Keren Wisniewski
SOCIAL WORKER, MSW. RSW.
Accepting New Clients for: Individual Therapy | Family Therapy | Couples & Relationship Therapy | Child & Adolescent Therapy | Parenting Therapy & Coaching | Co-parenting Therapy & Coaching | Reintegration Therapy | VOC Reports | Parenting Plan Consultation
Flexible Options: In-Person Therapy | Virtual Therapy | Hybrid (In-person and Virtual)
Languages: English
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🎧 Keren was a guest on the “Picking Up the Pieces” podcast. Watch Episode #6
Specialized Expertise in
Therapeutic Modalities
Bio
Keren Wisniewski is a highly experienced Registered Social Worker with over 15 years of clinical experience supporting individuals, couples, parents, and families through complex emotional and relationship challenges. She specializes in couples therapy, family therapy, separation and divorce, parent-child relationships, and reunification therapy.
She brings warmth and compassion to her work, backed by extensive clinical knowledge.
Keren connects with people and she is known for building trust and creating a supportive space where clients do not feel judged. But she is not a passive listener. Her approach is active and practical. She helps clients understand what they are up against and recognize the patterns in their relationships while working out how to move forward. Her experience with individuals and families in complex circumstances means she can approach hard situations with sensitivity, confidence and care.
Couples therapy is a big part of her practice. Some couples come to her because the same arguments keep coming back. Other couples have trouble communicating or feel emotionally disconnected and their relationship as a whole is under strain. She does some of her best work with couples who are struggling and starting to question whether they have a future together. Keren helps partners understand the issues underneath, move past unhelpful patterns, rebuild trust and strengthen their emotional connection. Her style is supportive and engaging, with clear goals. Couples come away with practical tools for communicating better and resolving conflict.
Separation and divorce are another key focus of Keren’s practice. She has extensive experience supporting individuals, couples, children and families navigating separation, divorce, high-conflict relationships and complex parenting arrangements, including those involving intimate partner violence (IPV). Keren also provides separation and divorce coaching, offering emotional support and practical guidance to help clients manage difficult transitions, improve communication, navigate co-parenting challenges and make informed decisions. Keren has also worked with many families involved in the family court system and understands the impact of conflict on both parents and children. Her approach focuses on supporting emotional well-being, strengthening relationships and helping families move forward in a healthy and constructive way.
Keren specializes in reintegration therapy. It is for families dealing with parent-child contact problems, strained or disrupted relationships and children who resist spending time with a parent. These situations are not simple and Keren takes the time to understand each family member’s experience and the history of the relationships. From there, she works with parents and children on the underlying concerns, on communication and on rebuilding trust. The goal is a healthier parent-child relationship, where that is emotionally and physically safe. She moves at a pace that considers the child’s needs and well-being, guided by her experience with family conflict, attachment and child development.
Keren also guides parents through parenting challenges, emotional and behavioural concerns, family conflict and difficult parent-child dynamics. She helps them understand their children’s emotional needs, while setting healthy boundaries, communicating better and responding more effectively when things get hard. Insight is a big part of it, because Keren believes that when parents understand their own reactions and the patterns in their family, the changes that follow after guidance are more positive and more likely to last.
Keren has considerable experience in child and adolescent mental health, working with young people and their families. She supports clients dealing with anxiety, depression, trauma, emotional regulation difficulties, self-harm, school-related concerns and big life transitions. Communicating with adolescents is one of her strengths, and that includes the ones who are hesitant to be in therapy.
Her approach is trauma-informed, attachment-focused and strengths-based. She draws on evidence-informed methods, including Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), motivational interviewing, harm reduction and crisis intervention, and adapts them to each client. Since context always matters, Keren wants to understand a person’s experiences, relationships and family circumstances, because change is hard to make without that understanding.
Keren holds a Master of Social Work from the University of Toronto’s Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work and is registered with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers.
She believes even the most challenging relationships can improve with greater understanding, thoughtful communication and the right therapeutic support. That might be a couple hoping to strengthen their relationship, someone going through a separation or a family caught in conflict that goes back years. She wants every client to feel heard and supported, and to be ready to make positive changes in their life.