Featured in The Globe and Mail
Money can’t buy you happiness. But it might be the best antidepressant. by Graham Isador - “When people are financially stressed, it hits the first rung of Maslow’s hierarchy. It puts basic needs like food and shelter at risk and we’re hard-wired to feel anxious when our basic survival needs are threatened.”
Featured in NOW Magazine
Fewer Contacts Means Less Mental Health Support During Covid19 by Julia Mastroianni - “[W]e don’t want people to be codependent, where they feel their existences are so intertwined that they lose a sense of who they are if their partner isn’t there.”
How Covid-19 Forced People to Deal with New Living Situations by Julia Mastroianni - “One thing we need to be really good at right now is setting and establishing boundaries. Boundaries can be physical, emotional, around all sorts of different things, but we need to clarify our expectations.”
Covid-19 Hasn’t Totally Killed Casual Dating in Toronto by Kelsey Adams - “I believe for most people sexual identity is a really important part of their identity,” says psychotherapist Bronwyn Singleton. “If we can’t find avenues to fulfill it, it can be very frustrating. It can also just make you feel disconnected from yourself.”
What Do I Do if My Roommates Aren’t Socially Distancing? by Richard Trapunski - “Conflict has a bad reputation, but conflict can be really healthy,” Singleton says. “And this is no time to be conflict-averse.”
Featured in HuffPost
How to Deal with Being Around Your Romantic Partner 24/7 by Maija Kappler - “Just know that you’re really, really challenged now, and you’re not showing up as your best selves, in terms of your capacity to be partners,” {Singleton] said. “Think of all of the artificial pressures that are being put upon you right now.”
6 Tips to Cope With Seasonal Depression in a Pandemic by Maija Kappler (with Audio Briefing) - “We don’t have a lot of the structures and routines that keep us on a normal track,” Singleton said. “When you had to get up every day and go to the office, you still had to pull it together and look like a human and have a shower.”
Survive this Covid-19 Winter By Avoiding Conflict With Your Roommates by Maija Kappler - “I used to always be telling people to go on date night and make more time together,” Singleton said. “Now, I’m telling them to spend more time apart.”
How Do I Know If I Need Therapy? by Maija Kappler - “Most of us have relationships that are in need of some rehab, and most of us have some habits or behaviours that we would like to shift or change,” Toronto-based psychotherapist Bronwyn Singleton …”
What To Do If You Can't Afford A Therapist by Maija Kappler - "Some people do better than others with this self-directed learning, but knowledge is power," says Dr. Bronwyn Singleton, a Toronto-based therapist. "There is an abundance of therapeutic and/or self help literature, lectures, courses, workbooks and worksheets available either free online or for a fraction of the cost of even one individual session."
Jealous Of Your Partner's Best Friend? Here's What To Do by Maija Kappler - “The first part of the answer, says Toronto-based therapist Bronwyn Singleton, is what you should do in almost any situation where you feel overwhelmed by a particular emotion: just sit with your jealousy and try to understand it. …”
Is It Normal To Check On Your Ex's Activity? by Maija Kappler - "Let's face it, it's irresistible," says Dr. Bronwyn Singleton, a (very honest!) Toronto psychotherapist who specializes in relationship issues. "I'd love to say 'just don't do it,' but that doesn't seem realistic in this day and age." And yet: "in almost any breakup, it would be better to not be following each other on social media anymore."
Featured in Vice
My Painful Attempt at Treating My Depression Through Online Therapy by Graham Isador - “I think apps could risk being alienating for people who lack human connection,” said Singleton. “In terms of a larger cultural critique, I don’t think therapy should be a disembodied experience, but maybe I’m just old-fashioned.”
Toronto, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down by Graham Isador - “One thing that strikes me as significant here is the sense of impermanence that goes with this moving. Impermanence is often anxiety-provoking,” said Singleton.
Featured in Flare Magazine
I Don’t Regret Breaking Up with My Best Friend—But I Do Regret How I Did It by Alison Winter - “What I’m very uncomfortable with these days is some of the behaviour born of social media—unfriending or ghosting,” says Singleton. “These are noxious concepts and they are deleterious for personal growth …”
Featured in The Loop
Five People on How They Overcame SAD and Beat the Winter Blues by Vanessa Grant - “When mood disorders start interrupting your daily functioning, intervention is necessary,” says Singleton.
Featured on Global News Radio 640’s “Morning Show with Greg Brady”
December 2, 2020 (at approx. 11:40) - Greg and I discuss pandemic dating following the publication of NOW’s cover story on casual dating and Covid-19.
Workshops, Symposia and Speaking Events
TOK Toronto 2019 Symposium with Diaspora Dialogues -
“Led by Susan Turk Mozer, founder of the Toronto Writers Collective, and Bronwyn Singleton and Susan Ksiezopolski, we will explore how expressive writing engages people at all levels of their writing journeys.”
Bronwyn Singleton
Ph.D. and Registered Psychotherapist
Bronwyn’s mission is to help her clients build and enjoy better relationships with themselves (first) and those who matter most to them. Clients learn to develop the skills that allow them to nurture more satisfying connections and to create a more authentic, joyful and fulfilling life.
Bronwyn’s training as a Registered Psychotherapist coupled with her PH.D., specializing in philosophy of love and sex, phenomenology, and psychoanalysis, affords her a unique and elevated perspective which she generously shares with her clients in their pursuit for living a satiated existence.
Bronwyn has also held several undergraduate teaching positions at the University of Toronto and has worked as a writer and editor.