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Stop carrying the
weight alone.
Find your calm.
Executive burnout therapy designed for the realities of high-
performance work. Virtual sessions across Ontario, booked
around your calendar, never the other way around.
MSW · RSW Ontario
8+ Years Experience
EMDR · EFT · CBT · DBT
Virtual & In-person · Toronto
What WE help with
Real problems.
Real strategies.
Whether you’re juggling five deadlines, replaying last week’s argument, or feeling invisible at home, these are the three things my clients come to me for most.
Executive burnout
Burnout & Stress Relief
Break the cycle of exhaustion that strong coffee and weekend sleep can’t touch. Evidence-based work on nervous-system regulation, boundaries, and recovery.
Family & Relationships
Family & Partner Therapy
The stress from work doesn’t stay at work. Rebuild connection at home, navigate conflict, and come back to the version of you your family recognizes.
Emotional Regulation
Communication & Regulation
Learn to handle big feelings without blowing up or shutting down. Practical tools for the meetings, the texts, and the conversations that matter.
Why work with us
Built for the way
you actually live.
You deserve support that actually gets you. Our practice is connection-centered, evidence-based, and designed for executive realities, not the other way around.
Executive experience, human approach
We specialize in the realities of executive life. No judgment for the late-night emails. No lectures about balance. Just real talk and proven tools.
Connection-centered
always
Therapy is a relationship. You’ll know where you stand, what we’re working on, and why. You don’t have to perform, here, you can just be.
Flexible
Virtual Sessions
Access support on your schedule, wherever you are in Ontario. Weekend and early-AM availability. Book and reschedule in seconds.
What you can expect
✓ Feel calmer and less reactive under pressure
✓ Sleep better · reduce rumination
✓ Communicate at home without blowing up or shutting down
Book a session
Open our calendar.
Pick a time.
That's it.
Our schedule is synced live with Google Calendar, early mornings before your stand-up, evenings after bedtime, weekend hours. Whatever fits into your day.
✓ See every free slot on my calendar, no back-and-forth emails
✓ 50-minute sessions · Virtual or in-person Toronto
✓ Reschedule up to 24h before · No change fees
✓ Free 15-minute intro call to see if we’re a fit
Client Reflections
What it's like
to work with us.
Client names omitted and details altered for confidentiality. Shared with permission.
“
For the first time in years, I can sit through a board meeting without my chest tightening. Christina helped me separate the weight of leadership from the weight I’d been adding to it myself.
CFO
Financial services · Toronto
“
The 7am slot saved me. I didn’t have to choose between my career and doing the work. That alone made me trust the process, and then the work itself was extraordinary.
Managing Director
Consulting · Toronto
“
She’s direct. That’s what I needed. I’d been in therapy that felt like a confessional, this feels like strategy with a heart. My marriage is different now. Actually different.
Founder
SaaS · Ottawa
“
I came in for burnout. I left with tools my whole team benefits from. Worth every session, and Christina makes the hard parts feel safe.
VP Engineering
Tech · Ontario
— Get in touch
Send a note.
I'll reply personally.
Thank you for spending time on my site. Book a free 15-minute consult by sending a message, I’ll reply within one business day (check your junk folder just in case). I’m already excited to meet you.
Email
theheartofhealingcs@gmail.com
Availability
See Calendar
Location
Virtual across Toronto and serving all of Ontario
About Christina
Direct, warm,
and no-fluff.
“Therapy shouldn’t feel like another meeting on your calendar. It should feel like the one place where nothing is waiting for you.”
For over 8 years, I have provided psychotherapy. Working with overwhelmed executives and high-performing professionals who look composed on the outside and are running on empty on the inside. You know the feeling, the 2 a.m. wake-ups, the short fuse at home, the quiet dread before Monday.
My approach is evidence-based but never clinical. I pull from EMDR, EFT, CBT and DBT, whatever actually moves the needle for you, and I’ll tell you the truth, with warmth and humor, about what I see. My team is highly credentialed and ready to support you, your partner, and family.
- MSW · Master of Social Work
- RSW · Registered Social Worker · Ontario
- EMDR · Trained
- EFT · Trained
- CBT · Trained
- DBT · Trained
- 8+ · Years experience
Christina Abounassar, MSW, RSW
Founder · Executive Therapy Toronto