Trauma and PTSD therapists in Toronto, Ontario ON, Canada CA
Trauma and PTSD
Melissa Donohue, Striving for Synergy Psychotherapy and Counselling Clinic
Registered Social Worker, MSW, RSW, LCSW
I am passionate about treating trauma and helping you to overcome adversity and feel more resilient.
8 Years Experience
Trauma and PTSD
Ariana N. Zeppieri-Makhan
Registered Psychotherapist, MA, RP
"If you've met one trauma survivor, you've met exactly one trauma survivor." Though your symptoms may be similar to others', your trauma is not. This work is delicate, and the process may be long, but I will sit patiently by you while you sort it out, help make sense of it, and bring you back to the here-and-now if you get lost in the then. My work in this area began as a student counsellor in a community mental health centre, under the expert guidance of three trauma-informed supervisors. Since then, I've worked extensively with survivors of complex trauma, accompanying them through their experiences while grounding them in the present and providing strategies for the future.
5 Years Experience
Trauma and PTSD
Emina Hendricks, CareWay.ca
Registered Psychotherapist, M.Ed., R.P.
If you have experienced adversity in your life and would like to process the trauma in order to move forward please reach out to CareWay. We offer a safe, non-judgemental space for you to work through your experience, ignite self-compassion and leave the past behind. We offer EMDR & CPT for Trauma & PTSD.
7 Years Experience
Trauma and PTSD
North Star Therapy-- Cleo Haber
Registered Social Worker, BSW, MSW, RSW
If you have experienced trauma, you may be living with normal but unwanted emotional and physical effects of trauma. Are you experiencing panic attacks, anxiety, depression or feelings of shame, fear or anger? Perhaps your sleep is disrupted, or you feel disconnected from your body at times. Psychotherapy can be an effective way to heal from trauma. We will work with you – at your own pace - to make new meaning from past experiences, while teaching you strategies to stay grounded and feel safer in your mind and body. We use trauma-informed approaches to help you feel less overwhelmed, and create safety in the present.
23 Years Experience
Trauma and PTSD
Lolita Abramyan
Registered Psychotherapist, Registered Psychotherapist, RP
Trauma can impact every part of ourselves; the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. Trauma, no matter how big or small, makes us feel that we do not have control over our lives and are vulnerable to threat. Trauma often stays in the body and the subconscious mind, until we are ready to address it. With a focus on the nervous system and its role in storing trauma, I provide my clients with a safe, nurturing environment in which they can express and explore their trauma from the past or present. Using practical tools based in CBT, Mindfulness, and Somatic-informed approaches, I help my clients process the trauma in a gradual way. Trauma does not have to control your life. My goal is to collaborate with my clients to help them overcome it and move forward.
6 Years Experience
Trauma and PTSD
Sarah Elizabeth McMillan
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, MA, MSW, RSW
Mental health support for physical illness, pain and uncertainty. We know that anxiety, depression and chronic stress often occur in tandem with physical illness but can be overlooked or we may fear addressing these mental health challenges directly. During a health crisis we are often required to put much of our lives on hold and may not have a chance to grieve or attend to other areas of our life. PTSD and medical trauma may be the result of a sudden health crisis, medical intervention, or from repeated interactions with the healthcare system. The effects of ableism, discrimination and systemic oppression can feel heavy and lasting.
6 Years Experience
Trauma and PTSD
Maryam Moazzami
Pre-Licensed Professional, Bsc. MPH.
Experiencing trauma can have a profound impact on every aspect of your life, but healing is possible with the right support. I offer compassionate and evidence-based care to help you navigate the journey towards recovery. Whether you're struggling with flashbacks, nightmares, or avoidance behaviors, I provide a safe and non-judgmental space to explore your experiences and work through the lingering effects of trauma. Through trauma-informed therapy modalities such as Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), we'll work together to process painful memories, build coping skills, and restore a sense of safety and empowerment. My goal is to empower you to reclaim your life from the grip of trauma, cultivate resilience, and find renewed hope and meaning in your journey towards healing.
1 Years Experience
Trauma and PTSD
Michelle C. Koehler, RSW & Psychotherapist
Registered Social Worker, MA, RSW & Psychotherapist
I specialize in providing confidential treatment of anxiety and trauma. I support my clients to build their resilience and capacity for emotional regulation following trauma.
24 Years Experience
Trauma and PTSD
Peter Stathakos
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Registered Social Worker, BBA, MDiv, MSW, CMAT, CSAT
In the face of traumatic experiences, we experience many complex coping mechanisms. We can deny its impact, we can dissociate, we can minimize its effect on our lives so that we don't have to feel the pain that the violation and betrayal caused. Healing looks like restoring you to your full personhood free from the memory fragments, compartmentalization and physical tension that you experience. It is putting Humpty-Dumpty back together again.
Reach out today to get the care that you deserve.
14 Years Experience
Trauma and PTSD
Sehr Athar
Registered Social Worker, MSW, RSW
I support clients across the lifespan who have experienced developemental trauma and/or may have a formal diagnosis of Complext Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. My goal in supporting folks with a history of trauma is to develop tools and skills support emotional regulation and management, develop a relationship with their bodies and gain a deeper understanding of how trauma affects the mind and body.
5 Years Experience
Trauma and PTSD
The Cohen Clinic
Psychologist, Psy.D.
A traumatic event involves a situation (actual or threatened death, serious injury, sexual violence, etc.). A person may have directly experienced/ witnessed the event, or the situation may have occurred to a loved one. This can include verbal/physical abuse, a car accident, first responder work, or being attacked. Your therapist will work with you utilizing different forms of treatment including Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy or Dialectical Behavior Therapy to help you reprocess your trauma.
10 Years Experience
Trauma and PTSD
New Moon Psychotherapy
Registered Psychotherapist, MA, MACP, MSW, RSW, RP, RP(Q)
What if I said that what happened was not your fault, that people can be trusted, and that there's nothing wrong with you?
What if I told you that you can feel your emotions without becoming overwhelmed, that you can let go of feeling on edge and hypervigilant?
What if you knew that the only reason you are suspicious, that decisions are hard to make, and that you find it hard to connect with and trust others is because your trauma shook your sense of self, the people around you, and the word more generally?
What if I said that you don't have to live the rest of your life haunted by memories and flashbacks of the worst days of your life? That you don't have to keep distracting yourself? That you're not "too broken or beyond fixing" and that there IS hope?
Trauma and PTSD change the way we think, feel, and behave in many ways but the good news is that these are treatable conditions. There are evidence-based approaches (well research strategies) that can help you rise from your experience(s), release the past into the past, and claim the life you've always wanted.
At New Moon Psychotherapy Trauma is our specialty. We are a team of registered psychotherapists and social workers who specialize in treating post-traumatic stress and related difficulties such as CPTSD, PTSD, addiction/substance Use, self-injury and suicide ideation, emotion dysregulation, perfectionism, anxiety and depression. We work extensively with survivors of sexual violence and criminal victimization (robbery, assault, car jacking, shootings, etc.) as well as those who have experienced emotional and physical abuse, natural disasters, bullying, war and near death experiences.
We are committed to using evidence-based approaches - the ones that have been test and tried for the very difficulties that you're experiencing including Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Prolonged Exposure (PE), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for PTSD (DBT-PTSD), Sensimotor Psychotherapy, Somatic Psychotherapy. We offer trauma focused individual, couples, family, and group therapy. We love what we do and stay current through ongoing training and consultation.
Interested in finding relief from trauma symptoms but don't think you can commit to long-term therapy? Our 4-week group focused on Finding Calm in the Body can teach you to calm the nervous system which would bring down intense emotions, hypervigilance, and help you improve sleep and manage flashbacks and body memories. It's an affordable alternative to individual therapy.
Reach out today for a complimentary 15-minute consultation. We will connect you with a clinician from our team of trained and passionate registered psychotherapists and social workers so that you can discuss your needs and how we might be able to help.
* * * If you decide not to go with our clinic, please ensure that your therapist is trained in EVIDENCE-BASED Psychotherapies for trauma - this will be the difference between months and years of therapy * * *
14 Years Experience
Trauma and PTSD
EMDR Therapy Toronto - Heal Anxiety, PTSD, Childhood Trauma - Ayan Mukherjee
Registered Psychotherapist, Certified EMDR Therapist & Consultant
Trauma and PTSD is my primary specialization and I utilize EMDR Therapy, IFS, Deep Brain Reorienting, somatic psychotherapy and other neurobiologically oriented therapies to process the traumatic memories. The processing of memories that activate the cluster of symptoms that are defined as PTSD involves two parts: Firstly, desensitizing and reducing the high emotional charge attached to the memories. Secondly, as the memories drop in charge, the brain sends the memories from short-term muscle memory to long-term memory. It is called memory reconsolidation and it gives you the experience of finally moving on from those events. Email me for a free 30-minute phone consultation to discuss more.
7 Years Experience
Trauma and PTSD
Jennifer Fukushima
Registered Psychotherapist, registered psychotherapist
Trauma and PTSD can result in many life changes and the way we see the world as having shifted from safe to unsafe. Learning to re-cultivate trust can begin together in the therapy room, extending outward to the rest of your life. Through relational and somatic techniques, I will support you in gently reclaiming your life.
3 Years Experience
Trauma and PTSD
Cimberly R Nesker
Registered Psychotherapist, B.A., MSc., PG Dip, CCC, CRPO
As a trained Critical Incident Debrief Counsellor, I am trained to work with trauma both in its immediacy and after significant time has gone by. In a safe space, the client and clinician will deconstruct the trauma and work to heal.
16 Years Experience
Trauma and PTSD
Jaime Brand
Registered Psychotherapist, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), Associate Certified Coach (ACC)
The experience of trauma is one that inevitably impacts our sense of safety and security in this world. As you work to process traumatic experiences in your life, I am honoured to support you in re-gaining a sense of empowered agency over yourself and your life. I use compassionate inquiry, as well as somatic interventions, to help clients find the sense of peace that is often missing following the experience of a traumatic event.
1 Years Experience
Trauma and PTSD
Nisrine Maktabi
Registered Psychotherapist, Masters in Psychology
Using IFS parts therapy and EMDR
16 Years Experience
Trauma and PTSD
MindfulWe Holistic Psychotherapy & Counselling Services
Registered Psychotherapist, MA, RP, IMD (candidate)
My experience and knowledge is vast in Trauma, specifically child sexual abuse and complex PTSD. Initially, we work on normalizing and understanding your symptoms, then work with the present day symptoms, implementing strategies to alter present behavior and reactions to your desired way of thinking, feeling, behaving, and relating to the world.
12 Years Experience
Trauma and PTSD
Stacy Kirkbride - Turnpage Counselling & Psychotherapy
Registered Psychotherapist, MACP, Registered Psychotherapist
As a Registered Psychotherapist I provide support in healing from relational trauma, narcissistic abuse, and complex trauma. I offer a safe, empathic, and understanding environment to assist in rebuilding trust and self-worth. The impact of emotional abuse is often overlooked but can lead to a lifetime struggling with self-esteem and symptoms of complex trauma. Whether you are dealing with a current relationship or wanting to explore the impact of previous relationships, I can support you in changing toxic relational patterns, boosting self-confidence, and building a path toward meaningful fulfilling relationships.
3 Years Experience
Trauma and PTSD
Tony Miller
Registered Psychotherapist, MA, RP
Trauma is probably the most overused concept in psychotherapy. To work with trauma, we have to differentiate between everyday normal dissatisfactions in life and profound experience of helplessness, loneliness, fear, and stress caused by a traumatic experience. PTSD is a creative, but often unhealthy, way to cope with trauma that should be acknowledged and experienced in a supportive environment for a healthy processing of the trauma that can lead to post-traumatic growth. Schedule a free 15-minute consultation to see if we are a good fit.
7 Years Experience