Breaking Toxic Relationship Patterns | Online Therapy in Canada
Do you find yourself overgiving, emotionally exhausted, or repeatedly drawn to emotionally unavailable relationships?
Toxic relationship patterns are often rooted in deeper attachment wounds and early relational experiences. Therapy can help you understand these patterns, rebuild boundaries, and create healthier, more secure relationships with yourself and others.
Why We Repeat Toxic Relationship Patterns
Many toxic relationship patterns are not conscious choices. They are often shaped by early attachment experiences, emotional neglect, inconsistent love, criticism, or relationships where your emotional needs were not fully seen or validated.
Over time, the nervous system can begin to associate unpredictability, emotional unavailability, or over-functioning with connection and love. This can lead to patterns such as:
People-pleasing or overgiving
Difficulty setting boundaries
Fear of abandonment or rejection
Staying in relationships that feel emotionally draining
Feeling responsible for other people’s emotions
Confusing intensity with connection
With therapy, you can begin to understand these patterns, reconnect with your sense of self, and build healthier, more secure relationships; both with yourself and others.
How Therapy Can Help
Therapy can help you begin recognizing the deeper emotional patterns that shape your relationships, boundaries, and sense of self-worth. Together, we explore the roots of these dynamics with compassion rather than judgment.
Through therapy, you can begin to:
Develop healthier boundaries
Build emotional awareness and self-trust
Understand attachment wounds and relationship patterns
Reduce people-pleasing and over-functioning
Strengthen self-worth and emotional safety
Create more secure and fulfilling relationships
My approach integrates trauma-informed counselling, IFS (Internal Family Systems), attachment-focused therapy, and psychodynamic exploration to help you not only cope — but truly heal at the root.
What Life Can Look Like After Healing
Healing toxic relationship patterns can help you feel more emotionally grounded, secure, and connected within yourself and your relationships. Over time, many clients begin to experience:
🌱 Greater emotional balance and self-trust — no longer feeling like you’re constantly overgiving or emotionally depleted.
💞 Healthier, more reciprocal relationships — where connection no longer comes at the cost of losing yourself.
✨ Freedom from toxic cycles — including people-pleasing, perfectionism, emotional over-functioning, or repeatedly choosing emotionally unavailable partners.
🌟 Stronger self-worth and boundaries — feeling more confident expressing your needs, limits, and emotions.
🌈🌈 More calm, clarity, and emotional safety — in relationships, work, and everyday life.
Healing is not about becoming someone new — it’s about reconnecting with who you are beneath the survival patterns you had to develop.
What to Expect in Our Work Together
Safe, Non-judgmental Space
A welcoming environment where you can freely explore your story, emotions, and experiences without fear of judgment.
Insight & Somatic Practices
Combining deep self-reflection with body-based approaches to create lasting transformation and healing.
Flexible Pacing
Sessions move at a rhythm that feels right for your nervous system, ensuring safety and integration.
Collaborative Goal Setting
Working together to identify your needs and create meaningful objectives for our therapeutic journey.
Optional Growth Work
Supplementary practices like journaling or mindfulness exercises are available but never required.
Fees, Availability, and Booking
Session Duration
50-minute 1:1 sessions or 90-minute group sessions designed to provide focused therapeutic support
Online Group Therapy
Small group sessions for inner child and trauma healing.
Online Platform
Secure video platform accessible from the comfort of your home
Free Consultation
15-minute consultation to discuss your needs and ensure we're a good fit
Insurance Coverage
Most insurances cover Registered Psychotherapist or Canadian Certified Counsellor services
Insurance Reimbursment
You’ll receive official receipts after each session, which can be submitted to your insurance provider for reimbursement.
Please check with your insurance provider for specific coverage details
Meet Your Relationship Trauma Therapist
I’m Divya Gulati, a Registered Psychotherapist (CRPO) and Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCPA) with over 12 years of experience helping high-achieving adults heal toxic relationship patterns, attachment wounds, people-pleasing, and the emotional impact of unhealthy relational dynamics.
My own journey of navigating and breaking free from toxic relationship patterns has deeply shaped the way I work. I know what it’s like to feel unseen, dismissed, and burdened by old family dynamics and I also know that healing is possible.
In therapy, I bring a trauma-informed, attachment-based approach that blends Internal Family Systems (IFS), Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT), psychodynamic insights, and nervous-system regulation. Together, we’ll not only uncover the root causes of anxiety, burnout, and people-pleasing but also build lasting self-trust, emotional freedom, and healthier relationships.
If you’re ready to stop repeating the past and step into a calmer, more authentic version of yourself, I’d be honored to walk this healing journey with you.
When I am not working, I love to paint, do yoga, enjoy being in nature, spend time with family and friends, and travelling.
Group Therapy
Join a small, supportive group of 6–8 participants for 90-minute sessions designed to help you explore shared experiences and build emotional awareness in a safe, guided space.
This closed group runs for 10 weeks, with a commitment to all sessions — missed sessions cannot be made up.
Each meeting offers structured reflection, group dialogue, and guided tools for healing patterns of self-doubt, over-giving, and people-pleasing.
Confidentiality and respect for each participant’s privacy are essential and expected.
💬 Schedule: After-work hours to support accessibility
💵 Fee: $80 per session
Accepting clients to the group therapy if there is interest please reach out.
You’re Ready to Begin – and I’m Honored to Walk With You
If something here resonates, reach out. Your story matters, and healing is possible.