Find Psychotherapy Near Me – In-Person & Online

Suzanna Derewicz. Are you searching for psychotherapy near me?
Welcome to my practice. My aim is to provide you with a trusting relationship that supports you in making desired changes and finding healing. I take a compassionate, curious, and nonjudgmental approach to the life story of everyone who enters my office. I am person centred, humanistic, and eclectic as a therapist, integrating depth based and behavioural modalities into my work. I offer local psychotherapy services in Toronto if you are looking to find a psychotherapist central to the city, as well as sliding scale psychotherapy online across Ontario and other Canadian provinces.

I’m interested in scaffolding you when taking command of your life feels vulnerable or difficult, helping you to process and put meaning to your experiences, understand yourself, improve your relationship to self and others, support you with the handling of emotions, and helping you move towards relief from suffering.

Sometimes, this may mean teaching you skills or offering you strategies for engagement when faced with challenging situations, inviting you to stay open and willing to encounter the effort that change may demand. At other times, this may mean encouraging you to sit with your feelings, inquire into your experience, explore on a deeper level what may be stalling or stopping you from feeling better, and map out the through lines connecting past and present to work through what may be at the root of a long-lasting struggle.

Modalities I use most commonly in my practice include long term psychodynamic therapy, short term psychodynamic therapy, DBT therapy (informed approach), Attachment Focused Therapy, and IFS Integrated Psychotherapy, or IFS Parts Work. I may also integrate intersubjective, polyvagal, CBT informed and narrative therapy techniques.

Clients may come to me for support with self-esteem, identity and self concept, relationship challenges, relational trauma, nervous system regulation, life transitions, LGBTQ+ issues, issues related to neurodivergence, personality disturbances, shame, and grief.

I work in person if you’re looking for psychotherapy in Toronto. I’m also an online therapist and reserve a small number of spaces in my private practice for those who require low-cost psychotherapy options.

If you find yourself struggling, stuck, or overwhelmed, and asking yourself ‘how do I find psychotherapy near me?”, please feel welcome to reach out to me via my contact form for a free 20-minute consultation. I aim to get back to inquiries by e-mail within 24 business hours so that we can begin exploring whether my approach would be a good fit for you.

Psychotherapy Services

Long Term Psychodynamic Therapy

Long Term Psychodynamic Therapy: Hand holding

Long term psychodynamic therapy seeks to illuminate why we may think, feel, and act the way we do, providing insight dormant underneath to the surface of our awareness so that we can reflect on it and learn from it. We may discuss our pasts, explore wishes and longings, identify reoccurring themes and patterns, and explore ways we may resist or avoid certain aspects of life.

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Short Term Psychodynamic Therapy

Short Term Psychodynamic Therapy

Short term psychodynamic therapy focuses on one core issue for a limited period in the interest of arriving at information into its root cause, how it’s been informed by early life experiences, exploring how this issue emerges and reoccurs in the client’s life knowingly and unknowingly, while looking at things through a lens focused on emotions and interpersonal relations.

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DBT Therapy (Informed approach)

DBT Therapy

DBT therapy focuses on building mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness skills. It is action oriented, balancing acceptance for what we may not be able to change, while efficiently exploring aspects of life we do have agency over.

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Attachment Focused Therapy

Attachment Focused Therapy

Attachment focused therapy explores our relational patterns; of security and insecurity, preoccupation and avoidance, and strategies we engage in to meet our needs in relationships, even when they cause us dissatisfaction. It seeks to shift unhelpful tendencies in relationship.

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IFS Therapy (Informed approach)

IFS therapy

Internal family systems therapy suggests there are many, sometimes opposing parts of us that exist at once, both vulnerable and protective, but that these parts can find harmony, integration, and release from extremes when lead by the values and energy of our core self. It aims to create a dialogue between clients’ parts and their self, with the therapist serving as support and guide.

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