Patric Plesa

All of You Wellness Centre - Member Therapists - Patric Plesa
Contact Patric directly at patric@allofyou.ca or 647-560-8917.
Office Locations
Suite 402, 65 Wellesley St E., Toronto, ON, M4Y 1G7

Patric is a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) and candidate for Masters in Counseling Psychology (MACP) at Yorkville University. Patric holds MA and Ph.D. degrees in Historical, Theoretical, and Critical Studies in Psychology, and currently teaches psychology at Toronto Metropolitan University, has taught psychology at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania and York University in Toronto, and is the author of many publications on topics in ecofeminism, existentialism, psychedelics, and subjectivity.

Patric’s focus is on humanistic approaches, specifically existential psychotherapy and person-centered therapy, as well as psychodynamic psychotherapy and cognitive-behavioural therapy. He takes an integrated approach, combining fundamental existential questions around meaning, values, mortality, and identity with an intersectional approach characterized by empathy, unconditional positive regard, and genuineness. Working with clients of all backgrounds, they have a special focus on those in the queer, polyamourous, kink, and sex positive communities.

Drawing from a philosophical and critical psychological academic background, Patric takes a relational approach to help clients explore questions of meaning and meaninglessness at the intersections of their identity, find ways to reassess and affirm personal values, and collaborate with clients in re-writing the narratives that we've been implicitly told to follow so that we may discover personal liberation, resolve relational conflicts, and build solidarity and community with others. Patric's view is that therapy is a reciprocal and collaborative healing relationship and that clients are, in the words of Irvin Yalom, "fellow travelers."

Having struggled with ADHD, anxiety, and depression, Patric combines their lived experience and theoretical work to extend empathy to their clients so they can build solidarity and collaboratively create meaning in a world suffering from a meaning and mental health crisis. What Patric wants to stress most is that you're not alone because that is what has helped heal him.

Patric’s work has also contributed to psychedelic research in psychology from a critical perspective acknowledging both the potential therapeutic benefits of psychedelics as well as the risks and some of the questionable research practices surrounding these substances. He can assist clients with post hoc integration psychotherapy session, but does not offer psychedelic therapy or sessions involving any substances.

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