Ontario, Canada | Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)
Gestalt psychotherapy
Earth & Body-Based Gestalt Psychotherapy
Virtual & in-person psychotherapy, rooted in relationship with land & community.
Ways to work with me
Gestalt Psychotherapy
I offer a collaborative somatic and relational approach that explores your lived experiences in the present moment — thoughts, emotions, sensations, and the field between. Together, we cultivate awareness, deepen contact, and expand your capacity for choice and meaningful change.
I work with adult individuals and couples who are seeking change in how to move through relational complexities, life’s transitions, addictions/ soothing go-to’s, and dealing with the impact of modernity of current Time.
Individual sessions | 145$ per 1 hour session
Couples sessions | 185$ per 1 hour session
If cost is a barrier for you and you are actively seeking therapy and exploration, please don't hesitate and get in touch with me about sliding scale availability and information on lower cost therapy resources.
Individual & couples (18+) virtual and in-person
Wild Contact
Where the whole forest meets your whole self.
These immersive forest retreats are offered to therapists, MH counsellors, social workers, and healers who spend their work days holding space for others and often have little left for themselves, or recognize they are in need of deep recharge and energetic “composting”.
You already know how to sit with unfinished business. Out here, the forest sits with yours.
Through guided, as well as co-created plays, practices and flows, and shared stories, we get to explore, touch earth, facetime with moss, experiment , and just be, while held by incredible Land, Forest and River, who are deeply respected and cared for by diverse group of incredibly brave, magically creative and hard-heart-working humans.
Fees determined per retreat
Forest retreats for mental health practitioners
Immersive Playshops
Rooted in wholistic approach to well-being
small GRoups, individuals and couplesAn opportunity to deep-dive into experiential learning about Relational Field and Self in it through Immersive of malti-disciplinary rooted in relationship — with self, others, and the land. Through collective practice and reflection, the natural environment becomes part of the field, offering grounding, perspective, and depth.
Fees determined per playshop
Light & shadow belong to one another. The work is not to eliminate either - but to learn to dance with both.
Meet yourself more fully
Come to the edge of your own becoming — where shadow is welcomed, where presence matters more than performance, and where change begins with awareness.
It's not about becoming someone else.
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It's about becoming more fully yourself.
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It's not about becoming someone else. ✳︎ It's about becoming more fully yourself. ✳︎
about meHi, I’m Slava
My work is relational, embodied, and grounded in presence. Whether in the therapy room or on the land, I hold space for exploration — not quick fixes, not promises — but deep noticing, honest dialogue, and the unfolding of what is already here.
I became a Gestalt therapist because I am endlessly curious about how humans make meaning.
Before this path, I was already the one holding space for deep thinking, long conversations, and questions that linger. A pivotal chapter in my life — diving into philosophy, exploring identity, sexuality, activism, and non-mainstream ways of relating — fundamentally reshaped how I understand being human.
Gestalt psychotherapy gave language and structure to something I already knew:
We are not problems to be solved.
We are living systems in relationship — with ourselves, with others, and with the world.
The land is also part of this relationship. BecomingCommunity.ca and my Gestalt practice grew side by side. The land is not a backdrop; it is a teacher, a mirror, and sometimes a co-facilitator. When we are uncertain, it reminds us to gather.
