About me
I'm Aastha, a Registered Psychotherapist dedicated to helping individuals in Ontario navigate their paths to healing and self-discovery. Owing to my own experience as a client, I know that coming for therapy and staying in it both can be feel difficult choices. It isn't easy to look within, for at times it evokes immense confusion, or intense emotions. That is why my first job is to make you feel safe and contained.
I also consider myself to be a spiritual person, and avidly try to use the teachings of Buddhism in my daily life as well. I feel this spiritual affiliation has bearing on my work, for it allows me to listen to you in an unbiased way, from a fresh perspective, understanding that highs and lows are part of life and is part of the therapy journey as well, helping you develop greater acceptance and tolerance for the uncertainties of life and develop a deep sense of regard and compassion for you as a person.
As an immigrant South Asian therapist myself, Iam also aware of the challenges that immigration brings forth in terms of a sense of displacement, yearning for a home and not finding a place that truly feels like home within oneself. I do work extensively with people who immigrated from different parts of the world in different capacities as students, residents, workers and help them find an inner sense of home and safety gradually.
My Approach and Training
I have trained as a Clinical psychologist in India, which means I have working knowledge of several mainstream evidence based therapies like CBT, BT, SFBT, Motivational interviewing, mindfulness based practices and can offer to meet the client where thery are at.
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I have been working for the last 10 years and worked in different set ups like hospitals, NGO, college and private practice. The work that I do goes beyond symptom reduction and tries to bring about changes that take sometime to come about and are also longstanding. Presently Iam working as a Registered Psychotherapist with people residing in Ontario and I offer virtual space for individual psychotherapy.
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My niche is psychodynamic and psychoanalytic therapy which emphasis on those aspects of us which are out of awareness and are subconscious. This approach allows me to make sense of your inner conflicts and deeply embedded chronic patterns.(To know more, please refer to the Blog section)
Contact Me
You can always reach out to me by filling the form given below or sending me an email.