I saw Dr. Himes in 2010 through Wellspring family support service as my adult son had been diagnosed with cancer. I was obviously very distraught at the time and went to 'therapy' for the first time for help coping with the situation. Within minutes, and with no background information, Dr. Himes asked me if my son had a girlfriend and if I liked her - implying that I was too emotionally attached to my son & that was causing my distress. I left shortly afterwards, shaken & upset. Now twelve years later, her behaviour and lack of empathy is still distressing. And it definitely caused my lack of faith in therapy.

Submitted Feb. 1, 2023

I saw Dr Himes several years ago (2011-2012) for a total of about 18 months because of some increasingly serious emotional issues, and my experience was in general extremely positive. I came away from the experience much more grounded and self-aware than I'd been prior to starting therapy.

I think many people writing reviews here don't understand that the woman is a Lacanian psychotherapist, and that means a rather different approach from what they seemed to be expecting. Lacan considered himself the primary heir to Freud's legacy, and regardless of how true that is, he modeled his practice on that of Freud. To wit: patients (analysands, in the psychoanalytic parlance) can expect to be encouraged to free associate, to talk about their dreams, to be interrupted at unexpected moments, and even to have sessions end abruptly and early, all of these being means to allow the subconscious to speak (that is, to allow what is repressed to return in a healthy, as opposed to pathological way). What a Lacanian analysand should NOT expect is a lot of concrete advice on how to think and live, strategies for dealing with people at work and at home, or even very much of a direct approach to whatever is bothering them. For that stuff, there are plenty of cognitive behavioral therapists (and also "therapists" of a more nondescript sort) who will purport to "solve problems" with the patient.

Freud famously said that he wanted to help people move from a state of acute suffering to a state of "ordinary unhappiness," thereby acknowledging that there is no ultimate cure for life's many agonies, just better and worse ways of dealing with them. Lacan agreed. If this sounds like a major let-down to you, then you'd be better off seeking a different approach. But it does work for some people.

Submitted Sept. 13, 2021

A proudly brazen, misogynistic, anti-academic psychopath. She should be stripped of every academic credential granted her after the age of three. The simplistic review below praising her for her wisdom was almost certainly written by her, as when challenged to acknowledge the progression of her astonishingly crude, chronically progressing irrationality, she would attempt to feign understanding and deference to your emotions by acknowledging your "frustration"--a deliberately reductive and belittling term--and by encouraging you to consider her methods and thought processes as being unusual, complex, sophisticated, and counter-intuitive, no matter how audaciously fallacious, poorly formulated, void of any detail or critical thought they were. There was never a moment in which she was challenged for boldly exhibiting psychopathic traits when she did not believe herself to be competently defending herself by declaring herself wise. It was horrific. She's a shameless philistine who believes herself a grand observer and appreciator of culture, but if people like her numbered even one percent of the population, the world would be a blazing den of iniquity. That the University of Toronto has allowed her to use their platform to advertise her creative non-fiction work is a stain, even for an institution already called to account for extreme fraudulence in its sciences, social sciences, and literary departments. The b*tch was punctual, though.

Submitted July 21, 2021

I was appalled at how dismissive she was and how she would look at her nails and pick at her hands and feet during our session. She lacked empathy or knowledge. She would say trite things about the amount of time my loved one had left in palliative at the hospital, after I clearly spoke that is why I came - to get support to be able to survive it. She had nothing useful to say and minimized my extremely sensitive situation. She made me feel worse and I regret meeting with her. What a horrible person.

Submitted Sept. 25, 2018

Sweetheart..Dr. Himes is just and kind, caring and compassionate and appreciates meatless and veganism

Submitted Nov. 9, 2017

Many years ago told me my eating disorder would go away on its own and we shouldn’t talk about it. Unfortunately it actually took 10 years of treatment and talking about it to recover, but maybe if I could have addressed it at that early point it wouldn’t have been such a long drawn out affair that permanently damaged my health.

Submitted Oct. 8, 2017

You may wish to consider other practitioners if looking for a sincere, rigorous, and ethical therapeutic allianace.

Submitted July 19, 2017

She was forthright in admitting that she might not be a good fit for me, but I still found that even though she was polite, she was quite insensitive and that's telling for a psychologist. She was not interested in listening to anything that I had to say and cut me off several times while I was speaking in mid-sentence. Silly me, I thought psychologists were trained to listen without judgement! This was my first ever bereavement counselling session after the loss of a close family member, and she asked point blank why I was talking about them and not talking about myself. It's self-evident that I'm upset about their passing and the best that she could offer was that I should just detach myself and let go of this person. However, when I pressed her about how do I detach, she had no answer. In the end, she made an insensitive comment that I should not bother with either one-on-one bereavement counselling or a bereavement support group because "nobody would want to listen to what you have to say". This session was deeply disappointing as she had been highly recommended by an associate and in my mind, it undermines my confidence in the psychology profession as a whole. I guess I will have to work through my grief on my own. In hindsight, if she didn't think that she was a good fit for me, I wonder why didn't she refer me to a colleague who might have been a better fit? All in all, I cannot recommend that anyone see her, unless they want to come out feeling worse then when they came in. Stay far away for her.

Submitted May 19, 2017