Best Psychologist Sexologist Toronto Near Me

4worldlovers:
I am a passionate psychotherapist on a mission to connect those seeking help with the right support!

From an early age, I knew that I wanted to make helping relationships my life's work. In the widespread absence of community life, my belief is that therapists and coaches simply play the role that relatives, elders and other community members would have played before the advent of modern life.

Our purpose here at Kat Kova Therapy is to deliver excellence in psychotherapy, counselling, and coaching to help you reach optimal mental health and fulfilment in your personal and professional lives. We focus our efforts on helping you to achieve your personal and professional goals by tailoring your treatment and our approaches to ideally suit your individual needs.

We are also passionate about creating a community of therapists and coaches who are attuned to issues of sexuality, race, gender, ability, status, etc., as we believe that the work of healing our relationships (with ourselves and others) can not happen without this awareness. Our trusted team members have demonstrated ability to practice with issues of sexuality and multiculturalism in mind.

I am currently taking a break from the Q&A videos I have loved to create for the general public to focus on research and writing, but feel free to check out past answers to your questions on psychology, mental health, sexuality and relationships here. It may take me a little while to answer new questions, but feel free to submit your questions. Please also visit our resource page for additional help between sessions and beyond.

There are many terms that get used to describe couple therapy. You will notice that I spelled couple therapy without the "s" at the end. As this is the formal, and arguably gramatically correct term. However, most people say "couples counselling" or "couples therapy" as if it were plural. Because this is much more common I find myself using it more frequently and we use both the plural and singular throughout the website in order that people who are searching for these terms will find our services. Regardless of which terms are used - marital therapy, marriage therapy, marriage counselling, marriage counseling, couple counseling, couple counselling, relationship therapy. All of these terms refer to the same thing - getting help for your relationship.

In some mental health areas the terms counselling and therapy are used to refer to a different depth of work that is done, with counselling more focused on coping with distress and skill building and therapy refering to a deeper kind of therapeutic work that attempts to uncover the roots of the persons challenges. However, within the context of couples counselling - most of these terms are used interchangeably and the use of the terms themselves do not provide meaningful information about the differences in the approaches. The above link provides more information about the differences in counselling, therapy, psychotherapy, and coaching.

It depends. Many couple therapists will only work with couples who are clearly committed to the relationship. Without that commitment there may not be the trust, bond, and hope that can allow for meaningful change. The reality is, however, that many couples do not come to couples therapy or couples counselling until they are in crisis and it isn't uncommon for one or both partners to have questions about the longevity of the relationship.

We are both willing to work with couples who are considering ending their relationship. We think it is a really good idea to seek support at these difficult times. Couples therapy can help you get clarity on what choices you want to make, whether toward renewed commitment, or toward ending the relationship in a respectful and loving way. Too many relationships end prematurely because they lack the support and skills to move through conflict and deepen intimacy. With the support of a good therapist it is often possible to turn things around and reconnect with the beautiful aspects of your relationship that originally brought you together.

4worldlovers: “The purpose of life is not to transcend the body but to embody the transcendent”

Welcome to a place where you can not only talk about your sexual journey, but learn to rewire your experience through body-based learning. We all know that embodied skills like playing sports or instruments require hands on practice; why would sex be any different?

My life is about celebrating embodiment, deepening soul, finding the sacred and being a guide to others seeking the same.

I'm a certified somatic sex educator / sexological bodyworker, de-armouring practitioner, with a background in integrative psychotherapy, tantra and qigong.

“Working with Monica has truly changed my life. I am so much more in tune with my needs, wants and dislikes and able to express them to partners without guilt or shame. My confidence has doubled in all aspects of my life and this is the first time I have ever felt whole.”

Sex and Polyvagal Theory: How understanding your nervous system can help you have better sex

One of the biggest barriers to pleasure is nervous system disregulation. When we’re in fight, flight or freeze, arousal can feel nearly impossible to access or hold on to. By understanding how the nervous system works and learning embodiment tools to achieve better nervous system regulation, we can learn to harness our pleasure and create experiences that feel joyful and empowered.

Yoni massage can be an incredibly healing and empowering ritual performed solo or with a partner or professional practitioner. It can help address vaginal numbness and painful sex by facilitating greater relaxation, body awareness and creating space for the release of emotional blockages.

Vaginal numbness is probably the biggest complaint I hear from my female clients. And the worst part is they all think they are alone and broken. So let’s start by clearing up two things:

There are often good reasons for vaginal numbness and it’s not something you’re stuck with for life.

4worldlovers:
"Peter has an investigative mind and a genuine ability to connect and deliver results. Not only is he incredibly intelligent and good at his job, but he is personable and truly caring. The work that Peter and I had done together in my first month of seeing him goes beyond what I had done with my previous therapist whom I had seen for almost a year.


If you are browsing his website and wondering if the experience/results match the fees...the answer is YES, 100 times yes. You definitely get what you pay for and MORE with Peter. Don't waste your time looking around or speaking to another therapist just because they charge less...unless you want half the results and a whole lot of time wasted lol."

We are located on the second floor of the Toronto Healing Arts Centre on the south side of Bloor Street.

Enter through the double doors, take the stairs up to the second level, and hang a right.