Welcome! I'm Semra, a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) with the CRPO and a member of CCPA. I hold a Masters (M.A.) in Counselling Psychology with distinction from Yorkville University and an undergraduate degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences.
I provide online psychotherapy sessions in both English and Turkish to clients across Ontario via video and telephone, offering a safe space to share, understand, and achieve your goals. I'm passionate about guiding you on your self-growth journey and equipping you with the tools for success.
I tailor therapeutic modalities to suit your needs, blending various approaches like solution-focused therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), and narrative therapy, all delivered with respect and empathy.
-Your compassionate therapist
Whether you've had therapy before or you're new to it, let's explore how we can support you on your mental health journey. All consultations and therapy sessions are conducted online, and you'll receive a link before your scheduled appointment.
Allow yourself to express your emotions to find ways to regulate them and enhance your emotional intelligence and peace. Therapy helps identify and change troubling emotions, thoughts, and behaviors, providing relief from unpleasant symptoms and improving daily functioning and quality of life.
Embrace the therapeutic journey with motivation and commitment. Through therapy, you'll gain insights into yourself, improve communication skills, feel empowered, make healthier choices, and develop coping strategies. Explore your thoughts and feelings in a nonjudgmental, safe space where you can express yourself freely.
It's important to know that you don't have to live with anxiety and fear if you experience panic attacks, obsessive thoughts, constant worries, or a phobia. Therapy can help and is often the best way to address many anxiety issues. Therapy equips you with the tools to overcome anxiety and teaches you how to utilize them.
Depression is characterized by extreme sadness or hopelessness lasting more than a few days and impacting individuals in various ways. It can significantly impair a person's ability to function in everyday situations. Fortunately, depression is highly treatable, and therapy can be a potent remedy for its effects.
Living with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can be challenging, as its symptoms can complicate everyday activities. It's crucial to seek the support necessary to understand and manage your or your child's condition. Research suggests that psychotherapy may help alleviate ADHD symptoms, such as irritability, aggression, difficulty paying attention, and hyperactivity.
Stress can escalate into chronic stress, eventually resulting in burnout if left untreated. While stress often makes individuals feel overwhelmed, burnout leaves them feeling utterly exhausted, with nothing more to give. Therapy offers strategies to manage and cope with stress symptoms, potentially preventing burnout.
As we navigate life's transitions, many changes can be challenging and profoundly impactful. Whether it's the excitement of starting a new job or the loss of a loved one, transitions can bring stress. How do we understand and cope with these changes? Psychotherapy offers support to navigate challenges, easing the transition process.
The effects of trauma can deeply impact various aspects of life, leading to long-term consequences. Trauma therapy offers support for coping with both one-time events and ongoing situations. It addresses a wide range of traumas, including abuse, accidents, and loss, providing a safe space to process emotions and develop coping skills.
The main aim of behavioural therapy is to replace self-defeating behaviours with meaningful and rewarding ones. It fosters positive self-perception and emotional responses, reducing conflict and enhancing interpersonal relationships. Through therapy, individuals learn to manage negative emotions constructively, gaining control over their reactions.
People handle stress and overwhelming emotions in various ways. Rather than addressing the issue directly, some may resort to unhealthy distractions or outlets, like anger turning into aggression or developing substance addictions. Therapy offers support in developing positive coping strategies and tools for healthier management. Through open discussion, allowing emotions without being overwhelmed, and focusing on the present, therapy aids in stress management.
Self-esteem is vital for well-being, yet low self-esteem can cause shame, doubt, and hinder relationships and goals. Therapy helps by addressing negative self-talk, fostering self-compassion, and setting achievable goals, leading to improved self-esteem. It's a journey that takes time and effort to overcome old patterns, but progress is possible. Remember, "New things take time to learn." Let's start!
Although anger is a natural human emotion, uncontrolled anger can quickly become problematic. Therapy can help you recognize and avoid triggers that provoke anger and provide strategies to manage sudden outbursts. By examining the thoughts preceding your anger, you can learn to resolve conflicts more constructively and mend relationships affected by it.
Domestic violence encompasses abuse by various household members and intimate partners, involving physical, sexual, emotional, or psychological harm. Therapy aids survivors by restoring self-image, fostering trust, addressing anxieties, managing guilt and anger, identifying triggers, and treating associated mental health issues.
Parenting is both challenging and rewarding. Therapy provides guidance for addressing children's emotional, developmental, and behavioural issues, offering new tools and strategies. It fosters a stable, supportive family environment, promotes trusting relationships, facilitates conflict resolution, helps plan for challenging situations, and supports parental self-care.
Family is an important support system as everyone needs to feel supported and loved by their family and relationships. Family and relationships can include parents, siblings, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and family friends. Occasionally, a child might have a conflict with a loved one or could be experiencing the effects of divorce and being away from a loved one. For caregivers, it's essential to help a child identify who they might be having issues with and help resolve these conflicts.
Relationship therapy is for any relationship, including couples, family members, friends, and other relationship structures. Relationship-related treatment gives you the tools to overcome emotional distance, lessen misunderstandings, deal with negative emotions, reestablish meaningful connections, and increase your comprehension of the root reasons for unhealthy patterns in your interactions with the people who matter most to you.
Every relationship has its ups and downs. But when things become stressful or unavoidable, even the smallest issues can become burdensome for one person or both. Relationship therapy provides tools to overcome emotional distance, minimize misunderstandings, address negative emotions, rebuild meaningful connections, and enhance understanding of dysfunctional patterns between yourself and those who are important to you.
Women may experience emotional challenges related to gender, which can significantly impact mental health and overall well-being. These challenges may encompass anxiety, depression, disordered eating behaviour, postpartum depression, domestic violence, sexual abuse, discrimination, hormonal changes, infertility, and low self-esteem. Choosing to pursue therapy can be a crucial initial step toward healing.
Acculturation involves individuals, families, or cultural groups adjusting their original social and cultural values, ideas, beliefs, and behaviours to align with those of a new culture. Differences in immigration and acculturation can impact a person's psychological well-being and overall adaptation to a new culture and country. It influences various aspects of life, including language, behaviour, values, beliefs, and social interactions. We recognize the challenges of multiculturalism, immigration, and acculturation and are here to support your adaptation, address your goals, and find solutions to any difficulties that may arise.
Relationship therapy is for any relationship, including couples, family members, friends, and other relationship structures. Relationship-related treatment gives you the tools to overcome emotional distance, lessen misunderstandings, deal with negative emotions, reestablish meaningful connections, and increase your comprehension of the root reasons for unhealthy patterns in your interactions with the people who matter most to you.
Every relationship has its ups and downs. But when things become stressful or unavoidable, even the smallest issues can become burdensome for one person or both. Relationship therapy provides tools to overcome emotional distance, minimize misunderstandings, address negative emotions, rebuild meaningful connections, and enhance understanding of dysfunctional patterns between yourself and those who are important to you.
Depression is characterized by extreme sadness or hopelessness lasting more than a few days and impacting individuals in various ways. It can significantly impair a person's ability to function in everyday situations. Fortunately, depression is highly treatable, and therapy can be a potent remedy for its effects.
It's important to know that you don't have to live with anxiety and fear if you experience panic attacks, obsessive thoughts, constant worries, or a phobia. Therapy can help and is often the best way to address many anxiety issues. Therapy equips you with the tools to overcome anxiety and teaches you how to utilize them.
Living with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can be challenging, as its symptoms can complicate everyday activities. It's crucial to seek the support necessary to understand and manage your or your child's condition. Research suggests that psychotherapy may help alleviate ADHD symptoms, such as irritability, aggression, difficulty paying attention, and hyperactivity.
Stress can escalate into chronic stress, eventually resulting in burnout if left untreated. While stress often makes individuals feel overwhelmed, burnout leaves them feeling utterly exhausted, with nothing more to give. Therapy offers strategies to manage and cope with stress symptoms, potentially preventing burnout.
The effects of trauma can deeply impact various aspects of life, leading to long-term consequences. Trauma therapy offers support for coping with both one-time events and ongoing situations. It addresses a wide range of traumas, including abuse, accidents, and loss, providing a safe space to process emotions and develop coping skills.
Parenting is both challenging and rewarding. Therapy provides guidance for addressing children's emotional, developmental, and behavioural issues, offering new tools and strategies. It fosters a stable, supportive family environment, promotes trusting relationships, facilitates conflict resolution, helps plan for challenging situations, and supports parental self-care.
As we navigate life's transitions, many changes can be challenging and profoundly impactful. Whether it's the excitement of starting a new job or the loss of a loved one, transitions can bring stress. How do we understand and cope with these changes? Psychotherapy offers support to navigate challenges, easing the transition process.
Family is an important support system as everyone needs to feel supported and loved by their family and relationships. Family and relationships can include parents, siblings, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and family friends. Occasionally, a child might have a conflict with a loved one or could be experiencing the effects of divorce and being away from a loved one. For caregivers, it's essential to help a child identify who they might be having issues with and help resolve these conflicts.
The main aim of behavioural therapy is to replace self-defeating behaviours with meaningful and rewarding ones. It fosters positive self-perception and emotional responses, reducing conflict and enhancing interpersonal relationships. Through therapy, individuals learn to manage negative emotions constructively, gaining control over their reactions.
People handle stress and overwhelming emotions in various ways. Rather than addressing the issue directly, some may resort to unhealthy distractions or outlets, like anger turning into aggression or developing substance addictions. Therapy offers support in developing positive coping strategies and tools for healthier management. Through open discussion, allowing emotions without being overwhelmed, and focusing on the present, therapy aids in stress management.
Self-esteem is vital for well-being, yet low self-esteem can cause shame, doubt, and hinder relationships and goals. Therapy helps by addressing negative self-talk, fostering self-compassion, and setting achievable goals, leading to improved self-esteem. It's a journey that takes time and effort to overcome old patterns, but progress is possible. Remember, "New things take time to learn." Let's start!
Although anger is a natural human emotion, uncontrolled anger can quickly become problematic. Therapy can help you recognize and avoid triggers that provoke anger and provide strategies to manage sudden outbursts. By examining the thoughts preceding your anger, you can learn to resolve conflicts more constructively and mend relationships affected by it.
Women may experience emotional challenges related to gender, which can significantly impact mental health and overall well-being. These challenges may encompass anxiety, depression, disordered eating behaviour, postpartum depression, domestic violence, sexual abuse, discrimination, hormonal changes, infertility, and low self-esteem. Choosing to pursue therapy can be a crucial initial step toward healing.
Domestic violence encompasses abuse by various household members and intimate partners, involving physical, sexual, emotional, or psychological harm. Therapy aids survivors by restoring self-image, fostering trust, addressing anxieties, managing guilt and anger, identifying triggers, and treating associated mental health issues.
Acculturation involves individuals, families, or cultural groups adjusting their original social and cultural values, ideas, beliefs, and behaviours to align with those of a new culture. Differences in immigration and acculturation can impact a person's psychological well-being and overall adaptation to a new culture and country. It influences various aspects of life, including language, behaviour, values, beliefs, and social interactions. We recognize the challenges of multiculturalism, immigration, and acculturation and are here to support your adaptation, address your goals, and find solutions to any difficulties that may arise.
-Sigmund Freud