Kirstyn

Ms Kirstyn Greenside

Registered Social Worker

A registered social worker & psychotherapist, specializing in eating disorders, compulsive exercise, and body image.

About Me

This psychotherapist guides individuals struggling with eating disorders, compulsive exercise, and body image concerns. She understands the profound impact these challenges have on daily life. Sessions explore the roots of these patterns. Together, you will develop compassionate, practical strategies for healthier relationships with food and self. Clients seeking a supportive space to navigate these complex feelings will find her approach understanding and effective.

Approach

Specializing in these concerns, my work moves from exploring roots to building manageable habits that fit your life. In Toronto I offer English-language appointments and secure online sessions with steady pacing: brief check-ins, focused reflection, and practical tasks between meetings. Sessions blend emotional exploration, trauma-attuned listening, and gentle behavioural experiments so shifts feel concrete and tolerable. People juggling anxiety, identity questions, or struggles with control often find this paced, compassionate way of working helpful.
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Basic Information

Services


Services Offered:

  • Counseling

    A form of talk therapy providing a safe, confidential space to explore feelings, thoughts, and behaviours with a trained professional.

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  • Trauma Counseling

    Counselling specifically for people affected by traumatic events, focused on processing what happened and reducing symptoms like flashbacks and hypervigilance.

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  • Psychotherapy

    In-depth therapeutic work that explores patterns in thoughts, emotions, and relationships to produce lasting psychological change.

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  • Individual Therapy

    One-on-one therapy sessions between a client and a therapist, focused on that person's specific concerns and goals.

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  • Psychodynamic Therapy

    A therapy that explores how past experiences and unconscious patterns shape current feelings, relationships, and behaviour.

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Works With:

  • Adolescents
  • Adults

Area of Expertise


Scope of Practice:

  • Anxiety

    Persistent worry, nervousness, or fear that is disproportionate to the situation and interferes with daily functioning.

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  • Body Image

    How a person perceives, thinks, and feels about their physical appearance. When persistently negative, it can drive distress, avoidance, and disordered eating.

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  • Control Issues

    A persistent need to control situations, people, or outcomes, typically driven by underlying anxiety, fear of uncertainty, or past experiences of helplessness.

  • Mood Disorder

    A category of mental health conditions, including depression and bipolar disorder, in which a person's emotional state is significantly and persistently disrupted.

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  • Trauma

    The lasting psychological impact of deeply distressing events, such as violence, abuse, accidents, or disasters, that overwhelm a person's ability to cope.

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  • Eating Disorders

    A group of conditions, including anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating, involving disturbed eating behaviours and a distorted relationship with food and body image.

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  • Identity Issues

    A person's sense of who they are, including their values, beliefs, roles, and self-perception, and the distress that arises when this sense is unclear, fragmented, or negative.

Professional Title:

  • Registered Social Worker

    A social worker registered with a regulatory body to provide social work services including therapy and case management.

Qualifications


Toronto Metropolitan University

Carleton University

Registrations


Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers (OCSWSSW)

Registered Social Worker

Service Area


Kirstyn Greenside Counselling & Psychotherapy

In-person & Online

Toronto, Ontario

Canada