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Every member of the therapy team specializes in supporting the mental health of lawyers in Toronto and the rest of Ontario.

Please email us at info@fromanxietytoease.com if you cannot find a date/time or staff member here that works for you or it’s showing “contact to book”.

All sessions are virtual. Time Zones: sessions are listed in eastern standard time unless you’ve created a client profile in Jane and selected a different time zone.

Elizabeth Beiderman M.Ed, CCC, RP

Liz is a Registered Psychotherapist who specializes in supporting lawyers at all levels through issues such as depression, anxiety, perfectionism, burnout life transitions, and relationship and family concerns. Liz takes a holistic and integrative approach to therapy, exploring the ways in which mind and body interact and contribute to overall health. She draws from a range of modalities as suits each individual client.

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Ellen Schlesinger
(She/Her/Hers) RCC (BC), RP and RSW (ON)

Ellen is a former lawyer turned Registered Social Worker (ON), Registered Psychotherapy (ON), and Registered Clinical Counsellor (BC). She is an outside the box thinker who connects her clients to ideas, inspiration, and their innate capacity to problem solve and design possibilities. She does this while understanding the practicalities, realities, and constraints of the legal profession, and everyday life. With empathy, compassion, and humour, she helps clients gain strategies to cope in the immediacy of their current challenges.

If you do not see online availability, please contact Ellen directly at info@fromanxietytoease.com to book a session.

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Melanie Banka Goela, JD, M.Ed, RP, RSW
(She/Her/Hers) Co-founder

Melanie is a former lawyer now Registered Psychotherapist and Registered Social Worker who helps lawyers and others with anxiety, burnout, depression, grief/loss, fertility decisions, trauma and relationship challenges using a pragmatic, growth oriented approach that is trauma informed, anti-oppressive and rooted in evidence based therapies that helps move them forward. Therapy is always tailored to each client’s unique experiences, needs and goals.

Melanie brings particular experience working with South Asian and BIPOC lawyers and professionals, understanding firsthand the intersecting pressures of high-achieving careers, cultural identity, and family expectations that can shape how stress, perfectionism, and burnout show up.

Before co-founding From Anxiety to Ease, Melanie worked as a therapist at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto and as a trauma counsellor in London, Ontario. She also worked at a national Bay St. firm and at legal aid clinics. Melanie has a JD from Osgoode Hall Law School and a Masters in Counselling from University of Toronto. Melanie has been a therapist for 18 years.

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