Our Hamilton Based Therapy Services & Eco Therapy Offerings
Feel Grounded In Support
Tethered Psychotherapy offers space for healing to be rooted in connection—to self, others, the body, and the natural world. Explore our therapy processes, therapy services, and our new eco therapy offering.
The Therapy Process
Consultation
Therapeutic progress is all about the therapeutic relationship! Start with a complimentary 15-minute call to determine alignment.
Initial Session
Your initial session is an in-depth exploration of your concerns and your goals.
Ongoing Sessions
Continued support tailored to your evolving needs. This will provide an opportunity to collaboratively set your plan into motion, get to the root of your concerns, and develop new coping skills.
Our Therapy Services
At Tethered, therapy is a space to slow down, get curious, and reweave the threads of your life — with care, creativity, and depth. Please reach out to us if you have any questions about our services, or book a consultation with us.
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15 minutes, free
A consultation is a great starting off point when choosing a new therapist. This is an opportunity for you to get acquainted and determine alignment.
Consultations are offered virtually or by phone.
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50 minutes, $165
A space to explore your inner landscape, reconnect with your body, and navigate life's complexities. Sessions may incorporate Internal Family Systems (IFS), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Jungian-informed Tarot and Dreamwork, narrative therapy, and mindfulness.
Individual sessions are offered in-person, virtually, or by phone.
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50 minutes - $180
Includes:
monogamous couples, non-monogamous dyadic primary partners, queer platonic partners, polycule support, non-romantic and/or -sexual relationships
Support for partnerships of all configurations to understand and improve their emotional bonds and attachment needs and improving communication, intimacy, and navigating transitions, and informed by the renowned Gottman Approach, IFS, and EFT.
Relational sessions are offered in-person, virtually, or by phone.
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50 minutes - $165
Starting May 2025, eco-therapy is offered to integrate nature-based practices. These sessions may include walk-and-talk therapy, grounding exercises, and rituals that observe the natural world to guide your healing.
Learn more about our Eco Therapy sessions below.
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Please contact us for more information
Everyone deserves access to affordable mental health care.
I am dedicated to providing affordable, in-office and virtual mental health care to clients in need. This is why I have chosen to work with Open Path Collective.
This platform is geared towards clients who can not afford market rates for therapy, lack adequate mental health insurance coverage, and have an annual household income below $100,000.
Limited spots available.
Please contact me to learn more about opportunities to have continued accessible support through reduced rates.
https://openpathcollective.org/clinicians/magdalena-piskorski/
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Explore Eco-Therapy in Hamilton & Burlington
This offering aims to tap into a holistic approach to therapeutic care, direct towards traditional ecological knowledge, and to make steps towards decolonizing therapy. Eco Therapy is a unique offering that re-connects clients to the natural world, allowing therapeutic themes to be experimented within new contexts. Clients are able to return into their bodies through movement, notice internal changes as the environment shifts around them, and develop powerful skills taught by the most unexpected teachers.
Nature offers a multitude of teachings. From the power of slowness, to resilience, to community impact. Accessing these teachings has developed powerful transferable skills such as pausing to expand awareness; cultivating curiosity, creativity, and intuition; supporting stress management and nervous system regulation; and developing more collaborative and humbling perspective taking.
You May Benefit From Eco Therapy If…
You face circumstances that cause barriers to traditional therapy settings (such as availability, transportation, privacy, eye contact anxiety) and hope for more accessible options.
You experience barriers around personal goal striving and would like opportunities for exposure towards experimentation, problem solving, and confidence building.
You are interested in expanding your cultural, spiritual, and/or ecological connection in a therapeutic context.
You hope to develop a deeper intimacy to and awareness of your body
You experience anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief, negative body image, stagnation and disconnection.
Explore Jungian-Informed Dreamwork and Tarot
Dreamwork
Dreams offer a unique window into the unconscious mind. In Jungian psychology, dreams are seen as meaningful expressions of the psyche—revealing emotions, conflicts, and possibilities that may not yet be fully conscious.
Jungian-informed dreamwork is a collaborative process where we explore your dreams with curiosity and respect for their symbolic language. Rather than interpreting dreams in a fixed way, we look together at the images, feelings, and themes that arise, allowing insights to emerge organically.
Tarot
Jungian-informed tarot uses archetypal images as reflective, symbolic tools for psychological exploration. Through this lens, tarot is practiced through a projective rather than a predictive approach. Both therapist and client collaborate to examine how the images of the cards reflect the present moment, unconscious protective parts, and how inner psychological world is in relationship with the outer world through synchronicity.
Why work with dreams or tarot in therapy?
Accelerate and Track Therapeutic Progress
Dreams often bring forward the emotional core of an issue in a vivid image or story. Over time, dreams tend to shift as our inner life changes. Recurring themes may soften, frightening images may transform, or new resources may appear. By looking at dreams across sessions, we can often see signs of psychological movement and healing.
Tarot can similarly highlight shifts in themes, perspectives, and internal dynamics across sessions, allowing us to notice patterns and movement in your personal narrative. What might take many sessions to articulate in words can sometimes appear immediately in symbolic form, helping us reach meaningful insights more quickly.
Deepen Self Knowledge and Insight
Because symbolic images bypass purely rational thinking, they often reveal perspectives that may not surface through conversation alone. Engaging with dream imagery or tarot symbolism can uncover underlying beliefs, emotional dynamics, and unconscious motivations. Both modalities pair beautifully with Somatic IFS as it supports present moment awareness, parts integration, and Self-led healing.
Discover Inner Help
Even challenging dreams or tarot spreads often contain symbols of support—guiding figures, helpful objects, or shifts in the narrative. These elements can represent internal resources, resilience, and capacities that may not yet be fully recognized.
Access Creativity
Both practices engage imagination, metaphor, and visual thinking. This symbolic language can open creative pathways for understanding life challenges and exploring new possibilities for action and meaning.
Invite more Ease
In many ways, dreams are the psyche continuing the work of therapy during sleep. By bringing them into the therapeutic conversation, we can follow the psyche’s natural direction of growth—often making the process feel more organic and less effortful.