About Torin
I work with individuals and couples, online and in person by arrangement. My aim is that therapy feels safe, unhurried and free of judgement — and that you leave each session with something usable.
How the work proceeds
My approach is rooted in psychodynamic training — understanding what sits underneath a difficulty: earlier experience, and the way it continues to shape the present.
From that foundation, I draw on a person-centred orientation and on third-wave cognitive and behavioural approaches — including DBT and ACT — to work practically with thought patterns, emotional regulation and coping. This same grounding shapes my work with trauma and with compulsive or addictive behaviours, looking not just at the pattern itself but at what sits beneath it.
Solution-focused techniques can also be useful as a starting point, particularly where a brief, practical focus is what’s needed. Which approaches we draw on, and how, is a decision we make together, and it can change as the work does.
Areas of focus
- Trauma — including EMDR, a structured approach to processing distressing memories
- Depression and anxiety
- Couples work — communication, conflict, and repairing connection
- Compulsive behaviours — working with the trauma and emotional regulation underneath them
- Adult children of narcissistic parents — individually and in groups
Training and background
I trained in Canada, and I am a Registered Psychotherapist (RP) in Ontario, registered with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario. I am trauma-informed and EMDR-trained, a Certified Addictions-Informed Mental Health Professional (CAIMHP), and a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (Candidate).