Improving relational well-being starts with a baseline of consistent regulation. It involves attuned self-connection, capacity for holding our own emotions and the experiences of our significant others. It relies on mutual respect, compassion toward self and other, consistent boundaries and clear communication. Therapy can provide support in seeing where your strengths lie and in the development of a you-centred understanding of where you struggle and how best to help yourself overcome related barriers to safe and fulfilling relationships with others.

Somatic therapy can help connect folks: 1. with skills for emotional regulation. 2. by supporting an increased connectedness to sensation as a “way of knowing” 3. by inviting a deeper notice of the self that is sometimes missing for folks with high exposure to trauma or insecure attachment 4. by establishing a relationship to the body and expanding capacity to process and integrate incident and relational trauma fragmentation stored in the viscera 5. by connecting folks more immediately with the felt sense of being alive

Trauma-informed therapy is a framework that involves understanding, recognizing, and responding to the effects of all types of trauma. It emphasizes physical, psychological, and emotional safety for both therapists and clients, and helps survivors rebuild a sense of control and empowerment in their therapeutic process and in their day-to-day lives.

Bereavement isn’t always a straightforward process of navigated “stages” and acceptance of a “new normal”. Relationships are complex and the need to connect with loved ones persists beyond what life sometimes affords us, in terms of time. Therapy can be a place to share the multi-layered experience of recovering from a loss, healing from associated trauma, processing challenging feelings connected with the circumstances of loss or the loved one, and integrating the loss to allow for a new way of connecting and attending to relationship beyond death.

Sex positive therapy is the shame-free invitation to use your therapeutic space to verbally explore sex as it relates to your identities, expression, communication, desires, relationship(s), history, vitality, spirituality, and humanness.