Persons with Disabilities therapists in Thunder Bay, Ontario ON, Canada CA
Serving Persons with Disabilities
Maksym Tkachenko
Registered Psychotherapist, Registered Psychotherapist(Qualifying)
Accepting NEW Clients.
<br> If you are seeking therapy to process past experiences or to work towards your future goals, I can walk with you every step of the way. Together, we can discover your potential, improve your relationships, and live an authentic life. As a therapist with over seven years of experience, I offer a safe, supportive environment for you to explore your emotions and gain insight into patterns in your life that are no longer serving you.
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It is important to establish a positive and comfortable therapeutic relationship with your therapist in order to achieve your therapeutic goals. If you are interested in exploring whether we are a good fit, you're welcome to book a free 15-minute consult.
8 Years Experience
Serving Persons with Disabilities
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!
11 Years Experience
Serving Persons with Disabilities
Julie Willsie
Registered Psychotherapist, BSc, MACP; Registered Psychotherapist
It is my life experience that is my greatest asset. I have worked with trauma clients for over 25 years. I have divorced, found a wonderful life partner, raised 2 children and 2 stepchildren, and went back to school at 50 to start a new career. Although I know our past shapes us, I really like to focus on the present and how to work together to address your issues, set goals and work at reaching them together. Some of this may require the difficult work of looking back, but always with the focus of moving forward.
3 Years Experience
Serving Persons with Disabilities
Dr. Kim Edwards
Psychologist, C.Psych.
Hi I am Dr. Kim Edwards, a Clinical and Health Psychologist registered in Ontario and New York. Dr. Edwards has significant experience with complex cases and sees children, adolescents, and adults with a variety of presenting concerns including:
✓ anxiety
✓ attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
✓ body-focused repetitive behaviours (BFRB)
✓ chronic pain and somatic symptoms (e.g., headaches)
✓ depression
✓ difficulties coping with stress
✓ emotion-regulation challenges
✓ excoriation disorder (skin picking or dermatillomania)
✓ low mood
✓ OCD
✓ trichotillomania (hair pulling)
✓ tic disorders / Tourette syndrome
9 Years Experience
Serving Persons with Disabilities
Clayre Sessoms Psychotherapy
Registered Psychotherapist, RP, RCT, RCC, CCC, ATR-P
Clayre Sessoms Psychotherapy is a close-knit collective of queer and trans counsellors, psychotherapists, and art therapists dedicated to supporting the mental well-being of our 2SLGBTQIA+ community through individual, relationship, and group therapy sessions online.
9 Years Experience