Toronto • Online across Ontario and Alberta
For adults and students navigating anxiety, academic pressure, big decisions, and uncertainty — even when life looks fine from the outside.
The work
Anxiety can look like overthinking, self-doubt, academic pressure, fear of making the wrong decision, difficulty relaxing, or feeling constantly responsible for keeping everything under control. It can also show up in the body through panic symptoms, rapid breathing, muscle tension, stomach discomfort, trouble sleeping, or difficulty focusing. Therapy can help you feel less ruled by anxiety, make decisions with more clarity, and find steadier ways to handle stress, uncertainty, and everyday pressure.
01 / GROUND
We begin by slowing things down and understanding what anxiety has been trying to manage. We look at your current stress, body responses, thought patterns, and the bigger context of your life, so the work feels steady and grounded.
02 / CHANGE
Explore overthinking, self-doubt, avoidance, perfectionism, reassurance-seeking, and relationship patterns that feel hard to shift. Alongside deeper understanding, we build practical tools for self-regulation, boundaries, and distress tolerance.
03 / GROW
As therapy progresses, the focus shifts toward making decisions with more clarity, handling uncertainty with more steadiness, and building a life that feels more aligned with your values, needs, and sense of self.
Support for worry, rumination, panic symptoms, perfectionism, and the exhausting feeling of always scanning for what could go wrong.
For students navigating pressure, comparison, fear of failure, applications, exams, program decisions, and uncertainty about the future.
Work on second-guessing yourself, feeling “not enough,” over-explaining, seeking reassurance, and struggling to trust your own decisions.
Support for anxiety that starts to limit daily life, including panic symptoms, avoidance, difficulty leaving home, or feeling overwhelmed by ordinary tasks.
Explore people-pleasing, fear of disappointing others, conflict avoidance, emotional responsibility, and patterns that make relationships feel tense or exhausting.
For times when decisions feel heavy: school, career, relocation, family pressure, world events, identity shifts, or not knowing what direction to take next.
Therapist
Anastasia is a compassionate psychotherapist with over 8 years of experience helping clients navigate anxiety, trauma, and stress through an integrative, evidence-based approach.
Meet AnastasiaCommon questions
Yes. Sessions take place by secure video, so you can join from anywhere in Ontario or Alberta. Most people connect from home, but you are welcome to choose any private space where you feel comfortable and able to speak freely.
This is a brief conversation that gives us a chance to get to know each other. You can share what is bringing you to therapy, what feels important to you right now, and ask questions. It gives you an opportunity to get a sense of how it feels to talk with me and whether working together feels like a good fit. I can also help determine whether your concerns fall within my areas of practice and whether working together would be the right next step.
You are welcome to book a full session without a consultation call if that feels like a better option for you. Some people find it difficult to get a sense of a therapist during a brief phone conversation and prefer to meet for a full session instead. This gives us more time to explore what brings you to therapy, discuss your goals, and begin developing a shared understanding of what would be most helpful. Many people leave the first session with greater clarity and relief from being able to talk things through.
My standard fee is $170 per session. Services provided by a Registered Psychotherapist are covered by most extended health benefit plans in Canada. Coverage varies depending on your plan, so I recommend checking with your insurance provider directly. Receipts are provided after each session for reimbursement purposes.
Psychotherapy services are not covered by OHIP. However, they are covered by most extended health benefit plans.
You can start with a free 20-minute consultation or book a full session — whichever feels more comfortable for you. Appointments can be booked online through Jane, the secure booking and scheduling platform used for the practice.
Ready when you are
A free 20-minute consultation is a simple way to talk about what has been difficult, what you are hoping to change, and whether my approach feels like a good fit. You do not need to know exactly what to say. We can start by making sense of what has been feeling heavy, confusing, or hard to carry on your own.
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