Anxiety Therapy for Women in Whitby, ON
You’re holding it together on the outside. Inside, your mind won’t stop. Therapy can help.
If you're looking for anxiety therapy in Whitby, you've found a therapist who specializes in exactly what you're experiencing. Kira offers in-person psychotherapy for women in Whitby and across the Durham Region — including Oshawa, Ajax, Pickering, and Brooklin — as well as virtual sessions throughout Ontario. Her practice focuses on the kind of anxiety that doesn't always look like anxiety from the outside: the perfectionism, the overthinking, the relentless self-doubt that lives underneath a put-together life.
What does anxiety therapy in Whitby actually look like?
If you're anxious, you've probably already researched this thoroughly. So let's be specific.
Sessions with Kira are 50 minutes, held in a quiet, private office at 173 Brock St. N. in Whitby — or virtually if that works better for you. There’s no awkward silences. No being told to think positive.
What there is: a real conversation. About what's actually happening for you, what's driving it, and what would need to shift for things to feel different. In therapy, you don't have to keep performing. Sessions are a place to finally put down the mask.
Kira works from a blend of approaches — CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy), ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy), and parts-based work — depending on what fits you best. In plain terms, that means you'll start to understand the patterns keeping you stuck, learn tools you can actually use in real life, and, over time, build a relationship with yourself that isn't built on self-criticism and constant vigilance.
We start with a free 15-minute consultation. It's a low-pressure conversation to ask questions, get a feel for how Kira works, and decide if it's a good fit. No commitment required.
Who Kira works with in Whitby and Durham Region
You're the person everyone counts on.
At work, you're the one who's always prepared — who over-researches, over-delivers, and rewrites the email three times before sending it. At home, you're managing the mental load that nobody else seems to notice. On the outside, you look like you have it together. On the inside, your mind never really stops.
You may lie awake at night replaying conversations from three days ago, wondering if you said the wrong thing. You say yes when you mean no, then quietly resent it. You avoid situations where you might fail, or you throw yourself into them and exhaust yourself trying to be perfect. You've been told you worry too much (and you worry about that too!).
The strategies that got you here — the perfectionism, the people-pleasing, the constant preparing for every possible outcome — have worked. Until recently, maybe. Or until they started costing more than they were worth.
Kira works with women who are high-functioning on the outside and exhausted on the inside. Women who are ready to stop white-knuckling it and start understanding why their mind works the way it does, and what to actually do about it.
I focus my practice exclusively on women. I works with adult women navigating high-functioning anxiety, self-doubt, and perfectionism, and with women in their 40s and beyond who are experiencing the mental health shifts of perimenopause.
My office is located at 173 Brock St. N. in Whitby, conveniently accessible from across Durham Region. Virtual therapy is available for women anywhere in Ontario.
Learn more about how I work with women with high-functioning anxiety.
Ready to get started?
The first step is a free 15-minute consultation. It’s a no-pressure conversation to see if working together feels like a good fit.
Kira’s office is on the second floor of a heritage building in downtown Whitby. My clients have described my office as quiet, pretty, and calming. It’s right on Brock Street, five minutes from the 401. There is a large town parking lot off a quiet street behind the building, and plenty of street parking.
Book your consultation today.
In-person in Whitby · Virtual across Ontario