Trauma and PTSD Therapists in Ancaster, ON
My ideal client feels stuck—overwhelmed by trauma, intense emotions, addiction, OCD, or complex PTSD.
I help adults—especially first responders and those with complex trauma—move from surviving to thriving. Using evidence-based therapies like CPT and DBT, I offer collaborative, person-centred care that builds insight, emotional regulation, and resilience. My warm, direct style ensures you understand your diagnosis and treatment every step of the way.
My ideal client feels stuck—overwhelmed by trauma, intense emotions, addiction, OCD, or complex PTSD.
I help adults—especially first responders and those with complex trauma—move from surviving to thriving. Using evidence-based therapies like CPT and DBT, I offer collaborative, person-centred care that builds insight, emotional regulation, and resilience. My warm, direct style ensures you understand your diagnosis and treatment every step of the way.
••• THERAPY for ADHD • AUTISM • TRAUMA • ANXIETY • Chronic Illness •••
I support individuals navigating a range of concerns including ADHD, ASD, trauma, anxiety, OCD, chronic illness, burnout, depression and more (see expertise below).
I work psychodynamically, guided by empathy, openness and presence. Together, we move beyond temporary symptom relief by uncovering how past relationships and experiences shape your current reality (thoughts, behaviour, emotions). This approach fosters insight and self-awareness in an accepting environment, opening the door to meaningful, lasting change.
••• THERAPY for ADHD • AUTISM • TRAUMA • ANXIETY • Chronic Illness •••
I support individuals navigating a range of concerns including ADHD, ASD, trauma, anxiety, OCD, chronic illness, burnout, depression and more (see expertise below).
I work psychodynamically, guided by empathy, openness and presence. Together, we move beyond temporary symptom relief by uncovering how past relationships and experiences shape your current reality (thoughts, behaviour, emotions). This approach fosters insight and self-awareness in an accepting environment, opening the door to meaningful, lasting change.
Working as both a psychotherapist and clinical supervisor, I support those impacted by trauma, including anxiety, depression, and interpersonal issues.
Whether it's physical trauma that leads to PTSD or emotional, mental, or generational trauma, I can assist you in exploring the emotional, behavioural, cognitive, and spiritual impacts of your trauma. I believe that there is no right or wrong way to experience grief and trauma, and I can help you navigate difficult decisions and develop self-care practices.
Working as both a psychotherapist and clinical supervisor, I support those impacted by trauma, including anxiety, depression, and interpersonal issues.
Whether it's physical trauma that leads to PTSD or emotional, mental, or generational trauma, I can assist you in exploring the emotional, behavioural, cognitive, and spiritual impacts of your trauma. I believe that there is no right or wrong way to experience grief and trauma, and I can help you navigate difficult decisions and develop self-care practices.
Life can feel heavy when you’re living with grief, trauma, anxiety, or ongoing struggles in relationships.
I help adults and teens facing complex trauma, grief, anxiety, depression, and people-pleasing that keeps them stuck. My client-centered style integrates values exploration, inner child work, grounding techniques, somatic tools, EMDR, and evidence-based strategies to uncover patterns, heal, and support authentic living.
Life can feel heavy when you’re living with grief, trauma, anxiety, or ongoing struggles in relationships.
I help adults and teens facing complex trauma, grief, anxiety, depression, and people-pleasing that keeps them stuck. My client-centered style integrates values exploration, inner child work, grounding techniques, somatic tools, EMDR, and evidence-based strategies to uncover patterns, heal, and support authentic living.
Anxiety, Trauma, Depression and Low Self-Esteem can make daily tasks seem daunting, overwhelming and never ending.
My goal is to empower you to find the strength within, to explore your thoughts, feelings and life experiences and to begin to understand your story. Our stories are made up of our experiences and challenges. "Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we will ever do" (Brené Brown).
Anxiety, Trauma, Depression and Low Self-Esteem can make daily tasks seem daunting, overwhelming and never ending.
My goal is to empower you to find the strength within, to explore your thoughts, feelings and life experiences and to begin to understand your story. Our stories are made up of our experiences and challenges. "Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we will ever do" (Brené Brown).
Are you struggling with anxiety, stress and burnout from years of avoiding your trauma?
I offer a non-judgmental, compassionate space where we can help you step out of the patterns that keep you stuck and experience inner transformation. I use an integrative, mind-body approach to therapy, tailored to your needs. With therapies like Somatic Experiencing, EMDR and Brainspotting we can work on a deep level to release trauma from your body.
Are you struggling with anxiety, stress and burnout from years of avoiding your trauma?
I offer a non-judgmental, compassionate space where we can help you step out of the patterns that keep you stuck and experience inner transformation. I use an integrative, mind-body approach to therapy, tailored to your needs. With therapies like Somatic Experiencing, EMDR and Brainspotting we can work on a deep level to release trauma from your body.
It can be exhausting it can be to carry the ongoing effects of trauma, depression, or anxiety.
I specialize in treating trauma, depression, and anxiety with emotionally-focused therapy for individual and couples (EFIT/EFCT). I will walk alongside you on this part of your journey—holding space for your pain, and working with you to uncover new perspectives, and to learn skills and strategies so you can thrive.
It can be exhausting it can be to carry the ongoing effects of trauma, depression, or anxiety.
I specialize in treating trauma, depression, and anxiety with emotionally-focused therapy for individual and couples (EFIT/EFCT). I will walk alongside you on this part of your journey—holding space for your pain, and working with you to uncover new perspectives, and to learn skills and strategies so you can thrive.
Together, we can process stuck stress and trauma out of the body using evidence-based approaches such as EMDR and other somatic (through the body) approaches.
You’re looking to gain a better understanding of who you are, understand themes from the past that impact you today, and build practical skills to manage stress, regulate your emotions, and respond differently to overwhelm. This is where I can help.
Together, we can process stuck stress and trauma out of the body using evidence-based approaches such as EMDR and other somatic (through the body) approaches.
You’re looking to gain a better understanding of who you are, understand themes from the past that impact you today, and build practical skills to manage stress, regulate your emotions, and respond differently to overwhelm. This is where I can help.
Do you find yourself struggling with anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, or the emotional challenges of immigration that impact your daily life, relationships, or work?
I help children through child-centered play therapy, where play, art, and storytelling allow them to safely express feelings, process experiences, and build emotional regulation at their own pace. I also support adults with anxiety, trauma, abuse recovery, depression, grief, chronic illness and health anxiety, cultural identity, neurodivergence, and phobias.
Do you find yourself struggling with anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, or the emotional challenges of immigration that impact your daily life, relationships, or work?
I help children through child-centered play therapy, where play, art, and storytelling allow them to safely express feelings, process experiences, and build emotional regulation at their own pace. I also support adults with anxiety, trauma, abuse recovery, depression, grief, chronic illness and health anxiety, cultural identity, neurodivergence, and phobias.
The Centre for Psychodynamic Insights is a virtual psychotherapy clinic based in Toronto, Ontario, specializing in Psychodynamic psychotherapy. This approach focuses on revealing, understanding, and resolving underlying emotions and root causes of symptoms through evidence-based interventions and a comprehensive treatment plan. With an in-depth collaborative discussion and analysis of unconscious thoughts and emotions from childhood until the present day, we can explore how they inform us today to help relieve symptoms and develop targeted strategies to foster change.
The Centre for Psychodynamic Insights is a virtual psychotherapy clinic based in Toronto, Ontario, specializing in Psychodynamic psychotherapy. This approach focuses on revealing, understanding, and resolving underlying emotions and root causes of symptoms through evidence-based interventions and a comprehensive treatment plan. With an in-depth collaborative discussion and analysis of unconscious thoughts and emotions from childhood until the present day, we can explore how they inform us today to help relieve symptoms and develop targeted strategies to foster change.
I work with adults navigating trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder ( PTSD), dissociation, anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), eating disorders, perfectionism, self-esteem concerns, identity questions, and relationship difficulties.
You may be feeling stuck in patterns that are confusing, painful, or hard to shift. I offer a collaborative, non-judgmental space to explore the deeper emotional and relational dynamics shaping your symptoms, sense of self, and relationships, while also working toward practical change in your daily life. My work is grounded in a psychodynamic approach, which I use as the primary framework for understanding each client’s history, attachment patterns, and inner world. From this foundation, I tailor evidence-based approaches to your goals and needs, including cognitive-behavioural therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy.
I work with adults navigating trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder ( PTSD), dissociation, anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), eating disorders, perfectionism, self-esteem concerns, identity questions, and relationship difficulties.
You may be feeling stuck in patterns that are confusing, painful, or hard to shift. I offer a collaborative, non-judgmental space to explore the deeper emotional and relational dynamics shaping your symptoms, sense of self, and relationships, while also working toward practical change in your daily life. My work is grounded in a psychodynamic approach, which I use as the primary framework for understanding each client’s history, attachment patterns, and inner world. From this foundation, I tailor evidence-based approaches to your goals and needs, including cognitive-behavioural therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy.
Struggling with depression, anxiety, OCD, PTSD, or overwhelming thoughts and emotions?
I am a Registered Social Worker and experienced psychotherapist with over 13 years of clinical experience providing mental health treatment for depression, anxiety, OCD, PTSD, and borderline personality disorder (BPD). My approach focuses on practical, research-supported strategies that help clients manage difficult emotions and build resiliency.
Struggling with depression, anxiety, OCD, PTSD, or overwhelming thoughts and emotions?
I am a Registered Social Worker and experienced psychotherapist with over 13 years of clinical experience providing mental health treatment for depression, anxiety, OCD, PTSD, and borderline personality disorder (BPD). My approach focuses on practical, research-supported strategies that help clients manage difficult emotions and build resiliency.
Are you used to holding everything together, even when it’s starting to take a toll? Do you feel exhausted, stuck, or like you’ve lost yourself somewhere along the way? On the outside, things might look fine, but on the inside, you may be feeling overwhelmed, and like you’re constantly pushing through without having a chance to breathe.
Are you used to holding everything together, even when it’s starting to take a toll? Do you feel exhausted, stuck, or like you’ve lost yourself somewhere along the way? On the outside, things might look fine, but on the inside, you may be feeling overwhelmed, and like you’re constantly pushing through without having a chance to breathe.
I’m a trained trauma therapist supporting people navigating complex trauma, eating disorders, neurodivergence, and LGBTQ+ experiences.
Perhaps you’ve been carrying things on your own for a long time. Maybe it's a complicated relationship with food and your body, questions around identity, or the lingering impact of past experiences - and you’re realizing that you don’t want to keep navigating it alone. You may feel high-functioning on the outside but internally overwhelmed, disconnected, or stuck in patterns you don’t fully understand. You know the coping skills and insight that therapy can bring, but in the moments when things hurt the most, those tools feel out of reach. You want support that goes deeper than surface-level strategies and gets to the root issues.
I’m a trained trauma therapist supporting people navigating complex trauma, eating disorders, neurodivergence, and LGBTQ+ experiences.
Perhaps you’ve been carrying things on your own for a long time. Maybe it's a complicated relationship with food and your body, questions around identity, or the lingering impact of past experiences - and you’re realizing that you don’t want to keep navigating it alone. You may feel high-functioning on the outside but internally overwhelmed, disconnected, or stuck in patterns you don’t fully understand. You know the coping skills and insight that therapy can bring, but in the moments when things hurt the most, those tools feel out of reach. You want support that goes deeper than surface-level strategies and gets to the root issues.
Do you have trauma or distressing memories that are intruding on your ability to function?
We offer a range of therapies including CBT, DBT, IFS & EMDR Therapy to help you as an individual or in couples therapy. We are dedicated to working with you & your partner, or your teenager and deal with any number of issues including communication & conflict, work issues, bullying, behaviour & academic problems, peers, anxiety & depression.
Do you have trauma or distressing memories that are intruding on your ability to function?
We offer a range of therapies including CBT, DBT, IFS & EMDR Therapy to help you as an individual or in couples therapy. We are dedicated to working with you & your partner, or your teenager and deal with any number of issues including communication & conflict, work issues, bullying, behaviour & academic problems, peers, anxiety & depression.
I believe in a holistic approach to trauma therapy because true healing comes from addressing the whole person—mind, body, and spirit.
I use a trauma-focused, trauma-informed approach to help you heal at the root. With 7 years of mentorship from Dr. Gabor Maté, extensive education, and my own healing journey, I integrate somatic work, Internal Family Systems (parts work), psychodynamic, and Safe & Sound Protocol to guide you toward lasting transformation and deep emotional integration.
I believe in a holistic approach to trauma therapy because true healing comes from addressing the whole person—mind, body, and spirit.
I use a trauma-focused, trauma-informed approach to help you heal at the root. With 7 years of mentorship from Dr. Gabor Maté, extensive education, and my own healing journey, I integrate somatic work, Internal Family Systems (parts work), psychodynamic, and Safe & Sound Protocol to guide you toward lasting transformation and deep emotional integration.
Experiences of trauma, abuse, shame and grief can derail us and make it difficult to get back on track without help.
Many of us come to periods in our lives when we feel overwhelmed, confused or immobilized by our circumstances and our feelings. Or we reach a point in life when we know in our gut that something has to change, but we just don’t know where to begin. Doubt and negative self-talk can make us feel stuck. Sometimes we struggle with feelings of sadness, anger, shame or anxiety and can feel very alone in that struggle. Having a safe place to talk and a safe, non-judgmental person to talk to is key to healing and moving beyond the “stuck place”.
Experiences of trauma, abuse, shame and grief can derail us and make it difficult to get back on track without help.
Many of us come to periods in our lives when we feel overwhelmed, confused or immobilized by our circumstances and our feelings. Or we reach a point in life when we know in our gut that something has to change, but we just don’t know where to begin. Doubt and negative self-talk can make us feel stuck. Sometimes we struggle with feelings of sadness, anger, shame or anxiety and can feel very alone in that struggle. Having a safe place to talk and a safe, non-judgmental person to talk to is key to healing and moving beyond the “stuck place”.
Noia Wellness | Therapy in Hamilton
Registered Psychotherapist, MPsy, MSc, MACP, MSW
1 Endorsed
Serves Area
We primarily work with anxiety, stress, self-esteem, trauma, perfectionism, people pleasing, men/women's issues, emotional dysregulation, and life transitions.
We help people overcome anxiety, people pleasing, life changes, or the constant pressure to always “be okay.” Is this you: Maybe your mind won’t stop racing, regardless of how tired you are? Or, maybe you’ve been holding it all together for everyone else? Smiling on the outside, while inside you feel like you’re barely keeping up? We get it—the exhaustion of overthinking, the pressure to be perfect, the weight of masking who you really are, and the quiet fear that maybe this is just how life will always feel. At Noia, we see you, and we're here to help. We use evidence-based tools to create lasting and deep change.
We primarily work with anxiety, stress, self-esteem, trauma, perfectionism, people pleasing, men/women's issues, emotional dysregulation, and life transitions.
We help people overcome anxiety, people pleasing, life changes, or the constant pressure to always “be okay.” Is this you: Maybe your mind won’t stop racing, regardless of how tired you are? Or, maybe you’ve been holding it all together for everyone else? Smiling on the outside, while inside you feel like you’re barely keeping up? We get it—the exhaustion of overthinking, the pressure to be perfect, the weight of masking who you really are, and the quiet fear that maybe this is just how life will always feel. At Noia, we see you, and we're here to help. We use evidence-based tools to create lasting and deep change.
Wespecialize in trauma therapy, providing a safe and supportive space to process painful experiences and rediscover your strength and resilience.
Our sessions are collaborative and personalized to your journey. Using tools like mindfulness and body-based techniques, we’ll focus on understanding and and transformin how trauma impacts your thoughts, emotions, and body. "Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge” Audre Lorde
Wespecialize in trauma therapy, providing a safe and supportive space to process painful experiences and rediscover your strength and resilience.
Our sessions are collaborative and personalized to your journey. Using tools like mindfulness and body-based techniques, we’ll focus on understanding and and transformin how trauma impacts your thoughts, emotions, and body. "Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge” Audre Lorde
Perhaps you have experienced trauma, either recently or in your past, and you notice the impact it still has on you today.
I strive to tailor each therapy session to suit the unique needs and preferences of each individual, therefore, I utilize techniques from several therapeutic models. For example, I use solution focused techniques, mindfulness, somatic work and others. I am also trained in a therapy model focused on trauma and attachment issues.
Perhaps you have experienced trauma, either recently or in your past, and you notice the impact it still has on you today.
I strive to tailor each therapy session to suit the unique needs and preferences of each individual, therefore, I utilize techniques from several therapeutic models. For example, I use solution focused techniques, mindfulness, somatic work and others. I am also trained in a therapy model focused on trauma and attachment issues.
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Trauma and PTSD Counsellors
When should I seek treatment for trauma?
Not everyone who undergoes trauma needs therapy to heal, but many do. If, after experiencing a traumatic event, you find yourself struggling with symptoms such as nightmares, dissociation, irritability, or emotional numbness—especially if these symptoms last more than a month and are severe enough to interfere with your daily functioning—you may benefit from seeking out therapy with a trauma-informed provider.
How long does trauma therapy take?
Different types of therapy for trauma unfold on different timelines. Prolonged exposure therapy and cognitive processing therapy, for example, each take about three months, while trauma-informed CBT may last anywhere from 8 to 25 sessions. Other approaches, especially those that are less structured or that incorporate elements from multiple modalities, may be more open-ended, though many patients report feeling better within the first few months of treatment.
What happens if trauma is left untreated?
Unaddressed trauma can have serious—even devastating—effects on relationships, career, and day-to-day functioning. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) can lead people to distrust or lash out at others, making it difficult to maintain intimate relationships; it can also trigger symptoms such as flashbacks or hyperreactivity that can interfere with a person’s ability to function effectively, personally and/or professionally. Some sufferers turn to drugs to find relief. Symptoms may lessen on their own with time, but there is no guarantee that PTSD will resolve on its own.
Can PTSD come back after treatment?
It is possible for PTSD symptoms to recur months or years after successful treatment. This is because, like most mental health disorders, it is not possible to “cure” PTSD, and stressful life events may cause symptoms to recur in even the most resilient individuals. There is no shame in re-experiencing PTSD symptoms nor in returning to therapy when such relapses occur; indeed, many forms of trauma therapy explicitly encourage periodic “maintenance sessions” to reinforce coping skills and ensure that symptoms stay manageable.