Psychotherapy

Our professionally trained therapist can assist you in dealing with a range of issues including:
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• managing and reducing stress, anxiety and burnout
• juggling work and family life
• returning to work after baby or children
• parenting and the transition to parenthood (including: feeling triggered by your child(ren), postpartum challenges, sibling rivalry, behavioural challenges)
• relationship challenges (including: communication struggles, resentment around the invisible/mental load, disconnection and lack of intimacy)
• compassion fatigue (vicarious/secondary trauma and burnout)
• grief and loss (including perinatal and infant loss, job loss or ending of an relationship or friendship)
• emotional regulation and co-regulation
• navigating life and work as a highly sensitive person
• family of origin issues
• perfectionism, self-criticism, low self-esteem

While everyone responds differently to therapy and has varied capacity and resources that may support or hinder progress, some of the ways therapy can help include:

• strengthening your connection to your authentic self and honouring your needs
• deepening your understanding of your unique nervous system
• increasing your courage and confidence to speak your truth and set and hold boundaries
• learning to focus on what you can control and embracing uncertainty
• challenging unfair societal expectations and letting go of unhelpful mother guilt
• healing old wounds and grieving recent losses
• reframing unhelpful thinking and internalized negative beliefs
• learning healthy ways to cope and express anger
• replacing self-criticism and unrealistic expectations with self-compassion and acceptance
• protecting your time and energy
• sharing the load and cultivating healthy, equal relationships
• providing healthy co-regulation, emotion coaching and repairs to your child(ren)
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See below for fees. Learn more about Nicole, one of our professionally trained therapist here:

Mental Health is health and your health matters. Emotional struggles can affect the quality of your life and relationships and may manifest in physical complaints.  While there’s a lot of mental health information out there, it doesn’t take into account your unique needs and circumstances. Healing happens in connection. You deserve a safe space just for you.You do not need a diagnosis or doctor’s referral to receive support and many group insurance plans cover Registered Psychotherapy.  Sessions are available on Mondays. Our professionally trained therapist can assist you in dealing with a range of issues including:

Perinatal Mental Health, Perinatal Grief and Loss, and Reproductive and Birth Trauma

Therapeutic Process:

‍Therapy is a collaborative process, where the client seeks to improve their wellbeing and/or functioning with the assistance of a licensed mental health professional. The licensed professional utilizes their education and experience; however, the ultimate responsibility for improved functioning and wellbeing rests with the client(s). In addition, wellbeing and functioning are products of a wide-range of factors that may be outside the influence of therapy. For these reasons, the outcomes of therapy cannot be completely guaranteed. You and your therapist will work together to explore and understand the major issues you are experiencing and they will assist you in developing solutions and changes. You will talk about the kind of change you may experience, estimates of how much time it may take to achieve goals, and any limitations of therapy. Because therapy involves change, it is important to know that there are times where you may experience some increase in distress and/or uncertainty. One of the goals of therapy is to support you through this process. Alongside the therapists approach, they place high value on the relationship you will co-create in this space. Your therapist is committed to authenticity and transparency, and strive to be a supportive and nurturing environment in which you feel comfortable to explore your thoughts and feelings, even those that may be painful or distressing. Your therapist welcomes any questions regarding their particular therapeutic approach and treatment plan.

‍Services Offered:
Sydney works primarily with women in the perinatal stages of life (family building, navigating infertility or grief/loss, pregnancy, birth, and postpartum), though she believes perinatal and parenting concerns can arise at any stage of life, and welcome clients who feel she would be a good fit. While Sydeny's focus is individual therapy, at times in the best interest of her client, we may include partners, family members, or supportive friends. Sydeny is also open to collaborating with other healthcare providers with the informed consent of her clients. The focus of her services vary, though tend to focus mostly on perinatal mood disorders, trauma (past or present), reparenting, and navigating the stressful and challenging experiences and relationships surrounding the perinatal period. 

Services Exclusions:
Sydney does not provide assessment or diagnostic services, and does not provide services to people actively experiencing active/acute episodes of psychiatric illness or in acute crisis. In such circumstances she may be able to make a referral to another appropriate resource.

See below for fees. Learn more about Sydney, one of our professionally trained therapist here: