Families in Sunnylea and nearby west Toronto communities can access counselling and related support for teen mental health, parent guidance, and family relationships.
A confidential, age-appropriate space where teens can make sense of difficult emotions and experiences. Sessions can address anxiety, low mood, anger, identity, confidence, school pressure, friendships, motivation, or feeling disconnected.
Parent counselling helps caregivers look beyond the immediate behaviour and understand what their teen may be communicating. Parents can develop calmer responses, clearer boundaries, and more confidence about when to step in or give space.
Guided family conversations can interrupt cycles of arguing, defensiveness, and silence. Therapy creates room for each person to be heard and helps families practise more respectful, workable ways of communicating.
Teen-focused dietitian support can address nutrition, meal routines, body image, sports-related needs, and anxiety around food. Recommendations are practical, respectful, and designed for everyday family life.
Counselling helps teens notice the thoughts, sensations, and situations that feed anxiety. They can practise tools for school, sleep, social situations, panic, avoidance, and other moments when worry feels hard to control.
Depression can appear as sadness, irritability, numbness, withdrawal, low energy, or lost interest. Therapy offers steady support as teens understand these changes, reconnect with strengths, and take manageable steps forward.
School routines, sports, work, and family responsibilities can make focus and follow-through difficult. Therapy helps teens understand their attention patterns and build practical strategies for organization, regulation, and confidence.
Assignments, exams, and future plans can create pressure that teens often keep to themselves. Counselling helps them understand what is getting in the way, rebuild confidence, and manage academic demands more steadily.
Neurodivergent teens deserve support that respects their communication style, sensory experience, and strengths. Therapy offers an affirming space to understand overwhelm and build strategies that fit how they learn and connect.
Irritability, arguments, shutdowns, or sudden outbursts can signal that a teen is carrying too much. Therapy helps them understand the feeling underneath and practise safer ways to communicate.
Friendships, teams, and changing social expectations can be difficult to navigate. Counselling offers a supportive place to build confidence, practise relationship skills, and feel more connected.
Bullying, exclusion, peer conflict, and pressure online can affect mood, confidence, and safety. Therapy offers a steady place to process what happened and find healthier ways forward.
Gaming can become difficult when it starts affecting sleep, school, relationships, or responsibilities. Therapy helps teens understand the pattern without shame and develop balanced routines.
Some teens use substances to cope with stress, emotions, social pressure, or change. Therapy offers a non-judgmental space to talk honestly, understand the risks, and take safer steps.
Separation and blended-family changes can bring grief, anger, relief, confusion, and uncertainty about where a teen fits. Therapy gives them space to process the transition and communicate what they need.
Sunnylea’s residential streets connect with Mimico Creek, Royal York Road, Bloor Street West and The Queensway. Families can visit our Runnymede location for in-person support in the west end.
Teens and parents can want the same thing—a calmer home—while having different ideas about how to get there. Counselling offers room to hear those differences, discuss boundaries and consider what each person needs. Individual sessions also give a young person space for concerns they prefer to explore on their own.
Rules about schoolwork, screen time and plans with friends can become difficult topics. We can explore the meaning behind a disagreement and what a more workable conversation would involve.
Homework, grades, deadlines, extracurriculars, and decisions about the future can leave teens feeling constantly behind. Counselling can help them organize demands, challenge perfectionism, and build routines that protect both learning and wellbeing.
Teen friendships can change quickly. Exclusion, conflict, comparison, group shifts, and online pressure may affect confidence and belonging. Therapy gives teens space to process these experiences and make choices that fit their values.
Families can care deeply about one another and still become trapped in arguments, defensiveness, or long stretches of silence. Counselling helps identify the pattern, clarify needs, and create less reactive ways to reconnect.
Anxiety may look like overthinking, avoidance, panic, stomach discomfort, trouble sleeping, repeated reassurance-seeking, or irritability. Therapy helps teens recognize these patterns earlier and respond with practical coping skills.
For in-person support, families from Sunnylea can visit our Bloor West & Runnymede office at 267 Runnymede Rd, Toronto, ON M6S 2Y5.
Families travelling through the Royal York and Bloor area can plan their visit around the office beside Runnymede Station. Call 416-565-4504 or book an appointment with this location.
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
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267 Runnymede Rd,
Toronto, ON, M6S 2Y5
374 Danforth Ave. 2nd Floor
Toronto, ON, M4K 1N8