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At our core, we are wired for connection. When love feels safe, we can turn toward our partner and be fully ourselves. But when connection breaks down, everything around us can start to feel heavy and gray. Attachment — the deep need to know “Are you there for me?” — shapes how we love, trust, and open. In long-term relationships, this bond extends into our sexuality. When emotional closenes... Read More

At our core, we are wired for connection. When love feels safe, we can turn toward our partner and be fully ourselves. But when connection breaks down, everything around us can start to feel heavy and gray.

Attachment — the deep need to know “Are you there for me?” — shapes how we love, trust, and open. In long-term relationships, this bond extends into our sexuality. When emotional closeness fades, sex often becomes distant or pressured. But when partners feel secure, intimacy becomes a powerful way to repair, reconnect, and keep love alive.

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) helps couples and individuals restore this bond by slowing down, listening deeply, and uncovering the patterns that push love and desire out of reach.

As an EFT therapists, we hold space for what words often can’t say. Together, we rediscover the safety of connection: with yourself, with your partner, and with love that is emotionally and sexually nourishing.

Marie-Pier Gilbert Licensed Psychotherapist, MA, RCC

I am thrilled that you have decided to take the journey towards discovering your most authentic self and live fully and freely.

Although we may appear strong and successful, we can feel stuck in ways we don’t understand especially if we suffered from traumatic experiences. Exploring our hidden challenges may lead us to unlock our greatest potential, allow us to flow into aliveness, and strive from a place of love, and acceptance. I recognize that we are bonding individuals, and we lean toward healing when we feel genuinely supported.

My work helps clients experience what they are longing for, embrace themselves, improve their relationship, and foster comfort. At a more intimate level, I work on releasing sexual shame and strengthening sexual bonds.

I have extensive experience working with process addiction, various emotional distress, sexual concerns and the repercussions of traumatic experiences. I am a Licensed psychotherapist, and I combined my background in sexology with my clinical knowledge to bring my clients on lifelong journey of self-improvement.

Paying attention to our inner world can lead us to unfolding new ways to experience ourselves, our relationships and our lives. If you are interested in diving into a healing journey or wish to bring relationships closer, I would love to hear from you and explore what new possibilities are waiting!

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Mason Slavner

Many of my clients arrive feeling weighed down by repeating patterns—in their relationships, sexuality, or emotional lives. Beneath the surface, there’s often a longing: for freedom, connection, clarity, or simply to feel more like themselves again. I offer a grounded, attuned space where that longing can be met with presence rather than pressure, and where new possibilities can gently emerge.

With a deep passion for intimacy, repair, and relational freedom, I bring a blend of steady presence and creative insight to help clients reconnect with what has long felt out of reach, within themselves and in connection with others. My approach is grounded in attachment theory, and informed by a kink-affirming, poly-competent, and inclusive lens that welcomes the full spectrum of relational structures, gender identities and lived experiences.

Clients often come to me navigating sexual traumas, complex relationship dynamics, or a persistent sense of disconnection from themselves or others. Whether you’re healing from rupture, longing for deeper intimacy, or searching for a more authentic connection to yourself, I offer a space that honours your story and invites every part of you to be met with compassion.

Reaching out is often the hardest part. If something here resonates, I offer a free15-minute consultation to explore whether working together feels like a fit. And if not, I will happily guide you towards someone who might be.

Many of my clients arrive feeling weighed down by repeating patterns—in their relationships, sexu... Read More

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