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What can Psychotherapy help with?
Psychotherapy helps with the everyday struggles that wear people down — anxiety, stress and burnout, low mood, self-doubt, the after-effects of difficult experiences, and relationship patterns that keep repeating — as well as with formally diagnosed conditions such as depression, anxiety disorders, PTSD and OCD. Most people who contact us are not in crisis. They have been coping for a long time and want something to change.
You have read the articles, talked it through with friends and tried to think your way out of it. Most days you function. Some days it takes everything you have to look like you are.
Anxiety that won't switch off
Worry that runs in the background all day, a body that stays on alert, and situations you have started to avoid because the anticipation is worse than the event.
Burnout and stress overload
You are doing everything you are supposed to and still feel behind. Rest does not restore you, small tasks feel heavy, and your patience is gone by mid-afternoon.
Low mood, feeling flat or stuck
Less interest in things you used to enjoy, trouble getting going, and a sense that life is happening to you rather than being lived by you.
Not feeling good enough
A harsh inner voice that says you are not doing enough, comparing yourself to where you "should" be by now, and feeling like a failure no matter what you achieve.
Past experiences that still weigh on you
Something that happened years ago still shapes how you react today — in relationships, at work, or in how safe you feel in your own body.
Reacting, then feeling guilty
Snapping at the people you love and then replaying it for hours, or saying yes to everyone else until there is nothing left for you.
Wondering whether what you are carrying is "enough" to bring to therapy? Read our resource article on the 12 signs it may be time to book a session.
Many of these concerns have their own page with a dedicated team and a deeper explanation of how we work: anxiety counselling, depression counselling, stress and burnout therapy, trauma therapy, childhood trauma and attachment, grief counselling, OCD therapy, body image, couples counselling, prenatal and postpartum counselling and teen counselling. If your concern is not listed, ask at the consult — the list above is where we most often start, not a limit.
Who provides psychotherapy at Trillium?
Psychotherapy at Trillium Counselling is provided by Registered Social Workers (MSW, RSW), regulated by the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers, and by Registered Psychotherapists (RP), regulated by the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario. Both colleges authorize their members to perform the controlled act of psychotherapy once they have completed the additional training the college requires (Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers, 2024). We do not have psychologists or psychiatrists on staff; a formal diagnosis, if you ever want one, comes from a physician, psychiatrist, nurse practitioner or psychologist, and our therapists work with the pattern whether or not you pursue that step.
Every therapist here holds their own registration with one of these colleges and is accountable to its standards of practice, so you can look them up on the public register before you ever book. If the alphabet soup of titles is confusing, our explainer on psychotherapists, psychologists and psychiatrists walks through who does what in Ontario.
Most of our team provides individual psychotherapy. Below are a few of the therapists at Trillium Counselling who support clients through psychotherapy, in Kitchener-Waterloo and online across Ontario. During your free consultation, we'll match you with the therapist who's the best fit for your needs, schedule, and goals — including team members not pictured here.
