Trauma and PTSD Therapists in Montréal, QC

“Somatics” are the lived experiences of our bodies. In our sessions, you (re)learn how to be comfortable in your own skin so your attention can be redirected toward other purposes. By resetting and expanding your nervous system’s responses, your day-to-day life can feel less overwhelming, and your access to joy, connection, trust, physical energy, and rest increases. Benefits of this approach may include increased felt sense of your healthy boundaries, improved sleep, increased ability to fluctuate between different states of intensity in life without feeling stuck, and ability to attend to your needs first while caring for others.

Licensed Couple & Family Therapist, Creative Arts Therapist. Cindy specializes in trauma -focused therapy with individuals, couples, and families. She works from an anti-oppression perspective that recognizes the systemic issues that impact mental and emotional health. Cindy is a strong believer in helping her clients tell their stories through empathic and creative engagement. She incorporates verbal and body-based creative methods to guide her clients through whatever obstacles are keeping them from being more peaceful and integrated selves. Sessions are always client-centered, inclusive and sensitive to your individual needs.

I am a fully bilingual clinical psychologist/psychotherapist with 28 years of rich and varied clinical experience within medical settings and mental health services in the UK and France. I provide a wide range of psychological interventions always tailored to a patient's needs. I help patients get their life back on track as I care deeply about their psychological and physical wellbeing. Having a highly sensitive temperament myself, I offer help to those who have identified themselves as highly sensitive and as a result, face issues that are difficult to deal with. My approach, while primarily psychodynamic, includes EMDR, cognitive strategies, schema therapy, mindfulness.

Please note: I am not currently accepting new clients. I practice individual psychotherapy with an adult population. I work with Mood Disorders (depression, burnout, adjustment difficulties) and Anxiety Disorders (Social or performance anxiety, generalized anxiety, phobias, perfectionism, etc.) and am particularly interested in treating complex trauma (difficult childhood, repeated traumatic events, abusive relationships). I frequently help people with self-esteem, stress management, assertiveness, difficult life situations, grief, burnout and post-partum difficulties.

If you are struggling with relationship and interpersonal issues, life changes, substance use, and/or trauma , I may be able to help you. I use a nonjudgemental, empathic and integrative approach depending on your needs and values. Because trauma often manifests through the body, we will pay attention to physical experiences with compassion and curiosity.