Inclusive online therapy across Ontario
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Take the first step towards the freedom you deserve.
This work can help you
Our CBT therapists are experts in helping you heal, build coping skills that work, and finally find relief.
- Finally feel like yourself again: empowered, in control, and working as a team with your thoughts and feelings.
- Break free from the past and finally stop the emotional spirals.
- Heal from shame, grief, loss, and painful moments that are holding you back.
- Learn to actually cope with challenges in your life without getting stuck.
- Build real, practical skills that you can use in the here and now.
Do you ever feel…
- You don't remember the last time you felt a weight off your shoulders — life has been one negative thought spiral after another.
- You know you're creating worst-case scenarios in your head, but you can't help it.
- You've tried distracting yourself by zoning out and scrolling online, but the thoughts still barge their way in.
- Your brain is screaming that something bad will happen, that you messed up, that you aren't good enough.
Imagine those spirals losing their power. You're able to see those thoughts for what they are — just thoughts, which come and go — and slowly your mind transforms from a pessimism powerhouse to a place of calm and freedom.
How we help
When our thoughts betray us, CBT comes to the rescue. By understanding the connections between your thoughts, behaviours, and feelings, CBT helps you break the cycle in real time. You'll slowly start to replace bad habits with healthier thinking that's a little less scary and a lot more true. If you're stuck in a thought trap, CBT could be the key you've been missing.
What is CBT?
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is a highly effective and evidence-based talk therapy that helps you understand your thoughts, feelings, behaviours, and the links between them. It's often considered the gold standard of talk therapy, and one of the most well-researched psychotherapy treatments. CBT works from the understanding that our thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are interconnected — and that unhelpful thoughts can be changed. Rather than getting stuck in negative automatic thoughts, CBT helps you pause, take a breather, examine your thoughts, and reframe them to become helpful over harmful.
Why choose Counterspiral
Lived experience meets clinical experience.
We founded an affirming, inclusive, empowering virtual clinic so diverse people can show up authentically and truly belong. Together we build your counterspiral — a toolbox of communication, emotion regulation, and healing that stops emotional spirals in their tracks.
Queer & Trans Affirming
Your identity is understood and celebrated — never something to explain.
Neurodivergence Affirming
Sensory-friendly, flexible care that works with your brain, not against it.
Racially & Culturally Affirming
50%+ BIPOC team, ongoing anti-oppression practice, and cultural humility.
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