Online Therapy for Teens in Ontario

Online therapy for teens in Ontario with a Registered Psychotherapist who knows how to get teenagers to listen, talk, and engage, not just talk at them. Secure video and phone sessions, from wherever your teen feels comfortable.

Not sure where to start? Book a free 15-minute consultation first, no commitment. Call 647-313-4030.

What We Work With

For the young person becoming, questioning, or lost in the noise, there is still a light trying to find its way through.

These are common reasons teens come to therapy, though much of what they’re experiencing may be difficult to put into words:

Anxiety, panic, or mood swings
Emotional outbursts, self-harm, or withdrawal
Identity confusion, gender or body image issues
Social isolation, peer conflict, or bullying
School refusal, academic burnout, or pressure
Grief, trauma, or parental separation

The concerns listed here are examples of the challenges we work with. Most teens come with some combination. Some can’t put a name to their experiences, but that doesn’t make them less valid. If your struggle isn’t listed, or if you’re simply seeking clarity about therapy, feel free to reach out by phone or email. Every story deserves a beginning, and every beginning deserves a light to guide it.

Modalities That May Be Integrated

Skills-Based & Values-Oriented Approaches

Start here if your teen is struggling to cope day to day and needs practical steps and tools to deal with life’s difficulties. This work builds concrete skills for handling intense feelings, and helps your teen get clear on what they want.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Adolescents

This approach helps teens work on psychological flexibility, so they can carry difficult thoughts and feelings without being controlled by them, while taking meaningful action toward achieving their goals.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Teens

Teens develop concrete skills for riding out intense emotions without doing something they’ll regret. The work covers distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and navigating everyday conflict. It’s useful for teens whose feelings arrive fast and hard.

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy

This is a short-term, goal-oriented approach that helps teens identify what’s already working and build practical steps toward the change they want, without dwelling on the past.

Trauma-Focused Cognitive Models

This is the work for teens coping with something difficult or frightening. The work moves at their pace, pairing coping skills with illuminating the experience itself, which helps correct unhelpful beliefs.

Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

This approach helps teens process difficult or frightening experiences at a pace they can handle. It pairs coping skills with work on the memories themselves, so they can move more easily through everyday life.

Cognitive Processing Therapy

This work focuses on the beliefs a teen forms after a trauma. Beliefs about safety, trust, or self-worth. It guides your teen to identify where those beliefs and feelings—guilt, shame, or blame—get stuck and shines a light on them to find a more balanced way of seeing what happened.

Identity & Relational Integration

Look here if your teen has started to define themselves by what they're going through, or if the strain is showing up between them and you. Where it helps, we bring family into the room to rebuild communication.

Narrative Therapy

This approach helps teens step back from the story they’ve been telling about themselves, especially when that story is a loop of “I’m the problem.” The work helps the teen stop identifying solely through the lens of the issues they’re facing.

Relational Sessions with Family

Some of the work is better done together. These sessions bring a parent or the wider family into the room to work on communication, repair, and understanding what each person is actually trying to say.

Meet Your Therapist

Teen therapy at Luceris is led by Francesco Addesi, Registered Psychotherapist (BA, MA, RP) and Director & Founder of Luceris Psychotherapy Clinic. His approach blends evidence-based cognitive, behavioural, and experiential methods, and he continues to deepen his clinical expertise through ongoing research, supervision, and advanced study.

What to Expect

Teen therapy sessions at Luceris are 50 minutes and $180.00 per session. Sessions take place over secure video so your teen can join from anywhere in Ontario, with phone sessions available as an alternative. Everything runs through Jane, an encrypted Canadian platform designed to meet Ontario’s health privacy standards, with no separate app or account to set up.

Evening and weekend appointments are available, which matters when school takes up most of the day. A free 15-minute consultation comes first, with no obligation, and an initial intake helps find the right starting point before ongoing sessions begin.

Consent and Confidentiality

In Ontario, there is no set age for consenting to therapy. A teen who understands what therapy involves and what their choices mean can consent on their own. For younger clients, or when a teen isn’t able to make that decision yet, a parent or legal guardian provides consent

From there, what your teen discusses in session stays between them and their therapist. That confidentiality is what makes it possible for a teenager to open up honestly, and it’s central to the work.

Parents aren’t left in the dark. With your teen’s agreement, you’ll receive regular high-level updates on progress, broad goals, and strategies to support your teen at home, without the specifics of what was said in session.

Safety is the exception and the priority. If there is ever an immediate risk of harm, such as severe self-harm or suicidal intent, parents are notified right away.

Virtual therapy is appropriate for many mental health concerns, but it isn’t a crisis service. If your teen is experiencing an emergency or is at immediate risk of harm, call 911 or go to your nearest emergency department. If you’re unsure whether therapy is the right level of care, we’re happy to discuss your situation during a consultation.

For details on insurance, receipts, and policies, see our Virtual Therapy FAQs.

FAQs About Online Therapy for Teens

What Type of Therapist Should a Teenager See?

In Ontario, psychotherapy can be provided by several kinds of regulated professionals, including Registered Psychotherapists, psychologists, and social workers. For a teen, fit matters more than credentials alone. A teenager who doesn’t feel met in the first few sessions usually doesn’t want to go back, so look for someone who works with adolescents regularly rather than an adult practice that accepts them.

Francesco Addesi is a Registered Psychotherapist (RP) with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario, working with teens using approaches that have established evidence for adolescents.

Where Can Teenagers in Ontario Get Free Counselling?

There are free teen therapy options across Ontario. One Stop Talk connects kids and youth under 18 with a registered therapist for immediate support, by phone at 1-855-416-8255 or online from anywhere in the province, Monday to Friday 12pm to 8pm and Saturday 12pm to 4pm. Kids Help Phone offers 24/7 support with a professional counsellor at 1-800-668-6868, in English, French, and over 100 other languages through trained interpreters, with text and messaging available as well.

What Luceris offers alongside those services is continuity. Your teen works with the same therapist every session, building a relationship over time rather than starting over with a rotating counsellor.

Can I Get a One-Time Online Therapy Session?

You’re welcome to book a single session to talk through a specific concern. This is a one-time therapy session and does not involve a diagnosis. There’s no ongoing commitment required and no long-term package to sign up for. That said, most teens get more out of therapy when sessions continue over time, since trust and progress tend to build gradually.

Is Virtual Therapy for Teens Effective?

What makes teen therapy work is the relationship your teen builds with their therapist, and that forms readily over video. For a lot of teenagers, talking from their own room is easier than sitting in an unfamiliar office, and virtual therapy for teens removes the logistics of getting there, which often means sessions actually happen.

Tend the Light Within

Therapy at Luceris begins with a quiet hope that you come to recognize:
The Light you seek is the light you carry.