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Compassionate Inquiry® Therapy
Gabor Maté’s Compassionate Inquiry® in Ontario
At Soulful Therapy, we offer Compassionate Inquiry® to clients across Ontario through secure online sessions, supporting your healing wherever you are.
“Knowing oneself comes from attending with compassionate curiosity to what is happening within.“
Gabor Maté
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What Is Compassionate Inquiry®
Developed by renowned trauma expert Dr. Gabor Maté, Compassionate Inquiry® is a psychotherapeutic approach that reveals what lies beneath the surface of your behavior, thoughts, and emotions.
Rather than focusing only on symptoms, CI explores your nervous system responses, early life conditioning, and deep internalized narratives, with warmth, curiosity, and compassion.
This process helps you:
- Uncover and release hidden emotional wounds
- Go at your own pace
- Explore how your mind and body connect
- Reconnect with your authentic self
- Live with a greater sense of well-being
- Discover and live in your highest potential
We are honoured to support you through this journey
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What Can Compassionate Inquiry® Help With?
CI for Childhood Trauma, Attachment Wounds or Neglect
The Compassionate Inquiry® therapeutic approach gently uncovers how early experiences of trauma, attachment wounds, or neglect continue to shape your present-day patterns.
CI for Anxiety and Chronic Stress
Compassionate Inquiry® helps you slow down and connect with the deeper beliefs and nervous system responses beneath anxiety and chronic stress.
CI for Addiction or Compulsive Behaviours
Our Compassionate Inquiry® Certified Therapists gently guide you to explore the emotional roots beneath addiction or compulsive behaviors. By uncovering the pain or unmet needs driving these patterns, it creates space for healing and more conscious choice.
CI Emotional Regulation
Compassionate Inquiry® supports emotional regulation by helping you notice and understand your underlying patterns with curiosity. This creates more space for calm, choice, and a deeper sense of ease in daily life.
OUR APPROACH
How Compassionate Inquiry® Therapy Works
Unlike traditional therapy that focuses mainly on thinking or analysis, Compassionate Inquiry® brings you into connection with your body and deeper emotional experience.
1
Gentle Awareness
Compassionate Inquiry® begins by creating a safe space where you can gently notice your thoughts, emotions, and bodily sensations without judgment. This mindful awareness helps reveal unconscious patterns and hidden beliefs shaping your experience.
2
Curious Exploration
Next, you’re invited to explore these patterns with compassion and curiosity, rather than criticism or avoidance. By asking open, reflective questions and tuning into your internal experience, you start to uncover the deeper emotional roots beneath your behaviors and reactions.
3
Healing Connection
Finally, Compassionate Inquiry® fosters a healing connection with yourself and your therapist, that supports releasing old wounds and rebuilding a sense of safety. This compassionate relational space allows new, healthier patterns to emerge, leading to lasting change and greater ease.
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Online Compassionate Inquiry® Certified Therapists in Ontario
Our Compassionate Inquiry® therapist’s are trained in Gabor Maté’s method and offer virtual therapy for adults across Ontario, including:
- Toronto and the GTA
- Kingston, Ontario
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Sudbury Ontario
- London Ontario
- Northern and Rural Ontario Communities
Access secure virtual therapy from the comfort of your home anywhere in Ontario.
Meet Our Team
Meet the Compassionate Inquiry® therapists at Soulful Therapy.
Virtual appointments available across Ontario.
Breanne Benson
Registered psychotherapist (Qualifying)
PhD Doctoral Student, Transpersonal Psychology
- Trauma
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction
- Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
Laura Farberman
MSW, RSW
Clinic Founder, Registered Social Worker, Psychotherapist
- Adults
- Virtual Sessions Available
- Daytime
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma Therapy
- Yoga Therapy
- And More!
Isabel Moriche
MSW
Registered Social Worker
- Complex Trauma
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Cognitive Change
- Grief
- Migration Stress
- Housing Insecurity
- Aging
- Crisis
- English / Spanish Speaking
Shane Pokroy
MA, RP
Registered Psychotherapist
- Adults
- Virtual and Phone Sessions Available
- Daytime, Evenings, and Weekends
- Relationships
- Emotional Regulation
- Mindfulness
- And More!
Mariya Garnet
Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)
- Adults
- Virtual Sessions Available
- Trauma
- Daytime, Evenings & Weekends
- Developmental/pre-verbal trauma
- Emotional Neglect
- Emotional disconnect
- And More!
Are you ready to start exploring your best self?
How To Get Started
Offering online therapy sessions to individuals across Ontario.