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Somatic Therapy for Complex Trauma Online in Ontario
You understand your childhood.
You can name the patterns, trace the dynamics, explain exactly how it shaped you. But understanding hasn't changed how your body responds.
You still brace when someone raises their voice. You still go quiet when you need something.
You still feel that familiar flatness where emotion should be. This is where body-centered work begins.
Who I work with
I work with adults across Ontario who have done the cognitive work and hit a ceiling.
People who can articulate their attachment style and trace their patterns back to childhood, but whose nervous systems haven't caught up to what their mind already understands.
Most of the people I see describe some version of these:
Complex trauma and developmental trauma.
Childhood environments that taught you to over-function, fawn, shrink, or disappear to stay safe.
The kind of trauma that doesn't always look like trauma from the outside, but lives in chronic tension, emotional reactivity, and patterns that repeat across relationships.
Childhood emotional neglect.
Growing up in homes where physical needs were met but emotional ones weren't named or attended to. You learned to be self-sufficient and easy, and now you don't quite know what you actually need or feel.
Dissociation and emotional numbness.
That familiar flatness or distance, being technically functional but watching yourself live. The composure that looks like steadiness from the outside and feels like absence on the inside.
Patterns that won't shift. The same dynamic across relationships, jobs, or family.
The reactivity you can't quite catch in time. The body that won't let you rest no matter how much you've worked through cognitively.
What sessions look like
Sessions are 50 minutes via secure video. We schedule weekly or every other week depending on what fits.
Most sessions involve some combination of talking, noticing what's happening in your body in real time, slowing down when something significant surfaces, and sometimes using creative materials like drawing, image, or gentle movement to reach what's underneath words. Some sessions are mostly verbal.
Others involve more breath, movement, or expressive arts. We adapt to what you bring and what your nervous system can hold that day.
You don't need to come in with a clear goal or know exactly what's wrong. Many of the people I work with arrive with a vague sense that something needs to shift. That's a fine place to start.
Fees and getting started
Individual sessions are $190. Sliding scale available for those who qualify.
I don't bill insurance directly, but I provide receipts that most extended health plans reimburse through mental health benefits.
Free 20-minute consultation before we begin, by video or phone. It isn't a sales call. It's a chance to see whether what I do fits what you're looking for.