Somatic Therapy for Complex Trauma Online in Ontario
For those who've been holding it together for so long, they've forgotten what it feels like to just be.
I offer online somatic therapy in Ontario for individuals healing from trauma, chronic stress, dissociation, and nervous system dysregulation. Somatic therapy is a body-centered approach to healing that works with sensation, movement, creativity, and the nervous system — not just words.
The people I work with are often high-functioning on the outside and exhausted on the inside. They've done the therapy, read the books, understand themselves well — and still feel stuck in the same patterns, the same relationships, the same quiet sense that something is missing.
Some carry the weight of a childhood where their emotional needs weren't met. Others have simply been holding it together for so long they've lost the thread back to themselves.
This work is trauma-informed, relational, and paced with care — helping your nervous system restore safety, presence, and inner trust.
Is This Right for You?
This work is especially well-suited to people who sense that something lives deeper than their thoughts — and are ready to meet it.
You might be in the right place if:
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You've been the capable one, the responsible one, the one who holds it together — and you're tired in a way that rest doesn't fix
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You understand your patterns clearly but can't seem to feel your way out of them
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Talk therapy helped, but something still hasn't shifted
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You grew up with a parent who was emotionally unavailable, hard to please, or self-absorbed — and part of you is still trying to earn something that was never given
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You're sitting with the weight of estrangement — or wondering if that's where you're headed — and need a space that can hold all of it
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You feel disconnected from your body, or numb to it
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Anxiety, chronic tension, or exhaustion has become your baseline
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You think deeply, feel a lot, and have done a lot of work on yourself — and you're ready for something that goes beyond insight
You don't need to arrive with a diagnosis or a clear story. You just need to sense that what you've been doing hasn't been enough — and be curious about what else is possible.
Somatic therapy can be especially supportive for people who sense that "just talking" isn't enough — those who understand their patterns cognitively yet still struggle to feel different in their bodies. This work often resonates with overachievers, deep thinkers, and emotionally aware individuals who can articulate their pain clearly but haven't found lasting relief through talk therapy or CBT alone. Through body awareness, creative expression, and grounded embodied practice, this approach helps your nervous system remember that it is safe to feel again.
What to Expect:
This work is paced with you, not prescribed for you.
1. A free 20-minute consultation We start with a no-pressure video call. You can ask questions, share what's bringing you here, and get a sense of whether working together feels right. There's no obligation to continue.
2. A thorough intake conversation If we decide to move forward, we take time to understand your history, your goals, and what safety means to you. This shapes how we work — not as a fixed plan, but as a foundation to return to.
3. Weekly or bi-weekly 50-minute sessions Sessions are held online across Ontario.
Each one follows what you bring — through words, sensation, movement, or creative expression. We go at your pace. There is no agenda to push through.
4. Integration between sessions
I don't assign homework. But I do encourage you to notice — what your body holds, what shifts, what surfaces between our meetings. The work continues even when we aren't in session.
5. An evolving relationship Some people come for a season. Others return over years. Our work can be time-limited and focused, or it can grow as you do. This is always your choice.
A sliding scale is available for minors, single caregivers, and others with financial barriers.
I am currently in my clinical training, working under the direct supervision of a Registered Psychotherapist. This means every client I work with is held within a professionally supervised, ethically grounded practice. My services may be covered by extended health insurance plans that include Registered Psychotherapists — it's worth checking with your provider.
Ready to begin — or just want to ask a question first?
Therapeutic Approaches I use:
These are the tools I draw from — not as a fixed protocol, but as a living toolkit. In any given session, I follow what you bring and use what serves you best in that moment.
NARM (NeuroAffective Relational Model)
NARM was developed specifically for developmental trauma — the kind that forms not from a single event, but from growing up in an environment where your emotional needs weren't met consistently. Rather than spending years revisiting the past, NARM works with the survival patterns you developed in response to what happened: the ways you learned to disconnect from your needs, your body, your emotions, in order to stay safe. In session, we track what's alive in the present moment — in your body, your nervous system, and the way you organize yourself relationally — and gently support reconnection. I am currently completing NARM professional training (November 2026) and integrate NARM principles with somatic therapy and parts work.
Expressive Arts Therapy
You don't need to be an artist for this. Expressive Arts Therapy uses drawing, movement, writing, and other creative forms as a way to access what words sometimes can't reach. When something is hard to explain, making something — even something abstract — can open a door that talking alone keeps closed. This approach is particularly useful for people who feel stuck in their heads or disconnected from their felt experience.
Compassionate Inquiry
Developed by Dr. Gabor Maté, Compassionate Inquiry is a gentle way of exploring what's underneath. Rather than analyzing your thoughts or challenging your beliefs, we follow the thread of your lived experience — the sensations, the memories, the moments where something contracts or shuts down. The goal isn't to fix anything. It's to understand, with kindness, what you've been carrying and why.
Parts Work
Parts work is based on the idea that we are not one single self, but many — parts that protect, parts that carry old pain, parts that judge or push or go numb. None of these parts are problems to get rid of. They all developed for a reason. This approach helps you build a relationship with these parts from a place of curiosity rather than conflict, so they no longer have to work so hard.
Relational Psychotherapy
Healing doesn't happen in isolation — it happens in relationship. Relational psychotherapy recognizes that many of our deepest wounds formed in connection with others, and that connection is also where they heal. The therapeutic relationship itself becomes part of the work — a place to practice trust, repair, and being genuinely seen.
Integral Neuroprogramming (INP)
INP works with the structures beneath conscious thought — the deeply held beliefs and protective patterns that formed long before you had words for them. Where many approaches work top-down (starting with thoughts), INP works at a pre-cognitive level, helping to shift patterns that insight and willpower alone haven't been able to touch. It can feel subtle and yet produce changes that are surprisingly tangible.
Indigenous Ways of Knowing
My practice is informed by Indigenous and traditional healing perspectives, including Peruvian vegetalismo — a lineage of plant medicine and ceremonial healing I have studied directly. These traditions understand the person as whole: body, spirit, history, and land all connected. I bring this perspective into the relational and somatic dimensions of our work, with respect for the cultures and teachers it comes from.
Psychedelic Integration
If you have had a psychedelic experience — in a ceremonial, therapeutic, or personal context — integration is the process of making meaning from what arose. These experiences can be profound and disorienting in equal measure. Integration therapy gives you a grounded, non-judgmental space to process what you encountered, understand what shifted, and bring those insights into your daily life in ways that actually hold.