Melissa Donohue
Registered Social Worker, Psychotherapist
MSW, RSW, LCSW
Toronto | Pickering | Ontario
In-Person Therapy
Virtual Therapy

Meet Melissa
Why I'm a therapist.
Helping individuals process trauma so they can live life with greater joy and freedom is my passion. That's why I chose the path of becoming an internationally trained and licensed psychotherapist. I will always treat you as whole person, and not just the issues you're dealing with. I provide compassionate, science-backed therapy, that helps you break patterns that are holding you back so that you can learn to thrive.
Ontario OCSWSSW Licence # 827276
Board Certified LCSW # CW020871
I can help you with
- Anxiety & overthinking
- Stress & Overwhelm
- depression
- Trauma
- PTSD
- Social Anxiety
- EMDR
- OCD
- Eating Disorders
- GRIEF & loss
- Chronis Pain & Illness
- domestic violence
- self esteem
- mood disorders
- addictions
- Stress Management
- Sexual Health
- Sexuality & Intimacy
- Major life transitions
- Confidence
- boundaries
- academic pressure
- Attachment styles
- Social anxiety
My Specializations & Certifications

EMDR Certified Therapist
Healing Trauma, PTSD, Anxiety
Most people think trauma is a story about the past, but for many, it’s a physical weight carried in the present. I specialize in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)—a gold-standard, neurobiological intervention that does more than just "talk" about trauma.
Think of your brain like a wound that wants to heal, but is currently stuck on a "glitch". EMDR is the reboot that helps your brain move distressing memories from the high-alert "threat center" to the "long-term storage," where they belong.

Specialized OCD Therapist
International OCD Foundation Trained
OCD can feel like a "broken record" of the mind—sticky, repetitive, and exhausting. With over 10 years experience treating OCD, and training from the International OCD Foundation, I provide specialized, evidence-based treatment to help you reclaim what OCD has hijacked.
Using Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), we move from being stuck in compulsions to concrete, measurable freedom. You don’t need more willpower; you need the right tools to rewrite the internal script.
Qualifications
Education

Master of Social Work
Mental Health
University of Toronto

Honors Bachelor of Science
Psychology & Neuroscience
University of Toronto
Licenses

Registered Social Worker
OCSWSSW
License Number 827276

Licensed clinical Social Worker
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
License Number CW020871
Availability
Toronto and GTA
- In-person Therapy
- Virtual Therapy
Pickering and Durham Region
- In-person Therapy
- Coming soon
- Virtual Therapy
Across Ontario, Canada
- Virtual Therapy