Ontario, Canada | Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)

Earth & Body-Based Gestalt Psychotherapy

Virtual & in-person practice, rooted in relationship with land & community.

Slava, earth & body-based gestalt psychotherapist in an Ontario forest. She's out foraging for mushrooms, holding a basket. The trees are vibrant with fall colors in the background.

Ways to work with me

Slava, gestalt psychotherapist in Ontario, providing individual and couples therapy. Looking directly into the camera, she is listening attentively.

Gestalt Psychotherapy

I offer a collaborative somatic and relational approach that explores your lived experiences in the present moment — thoughts, emotions, sensations, and the field between. Together, we cultivate awareness, deepen contact, and expand your capacity for choice and meaningful change.
I work with adult individuals and couples who are seeking change in how to move through relational complexities, life’s transitions, addictions/ soothing go-to’s, and dealing with the impact of modernity of current Time.

Individual sessions | 145$ per 1 hour session

Couples sessions | 185$ per 1 hour session

If cost is a barrier for you and you are actively seeking therapy and exploration, please don't hesitate and get in touch with me about sliding scale availability and information on lower cost therapy resources.

Individual & couples (18+)  virtual and in-person

Land-based retreats for groups on the land in Ontario. A circle of chairs around a fire under the full moon.

Wild Contact

Where the whole forest meets your whole self.

These immersive forest retreats are offered to therapists, MH counsellors, social workers, and healers who spend their work days holding space for others and often have little left for themselves, or recognize they are in need of deep recharge and energetic “composting”.

You already know how to sit with unfinished business. Out here, the forest sits with yours.

Through guided, as well as co-created plays, practices and flows, and shared stories, we get to explore, touch earth, facetime with moss, experiment , and just be, while held by incredible Land, Forest and River, who are deeply respected and cared for by diverse group of incredibly brave, magically creative and hard-heart-working humans.

Fees determined per retreat

Forest retreats for  mental health practitioners

Slava facilitating forest therapy, Gestalt land-based playshop.

Immersive Playshops

Rooted in wholistic approach to well-being

small GRoups, individuals and couples

An opportunity to deep-dive into experiential learning about Relational Field and Self in it through Immersive of malti-disciplinary rooted in relationship — with self, others, and the land. Through collective practice and reflection, the natural environment becomes part of the field, offering grounding, perspective, and depth.

Fees determined per playshop

Light & shadow belong to one another. The work is not to eliminate either - but to learn to dance with both.

Meet yourself more fully

A woman sits on the ground in a lush green forest, surrounded by foliage and trees, looking up peacefully.

A young woman with long dark hair sitting cross-legged on autumn leaves in a forest, basking in sunlight with her eyes closed.

Come to the edge of your own becoming — where shadow is welcomed, where presence matters more than performance, and where change begins with awareness.

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It's not about becoming someone else.

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It's about becoming more fully yourself.

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It's not about becoming someone else. ✳︎ It's about becoming more fully yourself. ✳︎

About Slava, gestalt psychotherapist in Ontario. Looking directly into the camera with a grounded confidence and ease. Slava's wearing a straw hat, leather vest and fur collar.

Hi, I’m Slava

I became a Gestalt therapist because I am endlessly curious about how humans make meaning.

My work is relational, embodied, and grounded in presence. Whether in the therapy room or on the land, I hold space for exploration — not quick fixes, not promises — but deep noticing, honest dialogue, and the unfolding of what is already here.

Learn more about me