Vera

Vera Sevelka

Licensed Clinical Social Workers

Highly experienced Psychotherapist to help you work through issues negatively impacting your relationships and other aspects of your life.

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About Me

This highly experienced psychotherapist guides individuals to navigate challenges affecting their relationships and daily life. They offer a supportive space to explore underlying patterns. Together, you can develop practical ways forward. Clients seeking to address long-standing issues or recent difficulties will find a collaborative approach. This helps them find clarity and improve their connections.

Approach

Small shifts in how you understand difficult moments often reshape relationships and daily life; I help you make those shifts through focused, paced inquiry that links past experience to present reactions. Sessions in Toronto or online, in English, balance attentive listening with gentle timing so we can slow down hot moments and track recurring themes. Through deeper exploration and reflective work, we translate insights into concrete steps between sessions—practices, reflections, and small experiments tailored to anxiety, mood, trauma, and family tensions. People seeking steady, practical change in how they relate to themselves and others tend to find this way of working useful.
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Basic Information

Services


Services Offered:

  • Psychoanalysis

    An in-depth therapy that explores unconscious patterns, early experiences, and inner conflicts to produce lasting psychological change, typically involving frequent sessions.

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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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Works With:

  • 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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  • 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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  • Family Issues

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

  • Relationship Issues

    Difficulties in romantic relationships, including communication problems, trust breakdowns, conflict patterns, or uncertainty about the relationship's future.

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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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  • 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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  • 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.

  • Control Issues

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

  • 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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  • Intimacy Issues

    Difficulties with emotional or physical closeness in relationships, including fear of vulnerability, avoidance of connection, or sexual concerns.

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Professional Title:

  • Licensed Clinical Social Workers

    A social worker licensed to provide clinical therapy, diagnosis, and treatment for mental health conditions.

Qualifications


Yeshiva University, NY., NY.

Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis

Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis

Registrations


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

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Ocswssw OASW; CASW; TICP; IASP; IARPP; Apa-division 39; ABPP

RSW, LCSW

Service Area


Practicing online everywhere from

In-person & Online

Toronto, Ontario

Canada