For North Toronto, see Lois Messinger: Psychotherapist and marriage counsellor

Psychotherapy
 East Toronto psychotherapist and marriage counsellor

East Danforth, the Beaches


 

Beth Mares, clinical member, Ontario Society of Psychotherapists, 20 years full time practice

Welcome to my website. Please come in:

marriage counselling & psychotherapy

 

 

 

 

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Beth's psychotherapy and relationship counselling website includes lists of issues Beth works with, FAQ, answers to practical questions, answers to readers' letters, an article outlining Beth's approach, and a resources section with an annotated professional directory of therapists, along with other resources in the Greater Toronto Area.

Relationship, sex addiction and marriage counseling service, East Toronto near Scarborough

by Beaches psychotherapist and adult children of alcoholics counselor Beth Mares

Beth is an integrative therapist, using cognitive therapy, CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy) short term dynamic psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, client-centred therapy (Rogerian), transference, and other methods as required; she works with adults of all ages and teenagers/ adolescents.  Much of her work is short term; this is usually cognitive therapy, behavioural therapy (behaviour therapy), or short term dynamic psychotherapy.

Much of Beth's work deals with marital and relationship issues such as infidelity, sexual addictions, low sexual desire, sexless marriage, and other issues involving how the individual deals with sex or the couple relates around it. For information about her approach, availability, contact information, etc., access her website via the link below the picture above. 

Psychotherapy for sex addiction and infidelity, Toronto and Scarborough

Beth's East Toronto/ Scarborough practice includes sexology, help with sexual dysfunctions, and marriage counselling for  improving communication and the couple's ability to deal with conflict. She also offers support for separation and divorce, both at a practical level and an emotional level; help with sex addictions, sexual habit problems and other causes of cheating, out of control use of cybersex and pornography, differences the couple may have about what constitutes infidelity in a relationship, suspicions that the partner has committed adultery or otherwise been unfaithful; sex therapy, divorce-proofing your marriage, building and maintaining intimacy in a relationship, preparing for or enhancing a life partnership through personal growth. Regarding  marital counseling for problems with cheating or suspicions about  fidelity see marriage counselling. Services are provided at the East Danforth office in Toronto near the Beaches and South Scarborough.

Beth Mares Counselling
403-294 Main Street
Toronto, ON M4C 4X5

Telephone: 416-699-5515
 

Psychotherapist and counselor, serving East Toronto, Scarborough, Markham and Pickering, helps with

midlife crisis

personal problems

relationships

assertiveness

communication and resolving conflicts

bereavement and grief

clinical depression, mild depression, dysthymia

weight loss and weight management, eating disorders

boredom or malaise

habit problems including drinking problems that are not debilitating enough to require intensive treatment at a facility such as Bellwood

anxiety disorders, GAD (general anxiety disorder), panic attacks (panic disorder), and phobias

work stress

codependency, ACA (adult children of alcoholics) issues, and other family of origin issues

overcoming trauma and post traumatic stress disorder

help with parenting

stress management

anger management

decision-making

assertiveness

self-esteem

weight problems and eating disorders

personality disorders

habit problems, sexual habit problems

other sexual problems

personal growth and exploration, clarifying values, and the meaning of life

goal-setting and accomplishing goals

coping with difficult people

 

Individual counselling service, Toronto:  counselor Beth Mares serves the Beaches, Scarborough, Markham, Pickering and downtown Toronto, providing:

Help with a panic attack or panic disorder

Cognitive behaviour  (or cognitive behavior) therapy for an anxiety disorder, a habit problem, sexual problem, sex addiction (sexual addiction or sexual obsession or sexual habit problem) a drinking problem, or anger management

Assertiveness training, goal-setting and follow-up, and maintaining gains

Mental health counseling in Toronto for co-dependency and ACA (adult children of alcoholics) issues, and other childhood trauma and developmental problems caused by physical, sexual or verbal abuse inside or outside the home, bullying, racism, bigotry, homophobia, health and medical problems, religious fanaticism or other obsessions interfering with the parents' ability to parent, improperly treated learning disability, unique learning style, or exceptional academic ability.

Help for after-effects of a high level of conflict in childhood--between parents, among siblings, between parental and peer group values etc.--resulting in confusion, anxiety etc.

Facilitation for discovering and becoming oneself; finding direction, goals, values; figuring out conflicting values

Beth Mares helps with issues about values from the perspective of a secular therapist. She mostly uses cognitive behavioral therapy, but also uses other modalities when appropriate.

 

 

 Copyright © 2004 Beth Mares

since updated

 

This website was produced by Mike Mares of the University of Toronto and Beth Mares of Toronto. Beth Mares is a psychotherapist, and Mike Mares is an IT specialist.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beth's downtown Toronto office address:

Beth Mares Counselling,

Rosedale Medical Building,
Suite 605, 600 Sherbourne St.,  Toronto ON  M4X 1W4

 

Future East office address:

Beth Mares Counselling

294 Main Street/ Danforth,

Toronto, ON  M4C 4X5

 

Telephone: 416-699-5515