Virtual Therapy in Northern Ontario
Care that meets you where you are. Compassionate, accessible psychotherapy tailored to northern realities and rural lives.
Distance shouldn’t stand between you and support.
Access to compassionate and professional psychotherapy shouldn't depend on your postal code. Whether you’re navigating isolation, seasonal shifts, workplace stress, or simply searching for balance, our counselling services are built around your everyday reality. Through our confidential virtual care platform you can access experienced, culturally responsive care without the burden of long-distance travel. You deserve a safe, grounded space to be heard, build resilience, and feel truly supported right where you are.
Our team of registered psychotherapists and registered social workers offer individual and relationship counselling. Our therapists specialize in supporting youth (14+) and adults with concerns relating to:
Grief and Loss
Trauma and PTSD
Depression, Anxiety and Bipolar Depression
Stress and Burnout
ADHD and Autism
Relationships and Intimacy
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
Chronic Illness and Pain
Parenting and Caregiving
Substance Use
Personalized Approach to Care
Therapy is a personal journey, requiring an approach that is as unique as the individual.
Our therapists are trained in a variety of evidence informed approaches to psychotherapy. They will collaborate with you to create a custom counselling plan that is grounded in your inner wisdom and unique experience. We draw from:
Existential-Humanistic Psychotherapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS)
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Psychodynamic and Relational Psychotherapy
Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)
Somatic Experiencing (SE)
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
Narrative Therapy and Solution Focused Therapy
Developmental Model of Couples Therapy
Emotion Focused Couple and Family Therapy
Getting Started
Find Your Fit
Healing and growth happen in relationship, which is why we’re serious about finding the right therapist fit. Once you’ve completed our matching form our collaborative care team will reach out to suggest a few of our currently available counsellors based on your unique needs, preferences and availability. You can then select who you’d like to meet with for an initial consultation. You are welcome to meet with a few of the suggested counsellors for a consultation before confirming the match.
Initial Consultation
Once you’ve selected which counsellor(s) you’d like to meet with, the care team will send you a link to the provider’s online calendar. From there you can book a free initial consultation. This will give you an opportunity to get a better sense of the therapist and what they have to offer. Once you find the right fit, you’ll know, and you can begin booking regular sessions using our online portal.
Choose Your Own Adventure
Prefer to find your own match? You can also view our counsellor’s profiles to find your fit. Let us know who you’ve selected to meet with on your matching form, and we’ll send you a link to their booking portal. You’ll still be offered an opportunity for an initial fit check, and are welcome to meet with more than one counsellor that stands out to you.
Featured Northern Ontario Therapists
(he/him) MACP, RP
Registered Psychotherapist
Ages: 16+
Location: London, Virtual
Fees: $170
Welcome! It takes courage to consider making changes in your life and I appreciate your willingness to take vital steps towards it with Blueprint Counselling. My name is Andrew, and I am a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying). As a first-generation immigrant from England, and a past career that required multiple relocations, I have lived experience adjusting and adapting to life in a new community. I will listen to your stories and experiences with the goal of better understanding what brings you to therapy and then work with you towards your individual goals. Counselling with me will be a partnership that utilizes your life experiences and expertise, and my background in psychological research and education.
My approach to therapy is person-centred, which means that regardless of the type of therapy being used, it is important that you are heard and understood during the process. It is my wish that authenticity, curiosity, and compassion towards your story, emotions, thoughts, experiences, and lifestyle will help invite positive change into your life. Whether it is helping you create safety within yourself, understanding yourself better, improving your capacity to cope, navigating life transitions, or understanding your relationship with yourself and/or others, I look forward to joining you on your journey.
I am passionate about working with those who are experiencing intense transitionary periods in their lives such as grief and bereavement, immigration and readjustment, and early adulthood to adulthood. I am also keenly interested in helping those who struggle with depression, anxiety, trauma, passive suicidality, loneliness, self-criticism, and low self-esteem; and scenarios such as romantic breakups, familial estrangements, and toxic workplace environments.
Outside of work, I enjoy gaming, fitness, the outdoors, collecting, listening to podcasts, exploring new natural environments, and a good movie or TV series.
Together, Blueprint and I can facilitate sessions in-person in London, Ontario, and virtually throughout Ontario.
(she/her) MA, MSW, RSW
Registered Social Worker and Psychotherapist
Ages: 16+
Location: London, Virtual
Fees: $160
You are the expert in your lived experience.
I believe deeply that we carry within us a capacity for growth, wholeness, and transformation. When we can be witnessed without judgement as fully formed, nuanced humans, the seeds for self-acceptance and self-compassion can take root. The wisdom you have always possessed gains space and clarity to step forward.
My goal is to create a space that is warm, caring, and ‘compassionately curious.’ I use a combination of holistic therapeutic approaches that are relational, integrative, and attachment-oriented. The lens I look through is strengths-based, anti-oppressive and intersectional. Although I’m informed by numerous approaches that work to safely enhance understanding of our nervous systems and connection between mind and body, a consistent element of my practice is rooting therapeutic safety in mindful presence, decolonization, and social justice. Most of all, I show up in this work as human first and foremost and am humbled by our shared capacity to collaborate and foster genuine relationships within the therapeutic space.
I came to this point in my life along a wonderfully winding path. I have experience counselling children and youth, supporting individuals with spinal cord injuries and chronic conditions, assisting and advocating alongside folks as they navigate various institutions and social systems, providing sexual violence prevention training, helping young adults with career questions and holistic emotional wellbeing, facilitating community-based writing and arts groups for unhoused folks, and working as a full spectrum doula with a focus on pregnancy and infant loss support.
I would welcome the chance to connect as you start this journey.
(she/her) MA, RP (Qualifying)
Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) and Expressive Arts Therapist
Ages: 8+
Location: Toronto, Virtual
Fees: $170
My focus with all of my clients is to support them in gaining a deeper understanding of themselves. I help clients listen to their mind to explore the stories, fears, and beliefs they hold; to their body to become aware of how they experience emotions and carry stress; and to their soul to understand what they truly want from this life.
I work with children, teens, adults, couples, and families. Whether a client comes to therapy feeling stuck, anxious, depressed, grieving, navigating trauma, moving through a life transition, struggling with relationships, or feeling overwhelmed about the climate and the future, I offer a supportive space where clients can feel seen, held, and understood. Through this work, clients can build confidence, develop tools, and feel resourced enough to initiate the changes they would like to see in their lives.
My approach blends talk therapies (IFS, Psychodynamic, Mindfulness, CBT, and DBT) with creative and embodied therapies such as expressive arts, play, body-based awareness, and connection to nature. This integrative approach can offer new insights and deeper compassion for yourself and your experiences in ways that talk therapy alone sometimes cannot. It can be especially helpful for children and teens, neurodivergent individuals, those living with trauma, and for couples and families engaging in relational repair.
I am a queer, neurodivergent practitioner. I work from a trauma-informed, culturally humble, anti-oppressive, and decolonizing framework. Clients and colleagues often describe me as a passionate guide who brings openness and creative warmth to the therapy space.
(she/her) PhD, MA, RP
Registered Psychotherapist
Ages: 3+
Location: Toronto, Virtual
Fees: $170
Robbyn Zwaigenbaum is a visionary leader and trauma-informed psychotherapist with over two decades of experience working alongside Indigenous communities, specializing in supporting residential school survivors and addressing intergenerational trauma. Through her roles at the Canadian Roots Exchange, Ontario Native Women’s Association, and Native Child & Family Services Toronto, Robbyn has developed and delivered culturally specific, evidence-based programming that centres Indigenous knowledge and healing modalities. She is recognized for her clinical expertise in providing compassionate, culturally safe counselling, as well as for advancing organizational and systemic change rooted in anti-racism, anti-oppression, and social justice.
Currently a Ph.D. Fellow in Indigenous Studies at Trent University and an Indigenous psychotherapist with a strong focus on Anishnawbe Natural Law, Robbyn combines leadership, scholarship, and advocacy to champion equity, inclusion, and Indigenous voices in youth services across Canada.
FAQs
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Unfortunately not. Most counselling and psychotherapy services in Ontario are not covered by OHIP. But you may be eligible for other sources of funding, contact us to discuss.
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Our standard rate for services ranges between 160$-185$ (per 50 minute session) for individual counselling and between 175$-265$ (per 75 minute session) for couples counselling. If those rates aren’t accessible for you, we offer a number of sliding scale options to ensure equitable access. Please contact us to inquire.
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Most insurance plans provide some covered for services provided by registered social workers, registered psychotherapists and/or registered psychologists. Please confirm your coverage before booking so we can be sure to match you with a covered provider.
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Yes! We are able to offer direct billing to most major insurance plans in Ontario. However, only some of our counsellors are able to offer this. If this is something you need, please let us know so we can match you accordingly.
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Our counsellors are located across the province. We currently have in-person offices in London and Toronto but provide virtual services to all of Ontario.
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Absolutely! We understand that some experiences are hard to share with people who haven’t been there. Our counsellors come from all walks of life, including experience living in rural northern communities. Let us know what you’re looking for and we’ll help you find a relatable fit.
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Absolutely! Sessions by phone can be arranged if you prefer and we can always pivot to a phone session if you’re having difficulty with your internet connection.
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We are proud to celebrate and affirm 2SLGBTQIA+ identities in our collaboration with individuals, couples and families. Many of our counsellors are members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community.