Roja Vivekanand

I support your readiness in taking this move by accepting that something needs to change when your regular coping strategies are no longer working. I commend your willingness and courage to explore possibilities to improve your mental wellness and personal growth. As an integrative Registered Psychotherapist, I am trained in providing individual therapy for adults and couples from diverse backgrounds. I work with client issues like anxiety, depression, trauma, interpersonal difficulties, loss and grief, emotional dysregulation, workplace stress, and low self-esteem. I have an innate passion for assisting individuals that are experiencing difficulties with comprehending thoughts, drives, and emotions. I have valuable experience in enhancing your ability to acquire more positive and productive ways of dealing with life by cultivating new insights, skills, and behaviours. I have a great interest in working collaboratively with positive regard. We will work together during our first session to develop a shared understanding of your struggles, concerns, and presenting issues. Your current challenges could be the result of past experiences. The main aim of the therapy is to uncover and establish a meaningful therapeutic relationship. Exploring this helps us to develop therapeutic goals and needs collaboratively. I provide continuous positive regard in a safe, empathetic, compassionate, and non-judgemental space. I firmly believe that every client is unique and requires an individual approach in dealing with their problems and issues. Therefore, I practice from a biopsychosocial perspective and employ an integrative therapeutic approach using diverse modalities, including client-centred, attachment-based, and Adlerian therapy. In addition, I incorporate interventions that mainly include empirically validated cognitive-behavioural, dialectical behavioural, trauma-informed, and mindfulness-based therapies to build self-awareness and manage interpersonal problems. In my nineteen years of experience, I wore many hats in psychology, both in organizational, education, community, and private practice settings. I completed a Masters program in Industrial and Organizational Psychology. With transforming times, as a lifelong learner, I am currently pursuing another Masters in Clinical Psychology at the ADLER Graduate Professional School in Toronto. I am a practising Registered Psychotherapist and a member of the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO). I am also a member of the Ontario Association of Mental Health Professionals (OAMHP) and North American Society of Adlerian Psychology (NASAP) and I have presented at their international conferences.