Virtual Therapy In Ontario, In Person Therapy in Hamilton, Oakville & London
As Founder and Clinical Director of Vital Minds Psychotherapy, Mary oversees the clinical vision, quality assurance, therapist development, and evidence-based standards across the organization’s multiple clinic locations. She leads a multidisciplinary team of psychotherapists through clinical consultation, supervision, training, and ongoing professional development to ensure clients receive exceptional, ethical, and evidence-based care.
Mary remains actively involved in complex case consultation, clinician mentorship, and advancing excellence in psychotherapy throughout the organization.
Mary’s clinical expertise focuses on anxiety-related disorders, particularly obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), health anxiety, panic disorder, phobias, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and nervous system dysregulation. Throughout her career, she has specialized in helping clinicians understand the complex interaction between maladaptive thinking patterns, emotional processes, behavioural responses, trauma, and physiological nervous system activation.
Mary is passionate about developing highly skilled, evidence-based psychotherapists. She provides mentorship, clinical consultation, and advanced training to practicum students, new graduates, and experienced clinicians, helping them strengthen their case conceptualization, treatment planning, clinical decision-making, and ethical practice. Her teaching emphasizes balancing client-centred care with evidence-based clinical leadership, empowering therapists to confidently develop individualized treatment plans while maintaining the highest standards of professional practice.
Drawing from extensive clinical experience, Mary trains clinicians in the integration of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Psychodynamic Therapy, Somatic Psychotherapy, Polyvagal Theory, Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Trauma-Informed Care. Her educational approach focuses on helping therapists understand not only how these modalities work individually, but also how to thoughtfully integrate them to meet the unique needs of each client.
Mary’s mentorship emphasizes experiential learning, critical thinking, and the practical application of evidence-based interventions. She supports clinicians in understanding the relationship between cognition, behaviour, emotional regulation, attachment, unconscious processes, and nervous system functioning to foster meaningful, lasting therapeutic change and improve client outcomes.
Mary offers Psychotherapy Intensives for individuals seeking meaningful progress in a short timeframe. These intensives offer accelerated treatment for clients who are feeling stuck and don't know where to start or want to make significant therapeutic gains without waiting months for relief.
Psychotherapy intensives allow for weeks or months of therapeutic work to occur in a single extended session. Mary uses a structured, evidence-based and integrative approach to enable deeper exploration, enhanced self awareness of unconscious processes, psychoeducation and skill-building.
Mary’s intensives integrate Psychodynamic Exploration, Somatic Nervous System Regulation, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), and elements of Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP). Intensives includes significant clinical preparation and screening, comprehensive and advanced therapeutic work, and post-session monitoring to support continued progress.
3-Hour Psychotherapy Intensive $850
An extended session designed to provide clarity, stabilization, targeted intervention, and a personalized treatment plan.
6-Hour Psychotherapy Intensive $1,700
A comprehensive deep exploration that allows for thorough assessment, intensive therapeutic processing, skill acquisition, and integration. This option is ideal for clients seeking accelerated progress or relief from persistent depression, anxiety, OCD, trauma, relational challenges or other persistent and deeply ingrained patterns.
Follow-up sessions are required to support integration, consolidation of progress, and continued treatment. One follow up session is required with a 6 hour intensive psychotherapy treatment. Additional follow-up sessions are billed at Mary’s standard rate of $170 (Hamilton)/$200 (Oakville) per 50-minute session.
Psychotherapy intensives are intended for individuals who are emotionally stable and appropriate for extended therapeutic work. They are not suitable for individuals experiencing active psychosis, severe psychiatric instability, unmanaged substance dependence, or situations requiring a higher level of care. Suitability is determined through a pre-intensive screening process to ensure safety and clinical appropriateness.
Psychotherapy intensives are considered a form of psychotherapy and are covered by most insurance providers when delivered by a Registered Psychotherapist. Clients are responsible for confirming their own eligibility for coverage, coverage limits, and reimbursement requirements directly with their insurance provider in advance of booking. Please note that direct billing is not offered.
Because payment is collected in advance, a payment receipt will be issued at the time of booking and credited to your file. In accordance with College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO) standards and applicable regulations, an insurance-eligible psychotherapy receipt cannot be issued until after the service has been rendered.
Following completion of the psychotherapy intensive, you will receive a psychotherapy receipt that includes the clinician’s credentials and details of the treatment provided. This receipt may then be submitted to your insurance provider for reimbursement.