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Queer Relationship & Grief Therapy Services in Burlington, Ontario

Tethered Psychotherapy offers space for healing to be rooted in connection— to self, others, the body, and the natural world.

Starting therapy is a brave step. Whether you're seeking support as an individual or in relationship, I’ll meet you where you are with curiosity, compassion, and a belief in your capacity to heal and grow.

How Tethered Therapy Works

Our work may include reflection, ritual, grounding exercises, and honest conversation — all held in a warm, collaborative space that honours who you are and where you come from.

Embarking on therapy can be daunting, but you don't have to do it alone. Together, we'll harness your strengths and resources to navigate life's complexities and move toward a more authentic, aligned existence.

Our key focuses at Tethered Psychotherapy include: grief, loss, or bereavement, 2SLGBTQIA+ and queer-affirming counseling, intimacy and desire, and relationship difficulties (monogamy, open relationships/non-monogamy, infidelity, desire discrepancy).

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Magda, the owner of Tethered Psychotherapy in Burlington, smiling at the camera with their arms crossed, standing against a blank wall.

Meet Your Therapist

Magdalena (Magda) Piskorski

she/her, they/them​ | Registered Psychotherapist, MA, HBSc
Practice Owner of Tethered Psychotherapy

I’m a queer individual and relationship therapist based in Burlington, ON., offering in-person and virtual care across the province.

My therapeutic approach weaves together relational, intersectional, humanistic, and existential frameworks with practices that center embodiment, ecology, and imagination.

I practice from my lived experience as a queer, Polish-Canadian settler on Indigenous land. I am in an ongoing relationship with ancestral reclamation, disrupting colonial amnesia, grief ritual, and land-based ways of knowing from Eastern Europe and Canada. This spiritual grounding informs how I listen, how I hold space, and how I move through the world.

I continue to learn from the land, from ritual, from my communities, and from those I sit with in this work.

  • Outside the therapy room, I find joy in hiking with my dog, practicing herbalism, and access play through dance and movement.

    These practices nourish me and inform the holistic care I offer.

    • Registered Psychotherapist (College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario)

    • MA in Counselling Psychology, Yorkville University

    • HBSc in Psychology, University of Toronto

    • Internal Family Systems, Stepping Stones [in progress]

    • Somatic Parts Work Level 1, The Embody Lab

    • Sex Therapy Informed Professional, PESI and Sexual Health Solutions

    • Grief Counselling Specialist, Evergreen Certifications

    • Mindfulness-Based Chronic Pain Management, NeuroNova

    • Ongoing CNM-, kink-, and LGBT-affirmative therapy training, Affirmative Couch, Laura Guenzel, Rainbow Health Ontario, and Therapeutic Diversity Training

    • Ace and Aro Affirming Counselling Practice, Laura Guenzel

    • Decolonize Your Practice, Silvana Espinoza Lau

    • Couples Counselling Level 1 & 2, Gottman Institute

    • Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training, ASIST

    • Grief, Loss, or Bereavement

    • 2SLGBTQIA+ and Queer-Affirming Counseling

    • Intimacy and Desire

    • Relationship Difficulties (Monogamy, Open Relationships/Non-Monogamy, infidelity, desire discrepancy)

    • Difficulties with Self-Esteem and Identity

    • Body Image/Body Neutrality

    • Chronic Pain

    • Emotional Disturbance

    • Mood Disorders

    • Life Transitions

    • Stress

    • Suicidal Ideation

    • Trauma

    • Trauma-informed therapies — grounded in nervous system awareness, attachment, and safety

    • Internal Family Systems (IFS) and somatic parts work — to help you meet your inner world with compassion and curiosity and using body-based mindfulness, to restore connection between mind and body

    • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) — to support psychological flexibility and value-aligned living

    • Narrative therapy — to explore and re-author the stories you carry

    • Grief and death work — rooted in both personal and collective loss

    • Sex therapy — and frameworks that are informed by pleasure activism and affirm kink, non-monogamy, and queer identities

    • Mindfulness and spiritual hygiene — drawing from contemplative, ancestral, and earth-based traditions

    • Gottman Method — to support relationship repair, communication, and emotional connection

    • Eco-therapy — earth-based ritual, and animist traditions, inviting reconnection with the natural world as a co-regulator and witness

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Individual Therapy

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Relationship Therapy

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Eco Therapy

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