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
The practice is designed for those navigating grief, identity, intimacy, and belonging — especially queer and non-traditional relationship seekers, those carrying grief or chronic pain, and people drawn to spiritual and creative approaches to healing.
Key focuses at Tethered Psychotherapy include:
Bereavement support
Mindfulness-based chronic pain support
2SLGBTQIA+ and queer-affirming counselling
Relationship and Sex-informed therapy, for:
Monogamy
Non-monogamy/ Open relationships
Infidelity
Desire discrepancy
Painful sex
Personal intimacy and pleasure
The practice integrates relational and evidence-based methods (ie. somatic parts work, meditation, narrative therapy) with depth-oriented practices (ie. creative expression, Jungian-based tarot, ritual, and eco-therapy). This means our work can look like exploring intimacy and desire through honest conversation, tending grief through ritual and land connection, using creative tools to meet shame and shadow, or slowing into embodied presence when the body is carrying pain.
Clients drawn to me are often spiritually curious, socially conscious, and ready to go deeper into themselves. If this sounds like you, here, they’re invited to embark on the journey together to harness your strengths and resources, navigate life's complexities, and move toward a more aligned existence.
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.
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Outside of the therapy room, I am an inner explorer, fascinated by the landscape of the self and psyche. I engage in my own personal practice of self-examining through ancestral connection, dreamwork, meditation, and life long learning.
I find joy and care through land connecting practices (herbalism), creativity (painting and crafting), and somatic practices (fitness, hiking, and dance).
I honour my relationships as an active, reciprocal practice toward deepening my connection with partners, lineage, and queer kin.
These practices nourish me and inform the holistic care I offer.
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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 Level 1
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
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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
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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
Individual Therapy
Relationship Therapy
Eco Therapy
Get On The List
At Tethered, therapy is a space to slow down, get curious, and reweave the threads of your life — with care, creativity, and depth. Get on the list to be the first to know about new events and offerings.