Somatic Therapists in Caledon, ON
Sessions are grounded in evidence based approaches & thoughtfully tailored to your unique needs drawing from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Mindfulness, Narrative, and Somatic approaches to support meaningful and lasting change.
Accepting New Clients... If you’re feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, burnout, unhelpful patterns, relationship challenges, life transitions, self-worth, or direction, you’re not alone. With over 20 years of experience and Master’s degrees in both Counselling Psychology and Social Work, I offer a warm, compassionate, and non-judgmental space where you can feel truly heard and understood. Together, we’ll make sense of what you’re going through, build insight, and develop practical tools to help you move forward with greater clarity, resilience, and confidence.
Sessions are grounded in evidence based approaches & thoughtfully tailored to your unique needs drawing from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Mindfulness, Narrative, and Somatic approaches to support meaningful and lasting change.
Accepting New Clients... If you’re feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, burnout, unhelpful patterns, relationship challenges, life transitions, self-worth, or direction, you’re not alone. With over 20 years of experience and Master’s degrees in both Counselling Psychology and Social Work, I offer a warm, compassionate, and non-judgmental space where you can feel truly heard and understood. Together, we’ll make sense of what you’re going through, build insight, and develop practical tools to help you move forward with greater clarity, resilience, and confidence.
You’re the person everyone leans on, yet hardly anyone stops to ask if you’re okay. You keep showing up, taking care of things, and holding everything together, even when it’s exhausting. Maybe you’ve always been “the responsible one,” the caregiver, or the eldest child who had to grow up faster, especially within a Punjabi or South Asian family. Now, you might feel drained, overwhelmed, or unsure how to slow down without guilt. I work with individuals navigating these roles, helping them understand patterns and make space for themselves.
You’re the person everyone leans on, yet hardly anyone stops to ask if you’re okay. You keep showing up, taking care of things, and holding everything together, even when it’s exhausting. Maybe you’ve always been “the responsible one,” the caregiver, or the eldest child who had to grow up faster, especially within a Punjabi or South Asian family. Now, you might feel drained, overwhelmed, or unsure how to slow down without guilt. I work with individuals navigating these roles, helping them understand patterns and make space for themselves.
Hi, I’m Gillian—a registered social worker, certified hypnotherapist, and author. I specialize in working with adults who feel stuck in long-standing emotional or behavioural patterns related to anxiety, trauma, depression, eating disorder, or fear-based responses. Many of my clients are highly self-aware but continue to struggle despite insight and talk therapy alone.
Hi, I’m Gillian—a registered social worker, certified hypnotherapist, and author. I specialize in working with adults who feel stuck in long-standing emotional or behavioural patterns related to anxiety, trauma, depression, eating disorder, or fear-based responses. Many of my clients are highly self-aware but continue to struggle despite insight and talk therapy alone.
Somatic Internal Family Systems, L2 (w Brainspotting, Sensorimotor).
Trauma can profoundly impact your sense of self and belonging. This is especially true when the trauma happened in relationship: abuse or neglect by a parent, spiritual abuse (often in community), or during a difficult transition to becoming a parent, to name a few. I offer trauma therapy that can help you address the deep emotional learnings that come from relational trauma and affect you in the present day, that can leave you feeling disconnected or unsafe, stealing your joy. I work with curiosity, gentleness, and humour to uncover the capacity for healing that is already in you. I offer online therapy to adults across Ontario.
Somatic Internal Family Systems, L2 (w Brainspotting, Sensorimotor).
Trauma can profoundly impact your sense of self and belonging. This is especially true when the trauma happened in relationship: abuse or neglect by a parent, spiritual abuse (often in community), or during a difficult transition to becoming a parent, to name a few. I offer trauma therapy that can help you address the deep emotional learnings that come from relational trauma and affect you in the present day, that can leave you feeling disconnected or unsafe, stealing your joy. I work with curiosity, gentleness, and humour to uncover the capacity for healing that is already in you. I offer online therapy to adults across Ontario.
Feeling like life threw you a curveball, and you missed the memo?
Maybe anxiety is holding you back, or you're finding it tough to face difficult emotions. Does grief feel heavy, or is shame getting in the way of true connection? It might even feel like the world around you doesn’t quite make sense, or you’re constantly adjusting to fit a mold that wasn’t made for you. Whatever you find yourself working through, I’m glad you’ve found your way here.
Feeling like life threw you a curveball, and you missed the memo?
Maybe anxiety is holding you back, or you're finding it tough to face difficult emotions. Does grief feel heavy, or is shame getting in the way of true connection? It might even feel like the world around you doesn’t quite make sense, or you’re constantly adjusting to fit a mold that wasn’t made for you. Whatever you find yourself working through, I’m glad you’ve found your way here.
Welcome to the start of your journey! I am here to listen and to guide. Together we can create a personalized plan to assist you with your recovery/wellness. By using holistic methods, my goal is to counsel you to become the best version of yourself in order to help you manage challenges, strengthen relationships and accomplish your dreams. You can do it. I believe in you!
Welcome to the start of your journey! I am here to listen and to guide. Together we can create a personalized plan to assist you with your recovery/wellness. By using holistic methods, my goal is to counsel you to become the best version of yourself in order to help you manage challenges, strengthen relationships and accomplish your dreams. You can do it. I believe in you!
You might feel overwhelmed by anxiety, overthinking, or patterns in your relationships that are hard to break. Many of my clients feel stuck in their heads, exhausted, or unsure of themselves, even when things look “fine” on the outside. Some also identify as neurodivergent or highly sensitive. Together, we slow things down, understand what’s underneath these patterns, and build ways of relating to yourself that feel more grounded and supportive.
You might feel overwhelmed by anxiety, overthinking, or patterns in your relationships that are hard to break. Many of my clients feel stuck in their heads, exhausted, or unsure of themselves, even when things look “fine” on the outside. Some also identify as neurodivergent or highly sensitive. Together, we slow things down, understand what’s underneath these patterns, and build ways of relating to yourself that feel more grounded and supportive.
Delanie Jane Sanginesi
Registered Psychotherapist, BEd, MEd , MA , RP
5 Endorsed
Caledon, ON L7K
Not accepting new clients
No longer taking new clients. Often, what gets in the way of having a meaningful, fulfilling life can be unresolved internal barriers that we might not even be aware of. Relational psychotherapy provides a place where we can explore these patterns, beliefs, and narratives, begin to author a new story, foster new awareness, and equip ourselves with a new set of tools. Ultimately, psychotherapy creates a space for the transformation we are yearning for. Using a number of integrative approaches, I help clients move closer to their potential - freeing them from unhelpful narratives and behaviours.
No longer taking new clients. Often, what gets in the way of having a meaningful, fulfilling life can be unresolved internal barriers that we might not even be aware of. Relational psychotherapy provides a place where we can explore these patterns, beliefs, and narratives, begin to author a new story, foster new awareness, and equip ourselves with a new set of tools. Ultimately, psychotherapy creates a space for the transformation we are yearning for. Using a number of integrative approaches, I help clients move closer to their potential - freeing them from unhelpful narratives and behaviours.
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Are you struggling with feeling sad, anxious, angry, ashamed, lonely, or confused? Are you struggling within yourself or in your relationship? Psychotherapy can really help. It helps enormously to have a safe person to be able to feel, express, digest and understand your experience with, including how it was shaped by your early relationships in life. Our early development powerfully shapes how we feel about ourselves and what we expect in our lives and in our relationships. More freedom, connection, and joy is possible. I work with adults, specializing in relationships, self-esteem, body image, parenting, and trauma recovery.
Are you struggling with feeling sad, anxious, angry, ashamed, lonely, or confused? Are you struggling within yourself or in your relationship? Psychotherapy can really help. It helps enormously to have a safe person to be able to feel, express, digest and understand your experience with, including how it was shaped by your early relationships in life. Our early development powerfully shapes how we feel about ourselves and what we expect in our lives and in our relationships. More freedom, connection, and joy is possible. I work with adults, specializing in relationships, self-esteem, body image, parenting, and trauma recovery.
There are times in one's life when you may need the support of a highly qualified compassionate professional to support you in your journey toward health and healing; as such, it may be helpful and needful to address concerns relating to mental health, relationships, parent-child concerns, workplace issues and a number of other concerns.
There are times in one's life when you may need the support of a highly qualified compassionate professional to support you in your journey toward health and healing; as such, it may be helpful and needful to address concerns relating to mental health, relationships, parent-child concerns, workplace issues and a number of other concerns.
We live in uncertain times, and asking for support can be a difficult step. If you are navigating depression, anxiety, loneliness, or a sense of emptiness, you are not alone. Many of my clients, including both skeptics and seekers, come with deep questions about trauma, purpose or a lack of it, belonging, and living with integrity, as well as integrating difficult post-psychedelic experiences.
I offer a grounded, trauma-informed, and culturally aware space, integrating body awareness, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and EMDR.
Please book a free consultation through my website. If no spots are available, email me.
We live in uncertain times, and asking for support can be a difficult step. If you are navigating depression, anxiety, loneliness, or a sense of emptiness, you are not alone. Many of my clients, including both skeptics and seekers, come with deep questions about trauma, purpose or a lack of it, belonging, and living with integrity, as well as integrating difficult post-psychedelic experiences.
I offer a grounded, trauma-informed, and culturally aware space, integrating body awareness, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and EMDR.
Please book a free consultation through my website. If no spots are available, email me.
Change can be scary! Starting therapy takes guts. I understand that choosing a therapist can be overwhelming, so thank you for stopping by. While this may be a challenging time in your life, this is an opportunity to explore, gain insights and heal. Relationship Conflicts, Anxiety, Anger, Depression, Trauma, Life Transitions, or just the need to find a way to stop feeling 'stuck', are issues I help people with on a daily basis. Forgiveness, Spiritual Crisis & Integral Breath Therapy are also areas in which I provide a respectful, comfortable, non-judgmental, & supportive environment in which to assist you in your healing process.
Change can be scary! Starting therapy takes guts. I understand that choosing a therapist can be overwhelming, so thank you for stopping by. While this may be a challenging time in your life, this is an opportunity to explore, gain insights and heal. Relationship Conflicts, Anxiety, Anger, Depression, Trauma, Life Transitions, or just the need to find a way to stop feeling 'stuck', are issues I help people with on a daily basis. Forgiveness, Spiritual Crisis & Integral Breath Therapy are also areas in which I provide a respectful, comfortable, non-judgmental, & supportive environment in which to assist you in your healing process.
Using CBT, ACT, somatic therapy, and trauma-informed care, I blend evidence-based support with holistic tools including mindfulness, movement awareness, and nutrition education.
Most people in high-pressure careers wait until they're completely running on empty before asking for help. You don't have to wait that long.
My ideal clients are high-achieving professionals first responders, corporate professionals, pilots, athletes, and anyone who keeps it all together for everyone else while quietly battling anxiety, depression, burnout, or addiction.
Esa voz que dice algo tiene que cambiar that voice is right. You're not broken. You're ready.
Using CBT, ACT, somatic therapy, and trauma-informed care, I blend evidence-based support with holistic tools including mindfulness, movement awareness, and nutrition education.
Most people in high-pressure careers wait until they're completely running on empty before asking for help. You don't have to wait that long.
My ideal clients are high-achieving professionals first responders, corporate professionals, pilots, athletes, and anyone who keeps it all together for everyone else while quietly battling anxiety, depression, burnout, or addiction.
Esa voz que dice algo tiene que cambiar that voice is right. You're not broken. You're ready.
I am a graduate of the Ontario Psychotherapy and Counseling College and a Registered Psychotherapist. My ambition is to offer a humanistic approach in a psychodynamic setting, with a focus on a client-centred, relational, and a conversational model, as well as providing a safe space where you, the client, and I can work together to achieve therapeutic goals. As part of a collaborative approach to therapy, I feel this process of working with clients can bring about an understanding of what they have been experiencing, describe particular moments that may have led them to this point, and support a new self-structure.
I am a graduate of the Ontario Psychotherapy and Counseling College and a Registered Psychotherapist. My ambition is to offer a humanistic approach in a psychodynamic setting, with a focus on a client-centred, relational, and a conversational model, as well as providing a safe space where you, the client, and I can work together to achieve therapeutic goals. As part of a collaborative approach to therapy, I feel this process of working with clients can bring about an understanding of what they have been experiencing, describe particular moments that may have led them to this point, and support a new self-structure.
I have been working with people suffering from BPD and difficulties regulating emotions in clinical settings and private practice for over a decade now. I have also worked extensively with poly-substance and behavioural addictions, clients from diverse cultural backgrounds, age, and socioeconomic status, complex PTSD, Anxiety, Depression, LGBTQ, and Sex Addiction. I have worked closely with Veterans, struggling with decades of combat trauma, victims of human trafficking, loss and grief. I have acquired this experience not only in individual and group setting, but also working with couples in outpatient and inpatient setting.
I have been working with people suffering from BPD and difficulties regulating emotions in clinical settings and private practice for over a decade now. I have also worked extensively with poly-substance and behavioural addictions, clients from diverse cultural backgrounds, age, and socioeconomic status, complex PTSD, Anxiety, Depression, LGBTQ, and Sex Addiction. I have worked closely with Veterans, struggling with decades of combat trauma, victims of human trafficking, loss and grief. I have acquired this experience not only in individual and group setting, but also working with couples in outpatient and inpatient setting.
When working with clients I utilize the following therapy approaches: Somatic Experiencing (intermediate level), Polyvagal Theory, Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), Pain Reprocessing Therapy, Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy, and Mindful Self-Compassion.
In my practice, I specialize in treating trauma, anxiety, chronic pain, and chronic symptoms. I focus on using mind-body approaches to support people in regulating their nervous system, approaching their emotions with a sense of safety, becoming embodied, and living life with passion. Many mental and physical health concerns are due to a dysregulated nervous system, so to heal we need to build a relationship with our nervous system using top-down and bottom-up approaches to self-regulate.
When working with clients I utilize the following therapy approaches: Somatic Experiencing (intermediate level), Polyvagal Theory, Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), Pain Reprocessing Therapy, Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy, and Mindful Self-Compassion.
In my practice, I specialize in treating trauma, anxiety, chronic pain, and chronic symptoms. I focus on using mind-body approaches to support people in regulating their nervous system, approaching their emotions with a sense of safety, becoming embodied, and living life with passion. Many mental and physical health concerns are due to a dysregulated nervous system, so to heal we need to build a relationship with our nervous system using top-down and bottom-up approaches to self-regulate.
When you’re ready, we can begin this work together through individual, family, or group somatic-based sessions, moving at a pace that feels right for you.
Do you feel lost, misunderstood, or disconnected? Ever feel like you just can’t turn your thoughts off? Do you find yourself questioning every choice you’ve made? If this sounds familiar, you are not alone. Let’s work together to untangle all of the ‘what if’s’, ‘I should’ve done betters’, or whatever thought it may be that keeps you up at night. You deserve to feel confident and compassionate towards yourself.
When you’re ready, we can begin this work together through individual, family, or group somatic-based sessions, moving at a pace that feels right for you.
Do you feel lost, misunderstood, or disconnected? Ever feel like you just can’t turn your thoughts off? Do you find yourself questioning every choice you’ve made? If this sounds familiar, you are not alone. Let’s work together to untangle all of the ‘what if’s’, ‘I should’ve done betters’, or whatever thought it may be that keeps you up at night. You deserve to feel confident and compassionate towards yourself.
In my experience working in the mental health sector for the last 5 years, therapy is often sought after someone has suffered long enough or until the symptoms become unmanageable. It is my hope that as we continue to de-stigmatize mental health more people can feel comfortable utilizing this valuable service as a preventative measure and not as a last resort. My approach as a therapist is simple: helping others increase awareness and insight into their thoughts, feelings and behaviors. I believe through careful introspection and analysis we can reach a level of compassion and acceptance for ourselves and others.
In my experience working in the mental health sector for the last 5 years, therapy is often sought after someone has suffered long enough or until the symptoms become unmanageable. It is my hope that as we continue to de-stigmatize mental health more people can feel comfortable utilizing this valuable service as a preventative measure and not as a last resort. My approach as a therapist is simple: helping others increase awareness and insight into their thoughts, feelings and behaviors. I believe through careful introspection and analysis we can reach a level of compassion and acceptance for ourselves and others.
Through a psychodynamic, somatic, and client-centered lens, I offer a compassionate space to explore how early relationships and unconscious patterns live on in the body and mind.
As a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) under clinical supervision, I use an integrative approach that combines psychodynamic, person-centered and cognitive-behavioural therapies. My therapeutic approach is also informed by somatic healing, inner child work, and my own experiences with family, self, and relational conflict to inform my practice.
Through a psychodynamic, somatic, and client-centered lens, I offer a compassionate space to explore how early relationships and unconscious patterns live on in the body and mind.
As a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) under clinical supervision, I use an integrative approach that combines psychodynamic, person-centered and cognitive-behavioural therapies. My therapeutic approach is also informed by somatic healing, inner child work, and my own experiences with family, self, and relational conflict to inform my practice.
I work from a trauma-informed base of psychodynamic psychotherapy and use somatic practices and guided meditations.
I am committed to helping you achieve your own personal wellness. Whatever your therapy goals, be assured that there is help for you. Our first meeting can be an assessment to determine your therapeutic needs and options. I will help you find the approach that addresses your needs and aligns with your spirit. Remember: difficult problems have solutions, and
I work from a trauma-informed base of psychodynamic psychotherapy and use somatic practices and guided meditations.
I am committed to helping you achieve your own personal wellness. Whatever your therapy goals, be assured that there is help for you. Our first meeting can be an assessment to determine your therapeutic needs and options. I will help you find the approach that addresses your needs and aligns with your spirit. Remember: difficult problems have solutions, and
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How does somatic therapy work?
Somatic therapy is a form of treatment that focuses on how the body and mind are interconnected. In this approach, physical symptoms are addressed because they may in fact signal emotional distress. Somatic therapists combine mindfulness, talk therapy, breathwork, yoga, dance, and physical manipulations of the body to help patients become more attuned to what their body is telling them.
Is EMDR a somatic therapy?
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a form of somatic therapy, as it incorporates mental and physical principles. EMDR involves remembering a traumatic experience while allowing one’s eyes to track a side-to-side visual stimulus from a therapist. This lateral eye movement is believed to diminish the painful power of the memory so that it can be discussed with a therapist.
Is somatic therapy evidence-based?
Somatic therapy has been researched and studied, and some forms of somatic therapy are found to be effective in treating a wide range of conditions. Because somatic therapy encompasses many techniques, some, such as EMDR and meditation, have been studied more than others.
What is somatic trauma therapy?
Somatic trauma therapy is based on the idea that when people experience trauma, they can become stuck in the “freeze” part of a “fight, flight, or freeze” response. In this state, trauma can manifest itself both mentally and physically—through tension in the muscles, anxiety, and stress. Popular forms of somatic trauma therapy include EMDR, sensorimotor therapy, and somatic experiencing.