Greetings
I'm Bill Bistak,
From an Ohio childhood to Michigan college years to over 20 years as a sleep clinician in Toronto, I've learned that healing doesn't come from fixing people—it comes from witnessing them.
After surviving simultaneous life collapses, I now help others navigate "mini-traumas" through structured listening sessions. Author of The Gate and creator of surreal miniature photography, I live in Toronto with my wife of 20+ years, guiding people who feel "too much" toward transformation.
For a preview of The Gate - see the Youtube channel lnk below.
My Story
Twenty years ago, I became a sleep clinician in Toronto, helping people navigate restless nights and anxious minds. Then everything collapsed at once—friendships, relationships, career—and suddenly I was the one who couldn't sleep, couldn't breathe, couldn't find solid ground. Nobody fixed me. No one could.
Instead, I learned something that changed everything: I learned to witness myself. It was messy and took decades, with each effort targeting different wounds, different collapses. But somewhere in that witnessing, I discovered what healing actually looks like—not being solved, but being seen. Being broken apart and reassembled from the inside out.
Now I work with people who feel disconnected from themselves, helping them turn dissociation into strength through writing, photography, and structured listening sessions. I don't offer therapy or quick fixes. I offer what saved me: the experience of being witnessed. My sessions focus on "mini-traumas"—those emotional paper cuts everyone dismisses as "not a big deal" that somehow add up to bleeding out.
I wrote The Gate, a spiritual fiction novella about transformation, and create surreal miniature photography exploring "OPATHIAN"—that hollow feeling when emotional depths seem unattainable, yet you yearn desperately to feel. I work for people tired of being told they're "too sensitive," people who've learned that hypervigilance isn't a flaw but intelligence, and disconnection isn't weakness but a survival strategy waiting to become personal strength.