About Us
Our Story
In 2017, when I first began my career in psychotherapy, I started at a children’s mental health agency. I was eager to support the mental health and well being of children and their families, and also knew I could benefit from a professional community by working with and learning from other health professionals. A year and a half into my work at the agency, I pursued my dream of also having a private practice. While I maintained the two passions for some time, I ultimately made a decision to pursue my practice on a fulltime basis.
It wasn’t until 2021 that I officially launched Relationship Therapy Mississauga. The birth of this practice stemmed from a noticing that isolation, uncertainty, frustrations and multi-level challenges were experiences on the rise, and mental health support for in person and virtual services were few and far between.
By transitioning my solo practice to a group practice, we were able create a space in which a diverse team of qualified therapists can support diverse members of the community who may have varying experiences, concerns and/or hopes.
Relationship Therapy Centre
today
As of 2023, we rebranded to Relationship Therapy Centre to reflect our expansion into Burlington, Ontario. This expansion would not have been possible without the acknowledgement, support and hard work of our clients, therapists and community at large.
Relationship Therapy Centre recognizes the privilege it holds in being trusted to provide therapeutic support to members of its community. We are committed to honouring ethical, best practices and working with you to create the changes you desire!
Our Values
We often hear from clients that specific relationships and/or people feel to be central to their concerns and/or hopes for change. At Relationship Therapy Centre, by working systemically and relationally, we know that you don’t have to attend therapy with others for meaningful change to occur in your relationships and/or for other people.
We don’t merely provide you with worksheets and rely on that for creating change. Instead, we get to know you, your relationships and what is important to you. We do this primarily with intentional curiosity (for your relationships, identities, systems that you are apart of), tracking patterns, and preparing for sessions with you!
We are devoted to approaching each of our clients with a personalized plan of how to support you so that we can work towards creating a ripple effect of change into your relationships and life.
We often hear from clients that they either feel their prior experience of therapy was one in which they felt spoken for and in a manner that did not fit for them, or that they left therapy feeling they were only validated and empathized with.
At Relationship Therapy Centre we don’t see our role as one in which we tell you how to navigate your life. We believe you will always know best about yourself, your relationships, and your life.
This doesn’t then me though, that we are without knowledge, resources and strengths. We aim to collaborate with you in learning about who you are and what your experiences, hopes, fears and goals are. We work with you to create a safe space that allows for us to also gently and appropriate challenge you.
The Relationship Therapy Centre team believes that all people can have a story of hope and possibility in their life, and a parallel story of despair and challenge.
We value the importance of both storylines and see our role as one in which we listen out for, identify, strengthen and build off of the hope and possibility.
We will meet you where you are at and hold intention to learn about about your skills, abilities and strengths and find ways to utilize them to get you to where you hope to be.
Mental health services can be challenging to access financially. We are committed to maintaining select pro-bono (free of charge) services, and sliding scale (reduced rate) options.
When considering physical accessibility to our services, while our Mississauga office requires people to navigate a short set of stairs to get into the building and again to get into the office, we are pleased to note that our Burlington location is wheelchair accessible. We also provide online therapy in the form of video and/or phone counselling as this may be the most comfortable of options for some.
We are also dedicated to ensuring our centre’s team of therapists reflects the diversity that exists in the clients and communities we serve. Our commitment to our value for accessibility is evidenced in our anti-oppressive approaches and is reflected in the name of our centre. We understand that relationships can be defined (or not defined) differently by everyone – and we are committed to being a safe space that allows for people from all races, cultures, faiths, gender, sexuality, ability, age and stage to access services.
Relationship Therapy Centre holds a strong value for being transparent and honest about our services, our fees, and our limitations. The centre and all of its therapists are committed to ongoing self-reflection and discernment around what populations they are most equipped in supporting.
We understand that engaging in therapy can be a high energetic, financial and time commitment. We build connections with other service providers within your community to support you in finding good fits for therapy services if/when we believe we might not be.
While our therapists have unique sets of experiences, strengths, resources, knowledge, and different preferred approaches to therapy, the value for curiosity is shared by each of them.
All of the therapists and Relationship Therapy Centre aim to lessen and eliminate pre-conceived ideas and assumptions. We are all committed to meeting people where they are at and taking time to understand their identity, experiences, relationships, concerns, goals and preferences. We have found that by honouring this value for curiosity in this way, clients experience personalized conversations that reflect who they are and what is important to them, rather than experiencing therapy as prescriptive and/or pathologizing.
Our Team
Connect With Us
We offer in person counselling in Mississauga and therapy in Burlington. Our Mississauga office is conveniently located near Hwy 403, 410 and 407. We are also just a short drive away from the QEW. We have free parking available when you visit us.
Our Burlington office is conveniently located at the border of Oakville. This location is wheelchair accessible and also offers free parking.
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Hours of Operations
Appointment Hours
- Monday - Friday | 9:00-9:00 pm
- Saturday | 8:00-5:00 pm
- Sunday | 9:00-5:00 pm
Admin Hours
- Monday - Friday | 9:00-8:00 pm