Andrea D'Onofrio MA, RP

Depressed? Anxious? Dealing with a crisis? In a caring, accepting, encouraging and non-judgmental environment, we can work together to carefully create the conditions necessary for you to heal and grow.

With compassion, acceptance and empathy, we will create a safe space for you to explore your vulnerability, share and grow.

Your experiences don’t have to define you. However, they can strengthen your understanding of your unique journey and integrate your innate resources of strength, resilience and courage. At the same time, we can work together to transform old patterns and reactions from destructive to productive, strongly empowering you and freeing you of negative reactions.

Through self-compassion, you can understand that you did the best you could at the time based on your skills, knowledge and experience, you can move through pain and heal. You can learn to trust in a safe client-therapist relationship, explore the past, regulate emotions, reconcile the past, develop an accurate self-concept and create your future.

I have tremendous respect and admiration for those willing to open their eyes to hard truths and disappointing circumstances. Raising consciousness in a largely unconscious world is not easy. It is this powerful and freeing process of awakening to the real you that comprises the concept of personal growth and development.

This is the focus of my practice.

I am here to walk with you on your enriching journey, to live with a focus on the present, accepting what can’t be changed but also changing what can. I am here to guide your self-exploration and provide the tools to create the change. None of this, however, can happen without your participation. This is an incredibly empowering process and is what gives psychotherapy a significantly lower relapse rate than traditional medical-model approaches.

I take a holistic view of whole-person health, which informs my approach. When we experience life, whether it be good or not so good, we can sense and feel it at the emotional, mental, physical and energetic levels. When any one system is off, it affects all other systems in the body.

I take a collaborative, client-centered approach, which constantly evolves with you. Psychotherapy creates skills and knowledge that will stay with you forever. With these skills, you can then effectively manage future challenges with more ease and control.

Areas of Interest

Areas of focus in my practice include:

• Anxiety and depression
• Trauma
• Self-esteem, self-worth, self-acceptance and self-confidence
• Stress and overwhelm
• Reiki
• Career and work-life balance
• Burnout
• Eating disorders
• Purpose and meaning
• Spirituality

My Background

My own experience in psychosomatic psychotherapy inspired me to leave my former career in retail buying to help others create the meaningful change that has transformed my personal and professional lives.

I am a Registered Psychotherapist with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO), hold a Master of Arts degree in Counselling Psychology from the Adler School of Professional Psychology and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Wilfrid Laurier University.

I am a professional member in good standing of the Canadian Counselling & Psychotherapy Association (CCPA) & Ontario Society of Registered Psychotherapists (OSRP). I am also a Registered Reiki Practitioner with the Canadian Reiki Association (CRA) and a certified Health Coach through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in New York City.

My office is located in Bloor West / High Park / Roncesvalles, at 2333 Dundas St. West. I offer in-person and online appointments.

If working together feels like a good fit for you, please contact me for a free consultation or visit my website to learn more.