Let's figure this out, together.
In-person in Vaughan and virtual across Ontario. Nurse-led, evidence-based care for adults navigating anxiety, burnout, ADHD, PPPD, and the in-between of real life. Rigorous on the inside. Warm on the outside.
Where we meet you.
Not every kind of overwhelm looks the same. Here's the ground we know well, and how we work with it.
Anxiety & Depression When your body clocks out before your brain does.
The dread that arrives on Sunday evening. The 2 AM thought loops you can't switch off. The heaviness that makes a shower feel like a project. We start with the nervous system, because calm is a skill before it's a feeling, then rebuild the thought patterns quietly wearing you down.
Book a free consultStress & Burnout The 6 PM crash. The third coffee that didn't help.
The tabs you can't close. Weekends that don't feel like rest. The guilt of slowing down, then the exhaustion of not. You don't need another productivity system. You need to exhale. Together we untangle the pressure to perform from the person underneath it.
Book a free consultPPPD When the ground keeps moving and everyone says you look fine.
PPPD is often missed, misdiagnosed, or minimised. Edna has done the work to understand it properly, what it actually is, how it develops in the nervous system, and the evidence-based approaches that help quiet the loop. You get a therapist who knows this condition with the depth it deserves, not a generalist figuring it out in session.
Learn more about PPPD therapyADHD A brain with 47 tabs open and no way to close the right one.
The brilliance nobody sees because it's buried under a pile of unsent emails. The shame spirals after another missed deadline. The exhaustion of masking. Edna has ADHD too, which shapes the work: no lectures on organisation, no shame about the systems you've tried. Strategies that can help fit the brain you have.
Book a free consultLife Transitions The in-between that nobody prepared you for.
The new job that looks great on paper but feels like loss. The relationship that ended well and still hurts. The version of yourself you outgrew without noticing. We name what's shifting, so you can move through it instead of being carried by it.
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Grounding, sometimes, looks like your hands in soil.
The weight of a pot in your hands. The smell of damp earth. The slowness of watering something alive.
At Balens, evidence-based care is always the spine. The nature-informed work is what we add when you're curious.
Simple rituals, repotting a houseplant, noticing new growth, pruning what's finished, become gentle entry points for mindfulness, emotional regulation, and self-compassion. They give the nervous system something steady to return to.
This is always optional and fully collaborative. Some clients never pick up a plant. Some build entire routines around them. Your session, your pace, your call.
One-on-one sessions, built around you.
Whether you're feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or moving through a hard life shift, we create a safe space to explore, heal, and grow at your own pace.
Expert Guidance & Empathy
Registered Nurse Psychotherapist trained in the science and the soft skills, with lived experience that changes how the work feels.
Holistic Approach
We work with mind, body, and context. Symptoms in isolation rarely tell the full story, and you're not a checklist.
Safe & Confidential
Everything you bring stays between us. Always. Your comfort and privacy aren't optional features, they're the ground floor.
Diverse Modalities
Therapy shaped to you, not a one-size script. We blend approaches based on what actually moves the needle for your life.
Evidence-based care, human-shaped delivery.
Our work together blends the frameworks below, selected by what your nervous system, your story, and your goals actually need. No rigid script. No therapy-speak for its own sake.
CBT Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Noticing and shifting the thought patterns that keep the loop running.
DBT Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
Skills for tolerating distress, regulating emotion, and staying grounded when everything feels like too much.
MI & SFBT Motivational & Solution-Focused
Building motivation from the inside out, and finding the edges of what's already working.
Person-Centred & Strength-Based Collaborative care
You're the expert on you. We build from your strengths, not your deficits, and you set the pace.
Trauma-Informed Care Safety first, always
Safety, choice, and empowerment aren't add-ons. They shape every conversation from session one.
Nature-Inspired Practices Grounded, embodied
Plants, mindfulness, and natural cycles as gentle tools to reconnect mind and body when words aren't enough.
We believe in a team-based approach. With our PPPD clients especially, while we don't provide vestibular rehab directly, we collaborate with physiotherapists, family physicians, and other specialists. If medication is part of your care, we'll help you advocate with your doctor and stay steady through the process.
Hi, I'm Edna.
I'm a Registered Nurse Psychotherapist, and I started in hospital nursing long before I sat in a therapist's chair. That's a bit important: most clinicians weren't taught how the body holds anxiety, how burnout feels in the chest before it ever shows up in a spreadsheet. As a nurse, that's where I started.
I work with adults who are highly capable and quietly exhausted. Healthcare workers. Early-to-mid career professionals. Urban folks who look steady on paper and feel unglued inside. It's a specific kind of overwhelm, and it deserves specific care.
I have ADHD myself. I love plants unreasonably. I laugh in session. I care deeply about evidence. I built Balens to be the practice I wished I'd found when I needed one, rigorous, warm, and rooted.
If you've been waiting for a sign to book the first consult, this is it.
EDNA BONSU, BScN, MN, CPMHN(C) · Registered Nurse Psychotherapist · CNO #16147849
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Another month of telling yourself you'll sort it out alone is another month it gets to keep its grip. The first conversation is free. No pressure, no commitment, we'll see if we're a fit. That's it.