Virtual Therapy · Serving Oakville, Ontario
Online Therapist & Counsellor for Oakville
If your day runs from the GO platform at dawn to emails after dinner, a daytime therapy appointment was never going to happen. Virtual sessions fix that: counselling for couples, anxiety, anger, and trauma with Ontario-registered clinicians — evenings and weekends, in English or Arabic.
Free 15-minute consultation · No referral needed · Seven days a week
Online therapy for Oakville, at a glance. TEO Counselling provides online therapy for couples, anxiety, anger and trauma to Oakville residents — there is no Oakville office — with two Ontario-registered clinicians: Mohamad Shabib, a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) with the CRPO (#14298), in English or Arabic, and Rola Shbib, a Registered Social Worker with the OCSWSSW (#866715), for individual therapy. Appointments run 3:00 pm to midnight Eastern, seven days a week. Individual sessions are $150 and couples sessions $175, each 60 minutes, with no intake or assessment fee; OHIP does not cover psychotherapy in private practice, every session comes with an insurance-ready receipt, and direct billing is available with Mohamad for Pacific Blue Cross and TELUS eClaims plans (Canada Life, Manulife). The first step is a free 15-minute consultation on a video call or a scheduled phone call, booked online, no referral needed.
An Oakville therapist appointment that survives your calendar
TEO Counselling is a fully virtual practice based in Nanaimo, British Columbia — there is no office in Oakville to reach before it closes, and no session lost to a QEW that stopped moving. Appointments happen as video calls through the Jane platform, with Zoom or Google Meet as a backup, wherever you have a door that shuts.
The math of an Oakville week rarely leaves room for a 2pm appointment: the commute to Toronto or Mississauga, two careers running in parallel, kids’ schedules layered on top. Sessions here run seven days a week from noon to 9pm Pacific — 3pm to midnight in Oakville — so therapy starts after your day ends instead of competing with it.
Both clinicians who see Oakville clients are registered with Ontario regulators: Mohamad Shabib, MACP, CCC, a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) with the CRPO, and Rola Shbib, BSW (Hons), RSW, with the OCSWSSW. Mohamad offers sessions in English and Arabic.
Counselling services for Oakville
Marriage & Couples Counselling
Couples therapy in Oakville can fail on logistics before it fails on anything else — two calendars, one clinic, no overlap. Evening and weekend online sessions solve the logistics so the actual work can start. Mohamad, trained in Gottman Method Levels 1 & 2, works on conflict cycles, trust repair after betrayal, and the quiet drift into managing a household instead of sharing a life.
Anger, Irritability & the Short Fuse
Anger management counselling for Oakville clients starts from a simple observation: the outburst is the last step in a long chain. Counselling traces the chain — workload, resentment, old injuries, the sense of not being heard — and adds practical de-escalation tools along the way. Online sessions mean you can do this work privately, without anyone in a waiting room.
Anxiety, Burnout & High-Functioning Stress
You might arrive still performing well on paper — the job gets done, the family runs — while the inside feels like a browser with eighty tabs open. Mohamad draws on CBT-based approaches and Internal Family Systems training (Levels 1–2) to work on both the racing surface and what keeps it racing.
Trauma, Grief & Loss
Mohamad is EMDRIA-trained in EMDR at the advanced level and trained in CBT for Trauma (Levels 1–2). For grief, Rola brings a crisis-intervention background and an honours degree in thanatology — the study of dying, death, and bereavement. Whichever fits, the pace is yours — in English, or in Arabic with Mohamad.
Serving Oakville and the Halton communities around it
Online sessions reach every neighbourhood between the lake and Dundas Street. We also work with clients in Burlington, Mississauga and Toronto, and our Ontario therapy page covers the rest of the province.
Downtown Oakville · Bronte · Kerr Village · Glen Abbey · River Oaks · Joshua Creek · Clearview · West Oak Trails · Palermo · Burlington · Milton · Mississauga — and everywhere else in the province
Common questions about counselling in Oakville
How do I find a therapist in Oakville?
You can book directly with TEO Counselling — no referral needed. Start with a free 15-minute consultation, tell us what you’re dealing with, and we’ll match you with Mohamad, a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) with the CRPO, or Rola, a Registered Social Worker with the OCSWSSW. A first full session is booked straight from that call, without a waitlist.
How much does couples therapy in Oakville cost?
Couples therapy for Oakville couples is $175 per 60-minute online session with Mohamad Shabib, who has completed Gottman Method Levels 1 and 2 training. Evening and weekend times are available, and each partner can join the call from a different place — home, a parked car after work, or another city entirely.
Do you offer anger management counselling in Oakville?
Yes. Anger work here goes beyond technique lists — counselling looks at the pressure, resentment, and older injuries that drive the outbursts, alongside practical de-escalation tools you can use this week. Sessions are online, evenings and weekends included.
How much does individual therapy cost in Oakville?
$150 for a 60-minute online session, with no intake or assessment fee, and the 15-minute consultation beforehand costs nothing. Receipts name the clinician’s registration — Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) and Canadian Certified Counsellor for Mohamad, Registered Social Worker for Rola — so check that your plan lists one of them; a few reduced-fee spots are kept for people who need them.
When are appointments available for Oakville?
Seven days a week, from 12pm to 9pm Pacific time — which is 3pm to midnight in Oakville. That includes starts late enough to book after the GO train gets you home.
Can I have my sessions in Arabic?
Yes. Mohamad Shabib works in both Arabic and English and can switch between them within a session; Rola Shbib’s sessions are in English.
Sessions until midnight, on Oakville time
Appointments run from noon to 9pm Pacific, seven days a week — in Oakville, that is 3pm to midnight. The Lakeshore West train that gets you home at 7 leaves plenty of evening to work with; a 9pm start after dinner is an ordinary booking here.
An individual session is 60 minutes at $150; a couples session is $175. Before either comes a free 15-minute consultation — no referral, no charge, no obligation to continue.
Cancellations need 24 hours’ notice. Inside that window, and for a session nobody attends, the full fee is charged. With a schedule that may already be tight, it is worth saying plainly up front.
Two careers, one relationship
A pattern shows up in couples work with commuter households: by the time both of you are home, fed, and done with the day’s logistics, there is nothing left for the relationship except the argument you didn’t have time to finish last week. Nobody planned it; the calendar did it.
Gottman Method work gives that situation structure rather than blame. Sessions look at how conflict actually starts between you — not the topic, the pattern — what repair looks like when trust has taken a hit, and how two tired people find their way back to being on the same team. Mohamad has completed Levels 1 and 2 of the Gottman training and brings it to couples across Ontario online.
The online format carries a practical advantage for exactly this situation: when one of you is travelling for work or stuck late downtown, the session still happens — two screens, one conversation.
Who does what, and what the registrations mean
Mohamad Shabib, MACP, CCC, is a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) with the CRPO — Ontario’s psychotherapy regulator — and a Canadian Certified Counsellor with the CCPA. He works with clients in all six provinces the practice serves: British Columbia, Ontario, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Newfoundland and Labrador. His training spans advanced EMDR through an EMDRIA-approved programme, Internal Family Systems Levels 1 and 2, Gottman Method Levels 1 and 2, CBT for Trauma Levels 1 and 2, and DBT, alongside a graduate diploma in addiction treatment and prevention.
Rola Shbib, BSW (Hons), RSW, is a Registered Social Worker with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers, based in London, Ontario. She brings crisis intervention and suicide-prevention training (ASIST), addictions and mental health experience, and an honours degree in thanatology.
Alison Shaji, MA, RCC, the practice’s third clinician, works with clients in British Columbia only, so she is not offered to Oakville clients.
If a specific approach matters to you, ask at the consultation who holds the training for it.
Paying for counselling, and what OHIP leaves out
OHIP does not pay for private psychotherapy or counselling — every session here is paid privately, and you receive an insurance-ready receipt after each one showing the clinician’s name and registration.
Some plans TEO can bill directly — Pacific Blue Cross and plans on the TELUS eClaims network among them — so you pay only the part the plan does not cover. Everything else works by reimbursement: you pay per session and submit the receipt.
Before relying on a benefits booklet, read its wording. If it lists Registered Psychotherapist, ask whether the Qualifying category is included; if it lists Registered Social Worker, ask which registrations it counts. Claims are decided by the plan’s wording, not by anything written here.
A few reduced-fee spots are held for people for whom the fee is the barrier — ask about one at the free consultation.
Halton also has a community agency to know about: Thrive Counselling sees individuals, couples and families, and runs a free walk-in clinic in Burlington on Thursdays from 10 am to 5 pm, with last intake at 3:30 pm. Its details are at thrivecounselling.org.
What this practice can and cannot do
Everything happens online, and some support needs a person physically present. Nobody here can sit with you at Oakville Trafalgar Memorial or drive you to an appointment. If that is the help this moment calls for, say so at the consultation and you will be pointed toward Halton services that provide it.
Counsellors and psychotherapists do not diagnose, screen, or assess conditions. Medication decisions belong to a physician or nurse practitioner, and counselling here runs alongside that care rather than replacing it.
What you say stays between you and your clinician, with four exceptions explained before the first session: a serious risk that you will harm yourself, a serious risk that you will harm another person, a suspicion that a child is being abused or neglected, and a subpoena or court order for the records.
Online sessions also ask two practical things of you — a private space and a connection that holds for an hour. If home cannot offer either, raise it at the consultation; a parked car, an empty office after hours, or a booked meeting room have all worked for other clients.
Oakville & Halton mental health resources
- · COAST Halton (24/7 crisis outreach and support): 1-877-825-9011
- · 9-8-8 Suicide Crisis Helpline: call or text 9-8-8 (24/7)
- · ConnexOntario (mental health & addictions navigation): 1-866-531-2600
- · Kids Help Phone (for young people): 1-800-668-6868, or text CONNECT to 686868
If you are in immediate danger, please call 911.
Fifteen minutes, no commitment
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