Find a provider
Davina Gadkar, M.ACP.
Offers
Virtual appointments only
- Psychotherapist
- Woman
Accepting new patients
Provider's hours
Sunday
By appointment only
Monday
9:00 am
-
4:00 pm
Tuesday
9:00 am
-
4:00 pm
Wednesday
9:00 am
-
4:00 pm
Thursday
9:00 am
-
4:00 pm
Friday
9:00 am
-
4:00 pm
Saturday
By appointment only
Description
With an extensive educational background from Queen's University & Yorkville University, I bring modern-day knowledge to my therapeutic practice. I use a strength-based approach where I draw on client's innate strengths using a compassionate and nonjudgmental lens. I use psychodynamic theory- meaning that sessions focus on your childhood and defence mechanisms used to avoid painful emotions. Work with me to better understand yourself, your personality, and learn to better manage your emotions!
Conditions
- Abuse
- Addiction
- ADHD
- Adjustment disorder
- Adoption
- Aging
- Alcohol Abuse
- Anger
- Anger Management
- Antisocial Personality disorder
- Anxiety
- Asperger's Syndrome
- Autism
- Behavioral Issues
- Binge eating disorder (eating disorders)
- Bipolar Disorder
- Body Image
- Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
- Bullying
- Chronic Pain or Illness
- Codependency
- Communication
- Compulsive gambling
- Conduct Disorder (CD)
- Conversion disorder
- Depression
- Dissociative Disorders
- Divorce
- Domestic Abuse or Violence
- Drug Abuse
- Dual Diagnosis
- Eating disorders
- Elderly Persons Disorders
- Emotion Regulation
- Emotional Abuse
- Family planning
- Fears / Phobias
- Gambling Addiction
- Geriatric Counselling
- Grief, loss, bereavement
- Histrionic personality disorder
- HIV/AIDS
- Impulse Control Disorders
- Infertility or Adoption
- Infidelity
- Insomnia
- Intellectual Disability
- Internet Addiction
- Learning Disabilities
- Loneliness
- Men's Issues
- Mental Disorders
- Mood disorders
- Narcissistic Personality Disorder
- Obesity
- Obsessive- Compulsive (OCD)
- Oppositional Defiance (ODD)
- Panic disorder
- Paranoid personality disorder
- Parenting
- Persistent Depressive Disorder (Dysthymic Disorder)
- Personality Disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Pregnancy, Prenatal, Postpartum
- Quiet Borderline Personality Disorder
- Racial Identity
- Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria
- Relationship Issues
- Schizophrenia
- Seasonal Affective Disorder
- Self Esteem
- Self-harming or suicidal behavior
- Sex, sexuality, intimacy
- Sexual Abuse
- Sexual Addiction
- Sleep Disorder
- Social Anxiety Disorder
- Social Isolation
- Somatic symptom disorder
- Spirituality
- Stopping Smoking
- Stress
- Substance Abuse
- Substance Use
- Suicidal Thoughts
- Suicide
- Thinking Disorders
- Tourette Syndrome
- Trauma
- Video Game Addiction
- Weight Loss
- Women's Issues
- Workplace stress
Services
- Accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy (AEDP)
- Acceptance and commitment therapy
- Adlerian therapy
- Art therapy
- Attachment-based therapy
- Bibliotherapy
- Career counseling
- Coaching
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Cognitive processing therapy
- Cognitive stimulation therapy
- Compassion-focused therapy
- Culturally sensitive therapy
- Dialectical behavior therapy
- Eclectic therapy
- Emotionally focused therapy
- Existential therapy
- Experiential therapy
- Exposure and response prevention
- Exposure Therapy
- Expressive arts therapy
- Family counselling
- Family systems therapy
- Feminist therapy
- Forgiveness therapy
- Group counselling
- Humanistic therapy
- Hypnotherapy
- Integrative therapy
- Interpersonal psychotherapy
- Life Coaching
- Marital counselling
- Marriage and family therapy
- Mentalization-based therapy
- Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy
- Motivational interviewing
- Multicultural therapy
- Narrative therapy
- Parent-child interaction therapy (PCIT)
- Person-centered therapy
- Positive psychology
- Prolonged exposure therapy
- Psychoanalytic therapy
- Psychodynamic therapy
- Relational therapy
- Relationship counselling
- Solution-focused brief therapy
- Sports psychology
- Strength-based therapy
- Structural family therapy
- Teen mental health
- The Gottman method
- Trauma informed care
- Trauma-focused cognitive behavior therapy
Clientele
- Adults (18+)
- Couples
- Families
- LGBTQ2+
- Seniors (65+)
- Teens (13-17)
Languages spoken
- English
Professional designations
- Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology (M.ACP.)
Education
- Queen's University- BAH, Psychology Major, Sociology Minor. 2019-2023.
- Yorkville University- MACP Candidate, Counselling Psychology. 2023-2025.
- Gottman Institute- Level 1 +2 in Couples Therapy.
- Ottawa Institute of Psychotherapy: Emotion focused therapy
Professional associations
- CRPO- RP(Qualifying)- Good standing.
Facility Information
Leading Light Psychotherapy
Summary
Leading Light Psychotherapy provides virtual psychotherapy & counselling services to clients across Ontario. We utilize psychodynamic theory to help clients better understand and manage their emotions. We believe in client's innate strengths and use a compassion-focused lens. We are a safe space for 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals, and specialize in the BIPOC community.
Business hours
Sunday
By appointment only
Monday
9:00 am
-
4:00 pm
Tuesday
9:00 am
-
4:00 pm
Wednesday
9:00 am
-
4:00 pm
Thursday
9:00 am
-
4:00 pm
Friday
9:00 am
-
4:00 pm
Saturday
By appointment only
Services & supplies
- Accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy (AEDP)
- Acceptance and commitment therapy
- Adlerian therapy
- Art therapy
- Attachment-based therapy
- Bibliotherapy
- Career counseling
- Coaching
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Cognitive processing therapy
- Cognitive stimulation therapy
- Compassion-focused therapy
- Culturally sensitive therapy
- Dialectical behavior therapy
- Eclectic therapy
- Emotionally focused therapy
- Existential therapy
- Experiential therapy
- Exposure and response prevention
- Exposure Therapy
- Expressive arts therapy
- Family counselling
- Family systems therapy
- Feminist therapy
- Forgiveness therapy
- Group counselling
- Humanistic therapy
- Hypnotherapy
- Integrative therapy
- Interpersonal psychotherapy
- Life Coaching
- Marital counselling
- Marriage and family therapy
- Mentalization-based therapy
- Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy
- Motivational interviewing
- Multicultural therapy
- Narrative therapy
- Parent-child interaction therapy (PCIT)
- Person-centered therapy
- Positive psychology
- Prolonged exposure therapy
- Psychoanalytic therapy
- Psychodynamic therapy
- Relational therapy
- Relationship counselling
- Solution-focused brief therapy
- Sports psychology
- Strength-based therapy
- Structural family therapy
- Teen mental health
- The Gottman method
- Trauma informed care
- Trauma-focused cognitive behavior therapy
