Emotion-image Therapy Therapist in Barrie Ontario

When Talking Isn’t Enough

Maybe you’ve tried traditional talk therapy before and left feeling like something was missing. You understood the problem intellectually, but you still felt stuck. That’s because not all pain can be explained with words. Some of it is stored in the body, in visual memory, or in felt experience.

Emotion-Image Therapy offers a different approach. It helps you access the emotional images and patterns held below the surface. Through this process, you can begin to release long-held emotional tension and restore a greater sense of wholeness and connection to yourself.

About Me: Tatyana Bashkatova, RP

I’m a Registered Psychotherapist, and my work focuses on helping people reconnect with themselves, process unresolved trauma, and move toward emotional balance and self-understanding.

My approach is grounded in experiential, evidence-based methods, including:

• Emotion-Image Therapy (EIT)

• Internal Family Systems (IFS)

• Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)

• Motivational Interviewing (MI)

• Transactional Analysis (TA)

• Family Systems Therapy (FST)

I offer a supportive and collaborative space where you set the pace. Whether you’re navigating long-standing emotional pain or just starting to notice that something inside feels misaligned, I’m here to walk with you, not ahead of you.

What Clients Often Bring to Therapy

Many of the people I work with come in feeling overwhelmed by emotional intensity or disconnected from themselves. They may be:

• Stuck in familiar emotional cycles or thought patterns

• Carrying unresolved trauma or painful memories

• Struggling with anxiety, numbness, or chronic shame

• Feeling emotionally distant in relationships

• Longing for deeper clarity and self-understanding

• Wanting a healing process that goes beyond talking

Emotion-Image Therapy is especially helpful if you’re seeking a deeper, more embodied way of working with your emotions.

What to Expect in Emotion-Image Therapy

EIT is a gentle, intuitive process that helps you engage with your inner world through images, sensations, and feelings. It doesn’t rely on intellectual analysis. Instead, it invites your whole self, body, mind, and emotion, into the process.

In a typical session, you can expect:

• A calm and grounded environment where you feel safe to explore

• Support in identifying emotional images or sensations connected to your challenges

• Guided reflection and inner dialogue to bring unconscious patterns into awareness

• Integration of your insights through imagery, embodiment, and emotional processing

The goal isn’t to “fix” you. It’s to help you understand and care for the parts of you that have been waiting to be seen.

How EIT Can Support Your Healing

Many clients experience Emotion-Image Therapy as transformative. This approach often leads to emotional release, deeper self-awareness, and an increased ability to respond to life from a place of grounded presence.

Through our work together, you may:

• Let go of long-held emotional tension

• Gain clarity on patterns that have kept you stuck

• Reconnect with your emotional and physical self

• Understand your reactions with more compassion

• Feel more emotionally present and less reactive

• Cultivate a deeper, more trusting relationship with yourself

Serving clients in Barrie, Ontario, I offer therapy that is deeply personal, attuned, and centered on what you need most in the moment.

Take the First Step Toward Healing

Beginning therapy can feel vulnerable, especially if you’ve carried your pain silently for a long time. But reaching out is also a powerful act of self-care.

If you’re curious about Emotion-Image Therapy in Barrie, Ontario, I invite you to schedule a free 15-minute consultation. This is a chance for us to connect, answer any questions you have, and see if this approach feels right for you.

You don’t need to have everything figured out. You just need a safe place to begin.