Tanya Schecter

My Approach:

Our relationships, with others and ourselves, are the source of our greatest joy and our deepest anguish. How we navigate them is largely dependent on the toolbox we own and the challenges we encounter. I believe that while we're all naturally creative, resourceful, and whole, everyone needs help along the way and that our healing and growth occurs most effectively in partnership.

I also believe that while we're all part of a system in which we're both actors and acted upon, we're ultimately the authors of our own stories, able to envision and bring to life the outcomes we desire. To do so, however, we need more than just a script: we need appropriate tools.

As a therapist and trained life coach with over 20 years of experience, these two beliefs profoundly impact how I show up. I'm a staunch advocate for:

1. Understanding the environment you live in, including hidden forces that influence you and the invisible impacts your actions have in creating your current reality, and
2. Providing you with new tools while expanding your emotional and interpersonal capacities so you can create the outcomes you yearn for.

My Commitment to You

No matter whether we're doing individual or couples therapy, I'll support you, meeting you where you are while helping you heal, learn, and grow so you get to where you want to be. It's my passion and privilege to help you along your journey of creating a life filled with nourishing, joyful relationships, starting with the one you have with yourself.

About Me

I’m someone who’s lived a full life. I’ve come to therapy after decades of doing relationship-building work with individuals and groups, knowing that therapy and counselling is where my heart lies.

As a mom, wife, and daughter, I’ve been in the relationship trenches. Divorced once, I’m now happily married to an amazing man. Before that, as a single mom, I managed to raise my son through unexpected and often challenging twists and turns to be a thriving, happy, capable, and successful young man.

Having grown up in a family that was rife with inter-generational trauma and dysfunction, my current happiness didn’t come easily. Like many, I’ve had to do the hard work and dig deep to wrestle with my past, come to terms with it, and learn new, more relational ways of being.

From first-hand experience, I know how important good relationships are to our well-being, happiness, and satisfaction. Because I personally know how transformative good relationships can be (including the one you have with yourself), I’m passionate about helping people create great ones for themselves!

Tanya Schecter, M.A., M.C, RCC,  CCC, RLT