(She/Her)
Registered Psychotherapist
RP, CTP Dipl, MSC
MSc in Comp Sci, MSc in HCI
Relationships bring us vitality, meaning, and intimacy. They can also become places where we feel misunderstood and frustrated. Therapy offers an opportunity to slow things down, understand what is happening beneath the surface, and approach ourselves and one another differently. I work with couples and families navigating conflict, life transitions, communication challenges, as well as with individuals seeking greater self-understanding, direction, and movement in their lives.
My practice is especially meaningful for thoughtful professionals, creatives, and people carrying complexity across multiple parts of life, relationships, work, ambition, family, identity, and belonging. Many come to therapy not only for relief, but with a wish to understand themselves more deeply and live with greater clarity, purpose, and emotional freedom.
I help people work through difficult and sometimes painful experiences. With couples, I focus on helping you understand the deeper emotions driving the painful patterns you keep getting stuck in. Most couples arrive feeling disconnected and unheard, caught in the same arguments that never quite resolve. Together, we work to express what’s really happening beneath the surface, listen differently, and find your way back to each other. My couples work is grounded in attachment and trauma theory, and informed by Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and psychodynamic thinking. With families, we create enough safety for each person to be heard, allowing relationships to soften and creating space for authenticity.
With individuals, we slow down together, seeking to understand you more fully, so that insight can turn into lasting change. My work draws on psychodynamic psychotherapy, attachment theory, trauma theory, and Internal Family Systems (IFS), integrating these perspectives according to your needs.
My ability to connect with people across cultural and language barriers comes from a diverse upbringing and a life lived across several countries. I have a background in business and technology, and spent years working in high profile companies before returning to my deeper interest in human psychology. I completed a rigorous clinical training at the Centre for Training in Psychotherapy in Toronto and hold certification in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy through ICEEFT.
As a first step, contact me via email at unmarkova@gmail.com to book an appointment or request a brief no-fee phone or video consultation.
Yonge & Sheppard, Toronto, ON, M2N 1R7