Adult Individual & Relationship Experts Toronto

Susan Blackburn Psychology

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About Toronto Psychotherapy with our talented team of clinicians

Can You Relate?

Our clients are thoughtful, high-functioning people who look great on paper — but inside are often struggling with:

  • Anxiety, sadness, or burnout
  • Dating confusion or heartbreak
  • Situationships, breakups, or insecure and anxious attachment
  • Boundary issues, people-pleasing, or self-doubt
  • Communication breakdowns, conflict, or disconnection:
    • Feeling emotionally distant from your partner
    • Arguing about the same issues without resolution
    • Struggling to express needs without triggering defensiveness
    • Navigating differences in values, parenting, or intimacy
    • Feeling unheard, unappreciated, or stuck in unhealthy dynamics
  • Family-of-origin dynamics that affect everyday life
  • Life transitions, parenting stress, or feeling stuck
  • Work issues, mental load anguish, or overwhelm
  • Repeating patterns, low self-worth, or stress and exhaustion

You don’t need a crisis to benefit from therapy. If you want to find solutions, feel better, and build stronger relationships — you’re in the right place.

Your problems don’t have to be huge to benefit from therapy. First world problems are still problems. If you’re suffering even just a little bit, or a lot, therapy can help you to feel better, smile more and enhance your life in amazing ways.

Going to therapy doesn’t mean that something’s wrong with you, it just means that you want to be better than you already are.

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Our Approach

Over the past 20 years, our passionate, experienced therapists have helped hundreds of clients transform their lives and relationships in meaningful, lasting ways. Our online therapy meets you where you’re at with empathy, clarity, and practical tools.

We believe therapy should be a safe place that honors both your thoughts and your emotions — because true healing happens when you integrate your head with your heart, logic with intuition, and acceptance in tandem with the power of your dreams.

Research shows that the quality of your relationships directly impacts your mental, emotional, and even your physical health. Whether it’s your relationship with yourself, a partner, your family, friends, or your workplace — how you connect (or disconnect) plays a central role in anxiety, depression, burnout, insecurity, anger, and more.

That’s why we focus on helping you create healthy, secure, emotionally fulfilling relationships — starting with the one you have with yourself.

Our approach blends the depth of emotional healing with the power of evidence-based therapies like CBT, ACT, IPT, EFT, DBT, Psychodynamic and Mindfulness-Based — supporting you to feel better, build stronger relationships, and move forward with confidence.

We don’t just sit back, take notes, and ask you “so, how do you feel about that?” We offer tools you can use, language to name what you’re going through, and strategies to move forward — all rooted in empathy, research, and real-life wisdom.

Our Focus Areas

Individual Therapy with Adults
We help you reconnect with yourself. Whether you’re navigating anxiety, low self-esteem, or relationship patterns that no longer serve you, we support you to:

  • Build self-worth, boundaries, and emotional strength
  • Heal attachment wounds and limiting beliefs
  • Cope with stress, perfectionism, and people-pleasing
  • Get clear on your values and life direction

Dating & Relationship Therapy
Whether you’re single, newly dating, stuck in situationships, or have been together for a while, we help you:

  • Recognize red flags and understand attachment styles
  • Navigate heartbreak or fear of commitment
  • Build confidence in who you are and what you want
  • Develop healthier dating habits and partner selection
  • Reflect on long-term patterns, values, and future relationship goals

Couples Therapy
We help couples move from disconnection to deeper intimacy. Using an integrated model, we utilize the Gottman Method, Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT), and attachment science, and support you to:

  • Improve communication and conflict resolution
  • Rebuild trust and repair emotional injuries
  • Increase understanding, empathy, and respect
  • Deepen physical and emotional intimacy
  • Navigate life stages, parenting, or blended family challenges

Why Clients Choose Us

  • Our signature blend of heart-centred care and actionable tools
  • Warm, non-judgmental therapists who meet you where you are
  • Intuitive and research-based strategies for real, lasting change
  • Flexible online sessions available 7 days a week, Ontario-wide

What to Expect

  1. No-cost Discovery Call (20 min) — tell us what’s going on and see if we’re a good fit
  2. Personalized Therapy Plan — clear goals + collaborative next steps
  3. Compassionate Support — consistent sessions, practical tools, and real progress

We Understand You

People often say, “My life isn’t that bad—do I really need therapy?”

The truth is, you don’t need to be falling apart to benefit from support. Many of our clients are outwardly successful, but inwardly tired of struggling, overthinking, or feeling emotionally stuck.

If that’s you—we get it. We work with people just like you every day.

We admire your courage for considering therapy, and we’d be honored to support you. Our team of skilled, compassionate therapists is here to help you build a stronger relationship with yourself and those you care about.

Whether on your own, or with your partner, let us help you get back to feeling like yourself — or discover a stronger and more resilient version of yourself or your relationship than ever before.

Meet Our Team

Lorena Koenig

MSW, RSW
Clinical Therapist

Lauren Vaupshas

MACP, RP
Clinical Therapist

Susan Blackburn

M.A., C.Psych.
Registered Psychologist

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