Andrew Garnet
RSW · MSW Offers CBT, EMDR, ACT & moreHelps men understand what's underneath their anger so they can stop the patterns that keep damaging their relationships.
Read his story
Online CBT therapists for men across Ontario
Find the right CBT therapist for you.
Get matched to your goals, with a clear plan for what you want to change.
Get matched with a CBT therapist
Start with a free 30-minute consult. No obligation.
Registered Ontario therapists. No referral needed. No waitlist. Start this week. Receipts provided; coverage depends on your plan and therapist.
You already know you’re looking for CBT.
The harder question is who you’ll work with, how the therapy will help, and what happens if the fit feels off.
What you should know before you choose
What you may be wondering
How it works here
Will we have a clear goal?
You choose the problem you want to change first.
Will I leave with anything useful?
You build practical action plans to use between sessions.
How will we know if it is helping?
We track your progress toward goals and wellbeing over time.
What CBT looks like here
Insight alone doesn't
change behaviour.
You and your therapist turn one real situation into a practical action plan for the week ahead.
Here is how the work moves:
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Choose the problem
Start with one real situation: the 3 AM replay, the shutdown, the blow-up, or the decision you keep avoiding.
Free 30-minute consult to see if CBT is the right fit. If it is, start this week.
Book a free consult See if CBT is the right fit
The team
Mo ShabibRP (Qualifying) · RCC · CCC
Meet our CBT team.
Our CBT team brings different styles and areas of experience, so you can find a fit that works for you.
Aaron Lorenz
RSW · BSW Offers CBT & DBTHelps men move from avoidance and survival mode into clearer, values-based action.
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Sumeer Taneja
RP (Qualifying) · MACP Offers CBT & ACTHelps high-functioning men close the gap between a life that looks right and one that actually feels right.
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Jordan Kilpatrick
Clinical Director · RP Offers CBT, DBT & ACTHelps men understand what's driving their reactions so they can feel clearer, steadier, and more in control.
Read his storyAlso part of our all-men therapy team
Mo ShabibRP (Qualifying) · RCC · CCCThe free consult helps confirm whether CBT and one of our available therapists fit what you are looking for.
You do not have to choose alone.
Joe, our intake coordinator, runs the free 30-minute consult. Tell him what you want to change and that you are looking for structured CBT.
If we can help, he matches you with a therapist whose experience and working style appear to fit. If we are not the right fit, he will try to point you in the right direction.
Book your free consultThe Right Fit Promise
We focus on real, noticeable change with a clear plan and the right therapist.
If the fit feels off after your first session, tell us.We'll match you with someone else and cover your first session with the new therapist.
Get matched with a CBT therapistStart with a free 30-minute consult. No obligation.
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Start with a free 30-minute consult.
Enter your contact details, then choose your consult time. On the call, we’ll learn what you want to change and explain who we recommend and why. You decide whether to book a first session.
FAQs
What you probably want to know
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Sessions are $185/hour. Eligibility depends on your plan and on the therapist's registration. Check under "psychotherapy" or "social work" in your benefits booklet, or call your provider directly.
We provide receipts for insurance. We can offer direct billing for some social work coverage, but it depends on your plan and can only be confirmed once we try it. If it is not available, you pay for the session and submit the receipt to your insurer for reimbursement. - All sessions are online across Ontario.
- CBT is a form of talk therapy with more structure: you define a target, use tools such as thought records and behavioural experiments, and test the work between sessions. The point is not only to understand the pattern. It is to catch it sooner and change what you do next.
- Yes. If we’re the right fit, we’ll match you with a registered clinician whose approach includes CBT and fits what you’re working through.
- Your free 30-minute consult starts with Joe, our intake coordinator. He listens to what you want help with and checks whether The Brotherhood is the right fit. If it is, he pairs you with a registered therapist whose experience and approach fit your goals.
- CBT is focused and time-limited, but there is no fixed number of sessions. Your plan depends on what you want to change and the progress you make.
- It is normal to feel skeptical, uncomfortable, or unsure what to say. You do not need to prepare. Your intake coordinator will guide the consult, and your therapist will help you choose a clear place to begin.
What to do next
Book your free consult
A free 30-minute consult gives you a clear next step. If The Brotherhood is the right fit, you can start this week.
Get matched with the right therapist
We match you with a registered therapist whose experience and approach fit what you want to change.
Use the work between sessions
Use your action plan between sessions. Next session, you review what changed and adjust the plan.
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In his own words
In 2019, my relationship blew up when I found out my partner was cheating on me.
Truthfully, this hit me like a truck.
Rage. Shame. Grief. A crushing fear that I'd never trust anyone again. I had no idea what to do with any of it.
So, I did what most guys do. I bottled it up and numbed it out.
Gaming.
Weed.
Porn.
Alcohol.
Anything to escape.
But these were the things that had been messing up my relationship in the first place.
I needed real answers. A way to pull myself out of this mess for good.
So I searched - books, podcasts, therapy, anything that would help me get my shit together...
... and I kept coming up empty.
Nothing clicked. Nothing felt like a full solution.
On the brink of giving up, I looked in the one place I never wanted to go.
My own feelings.
Turns out, that's right where the solution was.
Better yet, I also accidentally found simple, step-by-step solutions that actually dealt with them!
CBT
DBT
Motivational Interviewing
In his own words
Trauma. That dirty word that clings to so many.
Childhood experiences early in life left me scared, angry, and unable to process emotions in a healthy way.
The pain increased, and by the age of 16 I was dropped out of school and relying on escapism through video games, which escalated to alcohol and drug abuse.
... Loneliness,
Confusion,
Fear,
Hurt,
All ran my life.
Handfuls of medications left me numb, secluded, and sedentary. Unable to find energy to even get out of bed, weight gain of over 140 lbs followed.
Contemplation of suicide not only became a plan, but a goal.
One final attempt at finding myself followed, and I took the step to talk to a counsellor about my pain.
That single connection turned out to be life changing.
I was encouraged to connect with my emotions, my community, and myself again.
I'm now able to be the man, father, and partner that I want to be, and have the honour of working with other men to help them accomplish the same.
If you are looking for real change, book a free consult and I look forward to meeting you!
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Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
In his own words
If anger, frustration, or emotional reactions are beginning to affect your relationships, you are not alone.
Maybe communication with your partner keeps breaking down. Maybe small things escalate quickly, you shut down emotionally, or afterward you are left regretting how things came out.
You care deeply about your relationships. But you still feel stuck in patterns you do not want to keep repeating.
This is work I care deeply about.
Over the course of my career, I've seen how unmanaged anger and emotional disconnection can slowly damage relationships, self-esteem, and overall well-being.
What often looks like "anger" on the outside can actually be something else entirely:
Loneliness.
Pressure.
Resentment.
Hurt.
Exhaustion.
Feeling unheard for far too long.
Many people carry this silently while trying to hold everything together.
My approach is not about blame or judgment. It's about helping you understand yourself, develop healthier ways of responding, and build stronger, more connected relationships.
Meaningful change is possible. Working on yourself can have a powerful impact on your life and on the relationships that matter most to you.
EMDR
IFS
In his own words
Trauma wasn't something I learned about in a classroom.
It was something I witnessed.
Witnessing the war in Syria firsthand, I was exposed early to what fear, instability, and survival do to people - how it shapes the way you think, the way you react, and the way you relate to others.
And like many men, I learned how to adapt.
Stay composed.
Push things down.
Keep moving forward.
From the outside, it can look like strength.
But underneath, it's a different story.
Because what isn't processed doesn't disappear.
As Carl Jung put it:
"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."
I've seen that play out - in my own life, and in the lives of the men I've worked with.
Patterns repeating.
Reactions that don't make sense.
Relationships breaking down without fully understanding why.
That's what led me deeper into this work.
Not just to understand trauma - but to actually process it.
Through my training in counselling psychology, and approaches like EMDR and parts-based therapy, I learned how to work with what's underneath the surface - where these patterns actually live.
Now, I help other men do the same.
My work focuses on trauma, emotional regulation, and relationships - helping you understand what's driving your behaviors so you can take back control in a real, lasting way.
Because real change doesn't come from pushing things down.
It comes from facing them - and understanding what's been running in the background all along.
CBT
ACT
EFT
CFT
SFBT
In his own words
For over 20 years, I looked successful on paper.
Senior management roles in Banking & Telecom. Big projects, big teams, a career that ticked every box.
And underneath it? A quiet, persistent question I kept pushing down.
Is this actually it?
I was good at my job. Responsible, capable, successful. Outwardly, I had things figured out.
But the disconnect kept growing.
No crisis. Just a slow, building awareness that the life I'd built wasn't quite the life I wanted.
The kind of feeling men are really good at ignoring.
So I ignored it.
Until a serious health scare made that impossible.
Suddenly, I got very clear, very fast, about how I'd been living.
The career that paid well but never felt aligned. The deeper questions I kept deferring. The version of myself I hadn't yet stepped into.
When you're forced to confront your own mortality, those things stop feeling abstract.
When I recovered, I didn't go back to the same life. I got more intentional about all of it. How I was showing up as a husband and a father, what I actually wanted my work to mean, who I wanted to be.
I stepped away from my corporate career, went back to school, and became a psychotherapist.
Not because I had to, but because for the first time, I made an honest choice about who I actually wanted to be.
Now I work with men navigating that same territory.
The high-functioning professional carrying burnout he can't justify. The one whose relationship is under quiet pressure and he doesn't know how to “fix it.” The man at a crossroads looking at his career, identity, purpose and asking what comes next.