Sexual Abuse therapists in Toronto, ON
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Sexual Abuse
Sierra Gaudreault
Registered Psychotherapist, RP
Sexual violence can have a devastating impact on our relationship with our bodies, our identity, others and the world around us. It can be particularly isolating because we often blame ourselves, feel blamed by others or are made to feel inadequate when we cannot simply "get over it". I offer Cognitive Processing Therapy to help you rebuild your relationship with safety, trust, intimacy, control and self-esteem. I also teach you coping skills to manage emotions and dissociation.
4 Years Experience
In-Person in Toronto, ON M5S 1X6
Online in Toronto, ON
Sexual Abuse
Anthony De Lemos Kawka
Registered Psychotherapist, Registered Psychotherapist
Healing from sexual abuse takes time, safety, and support. I offer trauma-informed care to help clients process their experiences, rebuild trust in themselves and others, and reconnect with their body and sense of agency.
8 Years Experience
Online in Toronto, ON (Online Only)
Sexual Abuse
Rebecca Goldstein, TuneinTherapy, ADHD | Trauma | Autism
Registered Social Worker, RSW, MSW, MTA, BMT, FAMI
Healing from sexual abuse is deeply personal, and it often impacts far more than the original experiences alone. It can affect safety, trust, identity, boundaries, relationships, self-worth, nervous system regulation, sexuality, and the way you move through the world.
My approach is trauma-informed, compassionate, and grounded in creating a space where you do not need to rush, minimize, or explain your pain before you are ready. I understand that healing is not one-size-fits-all, and that survival patterns, shame, dissociation, anger, grief, or confusion may all be part of the process.
Together, we work at a pace that feels safe and realistic for you — focusing on rebuilding self-trust, understanding trauma responses, strengthening boundaries, reducing shame, and helping you reconnect with yourself in ways that support healing, empowerment, and meaningful change.
12 Years Experience
Online in Toronto, ON (Online Only)
Sexual Abuse
Nathan Kretzschmar
Registered Psychotherapist, RP
Healing from sexual abuse requires safety, choice, and pacing. Therapy can support you in processing trauma, reducing shame and self-blame, reconnecting with your body, and rebuilding a sense of agency. I use a trauma-informed approach and, when appropriate, may integrate EMDR or mindfulness-based work to support healing in a careful and collaborative way.
13 Years Experience
Online in Toronto, ON (Online Only)
Sexual Abuse
The Cohen Clinic
Psychologist, Psy.D.
We provide a safe, compassionate space for survivors of sexual abuse to heal. Our clinicians help you process trauma, reclaim your sense of safety, and develop coping strategies to manage emotional and psychological impacts. We are specifically trained in trauma therapeutic modalities where focus on emotional safety in the therapeutic relationship first. We work with you to rebuild trust, strengthen resilience and self-esteem, and support long-term healing. You don’t have to face this alone, contact us find out more about how you can heal and build empowerment.
14 Years Experience
Online in Toronto, ON (Online Only)
Sexual Abuse
Jessie Erb
Registered Psychotherapist, DPsychotherapy
As a trauma specialist, I work with childhood and adult sexual abuse survivors. Together we work through all the complexities this horrific experience may have caused - from shame, fear, and anger - to emotional strength and healing.
12 Years Experience
Online in Toronto, ON (Online Only)
Sexual Abuse
Kylie Feller
Licensed Professional Counsellor, MA, CCC
What happened to you was not your fault—and healing is possible.
Surviving sexual abuse can leave lasting imprints—shame, fear, disconnection from your body, and a deep sense of mistrust. These experiences often create protective parts that help you survive but may now be keeping you from fully living. In our work together, we move at your pace, always honoring your system’s wisdom. Using Internal Family Systems (IFS) and gentle somatic practices like TRE, I help you build safety from the inside out, reconnect with your body, and begin to unburden the parts of you that are still carrying the pain. You don’t have to face this alone. You are worthy of safety, healing, and wholeness.
10 Years Experience
Online in Toronto, ON (Online Only)
Sexual Abuse
Masha Andreeva
Registered Psychotherapist, HonBA, DTATI, RP
I have substantial experience facilitating both group and one-on-one art therapy for survivors of sexual abuse. I understand how abuse can distort your sense of self, leaving you feeling disconnected or powerless. Through art therapy, you can safely express and process emotions that may be difficult to verbalize, while reconnecting with your inner strength. The creative process provides a path to reclaim your voice, rebuild self-worth, and restore a sense of control. I am passionate about supporting you in reclaiming your life and your sense of self, helping you move toward empowerment and transformation.
20 Years Experience
Online in Toronto, ON (Online Only)
Sexual Abuse
Lauren Kalvari
Registered Social Worker, PhD, MSW, RSW
Sexual abuse and sexual trauma can profoundly affect emotional well-being, relationships, self-worth, trust, identity, physical safety, and connection to one’s own body. In some relationships, sexual coercion or abuse may occur alongside emotional abuse, coercive control, intimate partner violence, or spiritually mediated forms of manipulation and shame. Survivors are often left carrying confusion, self-blame, fear, dissociation, or difficulty trusting themselves and others.
I provide trauma-informed virtual psychotherapy for adults recovering from sexual abuse, sexual trauma, coercive sexual experiences, and psychologically harmful relationships. Therapy focuses on restoring emotional safety, rebuilding self-trust, understanding trauma responses, and supporting healing at a pace that feels grounded and manageable. I am also attentive to the cultural, relational, and spiritual contexts in which sexual trauma occurs, including experiences shaped by religious teachings, family systems, silence, or loss of community.
34 Years Experience
Online in Toronto, ON (Online Only)
Sexual Abuse
Amanda Neves Therapy + Associates
Registered Social Worker, MSW, RSW
Survivors of sexual abuse often carry deep emotional and somatic wounds that affect relationships, self-esteem, and daily life. Our trauma-informed, somatic, and experiential approach provides a safe, non-judgmental space to process these experiences and reconnect with your body and emotions. Using Attachment-Focused Therapy, AEDP, and IFS, we help clients address trauma responses, build self-compassion, and reclaim a sense of safety and empowerment. This work supports healing on multiple levels (emotional, relational, and bodily) helping you move toward a life where your past experiences no longer define your present. Sessions are available in-person in Toronto and virtually across Ontario for accessible support wherever you are.
11 Years Experience
In-Person in Toronto, ON M4K 1N2
Online in Toronto, ON
Sexual Abuse
Rakan Himadeh
Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, SEP, ISP Candidate
Experiences of sexual abuse can leave deep imprints in the body and nervous system, often long after the event is over. Somatic Experiencing (SE) and Integral Somatic Psychology (ISP) offer a gentle, trauma-informed way to work with the effects of sexual trauma without having to retell or relive the story. SE helps rebuild a sense of safety in the body by slowly releasing stored survival responses such as freeze, shutdown, or hypervigilance. ISP complements this by supporting the safe processing of emotions like fear, shame, or confusion, helping you stay connected to yourself without becoming overwhelmed. Together, these approaches help restore boundaries, self-trust, and a sense of agency, allowing healing to unfold at a pace that honors your system
4 Years Experience
Online in Toronto, ON (Online Only)
Sexual Abuse
Ryan Bittinger
Pre-Licensed Professional, Registered Psychotherapist (Q), DPsychotherapy, LPCC, CAS
Experiencing sexual violence, especially at the hands of someone that you should have been able to trust, leaves deep scars. These can feel too painful or shameful to talk about, leaving you to feel alone with them. Many years of practice in this area of equipped me to work with you at a pace that feels manageable and allows you to examine the many ways you've been impacted. This work can be slow, but the changes clients experience often leave them feeling stronger and more capable than ever.
11 Years Experience
Online in Toronto, ON (Online Only)
Sexual Abuse
Lori-Ann Wesley
Registered Psychotherapist, M.A., R.P., C.C.T.P.
Sexual abuse is something I work with often as a trauma specialist. There are many techniques used in order to heal this violent crime.
29 Years Experience
In-Person in Toronto, ON M4P 1G8
Online in Toronto, ON
Sexual Abuse
Ps. I Love You Psychotherapy | M. Caracciolo Professional Corporation
Registered Psychotherapist, HBEd, MA (Hons.), Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), C-DBT
Sexual abuse treatment for survivors and Sex offender treatment is different than other types of therapy for adults. Treatment for people who have sexually abused a child is a serious and encouraging process. Typically, it focuses on learning specialized strategies for stopping abusive behavior, being accountable, and taking responsibility for harm done. For persons who experience sexual abuse treatment is based on a compassionate, trauma, and emotionally focused lens. I often use DBT in these cases as well.
3 Years Experience
In-Person in Toronto, ON M9B 6H8
Online in Toronto, ON
Sexual Abuse
New Moon Psychotherapy
Registered Psychotherapist, MA, MACP, MSW, RSW, RP, RP(Q)
One of the greatest challenges in healing from sexual abuse is opening up about it to others. Many survivors feel ashamed of what happened to them and feel that there is something they could have done to stop it. Others start to question if it even happened or if it was just some big misunderstanding. We know that's not how this works. What happened was done to you, the way you responded was the only option. You did exactly what you needed to do.
Sexual trauma can make us feel like we're broken - like there's something wrong with us or like we're permanently damaged. These thoughts are symptoms, not facts. We can help you see things differently - this part of your story does not define you.
Imagine a life in which you don't have to keep trying to please others, to struggle silently while trying to keep it all together on the outside, to feel like you can't trust or that you're out of control and to put others' needs consistently above your own.
Our goal is to help you regain power and control in your life and to release some of the heaviness that you've been carrying. We want you to begin seeing the world as a space in which trust and safety are not foreign concepts. A world in which you don't have to hide from your past or distract yourself to get through the day.
Helping people overcome their traumas is the work that makes us get out of bed in the mornings. We specialize in trauma related to sexual abuse including childhood sexual abuse, incest, rape, sexual assault, human trafficking, and sexual harassment both within and outside the workplace.
Please reach out - even if you don't quite believe things can get better - so that we can talk about how we might be able to help.
We offer 1:1, couples, family and group therapy focused specifically on healing from sexual abuse and will connect you with a therapist who specializes in the therapy that would be the best fit for how your symptoms of sexual abuse are manifesting. Evidence-based therapies for sexual trauma used at New Moon Psychotherapy include Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Prolonged Exposure (PE), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for PTSD (DBT-PTSD), Sensimotor Psychotherapy, Somatic Psychotherapy.
* * * If you decide not to go with our clinic, please ensure that your therapist is trained in EVIDENCE-BASED Psychotherapies for trauma - this will be the difference between months and years of therapy * * *
16 Years Experience
In-Person in Toronto, ON M5V 1X9
Online in Toronto, ON
Sexual Abuse
Samantha Williams-Lauder
Registered Social Worker, MSW,RSW
Sexual abuse can affect safety, trust, body image, relationships, intimacy, boundaries, and self-worth. Therapy can provide a trauma-informed space to process what happened at a pace that feels safe and manageable. The focus is on reducing shame, rebuilding agency, and supporting healing with care and choice.
1 Years Experience
In-Person in Toronto, ON
Online in Toronto, ON
Sexual Abuse
Mary Mikhail
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, BSW, MACP, RSW
Navigate the path to healing from sexual trauma with my specialized support. Through a compassionate and trauma-informed approach, we'll create a safe space for you to process your experiences at your own pace. Using evidence-based techniques, we'll address the impact of trauma on your well-being and empower you to reclaim control over your life. Together, we'll work towards restoring a sense of safety, trust, and resilience. Take the brave step towards healing today.
7 Years Experience
Online in Toronto, ON (Online Only)
Sexual Abuse
Grounded Minds Therapy
Registered Social Worker, MSW, RSW
You can heal from abuse, trauma and PTSD. You are important, and what you've experienced is important. Trauma can affect our lives in so many different ways. Survivors can lose hope, struggle with depression and crippling anxiety, find it difficult to work or maintain relationships, and may live in a constant state of fear. You may feel like you're completely alone and that no one understands what you've experienced. You might miss the "old you" or want things to go back to the way they were before- this is completely natural. If you're struggling to manage symptoms of trauma or PTSD, the therapists at Grounded Minds are here for you. We can help you process your experiences, learn coping tools to manage your symptoms and free yourself from the heaviness weighing you down. If you're ready to take the first step, please reach out to schedule a therapy session or free consultation call.
8 Years Experience
In-Person in Toronto, ON M5V 1M1
Online in Toronto, ON
Sexual Abuse
Transforming Emotions
Psychologist
Sadly, sexual abuse still too often hides in the shadows. Individuals of all genders and sexual orientations often feel compelled to hide their pain from places of shame, self-blame, or fear. Too often, survivors of sexual abuse have not been believed, or have been silenced for others' comfort or in the service of preserving the status quo. At Transforming Emotions, our trauma-informed therapists are ready to help support you through the painful work of healing and recovery at a pace that works for you. We start with a focus on personal safety and building trust with your therapist. Next steps include reducing feelings of shame and and fear, and proceeding to process any memories that haunt you while understanding that those truly responsible for sexual abuse are those who perpetrate it. We end with helping you integrate a new, calmer, more confident and grounded sense of self, helping you live more truly in the present rather than being tethered to the past. Reach out today to help us better understand your unique needs. We will share our recommendations for therapists who may be the best match for you, and we will provide access to a free 20 minute consultation with team members you may be interested in working with allowing you to tell us which team member feels like the right fit for you. Contact us today to take your next step towards healing.
19 Years Experience
Online in Toronto, ON (Online Only)
Sexual Abuse
Lisa Shouldice Pychotherapy Clinic
Registered Psychotherapist, MA, RP, CCP
We are trauma specialized. We treat flashbacks, panic attacks, hyper-vigilance, depressed feelings, anxiety and all other symptoms you may be experiencing due to a personal history of sexual abuse and/or incest.
22 Years Experience
Online in Toronto, ON (Online Only)
Sexual Abuse therapists in Toronto, ON Statistics
Sexual Abuse therapists in Toronto, ON average 12 years of experience and charge around $173 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The top treatment approaches are Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) (74%), Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) (70%), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) (65%).
Average years in practice
12 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$173
Accept insurance
80%
Offer sliding scale
68%
Gender ID
| 67% |
Female |
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| 26% |
Male |
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| 4% |
Non-Binary |
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| 3% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 58% |
In Person and Online |
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| 42% |
Online Only |
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Top Treatment Approaches
| 74% | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) |
| 70% | Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) |
| 65% | Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) |
| 60% | Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) |
| 53% | Narrative Therapy |
| 52% | Internal Family Systems (IFS) |
| 52% | Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) |
Ages Served
| 99% | Adult |
| 79% | Young Adult |
| 68% | Teen |
| 63% | Senior |
| 26% | Children |
Client Focus
| 79% | Women |
| 70% | Men |
| 69% | LGBTQ+ |
| 54% | Persons with Disabilities |
| 49% | Asian |