Sanja

Sanja Dejanovic

Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)

“What are your hopes and fears about therapy? Finding a therapist with who you can build a collaborative relationship is essential, a person who understands, sees, and hears you, someone who walks alongside you toward insight, self-expression and organicity. ”

About Me

Hello! I’m Sanja, a somatic therapist dedicated to supporting individuals and couples across Ontario and beyond. I understand that much of our emotional dysregulation manifests at an embodied level. Given this, I primarily utilize a blend of mind-body aligned modalities, including Sensorimotor Therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Brainspotting, and Polyvagal Theory.

Approach

We develop adaptive responses over time, enabling each of us to navigate challenging situations and environments. While these responses may help you cope in the moment, they can also hinder you from fully experiencing life. Although we possess the ability to be present, past experiences and ingrained patterns often keep parts of self anchored in the past, influencing emotions, thoughts, and reactions. Does that sound like you? I see the therapeutic process as an opportunity to create a safe space and a reparative experience, through which you can: - Feel prepared to take an exploratory and curious mindset towards making sense of your inner experiences, capacity to tolerate what comes up and to shift responses. - Exploring physiological reactions, triggers, or activations in the body, sensory experiencing and nervous system, as well as processing them. - Identify, understand and attune to emotions, coming to appreciate how defenses or protective parts of self armour vulnerabilities, needs, wants, insecurities. - Gain a deeper insight into thought patterns that may be maladaptive or unhelpful to you. - Fostering hope that lasting change is not only possible but within your reach.
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Basic Information

Online Only

Services

I specialize in grief, loss, anxiety, and trauma

Services Offered:

  • Mindfulness

    The practice of paying deliberate attention to the present moment without judgement, used to reduce stress and increase awareness of automatic reactions.

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  • Somatic Psychotherapy

    A form of therapy focused on the connection between mind and body, using body awareness and movement to release held tension, trauma, and emotion.

  • Spiritual or Faith-Based Counselling

    Counselling that integrates spiritual or religious beliefs into the therapeutic process for people who want faith to be part of their healing.

  • Trauma Counselling

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

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  • Online Counselling

    Counselling conducted via video, phone, or secure messaging, providing professional support remotely.

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  • Internal Family Systems

    A therapy model that views the mind as made up of distinct sub-personalities or 'parts', each with its own role, and works to help these parts communicate and heal under the leadership of a core Self.

  • Free Consultation

    A no-cost initial session to meet the therapist, discuss needs, and decide whether they are the right fit before committing.

  • Brainspotting

    A therapy that uses fixed eye positions to access and process unresolved trauma stored in the brain and body.

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  • Coaching

    A goal-oriented practice focused on identifying objectives, overcoming obstacles, and taking action, centred on the present and future rather than past difficulties.

  • DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy)

    A structured therapy that combines cognitive behavioural techniques with mindfulness, designed to help people regulate intense emotions, tolerate distress, and improve relationships.

Works With:

  • Adults
  • Couples

Area of Expertise

Scope of Practice:

  • ADHD / Attention Difficulties

    A neurodevelopmental condition involving persistent difficulty with attention, impulsivity, and/or hyperactivity that interferes with daily functioning.

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  • Anger

    An intense emotional response to perceived threat, injustice, or frustration that, when persistent or uncontrolled, can damage relationships and well-being.

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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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  • Codependency

    A relational pattern in which a person's sense of identity and self-worth becomes excessively tied to caring for or controlling another person, often at their own expense.

  • Depression

    A mood disorder marked by persistent low mood, loss of interest or pleasure, and changes in energy, sleep, or appetite that impair daily functioning.

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  • Family Issues

    Difficulties within the family system, including conflict, communication breakdown, blended family tensions, or intergenerational patterns, that affect individual and collective well-being.

  • Gender Identity & Self-Image

    A person's internal sense of their own gender, which may or may not align with the sex assigned at birth, and the distress or exploration that can accompany this.

  • Grief, Loss & Bereavement

    The emotional, physical, and psychological response to the death of a loved one or another significant loss, varying widely in duration and expression.

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  • Life Transitions

    Major life changes, such as relocation, retirement, parenthood, or career shifts, that disrupt routine and require psychological adjustment.

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  • 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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Professional Title:

  • Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)

    A psychotherapist completing supervised practice toward full registration as a registered psychotherapist.

Credentials

Qualifications

Gottman Method Clinical Training: Level 1

The Gottman Institute

Year: 2025

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (Level 1)

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute

Year: 2018

Service Areas

Online Only

Toronto

Canada