Many of the people who come to me are carrying the weight of a traumatic death—sudden, violent, or overwhelming in ways that words can’t fully capture.Sometimes it was someone they loved deeply. Sometimes the relationship was complicated, estranged, or unresolved....
I’m a trauma therapist in Ottawa who works with adults carrying invisible wounds from childhood: early environments that were neglectful, intrusive, or emotionally misattuned. These histories often echo in the present as anxiety, depression, people-pleasing, pervasive...
When we set out on life’s journey we all have expectations of what life is going to give us and how life is going to turn out. We all have a sense of how life operates and what we need to do to get on in the world. However, as we move through life our initial...
