Samantha Richter
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I've always been a close reader, and meaning maker: someone trying to understand the truths and realities of people and environments.
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I've always been a close reader, and meaning maker: someone trying to understand the truths and realities of people and environments.

When I began turning that attention inwards, it was still only part of the story. I realized that the only way to make sense of my world is to bring all worlds together. The inside, the outside, collectivism and history all come together. It is ourselves with the world.

In my practice I work with the belief that meaning and self is all at once collective, interpersonal, and subjective. Working with me means that we will be in the process of exploring your individual and nuanced experience of the world and emotions. I am committed to learning about you from you, and alongside you.

Outside of the therapy room I devote my time to being with the world in art, nature and community. I am passionate about many things, including songwriting, music, reading, birding, nature, movement, and cycling.
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People I work with experience things like:
anxiety  •  depression 
life transitions  •  self-esteem  existential crises  •  chronic pain  relationship difficulties  •  
attachment  •  co-dependency
narcissistic abuse recovery.
I also help with:

Suicide & Self Harm
School & Work
Grief & Loss
Sexuality & Gender Identity 
Loneliness & Belonging
Highly Sensitive People
Kink & BDSM
Stress & Burnout
Shame
Trauma
ENM & Polyamory
People I work with experience things like:
anxiety  •  depression
life transitions  •  self-esteem 
existential crises  •  chronic pain
relationship difficulties  •  
attachment  •  co-dependency
narcissistic abuse recovery.
I also help with:

Suicide & Self Harm
School & Work
Grief & Loss
Sexuality & Gender Identity 
Loneliness & Belonging
Highly Sensitive People
Kink & BDSM
Stress & Burnout
Shame
Trauma
ENM & Polyamory

We are complex, and overlap of the issues we need support around is natural and normal.

What is
Gestalt Therapy?

Gestalt Psychotherapy focuses on awareness, presence and the here and now, or otherwise said: Being with current and enduring iteration of the situation of your life and your relationship to the world.

Gestalt can be described as embodied, phenomenological, relational, existential, creative, and humanistic.
More about Gestalt
Reflections

Upcoming Workshops:

Songwriting & Sensation: 
Feelings of Creation
October/November 2026 - Register Here

Education, Training,Work,
and Affiliations

  • Gestalt Institute Toronto – Graduated June 2025
  • Member of the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario – #19901
  • Member of Canadian Association for Psychodynamic Therapy
  • Member of the International Association for the Advancement of Gestalt

  • Certified Narcissistic Abuse Treatment Clinician Training - October 2026
  • Module 1: Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT): 4-day Intensive Certification Training Course, PESI – July 2025
  • Distress Centres of Greater Toronto CSPS Suicide Hotline Volunteer, March 2020 – August 2021
  • Honours Bachelor of Arts and Science, University of Toronto 2012 (Majors in English & Semiotics, Minor in Literary Studies)

In this role I am constantly
awed by the different subjective experiences of others, and what life means for them as they move through the world.
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© 2026 Samantha Richter

Committed to inclusion and respect for all people across gender, race, ethnicity, and identity.