Toronto, ON
Find your path to healing and resilience. Individual, couples, and teen therapy in English, Mandarin and Cantonese.
Toronto, ON residents seeking a safe space to open up and create change will find personalized, evidence-based care at True Resilience Psychotherapy.
Our team at True Resilience Psychotherapy work with individuals ready to make change, and couples who are ready to experience deeper connection with their partners to create lasting transformation.
Toronto, ON clients can access in-person therapy sessions at our office for individuals, couples, teens, and families dealing with anxiety, trauma, emotion regulation, and relationship struggles. Our team also provides online therapy throughout Ontario for those who prefer virtual sessions or live outside the Greater Toronto Area.
About Our Toronto Therapy Practice
Our Toronto (Junction Wallace-Emerson) practice offers in-person therapy for individuals, couples, teens, and families dealing with anxiety, trauma, emotion regulation, and relationship struggles, and also provides online therapy across Ontario for those who prefer virtual sessions or live outside the Greater Toronto Area. We aim to serve the Asian community with counselling in English, Mandarin, or Cantonese.
Our Toronto-based team of Registered Psychotherapists and Registered Social Workers brings lived experience of East Asian cultural nuances—immigration stress, parenting challenges, cross-cultural relationship communication, and finding your voice—into individualized therapy that focuses on your goals. We offer sessions in Mandarin and Cantonese so you can speak in the language most comfortable for you.
Meet Our Therapists
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Kristal Kong
RP, MDiv
Offers Individual, Teen, Couples, and Family therapy
In English & Cantonese
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Lifei Qian
RP (Qualifying), MACP
Offers Individual, Teen and Couples therapy
In English & Mandarin
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Alice Yeung
RSW, MSW
Offers Individual and Teen therapy
In Mandarin & Cantonese
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Amy Chen
RP, MEd
Offers Individual therapy
In English
THERAPEUTIC MODALITIES WE USE
We offer services in evidence-based therapeutic approaches:
Emotion Focused Couples Therapy
Psychodynamics Individual Therapy
Relational Teen Therapy
Cultural Identity Therapy
Immigration Stress Therapy
Who we help in Toronto
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We work with individuals dealing with:
Anxiety and chronic worry
Perfectionism, self-criticism, and burnout
People-pleasing patterns
Guilt, shame, and self-doubt
Emotional reactivity
Trauma and painful memories
Grief and loss
Existential issues and meaning-making
Our clients often struggle with some level of disconnection- whether from themselves or from others. You may be ‘doing well’ by most metrics, but are still feeling overwhelmed and anxious, disconnected from your partner, and unsure what you’re missing. You might’ve tried strategies from self-help books or even therapy, but are still not feeling the lasting relief and change you need.
Our team of individual therapists will meet you where you’re currently at. You don’t need to have all the answers figured out, and you don’t have to want specific goals to work with us. During the intake process and first few sessions, your therapist will listen and collaborate with you to outline some goals to work toward in therapy based on what ‘feeling better’ means to you.
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Teenage years are tough, and our clinicians understand that adolescence is a time with intense emotional change, identity exploration, and growing pressure from school, friends, family, and themselves. Our therapists works with teens to cultivate a supportive, non-judgmental environment to talk through their strengths and challenges.
You may be a teen struggling with demanding academic pressures in school, challenges with mood and motivation, and changing peer relationships, our therapists tailor their approach to meet you where you’re at. One-on-one counselling sessions may focus on building emotional awareness, coping skills, and resilience, while giving you the space to direct where the session goes to meet your goals. Our therapists don’t take the approach that they know what’s best for you, but to co-create a path with you to feeling better.
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Our clinicians work with the East Asian Immigrant community in Toronto. Whether you’re a 1st generation, 1.5 generation, 2nd generation immigrant or beyond, the clinicians on our team understand and have experienced the unique mental health challenges you may be facing– the pressure to achieve and perform, feeling like your family doesn’t understand you, guilt and shame for not meeting expectations, and feeling alone in a new place.
Clinicians on our team both have nuanced lived experiences and the cultural knowledge to work on the specific dynamics. Through one-on-one therapy sessions, we help immigrant clients understand their feelings, empower them to listen to themselves, and act in their own best interests while learning to make peace with challenging feelings.
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For couples therapy in Toronto, our clinicians work with clients who are trying to communicate better, yet those conversations never get you where you wanted. You might believe that if you could just communicate better, that things in your relationship would improve. This may be true, and our therapists will work with you around communication strategies. Our therapists also help you go deeper to address underlying dynamics that are often responsible for creating the real barriers couples face.
Couples don’t have to come to therapy with the singular goal of staying together. Our therapists work with clients in all stages:
Working on staying together
Discernment to find clarity around whether to keep trying or to end the relationship
Managing separations amicably for all parties involved.
If you fit in any of the stages outlined above, we welcome you to reach out and book a consultation with our couples therapists.
Our Approach to Therapy in Toronto
Our clinicians’ therapeutic approach is active, exploratory, and highly personalized. We work collaboratively with clients through a balanced mix of reflective listening and directive guidance. Your therapist will work with you to clarify where you want to go in therapy, and work with you to co-create that path for change.
How do I get started?
We’ve tried to make getting started as easy as possible for you.
Take a look at our Team page to see who resonates with you.
Click Book Now to be taken to their schedule.
Select the practitioner you’re interested in, and select the New Client Consultation (You have the option between phone or video)
Click on a time that works for you to meet, and complete the steps to sign up for an account!
And there, your consult is booked!
If it’s a phone call, your therapist will call you (usually from a blocked number) at the time of your appointment.
If it’s a video appointment, you’ll receive an email reminder with the video link 30-minutes before the session time. Log in a couple minutes to make sure all the tech is working, and there you go!
ACCESSING CARE: IN-PERSON AND ONLINE OPTIONS
Clients in the Toronto area (Junction Wallace-Emerson neighbourhood), we offer in-person sessions at our Toronto office in English, Mandarin and Cantonese. There’s something powerful about meeting face-to-face, particularly for facilitating deep, meaningful conversations that are distraction-free.
For clients throughout Ontario, we provide online therapy services that offer the same high-quality, personalised care with added flexibility.
INVESTMENT AND INSURANCE
Many clients find that their insurance provides reimbursement for all or a portion of therapy costs. A receipt will be emailed to you following every session with all the information you’ll need to submit to your insurance company. For specific pricing information and to discuss how therapy fees work with your situation, your therapist will be happy to discuss during your consult.
Take the Next Step
If you're tired of the same patterns, ready for genuine change, and looking for a Toronto therapist who will actively work alongside you to create breakthrough results, we invite you to reach out. Whether you're dealing with trauma, anxiety, perfectionism, or relationship struggles, specialized approaches like Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT) Psychodynamic Therapy, Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT), and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (EFT) can help you create the calm, connected life you deserve.
Schedule a consultation today to discuss your specific situation, and learn more about how we can work together. You don't have to keep struggling, meaningful change is possible.