Therapy that helps you understand yourself & find clarity - not just manage symptoms.
Online Therapy for teens (13+) and adults across Ontario navigating anxiety, trauma, burnout, relationship challenges, life's difficult transitions - and for everything that's real, unnamed, and keeping you stuck
Therapy in English, Bisaya, & Tagalog
A collaborative & culturally-sensitive approach to therapy
Together, we'll make sense of what's bringing you here, explore the patterns influencing your life, build on your existing strengths, clarify what matters most to you, and develop practical, evidence-based strategies that support meaningful, lasting change.
Most people who find their way here weren't looking for therapy.
They were looking for relief from something that had stopped working.
Maybe it was pushing through, staying busy, avoiding conflict, keeping everyone else together, or convincing themselves that if they could just think harder or try harder, things would eventually feel different. Those strategies often work for a while—until they don't. The same patterns keep showing up. Relationships become harder. Anxiety becomes louder. Anger arrives more quickly. Life starts feeling smaller than it used to.
That's often the point where people reach out—not because they've failed, but because they're ready for something different.
I'm MJ (Mitch Jill Talasan), a Registered Psychotherapist with over eight years of clinical experience supporting adolescents, adults, older adults, and families across community mental health, addictions, outpatient mental health, and private practice.
My work is grounded in evidence-based therapies including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Narrative Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing. But I don't believe good therapy begins with choosing a technique. It begins with understanding your story—what shaped you, what has helped you survive, and what may no longer be serving you.
What makes my practice different isn't only my training. It's the perspective I bring.
Having lived between cultures myself, I understand that many people spend years trying to balance different expectations, identities, responsibilities, and ways of seeing the world. Culture, family, faith, relationships, and life experiences all influence how we understand ourselves. Rather than treating those as background details, I see them as essential parts of the conversation.
I work with people navigating anxiety, trauma, relationship challenges, anger, self-criticism, life transitions, identity questions, and emotional overwhelm. I also work with men learning to reconnect with emotions they've spent years pushing aside; adolescents trying to understand who they're becoming; people from immigrant and BIPOC communities carrying the weight of multiple worlds; individuals exploring questions of identity, including LGBTQ+ and questioning clients; and those for whom faith or spirituality remains an important part of how they make meaning of life. Whatever your beliefs or background, you'll find a space where they are met with respect rather than assumptions.
I'm not interested in reducing people to diagnoses or symptoms.
I'm interested in understanding what your life has asked of you, the patterns you've developed to get through it, and how we can build something that feels more grounded, intentional, and aligned with the life you want to live.
Therapy, to me, isn't about becoming someone different.
It's about understanding yourself more honestly, strengthening the parts of you that already exist, and creating meaningful change that reflects both your values and your goals.
If that sounds like the kind of work you're looking for, I'd be glad to meet you for a free 15-minute consultation.
Some Things Can't Be Solved By Thinking Harder
Virtual Therapy Services Across Ontario
Trauma Therapy & Emotional Healing
For difficult experiences that haven't stayed in the past — childhood wounds, relational trauma, things that happened once or kept happening, and the weight of what was passed down through your family before you had words for it. Therapy creates a space to look at it without it overwhelming you.
Anger & Emotion Regulation
For the anger that shows up faster than you expect, the frustration that builds quietly until it doesn't, and the shame that follows. DBT-certified work on understanding what's underneath the reactivity — and building the skills to respond instead of react.
Shame & Self-Criticism
For the voice that is always measuring, always finding you lacking, always holding you to a standard you would never apply to someone you love. This work isn't about positive thinking. It's about understanding where that voice learned to speak so loudly — and what it would take to stop letting it run the show.
Life Transitions & Identity
Career shifts, relationship changes, cultural identity, the gap between who you've been and who you're becoming. For adolescents figuring out who they are underneath everyone's expectations. For older adults navigating what meaning looks like when the roles that defined them have changed. For anyone at the point where the old map has stopped working.
Men’s Mental Health
A space where what you feel is actually the point. For men navigating stress, anger, relationship difficulty, identity, and the particular weight of having spent years being told that managing is the same as being okay. It isn't. This is a place to stop pretending it is.
Relationships & Boundaries
For the patterns that keep repeating — in partnerships, families, friendships, and work. The same argument. The same dynamic. The same cost. Therapy helps you understand where these patterns came from and what it would take to want something different from them.
Anxiety & Overthinking
When worry runs the background of everything — even when there's nothing specific to point to. When the overthinking follows you into conversations you've already had and decisions you've already made. Anxiety often persists not because you don't understand it, but because the strategies you're using to manage it are quietly keeping it in place.
Does Any of This Sound Like You?
AVOIDANCE / FUNCTIONAL STUCK-NESS
You've gotten good at managing — staying busy, staying strong, staying focused on what's in front of you. But something keeps surfacing anyway. And the strategies that used to contain it aren't quite containing it anymore.
ANXIETY
The overthinking doesn't stop when the moment is over. You're still replaying the conversation, the decision, the look on someone's face — hours or days later. The worry is always running somewhere in the background, even when there's nothing specific to worry about.
DEPRESSION
You're functioning. Showing up. Getting through it. But you're doing it from somewhere far away from yourself — like watching your own life rather than living it.
GRIEF / LOSS
Everyone around you seems to have moved on. The loss hasn't.
It's not just a person you're grieving. It's a version of your life, a future you expected, a relationship that ended before you were ready — or that was never what you needed it to be.
TRAUMA
The people who were supposed to make you feel safe were the ones you needed to be safe from. Some part of you is still trying to make sense of that.
You don't always know what you feel. Or what you need. Or whether what happened to you counts as something worth bringing to therapy — because for a long time, it was just how things were.
ANGER
You don't think of yourself as an angry person. But something keeps happening — a moment where you go from fine to not fine faster than you can explain, and afterward you're left with the question of where that came from.
The anger passes quickly. The shame about it doesn't.
OLDER ADULTS
Things that used to give your life shape and meaning have shifted. The people around you often don't notice. They don't always ask.
ADOLESCENTS
You spend most of your energy being who everyone needs you to be. You're not sure who you are when that's not required of you.
MEN / HELP-SEEKING BARRIER
You were taught that needing help is a sign of weakness — but something has to change.
BIPOC / INTERGENERATIONAL
The weight you're carrying isn't only yours. Some of it came before you — in what your family survived, what they couldn't talk about, what got passed down without anyone meaning to pass it on.
FAITH
Your faith is real and it matters to you — but you've never found a space where you could bring all of it without it being treated as a symptom or a complication.
Affordable, Transparent Fees
Initial Assessment Session
(60 minutes): $185.00
Individual Psychotherapy Session
(50 minutes): $175.00
Sliding-scale spaces may occasionally be available.
Why Renova?
The word Renova comes from the idea of renewal.
Not becoming someone else.
But reconnecting with who you really are beneath the patterns, pain, expectations, and experiences you've been carrying for longer than you should have to.
Therapy is not about being fixed. It's about creating space to better understand yourself, clarify what matters most, and move toward a life that feels more aligned with your values and goals.
✓ Over 8 years of combined clinical experience across mental health, addictions, allied health, and community-based settings
✓ Specialized in men's mental health, BIPOC communities, adolescents, older adults, and faith-connected clients
✓ Culturally responsive, trauma-informed, and faith-respectful care
✓ Trilingual therapy in English, Tagalog, and Bisaya/Cebuano
✓ Evidence-based approaches including CBT, DBT, Narrative Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing
✓ Warm, practical, collaborative, and values-oriented approach
Why Work With Renova Psychotherapy?
Starting is Simpler Than You Think
Book a Free 15-Minute Consultation
Step 1
No commitment. Just a conversation to see if we're a good fit.
We talk about what's actually going on — your story, your pace. No rush to fix before we understand.
Step 2
Step 3
Begin Creating Meaningful Change One Step at a Time
Not perfectly. Just differently than before.