Contact
Counselling for adults, couples, and adolescents
reina.zatylny@sympatico.ca
Reina Zatylny MSW, RSW
Individual & Couple Therapist
416 540-5924
Services
Reina works with adults, couples, and adolescents to deal with the following issues.
Infertility
Reina experienced infertility in her life, and she understands the wide range of feelings that people face when they are having difficulty conceiving their child or are experiencing pregnancy loss. Her personal goal is to help people stay emotionally healthy as they try to have a baby. Reina provides fertility-related counselling for:
| Egg freezing, IVF, and intended parents so that patients are well informed, prepared, and feel supported before and during their treatment. Counselling also helps patients deal with the short and long-term emotional aspects of their decisions, and so they can provide informed consent for their treatment. | |
| Known egg, sperm and embryo donors, and surrogates so that patients understand the donation process or donor selection process, and to address the short and long-term emotional aspects of being a donor or using a donation. For surrogacy, counselling helps patients to clarify roles and responsibilities, establish communication strategies with surrogates, and offers emotional support and coping mechanisms for everyone involved in the process. | |
| Pregnancy support helps patients adjust to their body and hormonal changes, to manage the many anxieties and fears of feeling vulnerable, especially after fertility treatment and pregnancy loss, and to feel more confident about pregnancy. | |
| Post-partum support helps patients to manage their conflicting emotions, intrusive thoughts, and identity and relationship challenges. | |
| Issues specific to 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals and couples, including choosing a donor or surrogate; the pros and cons of working with a known donor or surrogate versus an agency or independent donor or surrogate; the personal meaning of the biological or genetic link; and the disclosure and management of questions from family and friends. | |
| Single and couple parenting issues, such as learning to adjust to the challenges of sleep deprivation, new routines and relationships; improving strategies to diminish loneliness, physical and mental isolation, and feeling judged; and learning how to better manage and reduce stress, depression, and anxiety. | |
| Grief, bereavement, and loss, including miscarriage and perinatal loss. | |
| Coming to terms with the end of treatment if pregnancy is not achieved, and developing new beginnings. | |
Trauma and PTSD
Unresolved traumas and distressing experiences can be overwhelming. They can affect our ability to sleep, distort our thinking and emotions, and keep us living in a virtual loop of fear and sadness. Reina practices a variety of therapies designed to treat the symptoms of trauma and post-traumatic stress, including Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). EMDR is an internationally recognized psychotherapy that helps to diminish traumatic memories by reprocessing them so that they are no longer psychologically disruptive. This short video describes EMDR in more detail.
Phobias
A phobia is an intense fear of something that can hold you back from participating in your life. The fear that the phobia creates can feel automatic and overwhelming, and you might go to great lengths to avoid it. Common phobias include medical phobias (needlephobia), social phobias (fear of public speaking); animal phobias (spiders), situational phobias (flying), and natural phobias (storms). Reina successfully overcame her debilitating fear of spiders and public speaking through EMDR therapy, and also treats her client's phobias using EMDR.
Relationship issues
In any relationship, there are three personas: you (one partner), me (the other partner), and we (the couple). In a healthy relationship, all the personas need to be strong and well-defined, but sometimes they aren’t. Problems can arise in the daily challenges of life, and the couple can get lost as the partners tend to their own individual needs. Counselling can help to build a stronger couple, and a more unified and peaceful relationship.
Anger management and domestic abuse
Reina provides specialized counselling and educational services to people who have assaulted their partners. She focuses on helping people to examine their beliefs and attitudes towards domestic abuse, to improve their communication skills, and to learn non-abusive ways of resolving conflict. Reina works directly with criminal and family lawyers whose clients require anger management counselling.
Terminal illnesses, grief, and bereavement
Having worked with Hospice Toronto and the VON-Hospice Scarborough, Reina understands the complexity of feelings and thoughts that individuals and families experience when facing a life-threatening illness or death. Reina provides a warm and empathetic approach as well as practical skills to help empower individuals to work through their concerns during this difficult time.
