Counselling & Psychotherapy
Trauma-informed, client-centred psychotherapy for individuals, families, and those navigating grief and life transitions.
In-person locations in Barrie & Orillia, with online services available across Ontario
Who Counselling May Support
- Children and adolescents
- Parents and caregivers
- Couples and co-parents
- Families navigating change, conflict, or transition
Ready to unlock your potential and create lasting change?
At Soul Path, we offer a warm, welcoming environment where you can feel safe to explore your challenges and discover your strengths. Our experienced therapists believe in integrative and personalized care, tailoring their approach to your unique needs and goals.
Bill C59-Psychotherapy services are GST/HST exempt, which may make therapy more accessible.
We specialize in helping individuals, children, teens, adults, couples, and families with a variety of concerns, including:
- Anxiety, Depression
- Grief, Life Transitions, Caregiving
- Emotional Regulation
- Relationships, Conflict, Difficult Decisions
- Illness, Mental Health Concerns
- Trauma, PTSD
- Stress, Burnout, Compassion Fatigue
- ADHD, Educational Concerns
- Family Conflict
- Spirituality - Life of Meaning & Purpose
Therapy can help you:
- Overcome anxiety, depression, and past trauma.
- Improve communication and build stronger relationships.
- Develop healthier coping skills for life's challenges.
- Live a more fulfilling life.
Why Choose Therapy?
People seek psychotherapy for many different reasons, including:
- Challenges with relationships, parenting, family dynamics, or communication
- Grief, loss, or major life transitions
- Feeling overwhelmed, emotionally distressed, or “stuck.”
- Anxiety, low mood, or patterns from past experiences affecting daily life
I also support:
- Children, teens, and adults
- Low self-esteem, challenges with focus, and emotional regulation
- Individuals living with chronic illness or ongoing health concerns
- Those navigating caregiving roles, burnout, or compassion fatigue
- People seeking mindfulness-based support for stress, pain management, or emotional balance
Many people come to therapy not because something is wrong, but because they want to:
- Build coping and resiliency skills
- Strengthen mindfulness and self-awareness
- Live with greater balance, clarity, and self-understanding
For some, therapy is also a space to explore:
- Meaning, identity, and purpose
- Values and personal growth
- Connection during times of transition or inner change
Psychotherapy remains clinically grounded while gently holding space for the whole person—supporting emotional health, personal insight, and more harmonious relationships and daily life.
A Safe Place For Self Expression
Psychotherapy offers a supportive space outside of family, work, and everyday roles—where you can be heard and understood by an impartial third party. Healing often begins by being able to speak openly about what’s happening in your life without feeling judged, intimidated, or defensive. Therapy provides an opportunity to explore thoughts, emotions, and behaviours as you work through difficult or meaningful life experiences.
Improve Sense Of Self & Emotional Well Being
Psychotherapy can help you reconnect with your sense of self and emotional well-being—especially when doubt, fear, or life pressures have made it harder to feel grounded or whole. Therapy supports self-understanding and emotional clarity as you move toward greater confidence and balance.
Building Coping & Resilience Skills
Life changes such as loss, illness, or unexpected challenges can disrupt our sense of stability and leave emotions feeling overwhelming. When life begins to feel unmanageable, reaching out for professional support can help. Therapy offers practical skills, strategies, and tools to support coping, strengthen resilience, and help you navigate difficult experiences with greater confidence and steadiness.
Supporting Positive Mental Health
Many people believe counselling or psychotherapy is only needed during a crisis. In reality, support can be just as valuable when life is going well. Therapy can help you stay grounded, reflect, and remain connected to what matters most as life evolves.
We all benefit from a supportive space—someone to listen, encourage, and offer perspective—where thoughts, feelings, and experiences can be shared openly and without judgment.
Finding Relief from Emotional Distress
Emotional distress can show up in many ways—feeling overwhelmed, withdrawn, stuck, or weighed down by persistent worry or low mood. These experiences don’t always fit neatly into labels, and they don’t have to reach a crisis point to deserve support.
Therapy offers a safe, supportive space to explore what you’re experiencing, develop practical coping strategies, reduce emotional strain, and create a realistic wellness plan that reflects your needs and life circumstances.
Improve Mood & Mindset
Therapy offers a supportive space to explore challenges, recognize personal strengths, and develop an individualized plan with meaningful goals. Working with a psychotherapist provides gentle accountability within a neutral, non-judgmental setting.
Using a range of therapeutic tools—such as reflection, guided practices, and gently challenging unhelpful patterns—therapy can support a more balanced mindset and help you feel more grounded and empowered in your daily life.
Building Relationships And Perspective
Therapy can help you explore challenges in how you relate to yourself and others. Working with a psychotherapist offers space to reflect on patterns in thoughts, emotions, and behaviours, and to gently shift perspectives that may no longer be serving you.
This process can support clearer communication, deeper empathy, and healthier, more meaningful relationships.
Grief And Bereavement
Life changes and losses can feel overwhelming. Experiences such as separation or divorce, illness, moving, the loss of employment, the death of a pet, or the death of a loved one can deeply affect emotional well-being and one’s sense of stability.
Grief shows up differently for everyone and unfolds in its own time. Speaking with a psychotherapist can provide a supportive space to process what you’re feeling, make sense of your experience, and find ways to move forward with care and compassion for yourself.
What is Psychotherapy?
Psychotherapy is a collaborative process that supports self-understanding, emotional well-being, and meaningful change.
It offers a supportive space to explore thoughts, emotions, behaviours, and life experiences with a qualified mental health professional.
Through this process, therapy can help strengthen relationships, improve communication, and gently explore patterns or beliefs that may be holding you back—supporting greater clarity, balance, and confidence as you navigate your life.
How Does it Work?
Therapy is client-centred and collaborative, offering a space for safe, open expression. A complimentary 15-minute phone consultation is available to ask questions and explore whether working together feels like a good fit.
Sessions are paced with care and begin with an intake conversation to understand your goals, concerns, and what brings you to therapy. From there, we work together using approaches that support insight, growth, and practical change. Therapy may be short-term or ongoing, with the option to return for support as your life evolves.
Our Approach
Therapy is a collaborative process tailored to each person rather than applied as a one-size-fits-all model.
Sessions may draw from cognitive and emotion-focused therapies, somatic and nervous-system–informed approaches, and relational, attachment-based work, while also integrating mindfulness-informed practices where appropriate. Approaches are chosen thoughtfully and evolve based on your needs, goals, and readiness, supporting both emotional insight and practical change in everyday life.
Counselling & Psychotherapy
Our therapy sessions are available online, by phone or in person in Barrie & Orillia, Ontario.
Who We Help
Children, Teens & Adults, Couples & Families
Topics We Commonly Support
- Grief, loss, and bereavement
- Relationships, communication, and family dynamics
- Anxiety, emotional distress, and stress-related concerns
- Depression, low mood, and life transitions
- Trauma and complex trauma (C-PTSD)
- ADHD, focus, and emotional regulation
- Parenting and caregiving challenges
- Body image, self-esteem, and identity concerns
- Chronic health concerns and caregiving-related stress
- Separation, divorce, and relationship transitions
Location
Online, By Phone, and/or In Person.
Hours
M, T, W, Fr, 12:00 am to 8:00 pm, 14 Peter St. S, Orillia
Sat. 10:00 to 2:00 (2nd & 4th Saturday)
Thurs: 12:00 am to 4:00 pm, 47 Worsley St, Barrie
Sunday: Closed
Fees
$170.00 No taxes
Sessions occur by phone, in person and online. When you choose online sessions – You will join me on a secure link, in the comfort of your own home. For more information about Rates or Counseling, please contact us.
Cancellation Policy: Clients must provide 48 hours' notice to cancel an appointment.
24 hours or less notice results in full payment of fees.
Memberships: CRPO RP, OAMHP, OSRP
Psychotherapy services are provided within a regulated, trauma-informed, and client-centered framework.
