Individual Therapy
Virtual
Session Duration
Availability
What Individual Therapy Actually Involves
A lot of people come in not entirely sure what therapy is supposed to look like. Here's what it looks like here.
Sessions are 50 minutes. You and Genevieve, virtually, through a secure platform. No clipboard, no intake questionnaire to fill out in the waiting room. The first session is mostly her listening, asking questions, and starting to build a picture of where you are and where you want to go.
From there, sessions are shaped by what you're working on. Some people come in with a specific goal. Others come in knowing something is wrong but not quite what. Both are fine starting points.
Therapy with Genevieve is direct. She will tell you what she's noticing. She'll name things. She'll also follow your lead on pace and depth.
Who Individual Therapy Is For
Genevieve works with adults and teens (16 and up) across Ontario. The people she tends to work with are navigating things like:
- Trauma, including intimate partner violence, childhood relational trauma, and abuse
- Anxiety and depression, especially the kind that's been present long enough to feel normal
- BPD traits, emotional dysregulation, and ADHD tendencies
- Patterns in relationships that keep not working, regardless of who the other person is
- Addiction and substance use
- Accountability work for people who've caused harm and want to change
- Life transitions that have left you unsure of who you are or what you want
Genevieve's practice is explicitly queer-affirming and neurodivergent-friendly. She works with 2SLGBTQ+ individuals, sex workers, and people who've been failed by more clinical or corporate-feeling therapy before. If the list of who you are has ever made you wonder whether therapy was really for you, it probably is here.
The Modalities Genevieve Draws From
Genevieve doesn't use one fixed approach for everyone. She draws from four evidence-based frameworks and combines them based on what you're actually working on.
DBT (Dialectical Behaviour Therapy) DBT gives you concrete skills for managing intense emotions and tolerating distress without making things worse. It's particularly useful when you're in crisis cycles, when your reactions feel out of proportion to situations, or when you need something practical to hold onto between sessions. Skills like distress tolerance, opposite action, and TIPP aren't concepts to think about. They're tools to use in the moment.
ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) ACT stops trying to eliminate difficult thoughts and feelings and starts asking a different question: what kind of life do you actually want, and what's getting in the way of living it? Values clarification is central. You figure out what matters to you, not what should matter. Then you build toward it. ACT is especially useful for people who've spent years managing symptoms and are ready to do something more than manage.
Narrative Therapy Narrative therapy works on the story you carry about yourself. Most people in distress have an internalized story that was written for them, often by trauma, by the people who hurt them, or by years of being told who they are. Narrative therapy separates you from that story. You're not broken. You're a person dealing with a problem. Those are different things.
Attachment-Based Therapy Attachment theory explains how the relationships you had early in life shaped the strategies you use in relationships now, including strategies that worked then and cause problems now. Anxious attachment, avoidant attachment, and disorganized attachment patterns show up in how you respond to conflict, intimacy, abandonment, and connection. Understanding yours is usually the beginning of actually changing it.
Outcomes People Work Toward
Individual therapy isn't a fix. It's a process. But there are concrete things people tend to leave with more of than they came in with:
- The ability to recognize emotional patterns before they're already in motion
- A clearer sense of what they value and what decisions to make from that
- Skills for managing distress that don't involve substances, avoidance, or hurting themselves or others
- A different relationship with their own history, one that informs rather than controls
- Healthier ways of showing up in relationships, including knowing when to leave one
Fees and Scheduling
Sessions are $120 for 50 minutes.
Genevieve offers evening availability so therapy doesn't require rearranging your whole day. All sessions are virtual, Ontario-wide.
Private extended health insurance often covers psychotherapy services provided by a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying). Coverage varies by plan. Contact your insurer directly to confirm yours.
If cost is a barrier, bring it up. Genevieve is open to that conversation.
A free 15-minute consultation is available to see whether it's a good fit before you commit to anything.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Research consistently shows online therapy produces equivalent outcomes to in-person for anxiety, depression, trauma, and most other concerns. The therapeutic relationship is what matters most, and that exists online.
Mostly listening. Genevieve will ask questions about what's brought you in, what you've tried before, and what you're hoping for. It's collaborative and unhurried. No intake questionnaires to fill out in the waiting room.
That's what the free consultation is for. No commitment. Just a conversation to see if it feels like a fit.
Ready to Start?
You don't have to have everything figured out before you reach out. You just have to be willing to try.
Genevieve offers a free 15-minute virtual consultation for anyone considering individual therapy. Ontario-wide, fully virtual, no strings.
