Dharini Woollcombe (she/her)
- Availability:
- Accepting New Clients
- Session Format:
- OnlinePhone
- Office Days:
- TuesdayWednesdayThursdayFridaySaturdaySunday
- Clientele:
- Adults (18+)
About
inner alignment
It is my privilege, as a therapist, to join you in deeply understanding who you are as a whole being. Whether you are navigating burn out, anxiety, grief, perinatal stress, racial trauma, relationship struggles, or life transitions, together we will discover the clarity you need, identify your limiting beliefs, and grow your inner alignment.
over time or a stage of life
Therapy can help when you are feeling overwhelmed, disconnected from yourself, stuck, or struggling to cope. These feelings are usually symptoms of dealing with real life challenges such as relationship issues, processing loss in its various forms, or managing work and life demands, or working through identity and sense of self at various points of time and stages of life.
Sometimes, seeking therapy simply comes from the desire to understand oneself better.
engaging with all parts of yourself
Regardless of your reasons why, the act of engaging in psychotherapy is an act of engaging with one’s self. This is an act of hope that invites new possibilities to emerge within a framework of support and care. Whether you’re experiencing anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, or navigating a major life transition, entering into a psychotherapeutic relationship can be profound, healing and meaningful.
holistic approach
Creating a space during which we focus on your needs and your journey allows us to take a holistic approach by paying attention to your thoughts, words, feelings, physicality, sensory experiences, and voice which are all aspects of how you experience life and express yourself. Our work together will help guide you as we gently search for and ask the most useful questions.
authenticity is everything
The practice of putting judgement aside and coaxing out the truth, your truth, is brave and takes courage. Together, we can make the space for your authentic self to breathe more deeply and approach all aspects of life with greater ease.
growing self awareness
My therapy practice includes our collaborative focus on your thoughts, words, feelings, physicality, sensory experiences, and voice which. Why? Because these are all aspects of how you have digested your experiences in life, and also how you express yourself and create your life now. This entails a great deal of listening on my part and the offering of questions for us to further explore.
holistic body-centred work
As we work together, we will keep in mind: what words you use, the thoughts you create, your physiological responses, what and how you eat, how you rest, how you entertain yourself, how you move, how you speak, and how you breathe. Your connection to all of these things both instruct and mirror how you relate to yourself and those around you.
finding words and building language
Keeping body, mind, personal history, and the present day at the centre of our work offers us a rich selection of information from. Once we build a language around these aspects, we can consider what continues to be useful, what is no longer needed, and what you want to mindfully create for your life today.
move forward with ease
I believe you carry much of what you need already within you. Our work together is to uncover what these things are, and discover a deeper connection to your authentic self so that you can move forward with ease.
Life Transitions & Major Changes: Support during periods of significant change including career shifts, relationship changes, relocation, aging, and identity exploration.
Relationships and Sexuality: Exploring personal sexuality and within relationships, intimacy concerns, and relational patterns with openness and without judgment.
Caregiver Support: Help for those supporting loved ones through illness, aging, or other challenges while maintaining your own wellbeing.
Perinatal Mental Health & Birth Trauma Support: I have obtained additional training and certification in perinatal mental health, offering specialized support for:
- Fertility challenges and pregnancy loss
- Birth trauma and postpartum depression
- Anxiety during pregnancy
- Postpartum adjustment and parenting support
Grief & Bereavement Support: Compassionate guidance through loss, including support for terminal illness, end of life transitions, and grief at any stage.
Racial Identity & Racialized Trauma: Understanding and healing from experiences of racism, exploring racial identity, and processing anger related to discrimination and marginalization.
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Exploring unconscious patterns, early experiences, and how they shape your present-day life and relationships.
Mindfulness-Based Therapy: Developing awareness of thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations to create space for choice and change.
Somatic & Body-Centered Work: Attending to how emotions and experiences live in your body, integrating physical awareness into healing.
My own extensive journey through the arts and my own therapy has been profound. It led to my need to ask my questions: “why do we do what we do, and how come it is often at odds with what we think we desire” to more than just the characters I would work on. My drive to understand myself, others, and the patterns we find ourselves in landed me in psychotherapy training. It still continues to be a fulfilling endeavour.
My experiences living and travelling abroad, along with my training in language, movement, vocal performance, and presentation, are the basis of my holistic view about how the mind and body can struggle with each other but also, with the right attunement, inform and support each other.
My education as a psychotherapist is rooted in the Centre for Training in Psychotherapy in Toronto. This school offers a strong academic foundation and immersion in various theories. The highly experiential elements of this training means that I have undergone years of my own development in both personal and group therapy. I believe this is the reason I deeply respect and appreciate what it means to reach out, enter into, and stay the course in self-development, whether it be in talk therapy or other types of therapeutic healing.
My hope is to help you find your internal alignment which will increase your sense of ease within yourself and your daily life.
Initial Consultation:
I offer 20 minute Zoom Video call, free of charge.
We’ll begin with a conversation about what brings you to therapy, your goals, and see if we might be a good fit for continuing to work together.
About Sessions:
- Available to those living in Ontario.
- Virtual therapy sessions via secure video platform (online)
- Phone therapy available for those who prefer audio-only sessions
- Days Tuesday to Friday + Weekends
- Session length: 55 minutes
- Flexible scheduling
CONTACT: dharini.woollcombe@gmail.com
Issues
- Abuse (childhood/familial)
- Abuse (intimate partner violence)
- Adoption
- Anger
- Creative Blocks
- Infertility and Fertility
- Loss and Grief
- Parenting and Co-Parenting
- Relationships