
Re-centering Body & Mind
Psychotherapy in Toronto:
Youth|Adult|Couples|
Low Cost Therapy

Psychotherapy in Toronto:
Youth|Adult|Couples|
Low Cost Therapy
Centred: Mentally and emotionally confident, focused, and well-balanced.
Being centred means that you have a reference point, a place to come back to, when life's challenges and emotions push you off balance.
Self: An appreciation for your particularity, discovered through introspection, and reflection. Do this work with a Psychotherapist in Toronto at Centred Self in Toronto today!
If you’re on the fence about whether therapy is right for you, take some time to explore what we do at Centred Self and whether psychotherapy can help.
Our quiz is quick and simple, and it should help you decide if you would benefit from working with a therapist in Toronto.
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I am the Founder / CEO, Jessie Erb. And I want to let you know all that you can find here: From our many specialities (Look into this with our "Help With" section above), to our Low Cost clinic, and our In Person Space, we are here to meet you in whatever you bring.
You have made one of the bravest decisions to seek out therapy. Let us help you in this journey.
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We provide Psychotherapy in Toronto and Ontario to all ages as well as couples and individual therapy.
Every psychotherapist at Centred Self is trained in a Relational Psychodynamic Approach because we believe that healing comes through relationship.
We have a Low Cost Clinic, In Person Therapy Space, and a variety of specialties to help you get started.
Check out our "Help With" Page to learn about everything we do - and how we can help you.

Are you a Psychotherapist in Toronto or Ontario? Discover new ways of engaging with your clients & explore the use of Self through the Psychodynamic paradigm with our CRPO certified supervisor, and independent Psychotherapist, Jess Erb (CEO/Founder of Centred Self).
If you require supervision to meet CRPO requirements, reach out for a 20 minute free consult where you can ask questions, talk about your practice and see if supervision with Centred Self is the right fit.
Centred Self believes that mental health is interconnected to our bodies and mind.
Our Company Workshops can help you navigate burnout, make interpersonal changes, and connect with colleagues in a meaningful way.
For Therapists, we offer Psychodynamic Workshops geared towards allowing you to understand all that may be happening between you and your clients.
For Clients, we offer many in-person workshops that are all geared towards allowing you to connect with others and yourself through movement, exploration, and connection.

Ryan Bittinger is a certified EMDR practitioner that provides EMDR services to a wide variety of clients. This practice can help with trauma in a way that limits re-traumatizing and has been widely praised for its effectiveness in technique.

Our In Person space is a gorgeous space right in the heart of Toronto.
Looking to have In Person therapy, rather than virtual?
Check out more about our space and meet our In Person therapists to book a session today.

We have been there too: Wanting therapy, but cost being a burden.
We are passionate about providing lower cost therapy - often half the price of our specialists.
All trained and supervised at Centred Self, get expert care at an affordable rate.

Our team of therapists in Toronto is dedicated to providing exceptional psychotherapy, coaching and wellness services, solution-focussed therapy, affordable online therapy, and more. Centred Self’s team of online therapists can help people anywhere in Ontario with virtual sessions.
Psychotherapy, when Googled, generally comes up with the simple phrase "Talk therapy to help with mental illness like depression, anxiety, relational distress (etc)." This is a good answer, right? Well ... Let me unpack this a bit more for you. Psychotherapy is about talking. But it is so much more active than this phrase gives it credit for. For us at Centred Self, we are relational psychotherapists and this means we look for themes as well as inconsistencies in your self-narrative, and through this we can start to see what may be happening in the subconscious (just below awareness) and even the unconscious (things that haunt you that you would never be aware of without diving in). These interconnections start to come alive as we go deeper into the 'why' of your patterns of behaviours or feelings about things. We start to see how defenses, which might have once been super helpful for you, are now maladaptive and causing you strife. And very soon, things that you once brought to therapy no longer even come up as you go deeper into what's going on for you in your life.
I think of therapy as a three-phase 'landscape.’ And hopefully this is helpful for you:
The first phase is where you show me your landscape. You know it much better than I can, and I need to know what has happened to you and what is going on now for me to get to know you and all you are bringing. Basically, you are getting me up to speed on your life.
The second phase is where the fun happens. It is exciting but also can be scary; in this phase, neither of us knows where we are going. We've got to a place where you have never travelled before and we have to spend some time navigating it together. This is one of the 'aha' moments of therapy. The breakthroughs. It is enlivening to start to see the depths and the whys to our thoughts and behaviours.
The third phase is where we can start to take all we learn and apply it for change. It is incredible how just knowing our whys to our behaviours that they really start to change. This is why I do not love solution-focussed therapies. They often just want to solve something without exploring the roots of why it is there in the first place. In phase three, change is happening without workbooks or strategies because once you understand yourself, it is very hard for you to unconsciously fall back into patterns. How can you, when it's no longer unconscious in the first place?
These models are not linear. It is not uncommon for Phase 2 to happen within the first few sessions, even before I know your full story, or for Phase 3 to be happening as we go through this work. Or, we may have been seeing each other for years, when you are like, 'Oh my goodness, how could I not have told you this yet?!" - bringing us back to Phase 1. This is the best rubric I have for how therapy works. Hopefully it works for you too.

Centred Self has partnered with Therapy Suites, right in the heart of downtown Toronto at St. Lawrence Market, to offer In-Person sessions!
If you are looking for in-person sessions, contact us today and we can set you up with an associate for your first free-consult