Trauma Therapy
For adults seeking trauma-informed support to heal from past experiences and reconnect with their body, mind, and sense of safety.
Are You Still Carrying the Effects of Trauma in Your Body and Mind
Do you feel constantly on edge, overwhelmed, or emotionally exhausted without fully understanding why?
Do certain situations, relationships, or sensations trigger intense reactions that feel out of proportion or hard to control?
Do you struggle with shutdown, numbness, anxiety, intrusive thoughts, or a sense of disconnection from yourself or others?
Trauma can show up in many ways - sometimes long after the original experience has passed. You may find yourself stuck in survival mode, feeling hypervigilant, emotionally reactive, or completely shut down. Even when life looks “fine” on the outside, your body may still be holding onto a sense of threat, making it difficult to feel safe, calm, or present.
For many people, trauma impacts self-worth, relationships, boundaries, and the ability to trust - both yourself and others. You might feel frustrated with yourself for not “being over it yet,” or confused by reactions that seem to come out of nowhere. These responses aren’t a personal failure; they’re your nervous system doing its best to protect you.
With the right support, trauma therapy can help you reconnect with your body, understand your responses, and begin to feel safer within yourself and your life again.
Trauma Responses Are More Common - and More Understandable - Than You May Realize
Trauma is not limited to a single event or a specific type of experience. It can result from accidents, abuse, neglect, loss, medical experiences, chronic stress, or ongoing relational wounds. Many people minimize their experiences because they believe others “had it worse,” yet still live with the lasting effects of trauma in their daily lives.
When your nervous system has learned that the world - or certain relationships - aren’t safe, it adapts to help you survive. Anxiety, emotional numbness, people-pleasing, avoidance, or difficulty trusting others are common trauma responses. These patterns often develop automatically and unconsciously, especially when trauma happens early in life or over long periods of time.
The good news is that these responses are not permanent. Trauma therapy helps your nervous system learn that safety, choice, and connection are possible again. With compassionate, trauma-informed support, healing doesn’t require reliving everything - it happens by building stability, awareness, and resilience over time.
Trauma Therapy Can Help You Feel Safer, More Grounded, and More Connected
In trauma therapy, we focus on helping your nervous system move out of survival mode and into a greater sense of regulation and safety. Rather than pushing you to talk about experiences before you’re ready, therapy is paced intentionally and guided by your comfort, consent, and capacity.
Our work together may include developing grounding skills, understanding your trauma responses, and gently exploring how past experiences are showing up in your present life. Therapy sessions are collaborative and tailored to your needs, drawing from somatic approaches, parts work, mindfulness, and emotion-focused techniques. This allows healing to happen not just cognitively, but at the level of the body and nervous system.
Trauma therapy can help you:
Reduce anxiety, overwhelm, and emotional reactivity
Feel more present and connected to yourself and others
Build healthier boundaries and relationships
Develop self-compassion and a deeper sense of safety
At Hopeful Horizons Holistic Psychotherapy, trauma-informed care means honoring your pace, your autonomy, and your lived experience. Healing is not about “fixing” you - it’s about supporting your system in learning new ways to feel safe, supported, and empowered.
I take a gentle, trauma-informed approach that recognizes how trauma lives in the mind, body, and nervous system. Therapy is paced intentionally and grounded in safety, choice, and collaboration—so healing can happen without pressure or retraumatization.
Depending on your needs, trauma therapy may include:
Somatic approaches to support nervous system regulation and help you reconnect with your body
Parts work to gently explore protective responses and wounded or younger parts with compassion
Emotion-focused and mindfulness-based techniques to build awareness, regulation, and emotional safety
Attachment-informed exploration of relational patterns and experiences that continue to impact you today
Grounding and stabilization tools to help you feel more present, resourced, and supported in daily life
You remain in control of what is explored and when. My role is to support healing at a pace that feels manageable, respectful, and aligned with your nervous system—not to push or rush the process.
My Approach to Trauma Therapy
Sessions with me are collaborative, compassionate, and customized to you - no rigid checklists, no pressure to show up with the “right” thing to say. Whether you’re in the middle of a crisis or just need to sit with something tender that you can’t quite name, we’ll meet it together.
I offer:
50-minute sessions for deeper processing and exploration
30-minute sessions for check-ins, resourcing, or when time is limited
Virtual across Ontario
$160 per session (sliding scales available)
You don’t have to have it all figured out before you show up. We’ll set intentions together and work at a pace that honours your nervous system, your needs, and your story.
Sometimes you’ll laugh. Sometimes you’ll cry. Sometimes we’ll sit in silence for a few breaths to let something settle. It’s all welcome here.
WHAT SESSIONS LOOK LIKE?
Frequently Asked Questions
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You’re not alone in that. Some sessions start with silence or uncertainty - and that’s okay. You don’t need to perform or prepare. Therapy is a space where you get to show up exactly as you are. We’ll follow what feels present, even if that means slowing down, noticing what’s in your body, or simply taking a few deep breaths together. There’s no “wrong way” to do this.
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You can absolutely vent, cry, or rant when you need to - and sometimes that alone is healing. But our work will also go deeper. Together we’ll explore your patterns, your nervous system, your inner parts, and the root stories beneath what you’re feeling. This is about building insight, resilience, and real change, not just coping.
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The duration of therapy varies for each individual. Some clients find a few sessions helpful, while others engage in longer-term work. We'll regularly assess your progress and adjust as needed.
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This is one of the most common and understandable fears people have when considering trauma therapy. Trauma therapy does not mean reliving or retelling everything before you’re ready. We focus on safety, stabilization, and pacing so your nervous system isn’t overwhelmed. Healing happens by building skills and internal resources first, allowing you to process experiences in a way that feels supportive rather than retraumatizing.
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Trauma doesn’t require a specific event, timeline, or memory to be valid. Many people experience trauma as chronic stress, emotional neglect, or relational wounds rather than a single incident. You don’t need clear memories or a label for what you’ve been through. If your experiences still affect how you feel, cope, or relate today, they matter.
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Trust is built slowly and intentionally in trauma therapy. You remain in control of what you share, when you share it, and how therapy unfolds. A trauma-informed approach prioritizes consent, choice, and collaboration so you feel respected and supported throughout the process.
You Don’t Have to Navigate Healing Alone
If you’re curious about trauma therapy and wondering whether it’s the right fit for you, I invite you to reach out.
If you are interested in working together or have more questions. Complete the form below and I will be happy to connect!