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Our Counselling & Somatic Therapy Team comprise of Registered Clinical Counsellors (RCC), Registered Social Worker (RSW), and Registered Therapeutic Counsellor (RTC). In an Integrative Somatic Therapy session, we utilize a range of Body-Centered Therapeutic practices alongside Talk Therapy to ensure that your healing journey is gentle and self-paced allowing you to embrace difficult emotions rather than suppress or intellectualizing them thus, developing a heathier way of connecting and relating to self and others with Clarity and Openness, and Heart.

Integrative Somatic Therapy Practice (ISTP) allows you to connect to felt sense; deep intuitive experience of body sensations, emotions, movements, and energy. In our 1.5 hrs - 2 hrs. sessions, we start with deep breathing, sense into your body's movements to determined areas of tension held in the body. We use the wisdom of yoga to relax and ground the body, connect to your internal resources for deep emotional and physiological releases.

For the session, please wear socks or nylons and comfortable clothing so that you can stretch and move. We offer organic essential oil for mindfulness practice during the session. As this is optional, please let us know at beginning of the session if you are sensitive or allergic to essential oils.

Trauma leaves an energetic imprints on the body. When we energetically charge the body with breath, we create an opening for deep expressed emotional energy to surface and be released. Using pendulation, titration, and resourcing, Integrative Somatic Breathwork allows you to drop into the depth of pain to access and release stuck emotions that have accumulated in the body over the course of a lifetime.

Breathwork naturally releases emotional and physical pain that honours your capacity to self heal, relief from ailments such as grief, anger, anxiety, addictions, depression, low self-esteem, and/or relationship issues. Our Breathwork sessions will help you to experience a greater sense of peace, clarity in decision-making and feel more connected to your purpose and your spirituality.

Integrative Yoga & Bodywork tension release session is a self-loving practice; an opportunity to honour and nurture your body. This practice integrates wisdom in Restorative Yoga, Gentle Yoga (yin) , Thai Yoga Massage, Breathwork, and Meditation to release the body from the fight-or-flight response caused by life’s everyday stresses and traumatic events. A yin practice encourages the attitude of acceptance and helps us leave behind our yang need for constant striving action.​

Integrating Yoga and Bodywork is a safe and effective practice in help you recover from living with psychological or physical injuries and illnesses. This practice is an appropriate choice for those who need something gentle yet effective for bringing the body into balance and reducing stress. Therapeutic Yoga is a deeply meditative experience - it provides you with an opportunity to step away from the busyness of life and access the deeper wisdom that resides within you.

During the session, I assist you to access and release tensions held in tight muscles and the emotions associated with the tension. Hands-on healing is applied to areas of the body that feel stuck or tight so that energy can flow through various parts of the body that have remained stuck and frozen, sometimes for many years.

Flight, flight and/or freeze responses are released by restorative postures, deep breathing, and slow awareness of body movements. Emotions connected to the mobilized body tension begin to surface. You are supported to express whatever comes and to stay fully connected to these expressions for deep releases.

Mindfulness is used as a practice to support you to develop your own felt-wisdom and resources; integrating all that has happened in the session.

Talk Psychotherapy helps you identify the psychological root causes of your problems and challenges to improve behaviours, emotional well-being and healing. Problems that can help with psychotherapy include coping with stressful life events, the impact of trauma, medical illness or loss such as the death of a loved once, and specific mental health challenges such as depression or anxiety. Counselling and Psychotherapy is offered with individuals, family, and couples.