About & Services
About Miriam Schacter
Therapy for Individuals
Therapy for Individuals
Miriam Schacter is a graduate of the Centre for Training in Psychotherapy and a Registered Psychotherapist with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO). Following her training in psychodynamic psychotherapy, she completed levels 1 and 2 of trauma-informed Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (SP) for situational and attachment-
Miriam Schacter is a graduate of the Centre for Training in Psychotherapy and a Registered Psychotherapist with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO). Following her training in psychodynamic psychotherapy, she completed levels 1 and 2 of trauma-informed Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (SP) for situational and attachment-based trauma; Internal Family Systems (IFS), a therapy oriented to working with self-parts; and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for couples.
Miriam appreciates DBT, CBT, M-CBT models and engages in Non-Violent Communication (NVC) for compassionate and effective conflict resolution.
Her interests include ecology, neuropsychology, dance therapy and martial arts. She has provided programs and workshops in the field of dance rehabilitation for UHN, Arthritis Society, University of Toronto’s RELEARN Lab, American Dance Therapy Association, DMTAC and so on.
Therapy for Individuals
Therapy for Individuals
Therapy for Individuals
Disruptive relationships and stressful life events can continue to have distressing effects until they are safely supported and worked through.
In our sessions we'll engage in collaborative dialogue and exchange while building upon portable skills in self-agency and resourcing. We can draw from a reservoir of tools such as affect-regulat
Disruptive relationships and stressful life events can continue to have distressing effects until they are safely supported and worked through.
In our sessions we'll engage in collaborative dialogue and exchange while building upon portable skills in self-agency and resourcing. We can draw from a reservoir of tools such as affect-regulation skills including an understanding of emotion and the nervous system; event mapping for structural dissociation, anxiety and avoidance; body-inclusive approaches for trauma processing, boundary setting; navigating needs, preferences and attachment; as well as parts-work for self-leadership.
In sessions, we can aim to create a more intimate foundation from which to explore or hold space for the ever changing dynamism of life.
Therapy for Couples
Therapy for Individuals
Therapy for Couples
When relational challenges become too overwhelming, it can be difficult for couples to navigate the situation alone. Therapy for couples offers partners a safe space for formulation of new emotional experiences that transform the nature of the interactional conflict or drama. In sessions, you will have the opportunity to co-create ch
When relational challenges become too overwhelming, it can be difficult for couples to navigate the situation alone. Therapy for couples offers partners a safe space for formulation of new emotional experiences that transform the nature of the interactional conflict or drama. In sessions, you will have the opportunity to co-create change, not from catharsis or by simply improving communication skills, but from present moment authentic and engaging exchange.
People attend couples therapy for many reasons, some of which include the following:
- arguments are repetitive/worsening
- you wish to exchange more emotional and/or physical intimacy
- you seek pre-marital counselling
- a partner has requested therapy
- relational wounds, breach of trust, damaging behaviours or financial stressors are harming your communication and connection
- you are managing isolation and emotional pain related to substance use (disruption of attachment, roles, routines, communication, social life)
- you are experiencing a significant life change (birthing, career transitions)
- you are navigating emergency/shock (illness, death, diagnosis)
- emotional and/or physical affairs have damaged relational bonds
About Couples Therapy Using the EFT Model: Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is a well-known humanistic approach, developed in tandem with adult attachment theory. The EFT approach combines well with IFS parts-work and trauma-informed modalities which ask clients to care for and tend to their own nervous system repair/development in addition to the quality of their relational bonds.