Suzanna Derewicz (She/They)

Registered Psychotherapist, RP
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therapist: Suzanna Derewicz,
In-Person in Toronto, ON M6S 3Z3
Online in Multiple Canadian Provinces
British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland And Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Yukon
I believe therapy to be that unique safer space we bravely step into that provides us with a secure frame for receiving support, processing difficult experiences, creating change or improvement where desired, and buttressing our resilience moving through an often unpredictable and sometimes unrelenting world.

Client Focus

Session Format: Individual sessions.
Age Specialty: Adult, Young Adult
Demographic Expertise: LGBTQ+, Men, Women clients.
Languages: English, Polish

Treatment Approach

  • Compassion Focus Therapy
  • Developmental
  • Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
  • Existential/Humanistic
  • Family Systems
  • Feminist
  • Internal Family Systems
  • Interpersonal
  • Intersubjective
  • Narrative
  • Object Relations
  • Person-Centered
  • Psychodynamic
  • Relational Psychotherapy
  • Self Psychology
Approach Description: As your therapist, I will serve as your guide and your collaborator while we explore and work to make sense of the thoughts, feelings, and experiences you bring into session. I will do this while prioritizing your agency, your expertise about your own life, and what works and doesn't work for you. I am both interested in reducing your suffering and providing you with strategies to improve your coping, while also exploring what may be at the root of your struggles, that which may not always be obvious, clear, easily named, or perfectly understood just yet. I may also support you in getting to know parts of yourself that may have gone unseen or unrecognized throughout your life. The treatment approaches I use may be most complimentary to someone searching for both soothing and tools, as well as context for what may be making them vulnerable to certain experiences in their lives, and self-understanding.

Education & Credentials

Suzanna Derewicz RP
  • Non-Binary
  • License # 12893
  • Licensed in Ontario
  • Practicing Since 2021
Education: I'm a graduate of the Ontario Psychotherapy and Counseling College's 5-year Diploma program in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and hold a Certificate in DBT-Informed practice from Adler Graduate Professional School. My education in psychotherapy is experiential, theoretical, and clinical.

Finances

Fees
  • Average Session Fee $140
  • Affordable sliding scale therapy: apply if you may be eligible.
  • I offer sliding scale options through my virtual private practice to help make psychotherapy more accessible for those with limited means. My sliding scale starts at $90 and is available through Zoom or by telephone.
Insurance
  • Accepts Insurance
  • You will be provided with a detailed receipt after paying for your sessions, which you may then be reimbursed for through insurance benefits if qualified.

Suzanna Derewicz Practice Details

Therapy Sessions Suzanna Derewicz Practice Description
I am primarily a psychodynamic psychotherapist, which is a form of depth therapy that focuses on our emotional experiences, investigates the ways we may defend ourselves against anxiety or overwhelm in our lives, observes patterns we may exhibit in our relationships with others and ourselves, our pasts, and our wishes or longings for the present and future, including their intersections. I also have training in DBT-Informed Therapy, which puts emphasis on shifting the behaviors and reactions to life that no longer seem to work for us, balancing self-compassion and radical acceptance of the present as it is with the desire to change our lives for the better. I am versed in helping folks improve their self-esteem and self-concept, their relationships, their experience of emotions and the behaviors connected to their emotions. I can also support folks in processing past relational trauma, and shifting prospectively painful core beliefs they may carry about themselves and the world.

Practice Overview

325 Jane Street
Available both in-person and online
3 Years Experience
Individual

Specialties

Driving Directions

2nd Floor, just south east of Bloor Street and Annette Street

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