Comprehensive mental health support tailored for adolescents and families in the Riverdale community
One-on-one sessions tailored to your teen’s unique personality, helping them build resilience, self-esteem, and coping skills.
Support for parents of teens. Improve communication and build healthy boundaries together.
Heal and reconnect as a family. We create a safe space to resolve conflicts, improve understanding, and rebuild trust.
Specialized nutritional support for teens — addressing eating concerns, sports nutrition, and building a positive relationship with food.
Evidence-based approaches (CBT, DBT skills) to manage social anxiety, panic, and overwhelming worry. Find calm & confidence.
Compassionate support for low mood, isolation, and lack of motivation. Rediscover joy and purpose with expert teen therapists.
ADHD can affect focus, organization, follow-through, emotional regulation, confidence, and school routines. Therapy helps teens understand how their brain works, reduce shame, and develop practical strategies that fit their strengths and everyday responsibilities.
School struggles can affect more than grades. When assignments, organization, learning differences, pressure, or school avoidance begin affecting confidence and wellbeing, counselling can help teens understand what is getting in the way and find healthier ways to manage academic stress.
Neurodivergent teens may experience school, emotions, sensory demands, and social situations differently. Therapy offers an affirming space where teens can better understand themselves, recognize their strengths, and develop strategies that work with their brain rather than against it.
Anger may show up as irritability, arguments, sudden outbursts, shutting down, or withdrawing. Therapy helps teens understand what their anger may be communicating and practise healthier ways to regulate, express, and respond to strong emotions.
Some teens find friendships, conversations, social cues, or a sense of belonging difficult to manage. Counselling provides a supportive place to build self-understanding, confidence, and relationship skills while helping teens feel less isolated or discouraged.
Bullying, exclusion, friendship conflict, and peer pressure can affect a teen’s confidence, mood, and willingness to attend school. Therapy gives teens a steady place to process what is happening, feel supported, and develop safer, more confident ways to respond.
Gaming can become concerning when it begins affecting sleep, school, relationships, responsibilities, or emotional wellbeing. Therapy helps teens understand the role gaming plays in their life and work toward healthier routines without treating gaming itself as the enemy.
Teens may turn to drugs or alcohol to cope with stress, difficult emotions, social pressure, or major changes. Therapy offers a non-judgmental space to understand their substance use, talk more openly, and work toward safer, healthier choices.
Divorce, separation, and blended-family changes can bring sadness, anger, confusion, grief, relief, or uncertainty about where a teen fits. Therapy provides support outside the family where teens can process these changes and communicate what they need.
Riverdale is one of Toronto’s most vibrant, family-centered neighbourhoods. With its tree-lined streets, historic charm, and strong community feel, it's a place where families thrive. Our counselling office sits minutes away from the Danforth, providing accessible, familiar support for teens and parents who call this area home.
We understand the specific challenges facing families in this vibrant Toronto neighbourhood
Riverdale's competitive academic environment can create significant anxiety. We help teens manage expectations, test anxiety, and perfectionism while maintaining healthy achievement goals.
Navigating friendships, dating, and social media pressure in a tight-knit community like Riverdale. Supporting teens through bullying, exclusion, or identity exploration.
Supporting teens through parental separation, blended families, or relocating within the Riverdale area. Maintaining stability during significant family changes.
Addressing the rising rates of teen anxiety, panic attacks, and sleep disorders affecting Riverdale adolescents. Practical tools for managing overwhelming thoughts.
Our Danforth Avenue location serves as the primary hub for teen counselling in Riverdale and surrounding East Toronto neighbourhoods. Easily accessible by TTC, with street parking available nearby.
267 Runnymede Rd,
Toronto, ON, M6S 2Y5
374 Danforth Ave. 2nd Floor
Toronto, ON, M4K 1N8
Monday to Thursday
11am - 8pm
Friday
10am to 7pm
Saturday and Sunday
10am - 6pm
Book An Appointment Now
Stay up to date with blogs, news and resources at the Toronto Counselling Centre for Teens
Stay up to date with blogs, news and resources at the Toronto Counselling Centre for Teens
267 Runnymede Rd,
Toronto, ON, M6S 2Y5
374 Danforth Ave. 2nd Floor
Toronto, ON, M4K 1N8