About Barbara Lesniak
Barbara Lesniak believes we all have the capacity to live a fulfilling life. For the past thirty years it has been her privilege to facilitate and witness numerous meaningful shifts in many individuals' lives who trusted to share their very private stories of distress, emotional pain, and determination with her. Helping others is her passion that she appreciates, cultivates, and grows in her day-to-day work with those who she meets on her professional journey.
She is a registered psychological associate and an active member of the Ontario College of Psychologists. In her private practice she provides individual psychotherapy to clients who are interested in getting to know or deepen their understanding of themselves, their relationship with others, and the world. She also enjoys her role as a clinical supervisor to other clinicians. Her warm, nonjudgmental, focused, compassionate and professional style will make you feel understood and at ease as soon as you meet her.
Her extensive clinical training and experience encompasses many modalities of psychotherapy including CBT, DBT, Attachment Repatterning, Somatic Experiencing, Schema Therapy and Internal Family Systems. In addition, she holds a certification in Transactional Analysis and Gestalt therapy. In her clinical work she often incorporates the principles of Self Compassion and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction practices.
On a daily basis, she brings the cutting-edge knowledge and research findings to her work with her clients. Currently, she participates on an ongoing basis in the learning platforms that include DARE trainings, Somatic Experiencing, Therapy Mastermind Circle and the Next Level Practitioner provided by the NICABM, as well as the Tapping Solution and Mindful Self Compassion.
Before starting in private practice, she worked for various psychological clinics in Etobicoke and Hamilton, as well as an EAP provider in Toronto and Oakville.