About me
I’m Mike Burtt, a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) in Toronto.
For three decades I’ve worked with individuals and communities, much of it with young people and in community arts. That work taught me how much can change when someone is genuinely met, and it led me to psychotherapy.
Many of the people I work with are living between worlds: between cultures, between who they were raised to be and who they’re becoming.
My approach is experiential and whole-person, drawing on AEDP and IFS. I hold a Master of Psycho-Spiritual Studies from Emmanuel College at the University of Toronto, and a Master of Environmental Studies from York University.
I work with people who have come to a point where the old way isn’t working and the new way isn’t clear yet.
Often it’s a season of transition — a beginning, an ending, or somewhere in between.
If faith or spirituality is part of your life, you’re welcome to bring it into the room. If it isn’t, that’s welcome too.
Who I work with
It usually begins with a feeling that something isn’t right, even before there are words for it. We start there, and explore it together, slowly, until we find where the tension really lives. Rather than trying to fix it, we look for a different way of standing in relation to it, so that what was stuck can begin to move again.
How I work
Where we’ll meet.
Sessions can be in person, in a quiet room in Toronto, or online by secure video from anywhere in Ontario.