Our Services
Individual Therapy
In individual therapy, we encounter you with openness and utmost respect for your unique self and experience within your life circumstances, including your relationships, work, school, hobbies, culture and spirituality, etc.
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This provides you with the transformative experience of being seen and understood by a trained therapist who can help you heal difficult experiences, offer practical strategies to deal more effectively with challenges, or empower you to become more fully yourself and to live a meaningful, authentic life.
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Here are some of the concerns we support clients with:
depression | anxiety | stress | grief and loss | trauma | disordered eating | existential concerns (finding meaning and purpose) | spiritual concerns | relationships | sexuality | gender identity | decision-making and turning points | support for life challenges | a space to simply share your experience
Relationship Therapy
In relationship therapy, we guide you in communicating with empathy, honesty, and respect. As a result, you will feel the fulfillment of a deeper connection and will be inspired to find creative ways to honour your individual and shared dreams.
Here are some of the concerns we support various relationships with:
prevention of future instability | deepening your connection | improving your communication skills | making important decisions such as a change in job or relocation, living together, making a formal commitment to each other, or starting a family | healing from a betrayal, loss, abuse, or a period of separation | improving sexual connection and communication | navigating the ending of a relationship.
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Family Therapy
A healthy, well-functioning family is crucial for the growth and well-being of its members. Therapy is helpful when family members are facing challenges due to unhelpful communication patterns, specific family dynamics, transgenerational trauma, divorce, or forming a blended family. Typically, family therapy includes parents and children, and sometimes grandparents or other relatives who are involved in family dynamics.
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Here are some of the concerns we support families with:
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improving communication and family dynamics | healing transgenerational trauma | navigating divorce and blended families | parenting children who are struggling
Group Therapy
Existential group therapy offers a powerful growth opportunity—a safe and understanding community in which to explore your goals, especially the patterns of how you relate to others. The group can also be an important place for receiving support and learning from the perspective of others with similar experiences and struggles.
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​Currently, two online existential groups (supervised by Mihaela) are in progress at Exist:
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Exploring transitions: A process existential group for people going through significant life transitions
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An existential support group for single mothers struggling with compassion fatigue during COVID-19 pandemic
Supervision| Consultation
We offer supervision and case consultation from an existential framework for students and therapists.
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Supervision is a space to honour the work one does as a therapist, to receive support, and to see the client more essentially and clearly.
The supervision that we offer at EXIST follows a rigorous model rooted in the theory and process of Existential Analysis (EA). This model integrates a phenomenological process with an existential understanding of mental health and relational dynamics between client, supervisee and supervisor. Rather than providing “tips” for how to deal with the client, EA supervision emphasizes the subjective experience of the supervisee and how they are personally impacted by the work with their clients. This person of the therapist and how they relate to their clients is central.
Professional Development Workshops
Professional development is critical for counsellors, therapists and other mental health professionals. Exist therapists offer workshops and courses that aim to bring the principles and practical strategies of existential therapy to colleagues from our field and related specializations.
Among the workshops to be provided in the near future are:
therapeutic presence, working with feelings in therapy from an existential perspective, strengthening the person of the therapist, existential supervision model, living with inner consent, and understanding mental health suffering through an existential lens.
Stay tuned for some of these future opportunities and email us if you would like to suggest a particular topic for a workshop.