Individual Therapy in Kitchener/Waterloo, Ontario

Learn How to Be Better In Relationships

Are your relationships stressful? Either at home or at work? With friends or in dating? Regardless of type, there’s a common thread running through all relationships. In individual therapy, you can learn to see this thread, make positive changes, understand what makes other people tick, and connect more deeply with others.

Relationships Can Be Painful

Your life is largely defined by your relationships.

Whether it’s with a manager or coworker, parent or child, new love or old flame. So when relationships are painful, they can affect your entire being.

Many people experience:

❌ Challenges feeling liked or wanted

❌ A pattern of broken-down relationships

❌ Struggles to form healthy bonds that last

❌Frequent problems with friends or at work

❌Feeling irritable around others with no good explanation

❌A sense that you’re “different” from others in some fundamental way

❌A challenging relationship with oneself (lack of self-love and self-compassion)

In therapy-speak, these are symptoms of “interpersonal difficulties.”

For those who are struggling to feel good in everyday relationships, please reach out. I’d love to support you in understanding why that might be.

Then, we can work together (at a pace you’re comfortable with) to change these patterns of behaviour for good.

Amazing Benefits of Individual Therapy on Everyday Relationships

So, you want to learn how to be better in relationships. What else can you expect from therapy for interpersonal difficulties?

✅ Help forming bonds that last and grow over time

✅ Learning to love and appreciate yourself as a default way of thinking

✅ Feeling liked and wanted by others (plus increasing your self-esteem)

✅ Resolving and preventing problems with coworkers, managers, and others

✅ Understanding how your past experiences affect your present relationships

✅ An end to feeling irritable around others and a start of feeling more deeply connected

These are all benefits we’ve helped past clients achieve. If you want to stop having so much conflict and start being better in relationships, click the button below.

Relationships Checklist

Let’s get more detailed. What types of relationships can I help you with?

Work Relationships

You can feel more at ease with coworkers, your manager, your employees (if applicable), and your role at your organization. End interpersonal conflicts, learn how to communicate assertively, and adopt healthy boundaries at work.

Parents and Family

They say nobody loves you like your family. It’s also true that nobody gets on your nerves like them, too. Come to individual therapy for support in asking for your needs to be met, communicating boundaries, and addressing long-standing family issues.

Your Children

You love them to death but they also drive you crazy. Whether your children are toddlers or full adults, therapy can help. Redraw healthy boundary lines with your children around money, how you will and won’t engage with them, and other issues important to your relationship with them.

Your Partner

If you’re having trouble with your partner, consider couples counseling. However, if you want to work on your side of the relationship, individual therapy is here for you. Get insights into your own upbringing, communication style, love language and more.

Relationship with Yourself

All your other relationships start with your relationship to yourself. You’ve heard this cliche before, and it’s a cliche for good reason. It’s true. By working on how you relate to and feel about yourself, all your other relationships will improve. How will more self-love, self-compassion, and self-respect help you?

This list is not limited to these relationships. If you have a relationship in mind that doesn’t fall into a neat category, please contact us using this button. I’d love to help you find relational peace.

How Individual Therapy Works

Entering therapy with me is very easy. Here’s the process:

ONE

Click the button below to send me a secure email. I’ll reply with options to schedule your free consultation. This is where we can get to know each other without making a full-session commitment.

TWO

We’ll meet together via phone call. This is your chance to blow off a little steam and tell me whatever you’re comfortable with. Assuming we’re a good therapeutic fit, we’ll move on to step three.

THREE

You’ll meet me in-person or online (telehealth) for your first session. Then, you’ll continue meeting me every week and start untangling your relationship issues.

That’s it! So start learning today how to be better in relationships. With a simple weekly meeting, you can achieve peace in relationships and comfort in mind. Schedule now.

Quick Note About Insurance & Online Therapy

Here are a few housekeeping notes:

We are covered by most insurance.

We use Owl Practice, a secure and confidential telehealth platform, for online therapy.

If you have any questions, please email us at [email protected].

Modalities We Use in Therapy

We can employ the following types of therapy during our time together.

✅ Schema Therapy

✅ Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)

✅ Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

The approach will be tailored to you, your struggles, and whatever intuition pushes me towards. Rest assured that we can help you with all issues regarding relationships.

Meet Our Ontario Therapist Giselle

Hi, I’m Giselle Young, mental health therapist in Ontario helping adults and teens.

My clients are often struggling with sharing themselves with others. They may have no one who knows their full story or what makes them feel vulnerable. And by the same token, they may not have someone to share their hopes and dreams with.

Many of my current and past clients battle anxiety, depression, trauma, and self-esteem challenges. So it can be hard to function to the best of their ability until we start to address these challenges.

It can be hard to feel safe enough to open up to those who know us. I know what that’s like as someone who’s struggled with anxiety and OCD her entire life. My flare ups would happen right when I most needed to stay calm and centered - graduating high school and university, building deeply connected relationships, and advocating for myself at work.

So if any of these are your current challenge, I know where you are, and I can help you get through it. I also relate to teens who feel anxious at school, overwhelmed with homework and afterschool activities, or who just need someone to listen to them talk.

Meet Our Ontario Therapist Polina

Hi, I’m Polina Fedotenko, a registered psychotherapist in Ontario, Canada.

Today, I consider myself to be thriving. I’m a successful business owner, an attentive mother to my children, and a supportive wife for my husband. But it wasn’t always this way.

To get to where I am today, I’ve traveled a long way (both literally and figuratively). For example, I’ve immigrated not once, but twice.

The first time was when I was only fifteen. I left Russia to go to Israel, all without my parents. I didn’t know the language, tradition, or any of my peers in boarding school. Everything felt foreign and overwhelming. I struggled to find my path, and at times it seemed dark.

My second immigration came when I was twenty-one and a newlywed coming to Canada. My dreams were big but my pockets were empty. The struggles were different from my first migration, but just as hard. I still didn’t feel like I fit in (despite knowing the language this time). I doubted my abilities when things didn’t come easily, and I often felt that I wasn’t “enough”.

Eventually, I was tired of feeling lost, so I began reaching out for help. I started to make friends and finally began to feel like I fit in. By sharing my feelings with others, I no longer felt scared and alone. Eventually, I discovered my own path. I learned to listen to myself, use my strengths, and act with confidence.

Today I’m past the hard part. And as someone who has walked the walk, I will be there with you every step of the way. When you reach out, I will guide you on the path toward self-confidence, inner peace, and ease in your relationships.

In time, you’ll come to understand your own path. And I’ll be there to support and guide you every step of the way.

What to Expect in Individual Therapy for Relationships

When you take the brave step of starting individual therapy, you can expect a few things:

Feeling supported, heard, and valued. As a relationship expert, I’m able to guide you from major relationship pain, to feeling confident, relaxed, and worthy. And that’s true whether the relationship is with a family member, friend, coworker, manager, or a new date.

You’ll join me in-person or virtually, whichever fits your schedule better. I keep your comfort in mind at all times, and I aim to help you reach your own comfort in mind. So know that progress is possible. Relationship pain doesn’t have to be a constant in your life.

I know how hard it is to begin counseling. That’s why I start every client with a free 15-minute phone consultation. To get your free consultation, email me and tell me a little about yourself and how I might help.

Getting Started is Easy

How to Start Individual Therapy in Ontario

1.

Click the button below to send me a secure email. I’ll reply with options to schedule your free consultation, where we’ll get to know each other a bit and see about working together.

2.

We’ll meet over the phone. This is your chance to blow off a little steam and tell me whatever you’re comfortable with. Assuming we’re a good therapeutic fit, we’ll move on to step three.

3.

You’ll meet me in person or online (telehealth) for your first session. Then, you’ll continue meeting me every week and start untangling your struggles and building the life you desire.