mariko swanick
Registered Psychotherapist, RP
Canadian Certified Counsellor, CCC
Mariko approaches therapy with curiosity, compassion, and humility, engaging the therapeutic process via a trauma-informed, harm-reduction lens, and with the genuine belief that each human being has the innate potential to create authentic and lasting change. She is committed to ongoing learning through personal and professional development, to ensure treatment services are current, culturally inclusive, affirming, client-centered, and evidence-based.
With over a decade of experience in the mental health field, Mariko uses an integrative approach to therapy. She draws from humanistic, cognitive, behavioural, and psychodynamic therapies, tailoring treatment plans to fit each client’s needs.
Mariko is equally passionate and committed to her work with couples, relationships, and other intimate partnerships and emotional bonds. She has witnessed and experienced the transformative power of relationships, healing through connection, and the science of both love and attachment. Mariko is passionate about supporting others to understand and reduce relationship distress, improve communication, trust, safety, and intimacy, repair family/cultural conflicts, navigate significant life transitions, and heal relationship injuries caused by infidelity, grief, or another difficult loss.
more about mariko…
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Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology (MACP), Yorkville University, 2022
Graduate Certificate (Hons.) in Addiction and Mental Health (ADMH), Durham College, 2019
Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Psychology, Toronto Metropolitan University, 2017
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College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario
Registered Psychotherapist – RP #12938Canadian Counselling & Psychotherapy Association
Canadian Certified Counsellor – CCC #11241668Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for Couples: Intensive 4-Day Externship – ICE-EFT, 2023
Emotionally Focused Therapy for Difficult Couples: Healing Toxic Injuries – PESI, 2023
Emotionally Focused Therapy for Individuals (EFiT): Transforming Trauma – PESI, 2023
Gottman Method for Couples Therapy Level 1 – The Gottman Institute, 2023
Gottman Method for Couples Therapy Level 2 – The Gottman Institute, 2024
Integrated Sex and Couples Therapy – PESI, 2024
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Mariko works confidently to collaboratively support her clients with concerns including but not limited to the following:
Addiction, Alcohol & Substance Use, Anxiety, ADHD, Grief, Loss, Bereavement, Coping Skills, Depression, Stress and Burnout, Compassion Fatigue, Chronic Pain/Illness, Divorce, Separation, Emotion Regulation, Life Transitions, Self Care, Marital/Pre-Marital Concerns, Sex/Intimacy, Cultural Identity, Relationship Dynamics, Sex/Intimacy, Dating, Trust, Infidelity, Family Conflict, Self-Confidence & Self-Esteem, Intercultural/Interfaith Relationships, Career Guidance, Parenting/Co-Parenting, Sleep Disturbances, Insomnia, Trauma, PTSD symptoms
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Individual Therapy (Adults 18+)
Couples & Relationship Therapy
Family/Sibling Therapy (Ages 18+)
“Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them — we can only love others as much as we love ourselves.”
— Brené brown