Tired of holding it together?
You don't have to keep doing it alone.
Virtual therapy across Ontario for anxiety, trauma, depression, grief — and for everything that's real, unnamed, and keeping you stuck
Sometimes it's a heaviness you can't explain, a distance from yourself you can't close, or a sense that something important is slowly going quiet. Sometimes you know exactly what it is — the pattern, the shutdown, the pull toward what you know isn't good for you — and understanding it hasn't been enough to stop it. And sometimes what gets in the way of looking at it is the fear of what looking might confirm about you.
That fear makes sense. It's also not the whole story.
Either way, there's a place to look at it properly.
Something Has Shifted. And You Know It.
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.
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.
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.
Most of the people who find their way here weren't looking for therapy. They were looking for relief from something that stopped working — a coping strategy that held things together long enough, until it didn't. Until the same pattern showed up again in a relationship that mattered. Until the thing they'd been managing around started bleeding into the parts of life that used to feel solid. Until the cost of keeping everything contained became higher than the cost of looking at it.
That's usually the moment someone reaches out. Not when things fall apart. When the workaround finally runs out.
Reaching out takes something — especially for people who were taught that managing alone is strength, or that their struggles aren't serious enough, or that asking for help means something is wrong with them. If any of that is sitting with you right now, you don't need to resolve it before you start. You just need to be curious enough to have a conversation.
I'm MJ — Mitch Jill Talasan — a Registered Psychotherapist with over eight years of clinical experience, working with adults, adolescents, and older adults virtually across Ontario.
There are very few therapists in this province who can offer DBT-certified, trauma-informed psychotherapy in English, Tagalog, and Bisaya/Cebuano, with formal training across CBT, Narrative Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing — and who understand what it means to carry the weight of two cultures from the inside, not from a textbook. That combination exists here.
I work with men who have spent years being told that what they feel isn't the point — and who are now paying a cost they can't keep absorbing. With people from BIPOC communities navigating systems and relationships that were never designed with them in mind. With adolescents caught between who they're expected to be and who they're still figuring out they are. With older adults sitting with grief, loss, and a life that doesn't look the way they thought it would — in ways the people around them often don't notice or ask about. With those for whom faith is a real and central part of how they make meaning — I hold that with respect, not analysis. And with people who have simply grown tired of managing everything alone.
What that looks like is different for everyone. Sometimes it's anxiety that won't respond to understanding or willpower — because the anxiety is being maintained by the very avoidance meant to contain it. Sometimes it's depression that has quietly hollowed out the things that once felt meaningful. Sometimes it's grief that's been deferred so many times it's become unrecognizable. Sometimes it's anger that arrives faster than expected and leaves shame in its wake. Sometimes it's the weight of something that happened — or kept happening — that they've spent years not looking directly at. And sometimes they can't name it at all. They just know the life they've been living doesn't fully belong to them anymore.
I'm not interested in reducing that to a diagnosis. I'm more interested in understanding what your life has asked of you — and what it might look like to want something different from it.
My approach draws from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Narrative Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing — tools shaped by what you actually need.
I work in English, Tagalog, and Bisaya/Cebuano — and I understand the particular weight of navigating life between two cultures, because I do too.
If any of this sounds like where you are, a free 15-minute conversation is a good place to start. No commitment. Just a chance to see if it's a fit.
If any of this sounds like where you are, a free 15-minute conversation is a good place to start. No commitment. Just a chance to see if it's a fit.
Some Things Can't Be Solved By Thinking Harder
✓ 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
No commitment. Just a conversation to see if we're a good fit.
Step 1
Book a Free 15-Minute Consultation
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.
Affordable, Transparent Fees
Initial Assessment Session
(60 minutes): $185.00
Individual Psychotherapy Session
(50 minutes): $175.00
Sliding-scale spaces may occasionally be available.
If you've read this far, part of you is already looking for something different.
A free 15-minute consultation is a low-stakes place to start. You'll get a sense of how I work, and whether this feels like the right fit. No pressure, no commitment.