Ilan Strauch
Not Accepting New Clients
Ilan works with teens, adults, couples and families experiencing concerns including anxiety, depression, alcohol and substance use, trauma, marital and relationship difficulties, work and school challenges, stress and other mental health concerns.
A way of coping may have helped you survive a difficult time. A reaction may have made sense in the circumstances. But what once helped can eventually create problems in a different situation.
A central part of Ilan’s work is helping people understand the circumstances that shaped those responses without allowing past choices, struggles or coping patterns to define who they are. This can be especially important when shame, regret or conflict has begun to affect how someone sees themselves. He helps clients regain a greater sense of agency, groundedness and empowerment in the present.
Ilan combines empathy with clinical direction. He takes time to understand why a response or coping strategy developed while also helping clients recognize when familiar patterns are no longer working and what may need to change.
For couples, this can involve looking beneath repeated arguments, distance, mistrust or hurt to better understand how the relationship arrived where it is. For individuals, the work may involve developing greater awareness of stress, emotional reactions and the connections between thoughts, feelings and behaviours. With teens and families, Ilan supports clearer understanding of what is happening and healthier ways of responding to difficult situations.
His work draws from Adlerian therapy, mindfulness-based stress reduction and trauma-informed approaches, with an emphasis on perspective, emotional awareness and practical change.
Ilan is a Registered Psychotherapist with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO) and holds a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology from the Adler School of Professional Psychology, as well as an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a Bachelor of Education from York University. Ilan is also an Ontario Validated Clinical Supervisor and actively supervises several other therapists on the Family TLC team.