Meet Our Therapists in Ontario

Find a therapist who fits what you're looking for.

At Théla, we believe finding the right therapist is about more than choosing a name from a list. You want someone who understands what you're experiencing, works in a way that makes sense to you, and feels like someone you can actually talk to.

Our therapists offer virtual psychotherapy across Ontario, with support for anxiety, ADHD and neurodivergence, trauma and PTSD, EMDR, borderline personality disorder (BPD), addiction and substance use, relationships, couples and family concerns, and major life transitions.

Each therapist brings different areas of focus, training, lived experience, and therapeutic approaches. Explore the team below to find someone who may be a good fit.

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Find a Therapist by What You're Looking For

Not sure where to start? Here's a quick guide.
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Anxiety & Stress

Caroline | Support for chronic worry, overwhelm, stress, emotional regulation, and feeling like your mind rarely switches off.
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ADHD & Neurodivergence

Caroline • Charlie • Bonny | Support for ADHD, executive functioning, emotional regulation, masking, burnout, self-esteem, and navigating life with a neurodivergent brain. Bonny also works with neurodivergent teens and their families.
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Trauma, PTSD, C-PTSD

Bonny • Charlie | Trauma-informed therapy for experiences that continue to affect your emotions, relationships, beliefs, body, or nervous system.
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EMDR Therapy

Bonny • Charlie | EMDR therapy for trauma, distressing memories, triggers, negative beliefs, and experiences that continue to feel emotionally or physically unresolved.
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BPD & Emotional Regulation

Bonny | Therapy for borderline personality disorder (BPD), intense emotions, relationship instability, attachment wounds, fear of abandonment, identity concerns, and patterns that can feel difficult to change.
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Addiction & Substance Use

Jennifer | Non-judgmental support for substance use, addiction recovery, relapse prevention, trauma, and understanding the needs and emotions underneath addictive patterns.
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Couples & Relationships

Bonny • Jennifer | Support for communication difficulties, recurring conflict, attachment patterns, trust, emotional disconnection, relationship transitions, and relationships affected by substance use or recovery.
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Family Therapy

Bonny | Support for families navigating conflict, communication difficulties, changing roles, boundaries, parent-child relationships, mental health concerns, and major family transitions.
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Teen Therapy

Bonny | Therapy for adolescents navigating emotional regulation, identity, relationships, trauma, anxiety, neurodivergence, family difficulties, and the transition toward adulthood.
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Somatic & Nervous System Therapy

For times when you understand what's happening intellectually, but your body still reacts with anxiety, shutdown, tension, hypervigilance, dissociation, or overwhelm. Bonny and Charlie integrate somatic and nervous-system-informed approaches to help clients better understand their body's responses, build capacity for regulation, and work with patterns that may not shift through talking and insight alone.
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Perinatal & Postpartum Mental Health

Caroline | Support through pregnancy, postpartum, and the emotional transitions surrounding parenthood. Caroline works with concerns such as anxiety, low mood, overwhelm, identity changes, relationship shifts, and adjusting to the expectations and realities of becoming a parent.
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Chronic Pain & Health-Related Stress

Charlie | Living with chronic pain or ongoing physical symptoms can affect your nervous system, mood, relationships, identity, and ability to participate in everyday life. Charlie integrates somatic, nervous-system-informed, and trauma-informed approaches to support clients navigating chronic pain, persistent physical symptoms, stress, burnout, and the emotional impact of living with a body that may feel unpredictable or difficult to trust.
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Canine-Assisted Therapy • Therapy Dogs • In-Person Psychotherapy

Bonny | In-person psychotherapy with Emma and Evee, Théla's therapy dogs, for clients who may benefit from an animal's calming, non-judgmental presence during therapy. Bonny integrates canine-assisted support with psychotherapy when appropriate, including for clients working with trauma, anxiety, nervous-system regulation, emotional overwhelm, and neurodivergence. Animal-assisted sessions are available in person in Markham and are always based on client preference, comfort, and clinical appropriateness.
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LGBTQ+ Affirming Therapy

Charlie | Affirming therapy for LGBTQ+ clients navigating identity, sexuality, relationships, coming out, family dynamics, belonging, self-esteem, and major life transitions. Charlie provides a trauma-informed, neurodivergent-affirming, and LGBTQ+ affirming space where clients can explore their experiences without treating gender or sexual diversity as something that needs to be explained, defended, or changed.

Meet the Théla Team

Each Théla therapist brings different areas of focus, training, and therapeutic approaches. Explore our team to find a therapist whose experience and style align with what you're looking for.

Bonny, MA, EdD (Cand.)

Complex Trauma • BPD • Couples & Families • Neurodivergent Teens In-Person in Markham & Virtual Across Ontario English • Cantonese • Mandarin

Bonny is Théla's founder and a psychotherapist who works particularly with complex trauma, borderline personality disorder (BPD), emotional dysregulation, attachment and relationship difficulties, neurodivergent teens, couples, and families.

She often works with clients who have developed considerable insight into themselves but still experience intense emotions, trauma responses, dissociation, relationship cycles, or a nervous system that seems to react before the thinking brain has time to catch up.

Bonny's integrative approach draws from EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS), DBT-informed skills, Emotionally Focused Therapy, attachment-based approaches, and somatic and nervous-system work. Therapy is adapted to the person rather than expecting every client to fit one model.

She also works with couples and families experiencing recurring conflict, communication difficulties, attachment wounds, trust concerns, changing family roles, and complex relational dynamics.

Bonny is currently Théla's in-person therapist in Markham, with virtual appointments also available across Ontario. Therapy is available in English, Cantonese, and Mandarin.

Best fit for: Complex trauma, BPD, emotional regulation, EMDR, somatic and nervous-system work, couples therapy, family therapy, attachment concerns, and neurodivergent teens.

Also available: In-person animal-assisted therapy with Théla's therapy dogs for appropriate clients who may benefit from their presence during psychotherapy.

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Charlie, RP

EMDR • Trauma & PTSD • Neurodivergence • LGBTQ+ Affirming Virtual Across Ontario

Charlie provides trauma-informed therapy for adults navigating trauma and PTSD, ADHD and neurodivergence, LGBTQ+ identity and experiences, chronic pain and health-related stress, nervous-system dysregulation, and burnout.

Her work may be particularly helpful if you understand what's happening intellectually but find that your body, emotions, or nervous system continue to react as though something isn't safe. She supports clients who may feel stuck in patterns of hypervigilance, shutdown, overwhelm, disconnection, or chronic stress — including when these experiences intersect with neurodivergence, identity, relationships, or physical health.

Charlie integrates EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS), attachment-based therapy, somatic approaches, nervous-system and polyvagal-informed work, and neurodivergent-affirming care. Her approach works with both what you understand cognitively and what your body may still be carrying.

She also provides LGBTQ+ affirming therapy, creating space to explore identity, sexuality, relationships, coming out, family dynamics, belonging, and life transitions without treating gender or sexual diversity as something that needs to be changed.

For clients living with chronic pain or persistent physical symptoms, Charlie offers psychological support around the emotional and nervous-system impact of pain, including changes in functioning, identity, relationships, stress, and burnout.

Best fit for: EMDR, trauma and PTSD, ADHD and neurodivergence, LGBTQ+ affirming therapy, chronic pain and health-related stress, somatic and nervous-system work, and burnout.

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Jennifer Gibbons, MA, RP (Qualifying)

Addiction & Substance Use • Recovery • Trauma • Couples Virtual Across Ontario

Jennifer offers individual and couples therapy with a particular focus on substance use, addiction recovery, relapse prevention, trauma, anxiety, depression, and relationships affected by addiction.

She brings experience working with adults in a specialized intensive treatment setting for substance use disorders, informing her understanding of addiction, recovery, relapse prevention, and the complexity of making lasting changes.

Jennifer's approach is collaborative and non-judgmental. You don't need to identify as having an addiction, be completely ready to change, or have already achieved sobriety before reaching out.

She integrates Motivational Interviewing, harm-reduction principles, relapse-prevention planning, trauma-informed therapy, solution-focused therapy, and person-centred approaches to help clients understand both the behaviour they want to change and what that behaviour may have been doing for them.

Jennifer also works with couples navigating the impact of substance use or recovery on trust, communication, boundaries, intimacy, and connection.

Best fit for: Substance use, addiction recovery, relapse prevention, trauma and addiction, anxiety or depression connected to substance use, and couples affected by addiction.

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Ciaran, MACP Candidate, RP (Qualifying)

ADHD • Anxiety • Self-Esteem • Teens & Young Adults Virtual Across Ontario

Ciaran offers individual therapy for teens, young adults, and adults, with a particular focus on ADHD, anxiety, self-esteem and identity, perfectionism, people-pleasing, and life transitions.

She brings a personal understanding of what it's like to navigate anxiety, perfectionism, and the pressure to hold everything together, which informs how she connects with clients facing similar patterns. She has also completed additional training in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy specifically tailored for ADHD, supporting a neurodivergent-affirming approach to her work.

Ciaran's approach is warm, collaborative, and non-judgmental. You don't need to have a diagnosis, know exactly what's wrong, or have things figured out before reaching out — sessions move at a pace that feels manageable for you.

She integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Person-Centered Therapy, Strengths-Based Therapy, and mindfulness-based approaches to help clients understand both their patterns and what those patterns may be protecting them from.

Ciaran is currently completing her practicum at Théla under clinical supervision. She offers her first 12 sessions at no cost, then $20 per session where continued therapy is available and clinically appropriate.

Best fit for: ADHD, anxiety, self-esteem and identity, perfectionism and people-pleasing, life transitions, and teens or young adults looking for an affordable entry point into therapy.

Not Sure Who to Choose?

You don't need to know which therapeutic approach you need or perfectly explain what's happening before reaching out.

Tell us a little about what you're looking for — including your concerns, preferred language, whether you're looking for individual, couples, family, or teen therapy, and whether you prefer virtual or in-person sessions.

We'll help you identify which Théla therapist may be the best fit.

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Our Approach as a Clinic

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Trauma-informed

We recognize that behaviours, emotions, and coping strategies often make more sense when understood in the context of what someone has experienced. Therapy is grounded in emotional safety, collaboration, choice, and respect for your pace.
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Individualized

There is no single therapeutic approach that works for everyone. Our therapists draw from different evidence-informed modalities and adapt treatment based on your goals, experiences, nervous system, relationships, culture, identity, and preferences.
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Relational

The relationship you have with your therapist matters. We aim to create therapy that feels collaborative and human — where you can ask questions, disagree, provide feedback, and participate actively in deciding where therapy goes.
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LGBTQ2S+ Affirming

Being queer or trans isn't something we treat as a problem to explain or fix. Charlie provides affirming care that takes minority stress and the impact of navigating unsupportive systems seriously, while making room for whatever else you're actually there to work on — your identity doesn't have to be the reason for every session unless you want it to be.
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Neurodiversity-Affirming

Different brains experience the world differently. Our approach does not begin from the assumption that neurodivergent clients need to become more neurotypical. Instead, therapy can help you understand how your brain works, recognize your needs, build strategies that fit you, and address the impact of living in environments that may not always accommodate neurological differences.
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Somatic & Nervous-System-Informed

Sometimes you understand exactly why you feel the way you do, but your body continues to respond with tension, anxiety, shutdown, hypervigilance, dissociation, or overwhelm. Bonny and Charlie incorporate somatic and nervous-system-informed approaches to help clients understand these responses, develop greater awareness of what is happening in their bodies, and build capacity for regulation. This can be particularly relevant when working with trauma, chronic stress, neurodivergence, burnout, chronic pain, and experiences that haven't shifted through insight alone.

Animal-Assisted Therapy in Markham

In-Person With Bonny

For clients who find animals grounding, comforting, or helpful for connection, Bonny offers animal-assisted psychotherapy with Théla's therapy dogs during select in-person sessions in Markham.

The presence of a therapy dog can provide another source of connection and grounding during psychotherapy, particularly for clients who may find traditional face-to-face conversation intense or who benefit from sensory and nervous-system support.

Animal-assisted therapy may be incorporated alongside Bonny's broader therapeutic work when appropriate and is always based on client preference, comfort, allergies, and clinical suitability.

In-Person Therapy in Markham

Prefer meeting your therapist face-to-face?

Bonny currently provides Théla's in-person psychotherapy appointments in Markham, including individual, couples, family, and teen therapy.

In-person sessions may also include animal-assisted therapy when appropriate and requested.

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Virtual Therapy Across Ontario & Beyond

All Théla therapists offer secure virtual psychotherapy, allowing you to choose a therapist based on fit, specialization, language, and therapeutic approach rather than simply who happens to practice closest to you.

Our team provides virtual therapy to clients across Ontario, including Toronto, Markham, Richmond Hill, Vaughan, Mississauga, Brampton, Hamilton, Oakville, Burlington, Ottawa, London, Kitchener-Waterloo, and other communities throughout the province.

Charlie also provides virtual psychotherapy to clients in British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan, offering support for trauma and PTSD, EMDR, ADHD and neurodivergence, LGBTQ+ concerns, chronic pain, and nervous-system regulation.

Therapist availability, services, and provincial eligibility vary by clinician.

Who We Serve

Théla provides psychotherapy for teens, adults, couples, and families.

Our team supports clients navigating concerns including:

  • Anxiety and chronic stress
  • ADHD and neurodivergence
  • Trauma, PTSD, and complex trauma
  • EMDR therapy
  • Borderline personality disorder (BPD)
  • Emotional regulation
  • Somatic and nervous-system concerns
  • Addiction and substance use
  • Addiction recovery and relapse prevention
  • Chronic pain and health-related stress
  • Depression and low mood
  • Self-esteem and identity
  • Attachment and relationship difficulties
  • Couples concerns
  • Family conflict and communication
  • Neurodivergent teens
  • Perinatal and postpartum mental health
  • Life transitions
  • Burnout
  • LGBTQIA+ concerns

Insurance & Direct Billing

Psychotherapy services may be covered by extended health insurance plans that include Registered Psychotherapists or other eligible mental health providers.

Coverage varies by plan and therapist designation, so we recommend confirming your psychotherapy benefits directly with your insurance provider.

Direct billing may be available for eligible plans and providers.

Ready to Find Your Therapist?

Whether you're looking for support with anxiety, ADHD, trauma, EMDR, BPD, addiction, chronic pain, relationships, parenthood, neurodivergence, or something that's harder to put into words, you don't need to figure out the right therapeutic approach on your own.

Explore our therapists or tell us what you're looking for, and we'll help you find someone who may be a good fit.

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