Meet Larry
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
— Carl Rogers
Larry Borins, MSW, RSW, is a Registered Social Worker and Psychotherapist with over 20 years of experience working with individuals, couples, and men. He received his Master’s degree from the Wurzweiler School of Social Work at Yeshiva University, specializing in mental health. Over the course of his career, Larry has worked in outpatient hospital settings, community mental health agencies, and private practice — supporting people navigating anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, emotional stress, and patterns that keep repeating even when they’ve tried to change them.
Larry has advanced training in EFT, CBT, and MBCT. His mindfulness training includes a teachers retreat with Jon Kabat-Zinn (MBSR) and advanced MBCT training with Zindel Segal and Dr. Patricia Rockman. He has also trained with Sue Johnson in Emotionally Focused Therapy and Terrence Real in Relational Life Therapy, among others. Larry has facilitated MBCT groups at the North York Family Health Team and at Mind Health Toronto, and is affiliated with ICEEFT, the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy.
Drawing on EFT, IFS, RLT, MBCT, and CBT, Larry helps clients better understand the emotional patterns shaping their lives and relationships. His work focuses not only on reducing distress, but on helping people develop greater self-understanding, emotional resilience, and deeper connection in their relationships. At the heart of his work is a simple belief: lasting change happens within a safe, honest, and trusting therapeutic relationship.
Many of the people I work with are functioning well on the outside — managing careers, relationships, children, responsibilities, and the expectations placed on them — while internally struggling with anxiety, emotional exhaustion, disconnection, or patterns they can’t seem to break.
Sometimes what’s driving your experience runs deeper — shaped by earlier life experiences that influenced how you learned to cope, connect, and protect yourself. Patterns that once made sense, but are no longer serving you.
Part of therapy may involve finding relief from anxiety, depression, stress, or relationship conflict. But over time, many people also begin to understand the deeper emotional patterns underneath what they’ve been struggling with.
This is the work I find most meaningful — honest, unhurried exploration that helps you recognize the younger parts of yourself that learned to cope the best way they could, and begin responding from a more grounded, compassionate place within yourself.
This isn’t about becoming someone different. It’s about coming back to who you already are.
I work with individuals navigating anxiety, depression, stress, and life transitions, as well as couples struggling with conflict, distance, and disconnection. I also have a particular passion for working with men who have spent years feeling pressure to stay strong while carrying difficult emotions on their own.
This is a different kind of space — one where that finally gets to change.
I offer virtual therapy across Ontario and in-person sessions at my Eglinton and Avenue Road location in Toronto.
Outside the Office
I’m a husband and father of three hockey-loving daughters. That experience — the noise, the love, the rupture and repair that happens in every family — informs how I work with couples and families more than any textbook ever could.
Most people who reach out aren’t completely sure they’re ready. They just know that what they’ve been doing isn’t working anymore.
That’s enough to begin.