive, confidential virtual therapy across Ontario for youth, adults, couples, and families. We focus on meeting you where you are by helping you build practical coping skills, strengthen self-compassion, and create meaningful, lasting growth. Services are offered in English, Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi, Russian and Ukrainian.
26 Years Experience
Online in Thunder Bay, ON
Gestalt
Carol D.B. Whaley Counselling and Psychotherapy
Registered Social Worker, MSW, RSW
Choosing a Counsellor or Psychotherapist is a very personal process. It can be difficult to take that first step, even if it is not your first time in therapy. I am a Vancouver based Counsellor and Psychotherapist in Private Practice. I offer both in person and online sessions. I also offer 15 minute free telephone consults to help you decide if you feel the connection you need to enter into this very vulnerable and personal relationship.
I am a Registered Social Worker (RSW) with the BC College of Social Workers, and have my Master of Social Work (MSW) from UBC; a Bachelor of Arts (BA), in Psychology; and a Bachelor of Social Work (BSW), both from McMaster University.
I have over 22 years of extensive clinical experience as a counsellor and psychotherapist working with individuals, couples, families and groups. I work with all ages on any issues that are getting in the way of the client experiencing life to its fullest in the very personal way they want to live.
42 Years Experience
Online in Thunder Bay, ON
Gestalt
Jose Luis Lopez Vargas
Registered Psychotherapist, RP.
I believe healing begins with feeling truly met. In my work as a psychotherapist, I offer a grounded, respectful, and deeply human space where people can slow down, breathe, and reconnect with themselves. I value presence, authenticity, and real relationships, and I work at a pace that honours each person’s unique experience.
I am drawn to supporting people who feel overwhelmed, stuck, disconnected, or in the midst of change. Many come with anxiety, relationship struggles, emotional pain, or a quiet sense that something in life no longer fits. Together, we gently explore what is happening in the present moment — in thoughts, emotions, and the body — so that clarity, choice, and new possibilities can naturally emerge.
7 Years Experience
Online in Thunder Bay, ON
Gestalt
Dr. Karen Wong
Psychologist, PhD, C.Psych.
I am a Clinical Psychologist focused on helping people develop a sense of security—both in their relationships and within themselves. I work with clients facing self-doubt, low self-esteem, and feelings of inadequacy. Together, we will transform your relationship with yourself and others, enhancing self-understanding, emotional awareness, and self-compassion so you can feel confident, valued, and worthy. We’ll also develop coping skills to help you feel more at ease in your life and relationships.
16 Years Experience
Online in Thunder Bay, ON
Gestalt
Adrienne Sharma-Richardson PhD MEd RP OCT
Registered Psychotherapist, Registered Gestalt Psychotherapist Somatic Experiencing Practitioner Gottman Trained Couples Therapist
As a gestalt psychotherapist, who pairs gestalt training with somatic experiencing I can help support you in healing from your trauma.
No one in the Niagara Region utilizes the combination of these therapies and applies them to working with couples in crisis. Gottman (couples) and Post Induction Therapy training (relational/developmental trauma)
I am sorry to say but popular approaches to healing trauma like CBT will provide only temporary relief at best.
If you want to get to the root of your trauma and heal somatic experiencing (SE) is what you need and when supported with the power of relational gestalt therapy you will shift your shit!
SE focuses on regulating your nervous system.
With SE work trauma responses are completed and energy is released back into the system and with this the resolution and disappearance of physical complaints, including headaches, digestive problems, and pain syndromes can be resolved, and emotional regulation can be restored.
I will teach you how to work with your stress response - the body's innate alarm system in response to a perceived danger, also called the "Fight or Flight" response.
It is highly adaptive to danger and human survival when threats are physical, but less so when threats are psychological, or imaginary, among other somatic and relational skills.
I have been trained under Dr Abi Blakeslee part of Dr Peter A Levine's legacy group out of California for Somatic Experiencing and the late great Dr Bud Feder the author of Beyond the Hot Seat was on my dissertation committee overseeing a phenomenological study of the effectiveness of a gestalt therapy group I created to reduce stress in working informal caregivers of the elderly. I named the group process Stressed WOW (We Overloaded with Work).
Gestalt therapy is an extremely complex psychotherapy, too complex to describe in this short space.
The power of its effectiveness can only be experienced.
Most present day therapies have stolen bits and pieces of its praxis.
Get the whole again with a holistic, here and now, experiential therapy.
I am here for you... I've got your six!
13 Years Experience
Online in Thunder Bay, ON
Gestalt Therapy therapists in Thunder Bay, ON Statistics
Gestalt Therapy therapists in Thunder Bay, ON average 13 years of experience and charge around $175 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The most commonly treated issues are Anxiety or Fears (90%), Depression (83%), and Self Esteem (81%).
Average years in practice
13 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$175
Accept insurance
84%
Offer sliding scale
66%
Gender ID
| 60% |
Female |
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| 33% |
Male |
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| 4% |
Non-Binary |
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| 3% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 64% |
In Person and Online |
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| 36% |
Online Only |
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Top Specialties
| 90% | Anxiety or Fears |
| 83% | Depression |
| 81% | Self Esteem |
| 79% | Trauma and PTSD |
| 77% | Stress |
| 75% | Loss or Grief |
| 71% | Anger Management |
Ages Served
| 99% | Adult |
| 75% | Young Adult |
| 73% | Senior |
| 62% | Teen |
| 31% | Children |
Client Focus
| 74% | Women |
| 58% | Men |
| 56% | LGBTQ+ |
| 47% | Christian |
| 42% | Asian |