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Dedicated to Excellence in Personalized Care

We are committed to providing the highest quality of care to clients residing in Toronto and across Ontario. We treat each client as an individual with specific needs and qualities. Our approach to psychotherapy is unique and takes into account various biological, sociocultural, and psychological factors to form a dynamic assessment of our clients’ needs. This helps facilitate our informed approach to treatment, allowing us to better understand the individual and what they bring to therapy.

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Fees

15-minute Initial Phone Consultation

Free

50-minute Individual Therapy Session

$130 - $165

75-minute Couples Therapy Session

$210 - $250

Affirming Therapy for Gay Men

While many therapists are "LGBTQ2IA+ friendly," there is a profound difference between being accepted and being truly understood. At Mantra Psychotherapy, we don’t just offer a seat at the table; we offer a space designed specifically for the lives, hearts, and minds of gay men. We understand that your identity isn’t just a bullet point on an intake form—it is the lens through which you experience the world. Many of our therapists offer lived experience as well as specific training in identity-affirming treatments.

Emotion Regulation

Emotion regulation plays a crucial role in helping individuals navigate and manage their emotional experiences. Emotion regulation involves developing awareness and skills to understand, accept, and effectively cope with our emotions. We work collaboratively with clients to explore the underlying causes of emotional distress, identify patterns of emotional reactions, and implement strategies to manage intense feelings. Through skills-building, we aim to empower individuals to respond to life's challenges in a more adaptive way.

Neurodivergence

Recognizing and embracing neurodivergence is crucial for creating an inclusive and effective therapeutic atmosphere. Mantra Psychotherapy acknowledges and appreciates the inherent diversity in cognitive functioning and neurological processes among individuals. We are also educated and informed on various neurological profiles, such as those associated with conditions like autism-spectrum disorder, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), dyslexia, and others that contribute to the intricate mosaic of human experiences.

Trauma

It is an unfortunate reality that many individuals experience some form of trauma in their lives. Trauma can lead to depression, anxiety, somatic disturbances, and interpersonal issues. We will support you to understand your symptoms and formulate a unique treatment plan that fits your needs. This may take the form of in-session processing of traumatic experiences, self-care plan formulation, and/or psychoeducation around trauma and its effects. In any case, we will work with you to decide which course of treatment is best suited to your needs.

Self-Esteem

Self-esteem problems are experienced by many of us. At Mantra Clinic, we take a compassionate and connection-focused approach that aims to help individuals feel accepted, understood and heard. We may also support you by assisting you with a behavioural plan to create new habits in your life and by addressing and modifying negative patterns of thinking. Regardless of the therapist's approach, they will guide you through techniques, interventions, and tools that will support you on your journey of building your self-esteem with us.

Anxiety

Anxiety has become more prevalent in recent years. Whether your anxiety presents as general worry, social aversion, panic, or otherwise, we are equipped and ready to support you. For individuals who have issues with anxiety, we may support you by helping them address distorted ways of thinking, providing them with skills to help them cope, and providing you with educational material that may help them better understand your symptoms. We will also work with you to help you regain a sense of control and management of your symptoms.

LGBTQ2IA-Specific Issues

We understand that many issues that individuals who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, asexual, 2-spirit, and intersex require a certain understanding of the cultural, socioeconomic, and identity factors that are relevant in therapy. Mantra Psychotherapy is prepared to provide LGBTQ2IA folks with the type of treatment they may require and deserve. We may support you with issues like identity discovery, self-compassion, the effects of marginalization, and navigating LGBTQ2IA+ relationships.

List of Therapeutic Approaches

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is an action-oriented form of psychotherapy that helps you stop fighting your inner experiences and start living a life guided by what truly matters to you. Our ACT therapists in Toronto don’t believe the goal of therapy is to delete "bad" thoughts or feelings. Instead, ACT focuses on changing your relationship with them so they no longer run your life.

Couples Therapy

Couples therapy offers a dedicated, supportive, and neutral space to navigate the inevitable challenges that arise in any long-term partnership. It’s not about finding fault or deciding who is "right"; it’s about understanding the underlying patterns that cause disconnection and conflict. Our goal is to help you and your partner move past destructive cycles and establish healthier, more compassionate ways of interacting.

Mindfulness-Based Therapy

Mindfulness-based therapy is a clinically supported approach to psychotherapy that trains your attention toward the present moment — helping you observe your thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations with clarity and without judgment. Rather than being swept away by worry about the future or rumination about the past, mindfulness gives you a way to step back, create space, and respond to your experience rather than react to it. At Mantra Psychotherapy, we integrate mindfulness-based approaches into virtual therapy for individuals across Toronto, the GTA, and Ontario as part of a comprehensive, evidence-informed approach to mental health care.

Gestalt Therapy

Gestalt therapy is an experiential, humanistic approach to psychotherapy that focuses on present-moment awareness — helping you understand not just what you're thinking and feeling, but how those experiences are showing up in your body, your relationships, and your life right now. The word "Gestalt" comes from the German for "whole," reflecting the approach's central principle: that you cannot be fully understood by examining thoughts, feelings, or behaviours in isolation. At Mantra Psychotherapy, we offer Gestalt-informed virtual therapy to individuals across Toronto, the GTA, and Ontario as part of an integrative, person-centred approach to mental health care.

Narrative Therapy

Narrative Therapy emphasizes the importance of our internal "story" about our lives. This method helps individuals externalize their problems from their identity. By reinterpreting their story in an externalized way, clients often have the opportunity to discover and align with their strengths and values. This process empowers clients to envision a future whereby they hold more autonomy and agency.

Attachment-Based Therapy

Attachment-Based Therapy is grounded in the understanding that our earliest relationships with caregivers shape the emotional and relational patterns we carry into adulthood. This approach helps individuals understand and heal attachment wounds, address unmet needs from early relationships, and build the capacity for more secure, fulfilling connections. At Mantra Psychotherapy, attachment-based therapy is offered virtually to individuals across Toronto, the GTA, and Ontario as part of an integrative, trauma-informed approach to care.

Solution-Focused Therapy

Solution-Focused Therapy (SFT) is a forward-looking, strengths-based approach to psychotherapy that centres on where you want to go rather than dwelling on how you got here. Rather than spending sessions unpacking the origins of a problem in detail, SFT asks a more immediate question: what would your life look like without this problem, and what resources do you already have to help you get there? At Mantra Psychotherapy, we offer solution-focused virtual therapy to individuals across Toronto, the GTA, and Ontario as part of an integrative, client-centred approach to mental health care.

Dialectical-Behaviour Therapy

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) is an evidence-based treatment designed to help individuals regulate emotions and improve their relationships. DBT focuses on developing skills to help clients remain present, regulate emotions, and maintain healthier relationships. DBT also aims to help clients recognize the duality in all aspects of life and to tolerate uncertainty and ambiguity.

Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is one of the most researched and widely used approaches in psychotherapy — and for good reason. It works by helping you understand the relationship between your thoughts, feelings, and behaviours, and by building practical tools to shift the patterns that are keeping you stuck. At Mantra Psychotherapy, we offer CBT-informed virtual therapy to individuals across Toronto, the GTA, and Ontario, tailored to your specific concerns and goals.