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Virtual Therapy In Ontario, Canada In Person Therapy in Hamilton

Mary Vuksanovic

Mary Vuksanovic

Clinical Director Registered Psychotherapist, Qualifying

Mary uses a holistic and integrative approach that targets maladaptive thinking patterns and nervous system regulation. Mary will help you create new neural pathways by teaching you how to balance your thinking, encouraging you to engage in healthier behaviors and teach you effective skills and tools to cope with the difficult challenges you may be facing. Learn how to self regulate, reduce your cortisol levels, regulate your anxiety and improve your mood by focusing on both the brain and the body to improve your functioning and overall health. Mary’s approach creates resilience through experiential learning in session to prepare you to become your own therapist and to empowers you to overcome the burden of anxiety, stress, ADHD, trauma and other challenges that impact your ability to live your life to the fullest. Mary has a special interest in obsessive compulsive disorder, panic, phobias and neurodivergence. She also works with couples and families to help create a supportive and collaborative home life environment essential to healing and fostering well-being. Mary combines several evidence-based approaches including cognitive behavioral therapy, exposure and response prevention, acceptance and commitment therapy, psychodynamic therapy and somatic psychotherapy. By combining cognitive techniques with nervous system regulation and examining influences of childhood dynamics and experiences, Mary teaches you how to understand and overcome your complex challenges, and process your difficult emotions to reduce your distress.

Therapeutic Approach:

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
  • Exposure and response Prevention (ERP)
  • Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
  • Somatic Psychotherapy
  • Polyvagal
  • Psychodynamic

Specialities:

  • Health Anxiety
  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Stress
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Panic
  • ADHD
  • Autism
  • Phobias (Germophobia, Emetophobia, Agoraphobia, etc.)
  • Eating Disorders
  • PTSD & Trauma
  • Nervous System Regulation
  • Grief
  • First Responders

Supports

  • Child, Teen and Family Therapy Teens
  • Emotion Focused Therapy Adults
  • couples therapy Couples
  • Obsessive compulsive disorder Hamilton, Anxiety Therapy Hamilton, CBT Hamilton, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Hamilton, Cognitive behavioral treatment Hamilton, CBT therapy Hamilton ,Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Families

Credentials:

  • Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology – Yorkville University
  • Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) – College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario
  • Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA)
  • CBT and Exposure & Response Prevention for Treatment of GAD, Panic Disorder, OCD, Social Anxiety, & Phobias-PESI
  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy- McMaster University
  • Somatic Psychotherapy for Trauma-PESI
Therapist Location Fees & Session Cost
In person & Online $150 Per Session

Favourite Quotes

“There is hope, even when your brain is telling you there isn’t.”

– John Green

“Your mind is in every cell of your body.”

– Candace Per

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