Located in one of Toronto's most vibrant and accessible neighbourhoods, our Yorkville office provides a calm and private space where clients can focus on their mental health and personal growth. Located on Bay Street, our clinic is easily accessible for individuals living or working in Yorkville, Downtown Toronto, Midtown Toronto, and surrounding areas.
A Space for Growth, Healing, and Connection
Our Yorkville location was created to provide clients with a comfortable environment where they can explore life's challenges, build resilience, and work toward meaningful change. Whether you're experiencing anxiety, burnout, relationship difficulties, low self-esteem, trauma, or major life transitions, our therapists are here to support you every step of the way.
Experienced Therapists with Specialized Areas of Focus
Our therapists bring decades of combined experience and specialized training across a variety of evidence-based therapeutic approaches. Each clinician has distinct areas of focus, years of clinical experience, and expertise working with different populations, allowing us to carefully match you with the therapist best suited to your needs.
Specialized Support
Our Yorkville location offers therapy for:
Individuals
Couples
Families
Emotional Intelligence & DBT Skills Training
The Yorkville clinic offers therapy designed to help clients strengthen relationships, improve emotional well-being, process difficult experiences, and develop healthier coping strategies. Our therapists use evidence-based approaches tailored to each client's unique needs and goals.
Most of us feel some level of anxiety and fear every so often. But when anxiety interferes with daily life, causing a range of symptoms like constant worries that are difficult to control, insomnia, fear of losing control or dying, shortness of breath, shaking, dizziness, digestive problems, and an overwhelming sense of panic – this prevents you from getting things done and enjoying life.
The emotional pain of depression can be no less than the physical pain. It can reveal itself in a variety of ways for different people. Physically, depression can manifest itself through extreme fatigue, lethargy, a loss of appetite or overeating/binge eating, lack of sleep, or oversleeping. Emotionally, depression can present itself as a feeling of utter pointlessness and hopelessness, low self-esteem, feelings of guilt and shame, and a deep sense of sadness among many others.
Anger is an important human emotion that requires expression as much as our other feelings like happiness and sadness. It is when anger turns violent and is difficult to control, affecting your relationships – it brings your attention to addressing it. When we learn to manage anger, it allows us to stand for ourselves, protect our personal boundaries and express our needs and feelings in an assertive and respectful way.
Stress is inevitable in our life. We deal with various factors in our environment like health problems, stressful work situations, balancing career and family, relationships, and financial strain. Even positive life events like getting married, or starting a new job can be stressful.
As a result, when under a significant amount of stress, we are more likely to experience higher levels of fear and anxiety, as well as a worsening of other mental and physical health problems.
OCD manifests itself in unwanted and disturbing thoughts, images, and urges or compulsions.
People with OCD are preoccupied with orderliness, perfectionism, and a need to be in control to the point that it is difficult to complete tasks.
By engaging in repetitive behaviors, you might be dealing with a great deal of anxiety, which is caused by deep and typically unconscious anxiety-related beliefs and emotions like different fears, shame, and guilt.
The loss of a loved one changes your life in every way and invites a range of emotions. One day you may feel shock and denial and the next day the extreme feelings of sadness, loneliness, and anxiety catch you when you are most vulnerable.
Many people experience trauma in their lifetime: neglect, emotional, physical, sexual abuse, or a sudden loss of a loved one. While vivid flashbacks might linger in the early days after trauma, at later stages for many people it becomes unconscious, causing daily struggle, affecting the mind, emotions, relationships, and health.
Have you ever felt not good enough, overly criticize yourself, felt inferior, compared yourself to others, practiced negative self-talk, or acted indecisively in minor and major decision making? Self-esteem issues may affect many areas of life: relationships, professional and personal growth, your mental or even physical health.
It is inevitable for us to experience change at various stages in our lives. Starting a new job, getting married or divorced and having children – these are the changes that many of us get to experience in a lifetime. Often, these changes and life transitions may be overwhelming since they intensify and surface our inner unresolved issues, fears and insecurities.
Raising children brings on a set of unique challenges at every stage in life. Aiming for the best for our children, we might end up battling with them over homework, bedtime, technology, chores, sibling relationships, or dealing with teenager’s common “traps” like backtalk and not taking responsibility. You are not alone!
Rebuild your partnership and strengthen your bond with your partner. When challenges, misunderstandings, mistakes, and changes in circumstances create a rift between you and your partner, couples counselling can help you navigate and find your way back to each other.
Our Registered Psychotherapists are dedicated to understanding your unique family dynamics and individual goals, ensuring a safe and compassionate space for every family member. Together, we will work to bridge the gaps, foster open communication, and help you make positive changes that strengthen your relationships and facilitate lasting connection and harmony.
Overcome insolation, build connections, and strengthen your relationship with yourself with guided group therapy services at Psychotherapy Essence. Explore skills, navigate challenges with people who have been in similar situations, and receive support from a Registered Psychotherapist near you.
Sex therapy provides a safe, inclusive, and non-judgmental space to explore concerns such as differences in sexual desire, difficulty with emotional or physical intimacy, sexual anxiety, painful sex, changes in sexual functioning, body image, communication, and rebuilding trust or connection after infidelity, trauma, or major life changes.
Highly recommend Larysa, my experience has been nothing but great!
A lot of work pressure in my workplace and home gives me a lot of stress. This has affected various aspects of my life, including disrupted sleep patterns and challenges in maintaining a healthy diet. While seeking help from a psychotherapist near me to overcome my stress, I found Psychotherapy Essence.
Larysa helped me tremendously navigate difficult times in my life. She is extremely knowledgeable and is great at relaying her wisdom to help with anything I needed to work on. I always end our sessions feeling confident and hopeful.
1235 Bay Street, Suite 703, Yorkville, ON, M5R 3K4
