Dr. Shira Taylor is a physician - psychotherapist who specializes in mind/body/spirit approaches to healing and wellness. Trained as a physician at the University of Toronto, she has worked in a variety of community health centres and medical clinics across Toronto as well as in Northern Ontario and Nunavut. In 2014 she shifted her practice to focus on her area of passion, mindfulness, yoga, and mental health. Through her Minding Your Inner Monkey groups and individual psychotherapy practice, she serves people struggling with a wide variety of life difficulties including physical illnesses, depression, anxiety, chronic pain, grief, relationship challenges etc.
She is a also trained yoga instructor through the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Organization and brings to her groups not only her medical expertise but also the lived experience of extensive personal yoga and meditation training in India and Canada. A humanitarian at heart, she enjoys teaching overseas and brings the same principles and practices with cultural adaptations to schools in India and Nigeria.
Dr. Taylor is a member in good standing of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO), the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) and the Medical Psychotherapy Association of Canada (MDPAC).
