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Registered Psychotherapist · CRPO
Come as you are. Leave with more of you.
I’m Rini Sharma — a registered psychotherapist offering trauma-informed, culturally responsive care in English, Hindi, Urdu, and Punjabi. Together we’ll move through what feels stuck, with compassion and evidence-based practice.
7+
Years in practice
4
Languages spoken
In-person
in Mississauga & virtual across Ontario
Now accepting new clients
About Rini
Therapy that holds space for all of you.
For over seven years, I’ve walked alongside adults and youth as they move through depression, anxiety, trauma, grief, and the quieter struggles that don’t always have a name. My work is rooted in evidence-based modalities — CBT, DBT, EMDR, and Motivational Interviewing — held inside a trauma-informed, client-centred frame.
I bring a particular care to clients from South Asian, immigrant, and gender-diverse communities. Culture isn’t an afterthought here; it’s a starting point. Whether you feel most yourself in English, Hindi, Urdu or Punjabi, we can meet there.
What I believe most: healing is rarely linear, and you don’t have to do it alone.
Registered Psychotherapist
College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario · Independent Practice
Ph.D., Clinical Psychology
Panjab University, India · 2016
Post-Graduate Diploma
Addictions & Mental Health · Humber College, Toronto
Trauma-Informed Care
EMDR, DBT skills, CBT, attachment & family theories
How I work
Evidence-based modalities, held with warmth.
No single approach fits everyone. In our first sessions, we’ll shape a path that respects your story, your pace, and what you actually want from this work.
CBT
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Identify the thought patterns that quietly shape how you feel, and learn to gently rewrite them.
DBT
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
Build skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and steadier relationships.
EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing
A research-backed approach to help the nervous system finish what trauma left unfinished.
MI
Motivational Interviewing
Find your own reasons for change — without pressure, judgement, or being told what to do.
SFT
Solution-Focused Therapy
A shorter-term, goal-led approach when you want forward motion on a specific concern.
What I work with
You don’t need the right words to begin.
Common themes clients bring — but this list is never the whole picture. If you’re unsure whether your concern fits, reach out. We’ll figure it out together.
01
Depression & bipolar
From the heaviness that won’t lift to the highs and lows that disrupt life.
02
Anxiety & OCD
Worry that loops, panic that arrives without warning, intrusive thoughts that exhaust.
03
Trauma, grief & loss
Childhood wounds, sudden losses, the long shadow of events that changed everything.
04
Borderline personality
Intense emotions, unstable relationships — supported with DBT and steady care.
05
Substance & behavioural addictions
Substance use, gambling, gaming, overspending — without shame, with structure.
06
Relationships & career transitions
Identity shifts, immigration, partnership patterns, work that no longer fits.
My approach
Steady, careful, and unhurried.
Therapy isn’t a product to be optimised. It’s a relationship — and like every meaningful relationship, it needs time, honesty, and a sense that the other person is genuinely with you.
It takes strength to sit with what hurts.
01
We start where you are
No assumptions, no scripts. The first sessions are about understanding your story — what brought you here, what’s working, and what isn’t.
02
Therapy is collaborative
You’re the expert on your life. I bring the tools and the training; together we decide the direction and the pace.
03
Culture is part of the work
Family expectations, faith, migration, gender, language — these aren’t side notes. They live inside what you’re carrying.
04
Evidence meets warmth
I use research-backed approaches (CBT, DBT, EMDR, MI) inside a relationship that feels safe enough to actually use them.
Culturally responsive care
Therapy in the language you think and feel in.
For many South Asian and immigrant clients, the words for what hurts live in a mother tongue. Sessions can move fluidly across four languages, so the work is never lost in translation.
Hello
English
नमस्ते
Hindi
السلام علیکم
Urdu
ਸਤ ਸ੍ਰੀ ਅਕਾਲ
Punjabi
Credentials & standards
Care you can verify.
As a regulated health professional in Ontario, Rini follows the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario’s standards — which is why you won’t find client testimonials here. Instead, here’s what you can check for yourself.
Regulated by CRPO
Confidential under PHIPA
Evidence-based care
CRPO
Registered Psychotherapist
College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario · Independent practice
Panjab University · Post-graduate diploma, Humber College
7+
Years of trauma-informed practice
Trained in CBT, EMDR, DBT skills & Motivational Interviewing
Common questions
Practical things, answered honestly.
Reach out
The first step is often the hardest.
Send a note and Rini will personally reply within 1–2 business days. There’s no obligation — start with a free 15 minute consultation and see if it feels right.
