Slava standing in the Boreal forest, surrounded by lush trees. She's wearing a fur vest and crocheted skirt.

Gentle, honest & compassionate

I offer containers to explore your experiences and how they shape you. Together we will create somatic, humanistic, body-wise frameworks to support your unique needs in wholesome and holistically integrative ways.

This is not about becoming someone else.

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It's about becoming more fully yourself.

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This is not about becoming someone else. ✳︎ It's about becoming more fully yourself. ✳︎

Ways to work with me

Slava, gestalt psychotherapist in Ontario, providing individual and couples therapy. Looking directly into the camera, she is listening attentively.

Gestalt Psychotherapy

Individual & couples (18+)  virtual and in-person

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.

Land-based retreats for groups on the land in Ontario. A circle of chairs around a fire under the full moon.

Wild Contact

Where the whole forest meets your whole self.

Forest retreats for mental health practitioners

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

Slava facilitating forest therapy, Gestalt land-based playshop.

Immersive Playshops

Rooted in wholistic approach to well-being

small GRoups, individuals and couples

An 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

Fees for psychotherapy

Individual sessions | 145$ per 1 hour session

Couples sessions | 185$ per 1 hour session

Land-based sessions | cost per project, get in touch

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.

Roots of this work

    • Anxiety, depression, and emotional overwhelm

    • Anger and emotional regulation

    • Stress, burnout, and workplace challenges

    • Grief, loss, and major life transitions

    • Existential concerns and fear of meaninglessness

    • Relationship challenges across monogamous, non-monogamous, polyamorous, platonic, and familial dynamics

    • Ethical non-monogamy, polyamory, and open relationships

    • Codependency and challenging relational patterns

    • Intimacy, sexuality, and playfulness

    • LGBTQ+ affirming care

    • Sex-positive, kink-allied support

    • Body image, body positivity, and self-esteem

    • ADHD and neurodivergence

    • Childhood abuse, emotional neglect, and early relational trauma

    • Sexual abuse and complex sexual trauma

    • Substance use and addiction

    • Outdated coping and self-soothing mechanisms

    • Immigration, cultural transition, and socio-political integration

    • Motherhood, perimenopause, and later-life transitions

  • Some of the methods I use in therapy are:

    • Internal Family Systems

    • Family Constellations

    • Empty Chair work

    • Breath work

    • Movement

    • Shadow work

    • Dream interpretation

  • My practice is trans-affirming, queer-affirming, and sex worker-affirming. I work with individuals and couples navigating ethical non-monogamy and other relationship structures outside the mainstream. I believe therapy should be a space where your identity, desires, and lived realities are met with respect — not pathologized.

    As a settler, I acknowledge that the land I steward and practice on is the traditional territory of many nations, including the Ojibwe, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples. This land is protected by the “Dish With One Spoon” wampum agreement — a commitment to shared responsibility, reciprocity, and peace.

    This understanding informs my work. Healing does not happen in isolation; it happens in relationship — with one another and with the land that holds us.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Gestalt psychotherapy takes a path, that embraces a person’s whole experience. It is a holistic, embodied, and relational practice that allows us to explore how we make sense of what we see, hear and feel not only in our thoughts, but in the sensations of our bodies and the emotions we hold.

    Gestalt therapy is not about finding quick answers or solutions. It is an exploration, grounded in curiosity and presence. In our work together, we pay close attention to your experience—as it arises in thoughts, emotions, and sensations—and to the relational field that connects us in the here and now.

  • Many benefit plans cover the cost (or a portion) of therapy with a Registered Psychotherapist (RP). Gestalt Psychotherapy usually is covered by most insurance providers. Contact your benefits provider for more information on your coverage, including benefits renewal date and total cost covered.

  • Payment is required at the end of each therapy session via e-transfer.

  • In order to maximize the effectiveness of therapy, clients should make attending sessions a priority and are encouraged to avoid cancelling sessions except in the case of illness or emergencies. Session fees will be applied for appointments cancelled less than 24 hours in advance. There is an understanding that unforeseen circumstances occur and in these particular situations waiving the fee will be considered.

  • Adults (18+) who are curious about their internal world, relational patterns, and lived experience. Many of my clients resonate with being outsiders, truth-seekers, creatives, or those navigating unconventional paths.

  • No - they are experiential and educational offerings. They are not psychotherapy services and are not a substitute for individual therapy.

  • Yes - individual & couples psychotherapy sessions are available virtually for residents of Ontario.