Trauma and PTSD Therapists in Smithville, ON
I support adolescents and adults from all walks of life that are experiencing difficult life situations and transitions, marginalization, stress, anxiety, depression, and anger, from a culturally sensitive and trauma-informed perspective.
I strive to take a client-centered, and eclectic approach to my work. My practice draws from cognitive and behavioural, humanistic, somatic, experiential, solution focused, and collaborative approaches, and I tailor them on my individual clients’ needs. I take special interest in utilizing CBT, Mindfulness, DBT, ACT, and EMDR in my treatment sessions.
I support adolescents and adults from all walks of life that are experiencing difficult life situations and transitions, marginalization, stress, anxiety, depression, and anger, from a culturally sensitive and trauma-informed perspective.
I strive to take a client-centered, and eclectic approach to my work. My practice draws from cognitive and behavioural, humanistic, somatic, experiential, solution focused, and collaborative approaches, and I tailor them on my individual clients’ needs. I take special interest in utilizing CBT, Mindfulness, DBT, ACT, and EMDR in my treatment sessions.
I'm a bilingual (French and English) Registered Social Worker with over 20 years of experience supporting individuals and families through challenges related to mental health, trauma, and interpersonal violence.
I draw from a range of therapeutic models, brief narrative therapy, DBT and CBT while using motivational interviewing and strengths-based approaches, to meet clients where they are and help them move toward their goals.
I'm a bilingual (French and English) Registered Social Worker with over 20 years of experience supporting individuals and families through challenges related to mental health, trauma, and interpersonal violence.
I draw from a range of therapeutic models, brief narrative therapy, DBT and CBT while using motivational interviewing and strengths-based approaches, to meet clients where they are and help them move toward their goals.
If you are facing challenges in your life that are difficult to overcome, and you struggle with mental, emotional, and/or physical issues relating to stress intolerance, trauma, relationship problems, anxiety, or depression, please reach out to me for help.
I believe you are the expert of your own life; no one knows you better than you. I would like to collaborate together using techniques to discover new ways of viewing your problem so you can begin to heal from within. You have the power to overcome anything!
If you are facing challenges in your life that are difficult to overcome, and you struggle with mental, emotional, and/or physical issues relating to stress intolerance, trauma, relationship problems, anxiety, or depression, please reach out to me for help.
I believe you are the expert of your own life; no one knows you better than you. I would like to collaborate together using techniques to discover new ways of viewing your problem so you can begin to heal from within. You have the power to overcome anything!
You may be feeling anxious, burdened, or worn down – struggling with relationships, grief, trauma, depression, or persistent self-criticism.
I am a registered psychologist with a PhD in Clinical Psychology. I offer an evidence-based, holistic approach to therapy. Drawing from a range of modalities, I help people engage emotions, transform suffering, and grow in wisdom and values-guided living. For clients who desire it, I also integrate Christian spiritual formation practices into therapy.
You may be feeling anxious, burdened, or worn down – struggling with relationships, grief, trauma, depression, or persistent self-criticism.
I am a registered psychologist with a PhD in Clinical Psychology. I offer an evidence-based, holistic approach to therapy. Drawing from a range of modalities, I help people engage emotions, transform suffering, and grow in wisdom and values-guided living. For clients who desire it, I also integrate Christian spiritual formation practices into therapy.
Our world is so complex. People are trying to navigate a world that is ever changing and constantly challenging. Maybe you are trying to fit in and feel appreciated. Or maybe you wonder how to find a moment to be alone and feel at peace. Maybe the last thing you want to do is be alone. Or maybe you feel disconnected and that no matter how hard you try, you just aren't able to connect with the people who are most important to you. These are all different outcomes that result when you don't feel emotionally safe and secure, attached, and valued in this chaotic world. When you are ready to change these outcomes, I am here to help.
Our world is so complex. People are trying to navigate a world that is ever changing and constantly challenging. Maybe you are trying to fit in and feel appreciated. Or maybe you wonder how to find a moment to be alone and feel at peace. Maybe the last thing you want to do is be alone. Or maybe you feel disconnected and that no matter how hard you try, you just aren't able to connect with the people who are most important to you. These are all different outcomes that result when you don't feel emotionally safe and secure, attached, and valued in this chaotic world. When you are ready to change these outcomes, I am here to help.
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Mihaela Poca - EMDR - Ifs - Relational -
Registered Psychotherapist, BSc, RP
2 Endorsed
Hamilton, ON L8L
If you’ve been carrying stress, anxiety, emotional pain, or trauma, you’re not alone and you don’t have to carry it by yourself.
In my work, I integrate relational therapy, IFS, EMDR, and somatic, mindfulness-based, trauma-informed care. Clients often share they feel deeply seen, genuinely cared for, and safely supported. I bring warmth, curiosity, and grounded presence to help you create meaningful, lasting shifts toward greater authenticity, freedom, and ease.
If you’ve been carrying stress, anxiety, emotional pain, or trauma, you’re not alone and you don’t have to carry it by yourself.
In my work, I integrate relational therapy, IFS, EMDR, and somatic, mindfulness-based, trauma-informed care. Clients often share they feel deeply seen, genuinely cared for, and safely supported. I bring warmth, curiosity, and grounded presence to help you create meaningful, lasting shifts toward greater authenticity, freedom, and ease.
Areas of specialization include: anxiety and depression, relationship challenges, esteem, trauma, creativity, career directions, and spirituality.
With over 35 years in mental health and addiction services, I bring a strong mix of approaches to help you find your way forward. Integrating CBT, mindfulness, coaching, insight and body-based therapies, together we will build ways that work for you. Our therapeutic work can help you climb out of whatever difficult emotional spot you're in and build the life you're dreaming of. I believe “fit” is essential and offer a free phone consultation to help determine who is the right fit for you. We work with individuals (14 yr+), couples and poly relationships, and families.
Areas of specialization include: anxiety and depression, relationship challenges, esteem, trauma, creativity, career directions, and spirituality.
With over 35 years in mental health and addiction services, I bring a strong mix of approaches to help you find your way forward. Integrating CBT, mindfulness, coaching, insight and body-based therapies, together we will build ways that work for you. Our therapeutic work can help you climb out of whatever difficult emotional spot you're in and build the life you're dreaming of. I believe “fit” is essential and offer a free phone consultation to help determine who is the right fit for you. We work with individuals (14 yr+), couples and poly relationships, and families.
Whether you are struggling with the challenges of stress, anxiety, depression, substance use, domestic violence, relationship issues, caregiver burnout, or trauma, I am here to support you.
I’m Janna, a Registered Social Worker. I am passionate about supporting individuals on their path to recovery and resilience. My therapeutic approach is strength-based, empathetic, collaborative and client-centered. I understand that everyone’s journey is unique, and I am here to provide support to meet your specific needs.
Whether you are struggling with the challenges of stress, anxiety, depression, substance use, domestic violence, relationship issues, caregiver burnout, or trauma, I am here to support you.
I’m Janna, a Registered Social Worker. I am passionate about supporting individuals on their path to recovery and resilience. My therapeutic approach is strength-based, empathetic, collaborative and client-centered. I understand that everyone’s journey is unique, and I am here to provide support to meet your specific needs.
If you're struggling with unhelpful behaviours, unhealthy relationships or have experienced trauma, my approach starts with meeting you where you are.
Having practiced counselling for over 15 years, I am trained as a creative arts therapist, also obtaining a certificate in Indigenous Focusing Oriented Therapy and Complex Trauma; further training in EMDR, IFS, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, DBR and Yoga for trauma treatment. I continue to update my training with focus on holistic trauma treatment
If you're struggling with unhelpful behaviours, unhealthy relationships or have experienced trauma, my approach starts with meeting you where you are.
Having practiced counselling for over 15 years, I am trained as a creative arts therapist, also obtaining a certificate in Indigenous Focusing Oriented Therapy and Complex Trauma; further training in EMDR, IFS, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, DBR and Yoga for trauma treatment. I continue to update my training with focus on holistic trauma treatment
Are you feeling overwhelmed by intense emotions, anxious thoughts, relationship struggles, or past trauma?
Im a compassionate, empathetic professional committed to helping you improve your mental health and well-being. Drawing on extensive training in CBT, DBR, DBT, EMDR & Flash, EFIT, ICS, addictions, trauma, and Gottman Method Relationship Therapy (level 1, 2, & affairs), I am able to work with you to develop a collaborative, integrative treatment plan.
Are you feeling overwhelmed by intense emotions, anxious thoughts, relationship struggles, or past trauma?
Im a compassionate, empathetic professional committed to helping you improve your mental health and well-being. Drawing on extensive training in CBT, DBR, DBT, EMDR & Flash, EFIT, ICS, addictions, trauma, and Gottman Method Relationship Therapy (level 1, 2, & affairs), I am able to work with you to develop a collaborative, integrative treatment plan.
For 30 years it has been an honour to hold compassionate, joyfully affirming, safer spaces for people coping with a range of concerns in response to trauma, abuse, relationship stressors, chronic illness, grief, neurodivergence, systemic oppression, and life transitions.
Offering integrative, trauma-informed, person-centred psychotherapy as a relatable human / fellow traveller (and neuroplasticity nerd!) who has a sense of humour and plenty of lived experience. Perimenopause? Alternative spiritualities? Despair? I got you! I practice from a place of cultural humility, and love to collaborate in ways that support your values.
For 30 years it has been an honour to hold compassionate, joyfully affirming, safer spaces for people coping with a range of concerns in response to trauma, abuse, relationship stressors, chronic illness, grief, neurodivergence, systemic oppression, and life transitions.
Offering integrative, trauma-informed, person-centred psychotherapy as a relatable human / fellow traveller (and neuroplasticity nerd!) who has a sense of humour and plenty of lived experience. Perimenopause? Alternative spiritualities? Despair? I got you! I practice from a place of cultural humility, and love to collaborate in ways that support your values.
Past trauma or self-doubt may be weighing you down.
Do you find yourself struggling with relationships? You might be feeling overwhelmed from balancing the demands of work, school, and daily tasks, leaving you feeling emotionally drained and disconnected from yourself and your relationships. Past trauma or self-doubt may be weighing you down. Perhaps you can’t even remember the last time you truly felt at eas
Past trauma or self-doubt may be weighing you down.
Do you find yourself struggling with relationships? You might be feeling overwhelmed from balancing the demands of work, school, and daily tasks, leaving you feeling emotionally drained and disconnected from yourself and your relationships. Past trauma or self-doubt may be weighing you down. Perhaps you can’t even remember the last time you truly felt at eas
The trauma we've experienced lives in our bodies, whether we recognize it or not.
I recognize how scary it can be to reach out, which is why we provide an empathetic, client centred, and confidential space where you won't feel judged. At Tea Time Therapy, we strive to recreate the experience of chatting with a close friend over a cup of tea while offering expert advice and interventions to help you achieve your goals. This is your space.
The trauma we've experienced lives in our bodies, whether we recognize it or not.
I recognize how scary it can be to reach out, which is why we provide an empathetic, client centred, and confidential space where you won't feel judged. At Tea Time Therapy, we strive to recreate the experience of chatting with a close friend over a cup of tea while offering expert advice and interventions to help you achieve your goals. This is your space.
I also incorporate several therapeutic modalities including trauma-focused therapy to address the impacts of interpersonal, complex, racial, and intergenerational/multigenerational trauma.
I am a registered Non-insured Health Benefits (NIHB) provider for First Nations, Inuit and Metis individuals. To support Indigenous clients I have taken additional training including Indigenous Trauma and Resiliency (degree) and Sacred Circle CBT (certificate).
I have a certification in Perinatal Mental Health through Postpartum Support International.
I also incorporate several therapeutic modalities including trauma-focused therapy to address the impacts of interpersonal, complex, racial, and intergenerational/multigenerational trauma.
I am a registered Non-insured Health Benefits (NIHB) provider for First Nations, Inuit and Metis individuals. To support Indigenous clients I have taken additional training including Indigenous Trauma and Resiliency (degree) and Sacred Circle CBT (certificate).
I have a certification in Perinatal Mental Health through Postpartum Support International.
ASR Counselling and Psychotherapy, EMDR Certified
Registered Social Worker, HonBA, BSW, MSW, RSW
2 Endorsed
Hamilton, ON L8E
I use various modalities like EMDR and Ego states (parts work), and always with a trauma-informed, client-centered focus!
Silenced, invisible, unloved – A story written about you. It haunts you, and you feel it seeping into your everyday. You want to change, but you're not sure how. There’s a part of you that feels like you’re not living up to your full potential, yet another part that feels hopeless. Together, we will liberate you from this story to create a new chapter: one that helps you live up to your full potential, a life in which you feel deserving of being heard, seen and loved.
I use various modalities like EMDR and Ego states (parts work), and always with a trauma-informed, client-centered focus!
Silenced, invisible, unloved – A story written about you. It haunts you, and you feel it seeping into your everyday. You want to change, but you're not sure how. There’s a part of you that feels like you’re not living up to your full potential, yet another part that feels hopeless. Together, we will liberate you from this story to create a new chapter: one that helps you live up to your full potential, a life in which you feel deserving of being heard, seen and loved.
Here are some quick bits about me: I am a South-Asian first generation Canadian, I have 15 years experience in the mental health field, I specialize working with: anxiety, trauma, childhood trauma, attachment wounds.
Folks that I work with tend to be curious about: improving their relationship with themselves, healing and parenting old wounds through self-regulation, learning about boundaries and how to set them, learning to adaptively respond to life stressors.
Here are some quick bits about me: I am a South-Asian first generation Canadian, I have 15 years experience in the mental health field, I specialize working with: anxiety, trauma, childhood trauma, attachment wounds.
Folks that I work with tend to be curious about: improving their relationship with themselves, healing and parenting old wounds through self-regulation, learning about boundaries and how to set them, learning to adaptively respond to life stressors.
You’re navigating racial stress, identity, intergenerational trauma, and the pressure to hold it all together while silently coping.
In a collaborative, somatic and trauma-informed space, we’ll gently explore emotional patterns and nervous system responses shaping your experiences. I integrate somatic therapy and embodied practices to support regulation, self-trust, and resilience—helping you feel more grounded, connected, and empowered to create lasting change.
You’re navigating racial stress, identity, intergenerational trauma, and the pressure to hold it all together while silently coping.
In a collaborative, somatic and trauma-informed space, we’ll gently explore emotional patterns and nervous system responses shaping your experiences. I integrate somatic therapy and embodied practices to support regulation, self-trust, and resilience—helping you feel more grounded, connected, and empowered to create lasting change.
I have been working in Social Work for the better part of a decade with a specialization in addiction-based treatment, trauma work and supporting members of the queer community.
Practicing from a client-centered perspective, I utilize therapeutic modalities including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) for PTSD, Narrative Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and Schema Therapy. I also specialize in working with folks who engage in PnP / Chemsex.
I have been working in Social Work for the better part of a decade with a specialization in addiction-based treatment, trauma work and supporting members of the queer community.
Practicing from a client-centered perspective, I utilize therapeutic modalities including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) for PTSD, Narrative Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and Schema Therapy. I also specialize in working with folks who engage in PnP / Chemsex.
Are anxiety, stress, depression, burnout, grief, trauma, or a major life transition making it harder to feel grounded, confident, or like yourself?
At Essence Psychotherapy, I provide collaborative online therapy tailored to your goals. Together, we explore challenges, increase insight, and develop practical strategies. My approach is culturally sensitive, evidence-informed, and grounded in a supportive, non-judgmental space.
Are anxiety, stress, depression, burnout, grief, trauma, or a major life transition making it harder to feel grounded, confident, or like yourself?
At Essence Psychotherapy, I provide collaborative online therapy tailored to your goals. Together, we explore challenges, increase insight, and develop practical strategies. My approach is culturally sensitive, evidence-informed, and grounded in a supportive, non-judgmental space.
You may be living with depression, anxiety, symptoms of trauma, stress, grief, emotional overwhelm, interpersonal challenges, etc
My therapeutic approach can be described as eclectic and tailored- as I draw from evidence-based modalities (such as CBT, DBT, ACT Sensorimotor psychotherapy, Mindfulness and Emotionally Focused Therapy) to meet you where you are. I work with individuals and couples, offering therapy that is grounded in collaboration, safety and non-judgment.
You may be living with depression, anxiety, symptoms of trauma, stress, grief, emotional overwhelm, interpersonal challenges, etc
My therapeutic approach can be described as eclectic and tailored- as I draw from evidence-based modalities (such as CBT, DBT, ACT Sensorimotor psychotherapy, Mindfulness and Emotionally Focused Therapy) to meet you where you are. I work with individuals and couples, offering therapy that is grounded in collaboration, safety and non-judgment.
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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.