Psychotherapy in Collingwood, Wasaga Beach, Barrie, and surrounding Southern Georgian Bay and Simcoe County communities
Michelle works with individuals and couples who are used to holding it all together; busy professionals, entrepreneurs, leaders, and caregivers whose lives are, by most standards, successful. You’re capable, reliable, and often the one others depend on, yet beneath that there can be burnout, disconnection, anxiety, or relationships that feel more effortful than they should.
This is not surface-level work or quick fixes. It’s a space for honest reflection, deeper understanding, and meaningful change where we identify the patterns that keep you overextended and begin shifting what’s quietly costing you your energy, your connection, and yourself.
EXPERIENCED CARE YOU CAN TRUST
A Relational Approach to Therapy
Michelle Labine brings over 25 years of experience in the field of social services and mental health to her private practice. Her work is grounded in a humanistic, relational approach that focuses on understanding the deeper patterns shaping your life and relationships.
Therapy becomes a collaborative space to slow down, reflect, and explore your experiences more fully. Within a thoughtful and respectful therapeutic relationship, new insight, greater self-trust, and more supportive ways of relating to yourself and others can begin to emerge.
FOR INdividuals
Individual Therapy
Many people seek therapy because something feels off—burnout, disconnection, or a sense that the life they’re living no longer fits.
Michelle works with high-achieving individuals, leaders, and caregivers who are managing many responsibilities while navigating life transitions, relationship complexities, exhaustion, and the internal pressures of perfectionism and over-responsibility. Rather than applying a one-size-fits-all approach, therapy unfolds through a thoughtful and collaborative process focused on understanding your experiences, relationships, and the patterns shaping your life.
Neurodivergence, Identity & Self-Concept
Mood, Stress & High Achievement
Relationships, Intimacy & Sex Therapy
Complex Trauma & Recovery
Low Self-Esteem, People Pleasing & Perfectionism
Trauma Recovery
FOR COUPLES
Couples Therapy
Therapy supports partners who find themselves caught in patterns of disconnection. Relationship difficulties rarely emerge from a single moment; they often develop over time through stress, competing demands and unspoken expectations.
Michelle works with couples to better understand the patterns shaping their relationship, strengthen communication, and step out of cycles that keep partners feeling distant or misunderstood. Therapy offers a space to develop more secure and supportive ways of relating to one another, rebuild emotional closeness, and deepen intimacy and sexual connection.
Relationship Dynamics
No Longer Working
Stress, Life Transitions &
Juggling Busy Lives
Communication Challenges
Infidelity, Repair &
Rebuilding Trust
Emotional Closeness &
Connection
Intimacy & Sexuality
AREAS OF CLINICAL FOCUS
Mental Health Care for High-Achieving Individuals and Couples
Michelle’s practice supports high-achieving individuals and couples who often carry significant responsibility while managing stress, exhaustion, and complex life demands. As a Registered Psychotherapist and AuDHD clinician, Michelle brings professional and lived experience to her neuroaffirming and trauma-informed approach to therapy.
Michelle’s approach to therapy is relational, trauma-informed, and grounded in narrative and existential perspectives. She works collaboratively with individuals and couples to explore the stories, experiences, and relational patterns that shape how they understand themselves and their lives. Drawing from relational, psychodynamic, and narrative traditions, therapy focuses on developing deeper self-understanding, emotional awareness, and more supportive ways of relating to oneself and others. Michelle practices through a neuro-affirming lens that recognizes autism and ADHD as natural variations of human experience, while her training in sex therapy supports thoughtful exploration of intimacy, sexuality, and relationships in a respectful and non-judgmental space.
Neurodivergence, Identity & Self-Concept
Support for individuals who are neurodivergent, later-diagnosed, or exploring that possibility, including ADHD and Autism, alongside questions of identity or queer experience. Michelle works with people navigating perfectionism, people-pleasing, and the pressures of adapting to expectations, supporting the development of a more grounded and authentic sense of self.
Mood, Stress & High Achievement
Support for individuals navigating anxiety, depression, mood disorders, and difficulties with emotion regulation, particularly when these experiences intersect with high levels of responsibility and pressure. Michelle works with people managing chronic stress, panic attacks, burnout, and the demands of leadership, caregiving, and high achievement, helping them develop greater clarity, steadiness, and emotional resilience.
Relationships, Intimacy & Sex Therapy
Support for individuals and couples navigating relationship challenges and intimacy concerns. Michelle works with partners to strengthen communication, understand the patterns shaping their relationship, and move toward greater connection and trust across various relationship structures, including monogamous and consensually non-monogamous relationships.
Therapy also offers space to explore sexual concerns, desire, intimacy, and sexual wellbeing in a respectful and non-judgmental environment.
Complex Trauma & Recovery
Support for individuals navigating the lasting impacts of complex trauma, including PTSD, childhood trauma, sexual violence, dissociation, and borderline personality experiences. Michelle offers deeply trauma-informed care, creating an anchored and respectful therapeutic space where healing, understanding, and renewed self-trust can begin to emerge.
TREATMENT APPROACH
Evidence-Based Treatment Centered on Your Well-being
Michelle’s work draws on a range of evidence-based methods tailored to the individual. Her foundation is humanistic and existential, enriched by narrative therapy and solution-focused tools. By utilizing trauma-focused care and relational depth, she helps you gain insight into your well-being while developing sustainable coping skills. Michelle’s clinical approaches include:
Relationships & Attachment
I draw from relational, attachment-based, Emotionally Focused, Narrative, Existential, and Family Systems therapies. These approaches explore how our early relationships, life experiences, and personal meanings shape the ways we connect with others and understand ourselves. Together, we work to deepen awareness of relational patterns, strengthen emotional connection, and support more authentic and fulfilling relationships with others and with yourself.
Depth & Trauma-Focused
Michelle offers depth-oriented and trauma-focused therapy that supports meaningful, lasting healing. Drawing from Internal Family Systems (IFS), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), psychodynamic exploration, and trauma-informed care, you work with her can help uncover and process deep-rooted wounds, understand longstanding patterns, and create space for greater self-compassion, integration, and change.
Compassion & Connection
Michelle draws from Compassion-Focused Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), the Gottman Method, and Imago Relationship Therapy when working with couples. These approaches focus on strengthening emotional safety, deepening understanding between partners, and helping couples build healthier, more secure connections through empathy, communication, and repair.
Practical, Somatic & Skills-Based
Michelle draws from Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), somatic approaches, emotional regulation strategies, and Solution-Focused Therapy. These approaches offer practical tools to help you manage intense emotions, develop greater awareness of your body’s responses, strengthen coping skills, and move toward meaningful, achievable change in your daily life.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Guidance on Psychotherapy
Answers to questions about individual therapy, couples therapy, therapy sessions, and psychotherapy insurance in Nova Scotia and Ontario.
Michelle offers virtual psychotherapy services for individuals and couples across Canada
People often consider therapy when something in their lives feels difficult, overwhelming, or stuck. You may be noticing recurring patterns in relationships, struggling with anxiety, trauma, or low self-worth, or simply feeling a desire to better understand yourself. Psychotherapy offers a supportive space to explore these experiences with curiosity and compassion. In your initial consultation, you can talk about what’s bringing you to therapy and explore how our work together might support your healing, growth, and well-being.
Michelle’s approach to anxiety and stress is holistic, trauma-informed, and tailored to each person’s unique experiences. She is trained in several therapeutic approaches and draws from them flexibly to support your individual needs. Together, you work to understand the underlying patterns, experiences, and stressors contributing to anxiety while also developing practical tools for emotional regulation, nervous system awareness, and coping. Therapy is a collaborative process that supports both deeper healing and the development of skills to help you feel more grounded, resilient, and connected to yourself.
Yes. Michelle offers a brief consultation to help you determine whether working together feels like the right fit. Choosing a therapist is an important step, and it’s important that you to feel comfortable and supported before beginning therapy. During this short call, you can talk about what’s bringing you to therapy, ask any questions you may have, and discuss how Michelle’s approach might support you.
Where possible, Michelle will bill insurance providers directly. Coverage varies by provider and plan, so clients are encouraged to check with their insurance company to confirm that psychotherapy services and fees are covered. Receipts are provided for insurance or tax purposes.
Michelle offers clinical supervision for Registered Counselling Therapists (RCTs), Registered Counselling Therapist Candidates (RCT-Cs), and Registered Psychotherapists (RPs). Supervision provides a supportive space to deepen clinical skills, reflect on therapeutic work, and strengthen confidence and professional development. Michelle is passionate about mentoring therapists as they grow their practice, develop their therapeutic voice, and provide thoughtful, ethical, and client-centred care. She also serves as a dissertation committee member or chair for PhD candidates whose research aligns with her areas of expertise.
Ready to cultivate a different way forward?
Experience the Grounding that Comes From Understanding
Move beyond performance and surface-level solutions in a confidential, non-pathologizing space. Michelle offers a collaborative therapeutic relationship rooted in respect, where you can build self-trust, deepen insight, and move toward a life and relationships that feel more authentic and sustainable.