Professional Mental Health Counselling
In person in Vaughan and virtually all over Ontario
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Individual Counselling
You and your therapist will work together to understand your needs and goals and work together to help you achieve them.
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Couples Counselling with 1 therapist
You will have an opportunity to speak with your therapist together and individually so that your therapist can get to know you and your partner well together and individually. Your therapist will help you work through the challenges and help you build skills together in session.
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Couples Counselling with 2 therapists
This is a unique service where a couple (Lina and Garry) will provide couples counselling together. Lina will work individually with one partner and Garry with the other and then bring both together for couples counselling sessions.
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Family counselling
The therapist will meet with the whole family, with each person individually, and with various dyads in the family to understand more about the challenges and how to find a way forward from the issues the family is experiencing. Family counselling is for parent-child relationships, sibling relationships, and blended families.
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Counselling with children (ages 4-12)
The therapist will meet with the parent for an intake session to learn more about the child and then work together on a plan of how to best support the child and the family.
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Counselling with teens
The therapist will meet with the teen to determine their goals and needs and work together with the teen to help them achieve their goals.
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Parent Coaching
Using an attachment based lens, parent coaching is to support parents of kids ages 0-18 with the various challenges that arise when parenting kids and teens.
Modalities used
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT)
Gottman Method
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
Imago Couples Therapy
Exposure Response Prevention (ExRP)
Play Therapy
Motivational Interviewing
Narrative therapy
Our Approach to Counselling
Neurodiversity affirming.
LGBTQ affirmative therapy.
Trauma informed.
Attachment aware.
Culturally responsive / culturally sensitive.
Anti-oppressive / equity-informed.
Strengths-based.
Relational / connection-focused.
Evidence-based.
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Lina Vishnevsky
Clinical Social Worker, Psychotherapist (MSW, RSW, B.Ed)
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Garry Smolyansky
Clinical social worker, Psychotherapist (MSW, RSW, B.Ed)