Magda works with adults experiencing:

• Anxiety and excessive worry
• Health anxiety (illness anxiety)
• Social anxiety
• Depression and low mood
• Skin picking (excoriation disorder)
• Hair pulling (trichotillomania)
• Workplace injuries and WSIB-related concerns
• Return-to-work transitions
• Stress and difficulty coping
• Major life changes and adjustment
• Changes involving health, work, relationships, or family roles
• Parentification and complex family dynamics
• The lasting impact of emotionally unpredictable or substance-affected households

Magda’s work is grounded in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and incorporates exposure-based strategies when appropriate.

A key part of therapy is understanding the cycle you’re caught in. Anxiety and compulsive behaviours can be maintained by patterns that provide relief in the short term but make the problem stronger over time. Therapy can help you recognize those patterns and gradually begin responding differently.

Magda’s approach is often structured and goal-oriented, but it isn’t rigid. Therapy moves at a pace that takes your individual circumstances and readiness into account, balancing meaningful challenge with emotional safety.

The emphasis is on developing skills and strategies you can use beyond the therapy room—not simply understanding why something is happening, but having a clearer sense of what you can do differently when it does.

Magda believes good therapy can be both reflective and practical.

There may be times when the most useful work involves learning a specific strategy, practicing a skill, or gradually facing something anxiety has taught you to avoid. At other times, it may mean stepping back and understanding how your experiences have shaped the way you respond to yourself, other people, or uncertainty.

This balance can also be valuable when returning to work after an injury or period away. Magda supports clients as they navigate the emotional and psychological aspects of recovery and return to work, including anxiety, confidence, adjustment, and the challenges that can arise when re-entering the workplace.

Magda also works with adults whose present-day difficulties are connected to earlier family experiences, including those who grew up taking on too much responsibility, navigating unpredictable emotions at home, or being affected by a family member’s substance use.

The goal isn’t endless insight or a collection of coping strategies. It’s to use both understanding and action to create changes that matter in your everyday life.

Magda provides individual psychotherapy to adults (18+).

She may be particularly well suited to clients who want therapy with some structure and direction, including those ready to work actively on anxiety, avoidance, compulsive behaviours, adjustment, or recovery and return-to-work goals.

In-Person Therapy — Barrie, Ontario
Virtual Therapy — Available across Ontario
Availability — Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays
WSIB — Services available for WSIB clients

Magda holds a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology (MACP) and is a Registered Psychotherapist with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO).

At Lakeview Psychology, Magda provides psychotherapy services to adults and practices under the supervision of Dr. Andrea Guthrie, C.Psych.

Her work focuses particularly on anxiety and depression, including social anxiety, health anxiety, and body-focused repetitive behaviours, as well as WSIB and return-to-work support, adjustment difficulties, and the ongoing effects of complex family experiences.