Individual Therapy
Available Virtually Throughout Ontario
Individual therapy is a one-to-one space to explore what you’re experiencing and what might support change now.
This work is shaped around you—your history, your nervous system, and what feels possible at this point in your life.
Many people come to therapy not because something is “wrong,” but because stress, anxiety, or old patterns are taking up more space than they want.
Why is everything so much harder than it should be?
You’re trying to keep up with everything.
To stay on top of things.
To be patient.
To handle it the way you’re supposed to.
But underneath that, it’s taking more effort than it used to.
Your mind doesn’t really shut off.
You go over things again and again.
Conversations. Decisions. What you said. What you should have said.
Trying to figure it out.
Trying to get it right.
But it just keeps looping.
And over time, it can start to show up in different ways.
This might be showing up as:
✔ Feeling anxious, on edge, or like your mind won’t slow down
thinking about things over and over, or having a hard time relaxing
✔ Feeling low, flat, or disconnected from yourself
like you’re going through the motions but not really in it
✔ Carrying stress that doesn’t seem to go away
like your system is always “on,” even when you try to rest
✔ Getting stuck in patterns in relationships
pulling away, overthinking, people-pleasing, or reacting in ways that don’t feel like you
✔ Going through something that’s shifted you
a loss, a change, or a period where things just feel different
✔ Feeling overwhelmed or misunderstood in how you process things
especially if you’re neurodivergent, or suspect you might be
What individual therapy can feel like
Individual therapy isn’t just about talking things through.
A lot of what we do is come back to patterns.
We look at how your system learned to respond over time.
What did it have to do to cope, adapt, or get through things?
And how that might still be showing up now,
even when it’s not really helping anymore.
Sessions are free of judgment.
You’re not being analyzed, and I’m not sitting there agreeing with everything you say either.
I’ll reflect things back.
Ask questions.
Help you notice what’s happening underneath the surface.
Sometimes sessions are about venting.
But usually, that’s not where the real shift happens.
The work is in slowing things down.
Making sense of what’s going on.
And starting to see things in a way that actually gives you more choice.
It can feel like taking a tangled knot of yarn out of your head…
and slowly starting to roll it into something more organized and manageable.
You don’t have to have it figured out before you start.
That’s what the space is for.
How I approach this work
I don’t follow one set approach in a rigid way.
A lot of how I work comes from spending years around animals.
I’ve been raising goats for over 10 years, and one thing that becomes very clear is:
you can’t force change.
You have to be patient.
Pay attention to what’s actually happening.
And stay flexible enough to respond to what’s in front of you.
That carries into therapy.
Rather than trying to push things in a certain direction,
we work with what’s already there and figure out what will actually help.
I draw from different approaches depending on what’s needed in the moment.
This may include:
✓ Trauma-informed work grounded in nervous system awareness
✓ EMDR for processing unresolved or distressing experiences
✓ IFS-informed work to understand patterns and protective parts
✓ Emotion-focused approaches
✓ Cognitive and behavioural strategies
We move at a pace that makes sense.
Nothing is pushed or introduced without your understanding.
Ready for the next step?
If you’re interested in individual therapy, the next step is to book a consultation. Consultations happen over the phone and offer space to ask questions and get a sense of how I work.
We’ll take things at a pace that feels manageable.
Want to learn more before taking the next step?
Finding the right therapist is about fit. You can learn more about who I am, how I work, and the values behind Wandering Willow Psychotherapy before deciding on next steps.
There’s no pressure to decide right away.