Dr. Leyla Javam, PhD, C.Psych.
Psychologist.
Dr. Leyla Javam is a registered clinical psychologist who provides individualized therapy to adults, adolescents, and parents/caregivers at Toronto Psychology Centre. She holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Toronto and has extensive experience across community mental health, school, university, and private practice settings.
Dr. Javam is known for her warmth, patience, and ability to create a safe and respectful space for meaningful therapeutic work. Her approach is trauma-sensitive, diversity-informed, and deeply collaborative. She works to understand each client’s unique story and adapts evidence-based treatment to align with individual goals, values, and strengths. With a therapeutic presence grounded in attunement, warmth, clinical integrity, and a deep respect for each client’s pace, she helps clients process painful experiences, strengthen emotional resilience, and move toward greater authenticity, connection, and self-understanding.
Dr. Javam has experience supporting individuals with a wide range of presenting concerns, including anxiety, depression, mood-related challenges, relationship issues, ADHD, OCD, perfectionism, emotion dysregulation, low self-esteem, and learning difficulties.
Dr. Javam has additional expertise in supporting individuals facing demanding life roles and transitions – including those experiencing workplace stress/burnout, imposter syndrome, boundary-setting challenges, parenting stress, and caregiver fatigue. She supports clients exploring the impact of early experiences on present-day emotions and relationships – including family of origin challenges, relational and intergenerational trauma, and complex developmental trauma. Dr. Javam also brings expertise in maternal and paternal perinatal and reproductive mental health – she offers support to those coping with fertility challenges, pregnancy loss, birth trauma, and the psychological impact of assisted reproductive processes such as IUI and IVF.
Her integrative approach draws from several well-researched therapeutic modalities, such as relational psychodynamic psychotherapy, attachment-based therapy, trauma-focused therapies, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), emotion focused therapy approaches (EFT, EFFT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT). She is also trained in Watch, Wait, and Wonder, and Reflective Family Play, two developmentally sensitive evidence-based family therapy approaches for infants and young children. As both an adult and child/adolescent psychologist, she brings a unique lifespan perspective to her work with clients.
Throughout her clinical training, Dr. Javam has provided psychological services at SickKids Centre for Community Mental Health, the George Hull Centre, Toronto District School Board, the University of Toronto (OISE) Psychology Clinic, and in several private practice settings. Her doctoral research focused on the intergenerational impact of childhood trauma experiences on emotion and emotion co-regulation abilities within parenting and co-parenting relationships. Dr. Javam has presented widely at academic conferences and continues to engage in ongoing professional development through formal training and workshops.
She is a member of the Ontario Psychological Association .
Online therapy available