Behavioral therapists in Toronto, ON
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Behavioral
Harness of Joy Psychotherapy Services
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, MSW, RCSW EMDRIA Approved Consultant & Credit Provider
Our Shared Vision & Purpose
At Harness of Joy Psychotherapy Services Inc., we believe that profound healing occurs when advanced clinical expertise meets deeply attuned, human-centered care. Founded on the conviction that no two journeys toward wellness are identical, our practice stands as a sanctuary for individuals, first responders, and mental health professionals seeking to move beyond surface-level coping and cultivate enduring, transformative growth.
Our team brings together highly skilled, master’s-level Registered Clinical Social Workers (MSW, RCSW) with extensive backgrounds in neurobiology, trauma recovery, and evidence-based clinical practices. Bound by a shared commitment to clinical excellence, continuous learning, and absolute ethical integrity, we view our work not merely as a service, but as a sacred partnership. We honor the courage it takes to step into therapy, and we hold space for every story with warmth, cultural humility, and unwavering respect.
What We Stand For
Holistic & Neurobiologically Grounded Care: We recognize the intricate connection between mind, body, and nervous system. Our clinical approach integrates diverse, proven modalities—including EMDR, Somatic Regulation, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies, and Relational Care—tailored seamlessly to the unique needs of each individual.
Empowerment & Autonomy: True healing is not about fixing what is broken; it is about reclaiming your innate resilience, agency, and authentic voice. We walk alongside you as compassionate guides, offering the tools and framework for you to navigate life’s complexities with confidence.
Specialized Support for High-Acuity Roles: We hold a deep dedication to supporting those who serve others. Our practice provides confidential, culturally competent care for first responders, healthcare professionals, and leaders bearing the heavy mental load of frontline, high-responsibility roles.
Advancing the Standard of Mental Healthcare: Beyond direct client support, we are passionately invested in the strength of the broader therapeutic community. Through accredited clinical consultation, mentorship, and advanced professional training, we actively contribute to elevating trauma-informed care across North America.
Our Core Purpose
Living with vitality, balance, and genuine peace should not feel out of reach. Whether guiding an individual through the weight of trauma, supporting a family through transition, or mentoring fellow clinicians toward professional mastery, Harness of Joy Psychotherapy Services Inc. remains dedicated to illuminating the path forward—helping our clients and community anchor in resilience, discover authentic connection, and harness enduring joy.
26 Years Experience
Online in Toronto, ON (Online Only)
Behavioral
New Moon Psychotherapy
Registered Psychotherapist, MA, MACP, MSW, RSW, RP, RP(Q)
We are a team of Registered Psychotherapists and Social Workers who specialize in supporting individuals through effective and research backed trauma, relationship, and sex therapy.
We began as a trauma focused clinic - our team has a solid understanding of the countless small and large ways that trauma impacts us. We work with traumatic stress and related difficulties such as anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD and complexPTSD), addiction, self-harm, and suicide ideation. We support survivors of sexual violence as well as those who have experienced emotional and physical abuse, criminal victimization, bullying, war, and near death experiences.
We've found that as people heal, relationships and intimacy naturally becomes a secondary focus. For this reason we offer family, couples, and sex therapy. We support individuals of all gender and sexual identities and relationship structures.
We respect diversity and differences in opinions, values and attitudes. This is reflected through individualized treatment plans which consider each individuals lived and generational experiences. We strive to provide culturally-sensitive, non-discriminatory, and affirming care to culturally diverse populations and BIPOC, LGBTQ+, neurodivergent, kink and polyamorous communities.
Our goal is to help you break free from your past and rediscover a fulfilling life filled with joy and connection.
16 Years Experience
In-Person in Toronto, ON M5V 1X9
Online in Toronto, ON
Behavioral
Joshua Lewis
Registered Psychotherapist, RP, CT
As a Registered Psychotherapist, Joshua Lewis is focused on supporting individuals through a therapeutic process that seeks to restore mental and emotional wellness, provides avenues for deepening one's connection to self and others, while fostering compassionate inquiry, understanding and meaning-making into the challenging experiences that often make up a human life.
7 Years Experience
In-Person in Toronto, ON
Online in Toronto, ON
Behavioral
Shelley Murphy, Food & Body Image Hypnotherapist
Hypnotherapist, BASc, Former RD
I believe that meaningful change doesn’t come from forcing or fixing yourself, it comes from understanding yourself more deeply, and learning how to work with your mind and body, rather than against them. In my work as a clinical hypnotherapist, I often meet people who are capable, thoughtful, and self-aware, yet feel stuck in patterns of anxiety, overthinking, emotional eating, or self-doubt. These patterns can feel frustrating, especially when you’ve “tried everything” to change them. What I’ve seen, time and time again, is that real, lasting change happens when we gently access the deeper parts of the mind where these patterns are held. This is where hypnotherapy can be incredibly effective; supporting you to shift not just how you think, but how you feel, respond, and experience yourself day to day.
3 Years Experience
Online in Toronto, ON (Online Only)
Behavioral
Dennis Keefe
Registered Psychotherapist, M.A.
I have always been a big advocate of jumping into action and finding ways to address problems through concrete, focused strategies. I also honour the important need to foster compassion, validation and understanding as a foundation with you before this occurs. I specialize in helping adults navigate the emotional impact of chronic illness, chronic pain, disability, and significant changes in health or physical functioning. These experiences can affect your identity, relationships, independence, confidence, and hope for the future. I also address a broad array of other mental health issues: Anxiety, depression, ADHD and others.
5 Years Experience
In-Person in Toronto, ON M6K 1X9
Online in Toronto, ON
Behavioral
Liz Witzke
Registered Psychotherapist, RP (Qualifying), CSAT
I’m trained in Partner and Betrayal Trauma Therapy and work with both those impacted by betrayal and individuals struggling with compulsive sexual behaviours. I offer a space where you can be honest about what’s happening without fear of judgment, while still making room for healing, accountability, and meaningful change.
2 Years Experience
In-Person in Toronto, ON M6G 1M6
Online in Toronto, ON
Behavioral
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
In-Person in Toronto, ON M4P 1G8
Online in Toronto, ON
Behavioral
Peter Stathakos
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Registered Social Worker, BBA, MDiv, MSW, CMAT, CSAT
I help individuals and couples navigate challenges such as sex or love addiction, affairs, pornography use, sexual trauma, and other relationship struggles. I also support partners and families working through the impact these experiences can have. Together, we create a personalized approach that meets your unique needs and relationships, with a focus on meaningful, lasting change.
16 Years Experience
In-Person in Toronto, ON M6G 1M6
Online in Toronto, ON
Behavioral
Grounded Minds Therapy
Registered Social Worker, MSW, RSW
Grounded Minds is a team of compassionate therapists who are skilled in treating anxiety, OCD and PTSD. Are you constantly battling anxiety, intrusive thoughts or compulsions that you can't resist doing? Perhaps you've experienced a trauma and you're finding it difficult to move forward. You may have found that pushing worries away only works for a short time. Let's work together to kick anxiety out of the driver's seat. Together, we may work on uncovering what's underneath anxiety and panic, learn how to take the power away from intrusive thoughts, or perhaps learn tools to manage uncertainty. Please reach out to schedule a therapy session or free 15 minute consultation call. We look forward to hearing from you!
8 Years Experience
In-Person in Toronto, ON M5V 1M1
Online in Toronto, ON
Behavioral
Nakasha Ogbonna
Registered Social Worker, RSW
I am a dual province (Ontario & Alberta) registered social worker specializing in mental health. Before entering private practice, I served as the University of Calgary’s Mental Health Consultant where I was the primary on-campus therapeutic support for staff, faculty, and post doctorates. I now work in private practice supporting individuals, couples, families, and groups. I also have specialized training and experience working with first responders and their families in dealing with operational stress injuries. My breadth of experience includes work with patients accessing community public health as well as school aged youth in primary and secondary school divisions.
13 Years Experience
Online in Toronto, ON (Online Only)
Behavioral
Halyna Polityka
Registered Psychotherapist, RP, MEd
If you are new to therapy or never really found the right match, you may benefit from a more structured & directive clinician. Tell me what you need from our time and I will be responsible for guiding us there and keeping us on track. Therapy is not meant to stay in session - let's bring the work to life!
10 Years Experience
Online in Toronto, ON (Online Only)
Behavioral
Watras Counselling and Psychotherapy Services
Registered Psychotherapist, RP, MACP, BSc
I work with motivated individuals who are looking to work towards better understanding, dealing with, and changing their lives. Clients of mine often have behaviours, thoughts, feelings, or emotions that are dysfunctional or cause them discomfort, such as feeling anxious, depressed, confused, reactive, or scattered. Many of my clients have difficulty with behaviours they feel they have no control over, such as habits or addictions, aversions, or getting easily frustrated or angry. I help my clients understand why these issues occur and help them create tools and protocols such that they can create the changes they want.
5 Years Experience
Online in Toronto, ON (Online Only)
Behavioral
Manisha Grewal
Counsellor/Therapist, BA (Hons), MA, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)
Do you tend to replay past events in your mind over and over, and spiral into worries about the future? Do you struggle with boundaries, people-pleasing, or relationships, causing you to "overgive" to others while abandoning your own needs? Many people describe feeling like they’re moving through life on autopilot — weighed down by overthinking, low mood, or the pressure to keep everyone else happy. You might notice people-pleasing tendencies, difficulty maintaining boundaries, or a pattern of overgiving that leaves you drained, ungrounded, and disconnected from yourself. Here, you’ll find a warm, calm space where your feelings are validated and your voice genuinely matters. Together, we’ll engage in meaningful, deep processing work, explore what's fuelling your distress, and gently uncover the deeper experiences and patterns shaping your emotional world. Alongside this, we’ll build practical tools to regulate your nervous system and ease your symptoms in the present, helping you reconnect with a more empowered, resilient, and self-aware version of yourself. I bring the richness of three cultures, four languages, and the lived experience of being both a first- and third-generation immigrant. My background in the medical field also allows me to integrate physiological and psychological insight. These parts of who I am allow me to deeply empathize with the immigrant journey across generations, as well as the ways culture, family expectations, and identity can shape mental health. No matter your background or story, I aim to meet you with genuine understanding, respect, and compassion. I am a proud ally to LGBTQIA2S+ and BIPOC communities and offer inclusive, compassionate care for all backgrounds and lived experiences. If what I’ve shared resonates, we may be a good fit. If you're curious about working together, let's start with a free, no-pressure 30-min video consultation, where we can connect and chat in a calm, relaxed space.
✨ Evening and weekend appointments available
✨ Free 30-minute consultation to get started
2 Years Experience
Online in Toronto, ON (Online Only)
Behavioral
Lisa Shouldice Pychotherapy Clinic
Registered Psychotherapist, MA, RP, CCP
Our team provides compassionate support for people who have experienced sexual, physical, and emotional abuse or assault, as well as other relational trauma and mental health concerns. We’re committed to cultural diversity and inclusivity, with a special focus on the LGBTQQIPSAA community. We help address challenges stemming from these experiences and related symptoms, including learned coping mechanisms that no longer work for you and your partner(s) and loved ones. Our focus includes managing complex family dynamics and alleviating trauma-related symptoms like bodily sensations, nightmares, anxiety, depression, and sexual dissatisfaction. We also support those dealing with addiction, unhealthy eating habits, relationship concerns, and possible or diagnosed personality disorders. We’re an experienced, specialized, and trusted team with over 50 years of combined expertise. We offer a range of therapeutic approaches, ensuring you find the right path to healing. Our culturally diverse team provides informed services with a special focus on the LGBTQIA+ community. We support you and your entire family, including your chosen family.
22 Years Experience
Online in Toronto, ON (Online Only)
Behavioral
Dr. Joshua Albert
Psychologist, Psy.D, C.Psych
I am a Toronto-based clinical psychologist providing services to adolescents and adults across Ontario. My approach is collaborative, holistic, and insight-oriented. I work together with clients to help them identify the thoughts, emotions, sensations, and behaviours that contribute and impair their quality of live so that they can better understand themselves and feel confident in their abilities to improve and nurture their wellbeing.
10 Years Experience
In-Person in Toronto, ON M5A 4K2
Online in Toronto, ON
Behavioral
Fran Grove-White
Registered Psychotherapist, R.P. Dip ISH, CGPA, CHTA
For our first meeting there will be no charge - an opportunity to check out the chemistry. Is there a fit? I use an eclectic blend of modalities / tools and a respectful dose of intuition. Together we'll tailor make the approach that meets your needs. I see exploring relationship (any) as a fast track to higher self awareness and consciousness - a most fascinating journey. Welcome aboard! And courage is essential - but I can help you find it.
33 Years Experience
In-Person in Toronto, ON M6G 3R5
Online in Toronto, ON
Behavioral
Lori-Ann Wesley
Registered Psychotherapist, M.A., R.P., C.C.T.P.
To be the best possible you, it is nesessary to release old wounds and transform what doesn't work. Growth and empowerment come from increasing self-awareness and making healthier more aware choices. It is my honor to assist clients in gaining the tools necessary for positive change and shift into a healthier happier way of being. Life changing holistic eclectic approah to work on the deepest levels of consciousness.
29 Years Experience
In-Person in Toronto, ON M4P 1G8
Online in Toronto, ON
Behavioral
Dr. Devina Daya
Psychologist, Ph.D., C. Psych
*Contact for a no cost 15-minute Consultation* Welcome! I’m a Clinical Psychologist passionate about helping clients overcome anxiety, overthinking, low mood, and relationship stress. My approach blends evidence-based strategies with flexible, reflective therapy to build confidence, improve communication, and support lasting growth. With over a decade of academic training, including a Doctorate from the University of Toronto, I bring a strong foundation of expertise to my practice. My goal is to provide the tools, strategies, and supportive guidance clients need to overcome obstacles, enhance self-understanding, and grow into stronger, more confident versions of themselves.
Email: info@mytherapyclinic.ca
Phone: (437) 747-8713
5 Years Experience
In-Person in Toronto, ON
Online in Toronto, ON
Behavioral
North Star Therapy-- Cleo Haber
Registered Social Worker, BSW, MSW, RSW
Welcome! At North Star Therapy, empathy and understanding is central to our practice. We know reaching out for help is a courageous step, and we approach every client with respect, compassion, and an open mind. We strive to create a non-judgmental environment where you will feel heard and validated, fostering a sense of trust that is essential for the therapeutic journey. We are dedicated to creating a safe and supportive space where you can explore, understand, and navigate the complexities of your life and work towards meaningful change. We are here to help. Let's talk about how to get started living the life you want.
Our clients bring a range of concerns to therapy, including relationship issues, parenting, sexual and gender identity, trauma, grief, anger, depression, anxiety, racism and other inequalities, intergenerational trauma, body image, work/career goals, feeling "stuck," and finding meaning in life. If any of these concerns feel familiar, or if you have any other issues you'd like to unpack, don't hesitate to reach out. We look forward to exploring how we might work together.
25 Years Experience
Online in Toronto, ON (Online Only)
Behavioral
Headway Mental Health
Registered Psychotherapist, Joshua Dvorkin, MPsy, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying),
Joshua has been treating a variety a patients since 2017. He not only posses the tools that his masters gave him, but also the tools that life experience has given him. In 2004 Joshua sustained a traumatic spinal cord injury that almost took his life and left him using a power wheelchair. Joshua therefore has deep rooted empathy and first hand understanding and can therefore take you beyond where you are now to where you have always wanted to be.
9 Years Experience
In-Person in Toronto, ON M5X 1C7
Online in Toronto, ON
Behavioral Therapy therapists in Toronto, ON Statistics
Behavioral Therapy therapists in Toronto, ON average 14 years of experience and charge around $176 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The most commonly treated issues are Anxiety or Fears (92%), Depression (88%), and Self Esteem (78%).
Average years in practice
14 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$176
Accept insurance
84%
Offer sliding scale
66%
Gender ID
| 63% |
Female |
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| 33% |
Male |
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| 2% |
Non-Binary |
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| 2% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 66% |
In Person and Online |
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| 34% |
Online Only |
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Top Specialties
| 92% | Anxiety or Fears |
| 88% | Depression |
| 78% | Self Esteem |
| 77% | Stress |
| 73% | Trauma and PTSD |
| 67% | Loss or Grief |
| 67% | Social Anxiety |
Ages Served
| 99% | Adult |
| 67% | Teen |
| 65% | Young Adult |
| 59% | Senior |
| 32% | Children |
Client Focus
| 65% | Women |
| 58% | Men |
| 49% | LGBTQ+ |
| 40% | Asian |
| 37% | Black / African American |