Online trauma therapy
Online therapy for trauma & intergenerational trauma in Ontario
Trauma-informed therapy that moves at the pace of trust — including the things that happened to you, and the things that traveled to you.
What might bring you here
Loud or quiet, the past keeps showing up.
Trauma can be loud — flashbacks, panic, nightmares, the things that feel too big to look at directly. It can also be quiet: a low background hum of not-quite-safe, a numbness, a sense of never fully landing in your own life. Both count.
The body keeps track of what the mind would often rather forget. Reactions arrive that don't seem to match the present — the door slams and you're somewhere else for a second; the conversation turns and your chest tightens before you know why. Relationships can feel harder than they should.
For many people, there's also an intergenerational layer — grief, silence, or fear that started before you were born and traveled forward through your parents and grandparents. For families shaped by war, displacement, or migration, what didn't get spoken still tends to live somewhere in the household, even when no one names it directly. That layer is real, and it's workable.
What therapy can look like
Changing your relationship with what happened.
Trauma-informed therapy is paced and consent-based. It isn't about forcing you to retell or relive what happened. The early work is most often about building steadiness, safety, and the resources you'll want before going anywhere harder — and for many people, that early work is the work for a while.
You stay in control. We don't go into anything you haven't agreed to go into. The pace respects how much you're carrying, and it doesn't treat speed as progress.
The body is part of the work, because trauma lives there too. Some of what we do involves noticing what's happening in the body when the past starts to crowd in — the grounding that lets you stay here while difficult material is in the room.
What we work toward isn't erasing what happened or being “over it.” It's changing your relationship with what happened — how much space it takes up, how much it runs the present, how much it gets to define the future.
For intergenerational trauma, part of the work is sorting out what's yours, what you inherited, and what you're allowed to set down.
How I approach this work
Safety as the starting point, not an afterthought.
My approach to trauma work is paced, consent-based, and body-aware. You are always in charge of what we do and don't go into, and we build safety as a foundation rather than treating it as something to skip past. I don't push, and I don't treat speed as a sign that we're getting somewhere.
I work with the whole context. Trauma doesn't happen in a vacuum, and the work doesn't either. The relationships you're in now, the daily conditions of your life, the support you have or don't have — all of it shapes what's workable in any given week.
I have particular care for the layered work of intergenerational and diasporic trauma — the silences carried in refugee and immigrant families, the survival passed down, the grief held but rarely spoken. If culturally-specific care is central to what you're looking for, see the page on therapy for Tamil & South Asian clients . Otherwise, that layer is part of how I work whenever it's relevant.
I work as a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) registered with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO), drawing on evidence-based modalities within a trauma-informed frame.
Approaches I draw on
How the modalities show up in trauma work.
I draw on four core modalities, woven based on what someone needs in the room.
- Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
- Gently working with the thoughts and beliefs trauma can leave behind — about safety, trust, blame, and what the event meant about you.
- Acceptance & commitment therapy (ACT)
- Making room for difficult feelings and memories without being run by them, while staying connected to the life you want to build.
- Person-centered therapy
- You set the pace and the direction. Trauma work especially has to be led by the person — not done to them.
- Mindfulness
- Building the capacity to notice the body and stay present — grounding skills that help when the past intrudes on the present.
Trauma-informed care also means working with the body, not just the thoughts. When it helps, I draw on gentle grounding and body-awareness practices, and creative expression — especially for experiences that lived in the body before they had words. (For specialized trauma modalities like EMDR, I'm happy to discuss appropriate referrals during a consult.)
Common questions
Things people often want to know before they book.
Will I have to talk about or relive what happened?
No. Trauma-informed therapy is paced and consent-based — you are always in control of what you go into and what you leave alone. The early work is usually about building steadiness and safety, not about retelling. We don't treat reliving the event as the goal, and we don't go faster than your nervous system can tolerate.
Do you offer EMDR or other specialized trauma treatments?
I offer trauma-informed therapy drawing on CBT, ACT, person-centered, and mindfulness-based approaches — not EMDR or other specialized trauma modalities specifically. For some people those approaches are a good fit, and if that's what you're looking for, I'm glad to talk through referral options during a consult. Fit matters, and part of a consult is figuring out whether what I offer matches what you need.
It happened a long time ago. Is it too late for therapy to help?
Trauma doesn't have an expiry date, and neither does the work. Sometimes things that happened long ago have simply never had a safe place to be looked at. Long-standing trauma is workable — the timeline doesn't close.
The pace of trust is the right pace.
If this resonates, a free 15-minute consult is a low-pressure way to see whether the way I work feels useful to you. No paperwork, no commitment to continue.