Therapy for Trauma Recovery
I’m passionate about holistic mental healthcare that meets you where you are. As a yoga therapist and psychotherapist, I embrace the intersection between ancient traditional knowledge surrounding health and healing alongside modern research and innovation.
Philosophy of “recovery” — what are we recovering? Holistic/mind-body therapy — “how it works”.
The Panchamaya Koshas describe a yogic way of understanding our multidimensional experience. While all 5 koshas or layers are separated here, we can understand each layer as being interwoven, influencing each other regularly.
When we experience stress, trauma or illness, all layers of our experience are often impacted. A holistic approach to recovery considers and tends to the needs of each of these areas.
What is trauma?
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Don’t worry about sounding professional. Sound like you. There are over 1.5 billion websites out there, but your story is what’s going to separate this one from the rest. If you read the words back and don’t hear your own voice in your head, that’s a good sign you still have more work to do.
Psychotherapy
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Yoga Therapy
Somatic therapy for trauma - broca’s area - if you find yourselve intellectualizing
Practices between sessions, option to record.
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Integrated Therapy
Fees
50-minute session: $160.
75-minute session: $220.
All rates are in Canadian dollars. I am not required to collect taxes on these services. After our session, I will send you an invoice to be paid by e-transfer within 7 days. If you have benefits that cover “psychotherapy”, you can claim our sessions to your insurance provider with the receipt provided after our session.
Common Questions
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You may still resonate with a nervous-system based approach even if you don’t meet diagnostic criteria for a trauma disorder or have not pursued formal assessment.
No diagnosis is required to heal in therapy, and no experience is too small to seek help. If you’re carrying mental and emotional wounds that are affecting your self-perception, daily life, sleep, work or relationships, I encourage you to reach out. Like physical wounds, we tend to benefit from seeking help sooner than later.
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Yoga therapy sessions typically begin with a check-in. You may come knowing how you are feeling already, or I can help you explore this with a guided self-inquiry practice that gentle explores your physical, energetic, mental/emotional, intuitive and spiritual experience.
Based on your experience, we will respond with yoga practice especially curated to support you in the moment. This may include:
yoga philosophy applications (incl. yamas & niyamas),
postures and movement (asana),
breath practices (pranyama),
meditation (dhyana & dharana),
self-reflection (svadhyaya),
and guided rest practices (savasana, yoga nidra).
I may curate music and poetry to support your experience. You can have sessions focused on yoga therapy exclusively, or we can integrate practices with talk therapy.
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You can do one or the other, or integrate them into one comprehensive treatment. Yoga/somatic therapy can be incredibly supportive when talking is challenging or inadequate to address your experience. It offers a nonverbal wayu
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If you are in Ontario and you have benefits for “psychotherapy” you can use them for our session. You will receive an invoice after our session, which you can pay by e-transfer and submit the receipt to your insurance company for reimbursement.
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While your needs may vary, weekly sessions tend to be ideal for most people. Weekly sessions typically allow us to tend to your day-to-day experiences while exploring pertinent topics/experiences in more depth.
Biweekly sessions can also be a good option to maintain a sense of continuity.
If committing to a regular session frequency doesn’t work for you right now, I’m happy to schedule sporadically as needed.
Would you like to discuss how therapy could support you?
The most important factor influencing the success of therapy is your connection with the therapist. I offer free consultation phone calls to connect and see if I can offer the support you need with no pressure to book a session afterwards.