Shelby Doherty-Sirkovich, MACP, BSc (Hons), BA, RP

I am a Registered Psychotherapist CRPO #12083 and have completed my Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology degree through Yorkville University. I am also a Certified Clinical Trauma Specialist.

I work with adults navigating relationship breakdown, divorce, separation, betrayal trauma, and challenging dynamics with family, friends, or partners. My focus is on people dealing with difficult relationships, contemplating or processing divorce, managing high-conflict separations, or stuck in patterns of people-pleasing and boundary issues.

My approach is trauma-informed and integrative, drawing from ACT, DBT, somatic work, Gestalt, narrative therapy, and psychodynamic approaches. We work at your pace on both immediate challenges and underlying patterns—why boundaries feel impossible, where people-pleasing comes from, how past relationships affect current ones.

I'm not here to tell you what to do or push you through predetermined stages. You know your life and relationships better than anyone. My role is to help you see patterns more clearly, provide practical tools that actually work, and create space for you to figure out what you want—separate from what everyone else thinks you should want. We collaborate on what makes sense for your specific situation, building on what's already working while addressing what isn't.

If you're dealing with relationship stress, contemplating major changes like divorce, processing betrayal, or tired of repeating the same dynamics—and you want straightforward help without therapy clichés—let's talk.