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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Noticing the thought patterns and behaviours that keep you stuck, and building more workable ones — useful for anxiety, stress, and self-criticism.
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Founder & Registered Social Worker
Darshana Patel
MSW, RSW · Registered Social Worker · OCSWSSW #844330
Warm, collaborative, and trauma-informed. Darshana works with individuals navigating anxiety, stress, and the patterns that family and culture leave behind.
- Works with
- Individual adults
- Format
- In-person (Etobicoke) & online
- Availability
- Weekdays · Weekends
- Sessions from
- $175 / 50 min
About Darshana Patel
For the weight you've learned to carry quietly.
Darshana is the founder of Clear Moon Therapy and a South Asian Registered Social Worker (MSW, RSW) providing psychotherapy in Ontario. She supports individuals with challenges such as anxiety, depression, stress, difficult family relationships, and the work of coping with your own sense of self.
Her approach to therapy is warm, collaborative, and trauma-informed. Darshana integrates evidence-based modalities including CBT, DBT, ACT, and polyvagal theory to help clients better understand themselves, regulate emotions, and strengthen their relationships.
Darshana sees clients online across Ontario and in person at the Etobicoke clinic. She is currently at capacity for new clients — join the waitlist to be notified when a spot opens, or book with Nitya, Japnam, or Lissa to start this week.
How Darshana Patel works
Evidence-based, and deeply human.
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for managing intense emotions, tolerating distress, and steadying your relationships.
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Making room for difficult thoughts and feelings while moving toward what actually matters to you.
Polyvagal theory
Understanding how your nervous system responds to stress and safety — and learning to work with it, not against it.
What Darshana Patel helps with
A few of the things that bring people in.
- Anxiety
- Stress & burnout
- Depression
- Relationship dynamics
- Life transitions
- Intergenerational & cultural identity
Who Darshana Patel works with
Individual therapy, for adults across Ontario.
Questions about working with Darshana Patel
The things people usually ask.
Is Darshana accepting new clients?
Darshana is currently at capacity and keeps a waitlist. Join it to be notified when a spot opens — or book with Nitya, Japnam, or Lissa, who are accepting new clients this week.
Does Darshana offer in-person sessions?
Yes. Darshana sees clients in person at the Clear Moon Therapy clinic in Etobicoke, and online across Ontario.
Who does Darshana work with?
Darshana works with individual adults. For couples, families, or children, Nitya, Japnam, and Lissa offer those services.
How much does Darshana charge?
Individual sessions with Darshana are $175 per 50 minutes, HST included. Reduced-rate spots are offered by our associate clinicians.
Does Darshana offer a free consultation?
Yes — a free 15-minute consultation for individual therapy, to see whether working together feels right before you commit.
Ready when you are
Start with a free consultation.
No paperwork, no commitment — just a short conversation to see if working with Darshana feels right.