Book your Free 15-minute consultation here.
Book your Free 15-minute consultation here.
Inner Room offers Ontario therapy services that are fully virtual — individual, couples, ADHD, and student therapy — delivered by licensed MSW RSW therapists across the province. There is no waitlist, and every new client starts with a free 15-minute consultation. Most clients come in carrying anxiety, burnout, or ADHD, including high-functioning professionals, students, and couples working through something real.
Something isn't working and you can feel it, but your brain says "everything is as it should be."
Maybe you can explain it logically and yet that doesn't resolve the feeling. Maybe you feel it like an obstacle you can't get past. It feels like a simmering frustration without an explanation and you say to yourself "is this normal? Why do I feel this way?"
This page is here to support you in figuring out what this is by finding you the right therapist to help you with what you're carrying.
You don't need to have your story organized. You don't need to know what kind of therapy you want. You don't need to be in crisis to reach out. If you have an inkling something is going on and want to ask an expert, we're here to help you take those first steps.
All you need to do is think about what's been on your mind lately and what "better" might look like for you. Then fill in a short form and we'll take the rest from here.
The free 15-minute consultation is a conversation for you to get to know the therapist, ask any questions you have about how they work, and for you to get a sense of whether this is someone you are wanting to try working out your concerns with.
It happens over phone or video, whichever works best for you. You can share a bit about what's been going on that's bringing you into therapy. You can ask about what a first sessions would look like. You assess whether this feels like the right fit. And your therapist collaborates with you in this process.
If there's a good fit, you'll book your first session during the consultation. Sessions run by video on JaneApp (PHIPA-compliant, secure, no downloads required) or by phone. We recommend doing your first session by video so you can get a further idea of what your therapist is like and they can do the same in getting to know you.
If it isn't the right fit, we'll say so honestly. We'll point you towards other resources that would be the best fit rather than leave you without a next step.
You can also take the night to sleep on it. Get a sense of how you feel after the consultation and our care coordination team will be available at info@innerroom.ca or 647-957-1822 (by text or phone) when you're ready to book your first appointment.
Meet the therapist. Ask your questions. Figure out whether this is the right fit for what you're working through.
When you know, you know. After choosing your therapist, you'll start with a first session. Your first few sessions are a "getting to know you" period. You don't need to have anything figured out before attending the appointment. You'll speak to your therapist to figure out what the steps will be to help you through what you're working on.
Sessions happen virtually, on a schedule that fits your busy life.
For full details on the platform, technology, and what virtual therapy looks like in practice, see Virtual Therapy in Ontario
Individual therapy allows you to focus on what you're carrying now, where it comes from, and what you want to be different.
You look like you're managing everything on the surface. You meet your deadlines, you show up, but something feels quite wrong and it has for longer than you're willing to admit to yourself. Maybe everything seems fine performance-wise but on the inside you're an anxious mess, worrying about every action and decision you make.
Maybe it's the way you've stopped feeling like yourself in your own life; even to a point of feeling completely numb and thinking "what's the point". Or maybe something happened and you've been carrying it alone.
Sessions are 50 minutes. The approach depends on your therapist and what you bring in, but the collective expertise and toolkit at Inner Room include:
Working with what's underneath the surface patterns, at the level of emotional experience for individuals and couples.
Loosening the hold of thoughts that keep you stuck, and reconnecting with what actually matters to you.
Body-based trauma work for what words can't fully heal or work through.
Practical tools for shifting thought and behaviour-based patterns.
Examining the stories you carry about yourself and deciding which ones to keep or to archive.
Practicing being in the here and now without judgment and a dose of objectivity.
High-functioning burnout (especially for nurses and teachers), anxiety, highly sensitive people (HSP), neurodivergence, and identity. Works with CBT, DBT, ACT, and Mindfulness-Based approaches.
Emotional overwhelm, self-doubt, men's issues, identity, immigrant health, and life transitions. Works with EFT, Narrative Therapy, CBT, and DBT.
Trauma, grief, PTSD, women's health, and perinatal mental health. Works with CBT, DBT, Narrative Therapy, and Trauma-Informed Practice. Thirty years of clinical experience.
Anxiety, perfectionism, imposter syndrome, burnout, grief, and life transitions. Trained at CAMH, Women's College Hospital, and the U of T. Works with EFT, ACT, and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy.
Couples therapy is a structured space to understand what's driving the cycle that you keep getting into with your partner and to change it together. Vivian and Christina at Inner Room both provide couples therapy.
We work with couples using Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and/or the Gottman Method, approaches grounded in decades of attachment research. The goal is to identify the cycles that pull you into conflict and change what drives them at the emotional level and provide you with skills to communicate as well as deepen your relationship.
For your first sessions we recommend the 80-minute intake to fully understand your history, your patterns, and what you're hoping for with the relationship. Ongoing sessions to continue the work are 50 minutes.
A clinical note: This format of couples therapy is not appropriate where there is active intimate partner violence or coercion in the relationship. If that is part of what you're facing, individual therapy is your starting point. You're welcome to reach out if you're unsure and want to discuss your situation.
Christina has a specialty in working with neurodivergent and highly sensitive folks. Christina uses EFT to understand the conflict cycles and communication patterns within a couple.
Vivian uses EFT and the Gottman Method with couples to understand what limits a relationship from flourishing and build strategies to help enhance intimacy in a relationship. She focuses on the multicultural lens with interracial couples. Vivian also specializes in fertility counselling. She practices in English, Mandarin, and Shanghai Dialect.
ADHD therapy for adults addresses both the functional challenges, masking, and the cost of compensating for a neurodivergent brain.
Inner Room provides therapy and practical strategies for adults living with ADHD (including focus, time management, cognitive load, emotional regulation, and rejection resiliency). Inner Room does not provide formal ADHD assessments, diagnostic reports, or medication management as these services are available through your family physician, a psychiatrist, or a psychologist.
We draw on different approaches depending on what you're dealing with:
To examine and shift thought patterns that have built up around how your brain works.
For emotional regulation, including intensity, reactivity, and the gap between feeling something and responding to it well.
To work on the story you've built about yourself and your brain over time.
To help us understand how being different may have resulted in many harmful experiences and a need to be mindful of how this has impacted you.
ADHD therapy addresses the emotional, relational, and psychological patterns underneath the challenges: shame, burnout, strained relationships, and what has been misread for a long time.
Christina works with neurodivergence including ADHD and high sensitivity, the particular experience of being intensely perceptive in environments that aren't built for that.
Mo has experience as a university accessibility counsellor and has also practiced law before becoming a therapist. He has a direct, grounded experience with how neurodivergent folks move through systems that weren't designed for them. He specializes in ADHD, autism, and AuDHD.
Vivian works with the patterns underneath ADHD: the anxiety of managing a brain that moves faster than the world around it, the perfectionism that compensates for years of being told you're not trying hard enough, and the emotional weight of masking. She uses ACT and EFT to address the self-criticism, burnout, and relational strain that often accompany neurodivergence.
The $130 student rate applies to individual therapy for post-secondary students at Inner Room. It's not a separate clinical offering. You get the same therapy as everyone else with the same therapists and the same quality of care, at a rate that reflects where you are in life as a post-secondary student (proof of schooling required).
Academic pressure. Identity questions. Relationship issues. Dealing with living with family or away from them.
Same evidence-based approaches, same therapists. The reduced rate removes a financial barrier. It doesn't change what happens in the appointment.
All four Inner Room therapists offer the $130 student rate.
Christina works with high-performance environments and education-related stress.
Mo brings a background as a university accessibility counsellor, with direct experience in academic stress and neurodivergence.
Shawna brings 30 years of clinical practice, including the kind of threshold moments that tend to arrive during school.
Vivian trained at the University of Toronto and works across anxiety, perfectionism, and life transitions.
$170 per 50-minute session with Christina, Mo, and Shawna
$195 per 50-minute session with Vivian
$130 per 50-minute session with all four therapists (proof of schooling required)
$220 per 50-minute session with Christina and Vivian
$280 per 80-minute initial intake with Christina and Vivian
50 minutes for individual and couples
80 minutes for the couples initial intake
Virtual via JaneApp Video (PHIPA-compliant, secure, no downloads required) or by phone through a private, no caller ID number
24 hours' notice required. Full session fee charged for late cancellations under 24 hours and no-shows.
Sessions with a Registered Social Worker (RSW) are covered by most extended health plans in Ontario, including Sun Life, GreenShield, Canada Life, Medavie Blue Cross, TELUS Health, and Desjardins.
OHIP does not cover private psychotherapy. Services with Registered Social Workers are HST-exempt in Ontario.
Receipts are provided after every session for insurance submission. Direct billing is not offered.
Ask away! Feel free to contact us or ask us about the therapy process or book a free 15-minute consultation phone call.
Ask away! Feel free to contact us or ask us about the therapy process or book a free 15-minute consultation phone call.
Inner Room is a virtual psychotherapy practice serving Ontario professionals. Licensed registered social workers. No waitlist. Free 15-minute consultation.
