Humanistic Therapists in Etobicoke, ON
Chantelle Vaz
Registered Psychotherapist
I offer a warm and collaborative space where you can explore your experiences with curiosity and care. My approach is rooted in empathy and authenticity, supporting you in understanding your story, building self-compassion, and creating meaningful change. I draw from narrative, attachment, and emotion-focused therapies to meet your unique needs.
Hareesma Amutha Venkatesan
Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)
My work is guided by authenticity, hope, and empowerment. I show up honestly and with care, meeting people as they are and exploring what feels true and meaningful for them. I believe change is always possible, and that people already carry the wisdom and strength they need to heal - my role is simply to help bring awareness to patterns and support choices that reflect who they truly are.
Aida Retta
Registered Psychotherapist
You’ve always been the one others count on—the thoughtful one, the steady one. But under the surface, you might feel anxious, resentful, or quietly overwhelmed. You say yes when you want to say no. You shrink your needs to keep the peace. You care deeply, but sometimes feel like you’re disappearing in the process. These patterns often begin in relationships where love felt conditional, conflict w…
Signy Fridriksson
Registered Psychotherapist
It takes a lot of courage to start a healing journey! I listen with empathy and respect as you explore the challenges that life has brought you. I am known to be warm, calm and non-judgmental. I provide a safe, reassuring environment, allowing you to grow in self-awareness, self-compassion and a sense of hope.
Feel Your Way Therapy
Registered Psychotherapist
Feel Your Way Therapy is a Toronto-based psychotherapy clinic offering individual, couples, child, and family therapy. Our diverse team of therapists provides support for anxiety, trauma, ADHD, depression, stress, and relationship issues, using evidence-based approaches in a compassionate and client-centered way.
Mala Dorai
Therapist Intern
I offer a collaborative, trauma-informed therapy space for adults, couples, and families navigating anxiety, burnout, trauma, neurodivergence (including ADHD/autism), grief, and life transitions. Grounded in neuroscience and cultural humility, my work integrates mind, body, and environment, with gentle structure, practical tools, and care for meaningful growth.
Rachelle Trudel, RP / PA, CCC - *Psychothérapeute bilingue*
Registered Psychotherapist / Psychothérapeute autorisée
Welcome! I support my clients in addressing the effects of their childhood wounds on their lives in order to improve their self-esteem and relationships. I use my knowledge in CBT, SFBT, attachment theory and mindfulness to support my clients in a collaborative, pragmatic, goal-oriented, compassionate and trauma-informed way. I look forward to meeting you!
Lisa O’Donovan
Registered Psychotherapist
I offer Psychodynamic, trauma-informed therapy for adults and couples in-person in Burlington and virtually. I support clients navigating complex trauma, relationship difficulties, addiction and recovery, family dysfunction, and life transitions helping to uncover and understand emotional and relational patterns, process experiences, build greater self-awareness in a safe, compassionate space.
Li Li
Registered Psychotherapist
Li offers relational psychoanalytic and trauma-informed somatic/EMDR/IFS/EFT therapy, to support individual, couples and families in communities such as immigrants, LGBTQ+, neurodivergent (ADHD), and professionals, whose experiences resonate with her own life journey the most. She holds a compassionate, culturally attuned space where clients can express freely and rediscover their authentic self.
Laura Atkinson
Registered Psychotherapist
I offer a warm, down-to-earth space to explore what’s really going on beneath the surface. I support adults navigating anxiety, overwhelm, self-doubt, and life transitions (like pregnancy and parenthood). Together, we’ll make sense of your emotions and help you feel more connected to yourself and those around you — one step at a time.
Alli Ewacha
Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)
Matthew Pitts
Registered Psychotherapist
I work with individuals and couples, focusing on areas like anxiety, relationship conflict, career stress, and recurring interpersonal patterns. My approach is collaborative, reflective, compassionate, and direct when helpful. Drawing from experience in family law, finance, marriage, and parenthood, I help clients navigate conflict, stress, and personal growth.
Carolyn Holmes
Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)
Offering affordable virtual sessions for infertility, ADHD, PMDD, grief/loss, stress, anxiety, and depression. Trained in DBT, CBT, humanistic/client led, solution focused, narrative therapy approaches. A warm, open counsellor to help with immediate availability.
Margot Hovey
Counselling Therapy
About me I’m embracing Eldership in my counselling practice: individuals, dyads, and families through transitions and challenges. During our conversation your life story, influences, and challenges emerge. We’ll collaborate on how to best shape the life you want to lead. Integral counselling weaves mind, body, and spirit into healing. I bring a deep appreciation of wholeness to our work.
Mehek Somani
Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)
Hi there! I'm Mehek. I'm glad you're here! I specialize in burnout, stress, people-pleasing, self-esteem and relationship issues, intergenerational trauma for POC and immigrant communities. Using an emotionally focused, attachment-based, IFS, DBT, trauma informed and culturally sensitive approaches, I offer online therapy across Ontario (Mon–Fri) and Walk & Talk sessions in Oakville on Saturdays.
River Page
Registered Psychotherapist
I offer a warm, non-judgmental space for individuals and relationships to explore life’s challenges and deepen self-understanding. My work supports those navigating religious or relational trauma, 2SLGBTQIA+ identities, non-monogamy, neurodivergence, gender and sexuality, suicide and self-harm, and environmental anxiety. All with compassion, curiosity, and care.
Jodi Evers
Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)
Providing person-centred, psychodynamic therapy for adults across a wide range of treatment goals. Using an integrative approach that considers the whole person, treatment is adapted to the individual and is deep, experiential, challenging, trauma informed and focused on the body, emotions, and patterns of behavior.
Annie Szalkai
Registered Psychotherapist
I work with adults from diverse backgrounds, supporting those navigating anxiety, stress, and self-esteem challenges. My approach is client-centred and integrative, drawing from CBT, ACT, EFIT, Solution-Focused Therapy, and more to meet each person’s unique needs.
Grace Gao
Registered Social Worker
Grace is passionate about creating accessible and culturally responsive mental health support, particularly for individuals who may feel hesitant to seek formal counseling services. As a bilingual professional fluent in English and Mandarin, she values creating a safe, supportive, and inclusive environment where clients feel heard and respected.
Joanna Czub
Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)
I support women who have spent years caring for everyone else and now feel exhausted, guilty, disconnected from themselves or unsure who they are beyond their responsibilities. My work focuses on childhood and relational trauma, shame, people-pleasing, difficult family relationships, grief and the struggle to establish boundaries without feeling selfish.
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Frequently Asked Questions About Humanistic
What is humanistic therapy?
Humanistic therapy is a family of approaches united by a belief in human dignity, the inherent drive toward growth and self-actualization, and the importance of the therapeutic relationship as the primary vehicle of change. Humanistic approaches include Person-Centred Therapy (Carl Rogers), Gestalt therapy, Existential therapy, and Emotion-Focused Therapy. They arose in the mid-20th century as a "third force" in psychology, distinct from the determinism of psychoanalysis and the mechanism of behaviourism.
What are the core principles of humanistic therapy?
Core humanistic principles include unconditional positive regard (accepting the client as a whole person without judgment), empathic understanding (deeply grasping the client's subjective experience), congruence (authenticity in the therapist), belief in the client's capacity for self-direction and growth, a focus on present experience rather than past history alone, and the view that a genuine therapeutic relationship is itself healing — not merely a vehicle for delivering techniques.
What does humanistic therapy help with?
Humanistic therapy is effective for depression, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, identity questions, relationship difficulties, personal growth, existential concerns (meaning, purpose), and life transitions. Because humanistic approaches prioritize the therapeutic relationship above specific techniques, they are broadly applicable and particularly valuable for people who want to feel genuinely seen and understood rather than treated as a collection of symptoms or problems to be solved.
How is Person-Centred Therapy different from other humanistic approaches?
Person-Centred Therapy (PCT), developed by Carl Rogers, is the most non-directive humanistic approach — the therapist follows the client's lead, reflects their experience, and trusts the client's own inner wisdom about their direction and pace. Gestalt therapy uses more active techniques (experiments, empty chair). Existential therapy engages with philosophical questions about existence. Emotion-Focused Therapy structures the work around emotional processing. All share humanistic values but differ in how active and directive the therapist is.
Is humanistic therapy evidence-based?
Humanistic therapy has a substantial evidence base, though it is often less discussed than CBT. Carl Rogers conducted some of the earliest empirical research on psychotherapy outcomes. Meta-analyses consistently show humanistic and experiential therapies to be as effective as other approaches for depression, anxiety, and many other conditions, with particularly strong effects for conditions involving self-concept, interpersonal difficulties, and personal growth. The core conditions Rogers identified — empathy, positive regard, congruence — are among the strongest predictors of therapy outcome across all approaches.