Most people don’t come to therapy because life is going well.
They come because something feels overwhelming, disconnected, or quietly unsustainable. Maybe anxiety has become exhausting. Maybe your relationship keeps cycling through the same painful moments. Maybe from the outside life looks mostly fine — but internally something feels off, and it’s becoming harder to ignore.
Therapy offers a space to slow things down, understand what’s happening beneath the surface, and begin creating change that actually lasts.
I’m Larry Borins, a Registered Social Worker and Psychotherapist with 20 years of experience working with individuals, couples, and families. My clinical background spans outpatient hospital settings, family health teams, community organizations, and private practice — giving me a broad foundation for working with anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, emotional overwhelm, burnout, and the difficult patterns that keep repeating.
My approach is warm, collaborative, and relational. I integrate Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Relational Life Therapy (RLT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) — not as techniques to apply, but as lenses that help us understand your emotional world more fully.
But this isn’t simply about learning skills or fixing yourself. Often, the strategies that once helped you cope are no longer helping you feel connected or well. Together, we explore the emotions, histories, and protective patterns underneath the anxiety, conflict, or self-criticism — so that new ways of relating and coping can begin to emerge.
Individuals, Couples, and Men
I work with adults navigating anxiety, depression, stress, burnout, life transitions, and relationship conflict.
I have a particular passion for working with men. Many men arrive in therapy after years of feeling pressure to stay strong, push through, or carry everything alone. This is a different kind of space — one where honesty, vulnerability, and emotional clarity become possible without judgment.
In my couples work, I help partners understand the negative cycles keeping them feeling disconnected, reactive, or hurt. Most couples aren’t lacking love — they’re stuck in patterns they no longer know how to interrupt. Therapy slows those moments down so new ways of communicating and reconnecting can begin to take shape.
Personal Perspective
I’m also a father of three energetic, hockey-loving daughters. That experience has given me a deep appreciation for the complexity of family life — the love, the friction, the moments where you’re not sure you’re getting it right. It informs how I work with families more than any textbook ever could.
What Twenty Years Has Taught Me
People don’t heal through insight alone. They heal through understanding, connection, and the experience of feeling genuinely safe with another person.
Therapy isn’t about becoming someone else. It’s about reconnecting with the parts of yourself that have become buried beneath stress, fear, or survival patterns that once made sense — but no longer serve who you’re becoming.
When You’re Ready
You don’t need to have everything figured out before reaching out.
I offer virtual therapy across Ontario and in-person sessions near Eglinton and Avenue Road in Toronto.
If something here resonates — even quietly — that’s worth paying attention to. Reach out and we’ll find a time to talk, and see whether working together feels like the right fit.
You don’t have to keep carrying this alone.