Specialized Trauma & Stress Mental Health Care

Do painful memories and triggers make it hard to feel safe or relaxed? Do you feel disconnected from yourself and others, like you're just going through the motions instead of really living? Do you feel like your body and mind are always in "survival mode," even when you're not in danger?

Our therapists can help you break free from the weight of what happened to you, and rebuild your sense of safety, trust and self-worth.
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​ All sessions are offered virtually, by video-call or phone-call depending on your preference.

What you can do

Trauma & Stress Assessment

Do you find it hard to trust people, even those you care about? Do painful memories come out of nowhere and takeover? ​An assessment can help clarify a diagnosis, better understand the impacts of your past experiences, and find out what might help you overcome what you went through. Discover your next steps toward reclaiming your life.

Trauma & Stress Counselling

Feeling stuck in a cycle of fear, anxiety, irritability, or emotional numbness after trauma? Looking for a safe space where you can work through trauma without judgment? Culturally sensitive, and evidence-based trauma therapies like tf-CBT,  ART, EMDR and Somatic Experiencing can help you heal from the pain of the past, and find peace again. The first step is reaching out.

Trauma Informed Couples Counselling

Struggling to connect when memories of the past feel like they’re always in the room? Is your relationship defined by a cycle of healing and hurt, leaving you both exhausted? Counselling can help you build a resilient partnership that thrives on connection.

Trauma Focused Youth Counselling

Is your child struggling to feel normal, fit in, or find joy because the past keeps replaying in their head? Pretending everything is okay when they're really hurting inside? Therapy can help youth find their voice, build resilience, and reclaim their happiness after tough experiences.
Trauma is not just an event that took place sometime in the past; it is also the imprint left by that experience on mind, brain, and body.

​- Bessel van der Kolk

Trauma & Stress Therapists

Counselling alone can relieve PTSD symptoms for over 70% of survivors.

Trauma and stress can show up in many ways

Complex trauma (cPTSD)

Exposure to multiple, chronic, or repeated trauma over a prolonged period of time, such as childhood abuse or maltreatment, domestic violence, community violence, bullying, intergenerational trauma or systemic oppression, can cause PTSD-like symptoms such as emotional or behavioural difficulties, negative thoughts or feelings about yourself, a sense of worthlessness, shame, guilt or failure, nightmares, impulsivity, irritability, patterns of avoidance, and challenges in relationships or feeling close with others.

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

1 month after an event like physical or sexual violence, a natural disaster, accident, injury, or death, you may have unwanted memories, thoughts or nightmares, anger or irritability, feel on edge, guilt, shame, fear, or numbness, avoid reminders, or have negative thoughts about yourself or others.

Acute stress disorder

Following the same kinds of events that can lead to PTSD, similar symptoms develop lasting between 3 days to 1 month.

Disinhibited social engagement disorder (DSED)

Often resulting from severe early traumatic experiences such as neglect or abuse, kids can become very comfortable separating from their caregivers, overly affectionate or unafraid, wander off with strangers.

Reactive attachment disorder (RAD)

Often starting before 5 years old, after chronically unmet emotional needs or frequent changes in caregivers, kids can have difficulty forming secure attachments, and become irritable, sad, fearful, and withdrawn, rarely seeking comfort or not responding to comfort when distressed.

Adjustment disorder

Severe emotional or behavioural changes can occur in adults or kids following a major change, loss, or transition, like divorce, job loss, death.

Prolonged grief disorder (complicated/traumatic grief)

Grief, such as feeling like you lost a part of yourself, disbelief, avoidance of reminders, intense emotional pain, or severe loneliness, following the death of a loved one that lasts more than 1 year in adults, or 6 months in kids.
PTSD is not a sign of weakness, it is a sign of having tried to survive something that should have never happened.

​- J. L. Witterick

Other Related Areas of Expertise

Trauma and stress related disorders can often co-occur with other mental health concerns, including anxiety and depression related issues. 

Anxiety

Depression

Online Trauma-Focused Care

Empower your trauma recovery with expert support. You don't have to face this alone. We are passionate about helping you and your loved ones recognize and heal from the effects of trauma. Reach out to get started today.​