Evidence-Based Care, Integrated Clinical Support, and Tailored Treatment Across the Lifespan
At Toronto Psychological Services & Research Centre (TPSRC), Therapy & Counselling is a collaborative and evidence-based process that helps clients understand themselves with greater clarity and develop the skills they need for lasting change. Our clinical team works with children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families, offering support across the lifespan using approaches that are both scientifically grounded and delivered with warmth and compassion.
Therapy at TPSRC is active and goal-oriented. We begin by helping clients make sense of the patterns shaping their emotional, relational, and behavioural experiences — why these patterns exist, how they developed, and what can shift to create meaningful progress. From there, we integrate structured, research-supported techniques with the client’s unique goals, strengths, and context so that each session feels focused, relevant, and productive.
Our clinicians work together under coordinated supervision to ensure that every client receives thoughtful and consistent care. Sessions are guided by empathy and informed by practice standards, combining insight with practical tools that clients can apply in their daily lives.
Whether the focus is emotional regulation, relationship repair, personal growth, or healing from stress or trauma, Therapy and Counselling at TPSRC is designed to help clients move forward with confidence, understanding, and a clear path toward well-being.
Our Clinical Team
TPSRC provides therapy and counselling through a diverse, interdisciplinary team that includes psychologists and psychological associates (including those in supervised practice), registered psychotherapists, clinical therapists, and supervised doctoral and graduate trainees. This range of clinical backgrounds allows us to match clients with a therapist whose expertise, style, and training best align with their needs.
All services are supervised by registered psychologists and psychological associates, who assume full professional and ethical responsibility for every client’s care. This layered model ensures that every client benefits from expert oversight, multiple clinical perspectives, and a consistently high standard of practice. It also means that clients receive the advantages of a large clinical team without ever feeling lost in a system — each therapist is supported, guided, and reviewed within a unified clinical framework.
Our tiered fee structure reflects the level of training, experience, and professional designation of each clinician, making therapy both accessible and clinically rigorous. Current therapy rates range from $50 to $300 and include:
- Practicum Students ($50–$75)
- Qualifying Psychotherapists ($150–$200)
- Doctoral Interns ($175–$225)
- Clinical Therapists ($150–$225)
- Psychological Associates / Psychologists in Supervised Practice ($150–$250)
- Registered Psychologists / Psychological Associates in Autonomous Practice ($200–$300)
This structure increases access to high-quality mental health care while supporting the development of emerging clinicians under close supervision. Clients can choose the fee level that fits their needs without compromising the quality of the service they receive. Every clinician—regardless of designation—is held to the same standards of care, supported by the same supervisory team, and trained to use the same evidence-based practices.
At TPSRC, clients do not have to choose between excellence and affordability. Our model is built to provide both.
Therapy Services
Therapy at TPSRC is designed to meet clients where they are and support them in the ways that feel most meaningful. People seek therapy for many reasons — to understand themselves more deeply, to navigate challenges in relationships, to build coping skills, or to create healthier patterns in daily life. Our services reflect the diversity of those needs, offering pathways for individuals, couples, and families.
Individual therapy is available for children, adolescents, and adults who are working through emotional, behavioural, or relational concerns. Sessions are tailored to developmental stage and personal goals, creating space for clients to explore their experiences with clarity and support. Couples and marriage therapy is offered to partners hoping to strengthen communication, rebuild trust, deepen connection, or approach an impending separation with respect and care. Family therapy helps families understand one another more fully, improve boundaries and communication, and create patterns that support stability and connection in the home.
All therapy services can be accessed either in person or virtually, allowing clients to receive consistent support in the format that best fits their circumstances. Whether the work is individual or shared, the focus remains the same: to provide thoughtful, evidence-based care that supports meaningful growth.
Evidence-Based Therapies
Evidence-based practice is at the heart of every therapeutic approach used at TPSRC. We believe that clients deserve interventions that are not only compassionate and thoughtful, but also grounded in scientific research and proven to create meaningful, lasting change. Our clinicians draw from models that have been rigorously studied and continually refined, ensuring that therapy is anchored in approaches that work.
At the same time, evidence-based therapy is never one-size-fits-all. Each client brings a unique combination of strengths, challenges, goals, and life experiences, and our therapists adapt their methods accordingly. A child may benefit from structured skill-building that supports emotional regulation, while a teenager may need a space to understand identity, stress, or relationships. Adults may require strategies that address long-standing patterns, trauma, or difficulties managing daily demands. Evidence-based care allows us to meet these needs with intention and precision.
Every clinician at TPSRC integrates techniques that align with a client’s developmental stage, personality, cultural context, and therapeutic goals. This means that therapy is both flexible and grounded: guided by the science, shaped by the individual, and continually responsive to progress. By combining clinical expertise with research-supported methods, we offer a therapeutic process that is not only effective, but deeply attuned to the person sitting in front of us.
Our Evidence-Based Therapies Include:
Cognitive & Behavioural Therapies
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) – A modern behavioural therapy that helps teens and adults build psychological flexibility, reduce the struggle with difficult thoughts and feelings, and take action aligned with their values.
- Cognitive-Behavioural Play Therapy (CBPT) – An adaptation of CBT for young children that uses play, stories, and creative activities to teach emotional understanding, flexible thinking, and early coping skills.
- Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT) – A structured, goal-focused approach that helps children, adolescents, and adults understand how thoughts, feelings, and behaviours interact — and develop practical tools for managing anxiety, stress, low mood, and avoidance.
- Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) – A trauma-focused cognitive therapy for adolescents and adults that helps identify and change unhelpful beliefs related to traumatic experiences, reducing distress and improving daily functioning.
- Exposure-Based Therapies: Exposure Therapy, Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), and Prolonged Exposure (PE) – Evidence-based treatments that help children, teens, and adults gradually face feared situations, memories, or sensations in a safe, supported way. Effective for anxiety, OCD, PTSD, and avoidance-driven difficulties.
- Schema Therapy – An integrative model for older adolescents and adults that addresses long-standing patterns (or “schemas”) shaped by early experiences. Helps clients develop healthier coping strategies, boundaries, and relational patterns.
- Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (TF-CBT) – A developmentally sensitive, evidence-based model for children and adolescents exposed to trauma. TF-CBT integrates CBT skills with caregiver involvement to support emotional processing and restore safety.
Emotion & Relationship-Based Therapies
- Couples & Relationship Therapy (Integrative CBCT, EFCT, and SFBT) – TPSRC’s integrative CBCT, EFCT, and SFBT approach blends cognitive-behavioural, attachment-based, and strengths-oriented methods to support couples in understanding their interaction patterns and building healthier ways of relating. This model draws from the structure of Cognitive-Behavioural Couples Therapy, the emotional and attachment focus of Emotion-Focused Couples Therapy, and the forward-looking, solution-based tools of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy. Treatment begins with a structured four-session assessment phase that explores communication habits, emotional cycles, strengths, and goals, allowing the therapist to tailor the intervention to the couple’s needs. This integrative framework offers a balanced, flexible, and evidence-based path for improving connection, reducing conflict, and strengthening long-term relational well-being.
- Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) – A research-supported approach that helps adolescents, adults, and couples identify and work through core emotions that drive patterns of conflict, withdrawal, or disconnection. EFT supports clients in expressing emotional needs more clearly, reducing reactivity, and strengthening secure, responsive relationships.
- Structural Family Therapy (SFT) – A practical, change-oriented approach that focuses on family organization, boundaries, roles, and patterns of interaction. SFT helps families reduce conflict, increase predictability, and create routines and expectations that make daily life feel calmer and more manageable for everyone.
Mindfulness, Somatic, and Experiential Therapies
- Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) – An evidence-based approach that integrates mindfulness practices with cognitive strategies to help adolescents and adults reduce rumination, increase emotional awareness, and respond more flexibly to stress. MBCT is particularly effective for anxiety, mood concerns, and patterns of overthinking, and can help clients build a calmer, more grounded way of relating to their thoughts and emotions.
- Narrative Therapy (Evidence-Based in Child, Youth, and Family Contexts) – A collaborative and strengths-oriented approach that helps children, teens, and families understand how personal stories, early messages, and social contexts shape identity and behaviour. Narrative Therapy supports clients in externalizing problems, reducing shame, and developing healthier, more empowering narratives about themselves and their experiences. It is supported as an evidence-based practice in youth and family mental health settings.
- Somatic Regulation Strategies (Evidence-Based Components) – Somatic regulation strategies include grounding, paced breathing, interoceptive awareness, and other body-based skills that help children, adolescents, and adults manage the physical side of anxiety, shutdowns, and emotions that become difficult to handle. These strategies are drawn from established evidence-based treatments such as CBT, DBT, ACT, and TF-CBT, and help clients notice tension, regulate activation, and feel more in control during stressful moments.
Skills & Motivation-Focused Approaches
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) – A structured, skills-based therapy that helps adolescents and adults manage intense emotions, reduce impulsive or reactive behaviours, and build healthier coping strategies. DBT teaches practical tools for mindfulness, emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness, and is especially helpful for clients who feel overwhelmed, stuck in all-or-nothing patterns, or unsure how to manage strong emotional responses.
- Motivational Interviewing (MI) – A collaborative, evidence-based approach that supports children (in modified formats), adolescents, and adults who feel ambivalent about change. MI helps clients explore their values, strengthen their confidence, and increase their willingness to take intentional action. This approach is highly effective for concerns involving avoidance, resistance, health behaviours, substance use, and situations where motivation feels inconsistent or difficult to sustain.
- Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) – A goal-oriented and strengths-based approach that helps children, teens, and adults identify what is already working and build on those successes. Rather than analyzing problems in depth, SFBT focuses on small, achievable steps that create momentum and confidence. This approach is especially useful for clients seeking clarity, practical progress, and short-term, outcomes-focused support.
Integrative & Developmental Approaches
- Acceptance-Based and Compassion-Focused Integration (for complex presentations) – An integrated, evidence-supported approach for adolescents and adults who experience chronic stress, trauma-related patterns, self-criticism, or overwhelming emotions. This model draws on components from CBT, ACT, Compassion-Focused Therapy, and mindfulness-based interventions to help clients reduce avoidance, increase emotional safety, and develop a more compassionate and flexible relationship with themselves.
- Family Systems & Lifespan Integration Approaches – This category includes evidence-based frameworks that understand emotional health within the context of developmental stages and family relationships. These approaches support children, teens, and adults across key milestones, helping them navigate transitions, adjust to changing roles, and understand how early experiences influence current behaviour and relationships. Therapy focuses on developmental fit, attachment needs, and fostering resilience across the lifespan.
- Interpersonal and Social Rhythm Therapy (IPSRT) – An evidence-based therapy developed for adolescents and adults experiencing bipolar spectrum challenges or significant mood fluctuations. IPSRT integrates interpersonal psychotherapy with structured support to stabilize daily routines, sleep–wake cycles, and social rhythms. The approach helps clients understand how life stress, relational patterns, and disrupted routines affect mood, while developing consistent habits and interpersonal strategies that support long-term stability.
- Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) – An evidence-based therapy for adolescents and adults that focuses on improving mood and emotional well-being by strengthening communication, role transitions, and interpersonal relationships. IPT helps clients understand how life changes, grief, or relational stress affect their mood, and supports the development of healthier patterns of connection and coping.
Specialized Therapies
Specialized therapies at TPSRC are organized by clinical focus so clients can easily identify the type of support that best matches their challenges. Some concerns require more targeted expertise, deeper diagnostic understanding, or approaches that draw on specific clinical frameworks. Our team is trained to work with these nuanced presentations, offering therapy that is attuned to the unique needs of each client or family. Through ongoing consultation, supervision, and collaboration, we ensure that specialized care remains thoughtful, precise, and grounded in current research.
Our Specialized Therapies Include:
Anxiety, Mood & Stress
- Anxiety Therapy – Anxiety therapy uses cognitive-behavioural strategies, exposure-based approaches, and acceptance-based tools to help children, adolescents, and adults reduce avoidance, calm worry cycles, and build practical skills for confidence and resilience.
- Depression Therapy – Depression therapy integrates cognitive-behavioural therapy, behavioural activation, and interpersonal strategies to help clients break withdrawal patterns, improve mood, strengthen motivation, and restore daily functioning.
- Health Anxiety and Somatic Symptom Treatment – This treatment combines cognitive-behavioural therapy, exposure-based strategies, and mindfulness-informed tools to reduce reassurance-seeking, reactivity to physical symptoms, and cycles of catastrophic thinking.
- Insomnia and Sleep Therapy (CBT-I) – Insomnia therapy is based on cognitive-behavioural treatment for insomnia, the leading evidence-based intervention for sleep difficulties. CBT-I helps clients reset sleep rhythms, reduce nighttime anxiety, and build healthier sleep habits through structured behavioural and cognitive strategies.
- Panic and Phobia Treatment – Treatment is grounded in exposure therapy and exposure and response prevention, helping clients gradually face feared sensations or situations, reduce panic symptoms, and regain confidence in daily life.
- Stress, Burnout, and Adjustment Counselling – Counselling draws on cognitive-behavioural therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and motivational interviewing to help clients manage overwhelming emotions, set boundaries, restore balance, and build sustainable routines during periods of significant stress or change.
- Trauma and PTSD Therapy – Trauma therapy incorporates prolonged exposure, cognitive processing therapy, and trauma-informed cognitive-behavioural approaches to help adolescents and adults process difficult experiences, reduce distressing symptoms, and rebuild a sense of safety and stability.
Emotional & Behavioural Regulation
- Anger Management and Emotional Regulation Therapy – Therapy focuses on helping children, adolescents, and adults understand emotional triggers, reduce reactive patterns, and build skills for calming the body and thinking clearly. Treatment draws on cognitive-behavioural strategies, dialectical behaviour therapy skills, and mindfulness-informed tools to support healthier communication and more balanced responses during stress.
- Child and Adolescent Emotional / Behavioural Therapy – This therapy supports young people who struggle with big emotions, frustration, impulsivity, or behavioural patterns that impact home, school, or peer relationships. Using developmentally scaled CBT, DBT skills, parent consultation, and structured practice, therapy helps children and teens build emotional regulation, flexible thinking, problem-solving skills, and healthier daily routines.
- Parent–Child Relationship Repair and Co-Regulation Support – This therapy focuses on rebuilding connection between caregivers and children when stress, conflict, or overwhelming emotions have strained the relationship. Treatment uses attachment-informed strategies, emotion-coaching, and co-regulation tools to help families reduce power struggles, repair ruptures, and develop more responsive, attuned interactions.
- Parent Coaching and Family Dynamics Counselling – Parent coaching helps caregivers understand the emotional needs underlying a child’s behaviour and develop practical strategies for support. Counselling integrates family-systems approaches, collaborative problem-solving, and behavioural frameworks to improve consistency, reduce tension, and strengthen confidence in parenting decisions.
Cognitive & Habitual Patterns
- ADHD Therapy and Executive Function Coaching – Therapy for ADHD combines cognitive-behavioural strategies, executive function coaching, and motivational interviewing to help clients strengthen attention, organization, follow-through, and emotional regulation. Treatment is tailored for children, teens, and adults who struggle with distractibility, overwhelming emotions, avoidance, or inconsistent motivation.
- Compulsive Sexual Behaviour and Pornography Addiction Therapy – This therapy incorporates cognitive-behavioural strategies, motivational interviewing, and evidence-based impulse regulation skills to help clients understand triggers, reduce compulsive patterns, and build healthier relationships with sexuality. Treatment emphasizes privacy, emotional safety, and the development of sustainable coping tools.
- Digital and Social Media Addiction Therapy – Therapy for digital overuse draws on behavioural strategies, CBT, and habit-reversal techniques to help clients reduce compulsive phone or gaming use, rebuild balance, and improve emotional and social functioning. Treatment is especially helpful for children, teens, and adults who struggle with screen-related “addiction” / dependence, sleep disruption, and associated conflict patterns at home or school.
- OCD Therapy (ERP-Based) – OCD therapy uses exposure and response prevention, the leading evidence-based treatment for obsessive-compulsive symptoms. ERP helps children, adolescents, and adults face feared thoughts or situations safely, reduce compulsive behaviours, and build confidence in resisting anxiety-driven urges.
- Substance Use and Addiction Therapy – This therapy combines motivational interviewing, cognitive-behavioural approaches, and relapse-prevention strategies, integrated with family-systems approaches, to support adolescents and adults in reducing harmful substance use and building healthier coping patterns. Treatment focuses on understanding triggers, strengthening self-regulation, and supporting sustainable change.
Eating & Body Image
- Eating Disorder and Disordered Eating Therapy – This therapy supports adolescents and adults experiencing bulimia, binge-eating, emotional eating, or other disordered patterns that affect physical health, mood, or self-esteem. Treatment integrates cognitive-behavioural strategies, motivational interviewing, and emotion-regulation skills to help clients understand triggers, develop healthier relationships with food, and address the body image concerns that maintain unhelpful cycles. TPSRC does not provide interdisciplinary treatment for anorexia but offers structured, evidence-based support for clients seeking change in their eating patterns and overall well-being.
Relationship & Family Focus
- Family and Parental Support for LGBTQ+ Youth – This therapy helps caregivers understand and support the emotional, developmental, and relational needs of LGBTQ+ children and adolescents. Treatment focuses on improving communication, strengthening acceptance, addressing family stress points, and creating supportive home environments. Using affirming, evidence-informed approaches grounded in family-systems, trauma-informed, and attachment models, parents receive guidance on responding to their child’s identity development in ways that promote emotional well-being, safety, and connection.
- Infidelity and Relationship Repair Therapy – This therapy supports couples navigating the emotional impact of betrayal, secrecy, or ruptured trust. Treatment focuses on understanding the relational and contextual factors that contributed to the rupture, reducing reactive cycles, improving communication, and rebuilding emotional and physical safety. Using evidence-based relational approaches drawn from emotionally focused and integrative couples therapy frameworks, partners learn to process difficult emotions, strengthen transparency, and work toward repair or clarity about the future of the relationship.
- Reunification and Reintegration Therapy – Reunification therapy supports families navigating parent–child rejection that emerges from conflict, loyalty tensions, or alienation-related dynamics. TPSRC’s model is trauma-informed, developmentally attuned, and ethically neutral, progressing through structured phases that include assessment and preparation, psychoeducation, facilitated reconnection, and maintenance. Treatment focuses on understanding the full family system, distinguishing alienation from estrangement, and rebuilding emotional safety at a pace that respects the child’s readiness. Sessions may include individual and joint work, with an emphasis on insight, communication, and gradual reconnection. This approach avoids coercive practices and prioritizes emotional safety, balanced understanding, and sustainable relational repair.
- Sex Therapy – Sex therapy supports individuals, couples, and relationship constellations in addressing concerns related to desire, intimacy, sexual functioning, identity, or patterns of avoidance or distress. Treatment is talk-based, grounded in the biopsychosocial model, and integrates evidence-based approaches such as cognitive-behavioural strategies, mindfulness-informed interventions, emotionally focused methods, schema work, and structured exercises like communication practices or sensate focus. Clients receive accurate information, space for reflection, and guidance tailored to their cultural, relational, and developmental context. Sessions are conversational, with integrated between-session work, and always paced to support clients’ safety and readiness. The goal is to help clients develop a healthier, more confident, and more connected relationship with their sexuality.
Identity & Affirming Care
- Gender Identity and Transition Support – Gender identity and transition support provides affirming, developmentally attuned guidance for children, adolescents, and adults exploring their gender or navigating social, medical, or relational aspects of transition. Therapy focuses on emotional support, identity integration, family communication, and collaboration with outside providers when appropriate, helping clients make informed decisions while maintaining safety and well-being.
- LGBTQ+ Affirming Therapy – LGBTQ+ affirming therapy provides a supportive, identity-safe space for children, teens, and adults to explore emotions, relationships, and life experiences without fear of judgment. Treatment integrates evidence-based approaches with an understanding of the unique stressors faced by LGBTQ+ individuals, helping clients develop self-awareness, confidence, and emotional well-being within a context that respects their identity and lived experience.
- LGBTQ+ Couples and Relationship Therapy – This therapy supports couples and relationship constellations navigating communication challenges, intimacy concerns, or life transitions within the context of LGBTQ+ identities and experiences. Treatment integrates relational and emotion-focused approaches to help partners strengthen understanding, improve communication, and deepen their emotional and physical connection while accounting for the specific stressors that may affect LGBTQ+ relationships.
- Sexual Identity and Intimacy Therapy – This therapy supports individuals and couples who are exploring or questioning aspects of their sexual identity, orientation, or intimacy. Treatment integrates cognitive-behavioural and emotionally focused approaches to help clients clarify their experiences, address internal or relational barriers, reduce shame, and build a more confident and comfortable relationship with their sexuality and sense of self.
Every service reflects our commitment to rigorous standards, compassion, and measurable outcomes.
Our Approach
At TPSRC, therapy is grounded in a clear set of principles that shape how we work with every client, regardless of age, background, or presenting concern. These principles ensure that our therapeutic care is not only clinically sound but also deeply human.
We begin with an unwavering commitment to evidence-based practice. Every method we use — whether cognitive-behavioural, emotion-focused, mindfulness-based, or relational — is rooted in scientific research and selected with intention. Clients are not given generic strategies; they receive approaches demonstrated to be effective for their specific concerns. This ensures therapy is focused, purposeful, and aligned with what actually works.
Therapy at TPSRC is also personalized. No two clients have the same goals, histories, or needs, and our clinicians adapt each treatment plan accordingly. We consider age, developmental stage, cultural context, relationship dynamics, learning style, and the practical realities of daily life. This individualized planning allows therapy to feel relevant and grounded rather than formulaic.
We work from a collaborative care model. Although clients typically see one primary therapist, multiple clinicians may contribute expertise behind the scenes. Junior clinicians receive structured supervision from psychologists and psychological associates, and senior clinicians consult with colleagues when additional insight supports the client’s goals. This layered system ensures that clients benefit from collective expertise while still experiencing the consistency of a therapeutic relationship with their primary clinician.
Finally, our model is designed to be accessible. TPSRC’s tiered fee structure — ranging from student rates to services provided by registered psychologists and psychological associates — allows clients to access high-quality care at a cost that fits their circumstances. We believe accessibility should not mean compromising on quality; instead, it reflects our commitment to meeting clients where they are while maintaining the highest professional standards.
Together, these principles connect clinical accountability with genuine human care. Clients can expect therapy that is structured but warm, evidence-based but flexible, and professional yet deeply personal. Our goal is simple: to ensure that every client feels seen, supported, and confident in their progress — not only during sessions, but in the meaningful changes they carry into their daily lives.
Why Clients Choose TPSRC
Clients choose TPSRC because they want therapy that is both clinically grounded and deeply human. All therapeutic services are supervised by registered psychologists and psychological associates, ensuring that every client benefits from the highest level of clinical oversight. This layered system allows our team to draw on broad expertise while maintaining continuity and consistency throughout care.
Affordability is also central to our model. Our therapy rates range from $50 to $300, making high-quality care accessible without sacrificing rigour or professionalism. The first session for individual, couples, and family therapy is offered at a 50% reduced rate, giving clients a supportive entry point to begin their work. Many appreciate that TPSRC integrates therapy, counselling, and psychological assessment under one coordinated system — a structure that allows us to understand clients more fully and tailor treatment to the complexity of their experiences.
Our environment is intentionally designed to feel compassionate, professional, and growth-oriented. Clients describe the space as one where learning and healing coexist — a place where they can explore challenges with therapists who are thoughtful, responsive, and attuned to their goals. Flexible scheduling and multiple delivery options, including in-person and virtual sessions, ensure that therapy fits into the realities of clients’ lives rather than adding strain to them.
In essence, clients choose TPSRC because they want care that unites professional rigour, accessible pricing, and a therapeutic experience that feels genuinely supportive. They come to us seeking clarity, meaningful progress, and a team that stands alongside them with competence, empathy, and commitment.