Somatic Therapy in Ontario

Come Home to Your Body

When Trauma Has You Living in Survival Mode

You wake up already exhausted. Your jaw aches, your hands buzz, and your chest feels heavy before your feet even hit the floor. You scroll through your phone, trying to distract yourself from the tightness that never really goes away.

Maybe you had one of those dreams again—flashbacks, really—but you never talk about it. You get up, go through the motions: shower, coffee, feed the cat, get out the door. But you feel like you’re floating through your life, disconnected from everyone, even yourself.

At work, you find yourself snapping at people, even when you don’t mean to. You replay conversations in your head, wondering what’s wrong with you. You keep saying you just need to try harder, but you’re tired of trying. Your body feels like it’s always braced for something bad, even when you know, logically, that you’re safe.

You’ve tried therapy before. You’ve told the stories. You’ve said the words. But nothing seems to change.

And then you heard something about somatic therapy—that the body remembers what the mind can’t say. And something clicked.

Our Approach: Trauma Healing That Honours the Body’s Wisdom

As a somatic therapists, we work with clients like you who are ready to stop fighting their body and start listening to it. We blend somatic experiencing, supportive touch (with consent), and a culturally grounded, relational approach that meets you exactly where you are.

We move at your pace. We check in often. And we work together to create a space where your body can feel what it may never have felt before: safe.

This Work Can Help You:

  • Begin to feel again—without overwhelm
  • Understand why you freeze, shut down, want to fight, or dissociate
  • Release chronic tension, panic, or shutdown
  • Rebuild trust in your own body
  • Gently reconnect with parts of yourself that had to go quiet to survive
  • Stop thinking, “Why can’t I just get over it?” and start saying, “I finally feel like me again.”

     

You don’t have to earn rest or prove pain. You’ve survived. And now, it’s time to heal.

Talk Therapy Helped You Survive. Somatic Therapy Can Help You Heal.

If you’ve felt stuck in therapy—even with a great therapist—you’re not broken. You just need something different.

Somatic therapy is body-based trauma healing. It doesn’t require you to explain everything or rehash every detail of your past. Instead, we gently help your nervous system release the survival energy it’s been holding for years.

This work is slow, intentional, and consent-based. It’s not about pushing through—it’s about unwinding what’s been too much, for too long. 

What Sessions May Include:

  • Slow, respectful tracking of sensations in your body

  • Grounding techniques to support nervous system regulation

  • Supportive touch (only if requested and appropriate)

  • Mindful movement or breathwork

  • Space to process trauma without needing to retell the whole story

We move gently and at your pace. Somatic therapy is about creating safety in the present, not pushing into the past. 

We also may agree to do 90 minute sessions to help give your nervous system more time to regulate and not feel rushed. 

You Deserve to Feel Safe in Your Own Skin

If you’re searching for somatic therapy for trauma in Ontario, you’re probably exhausted from trying to think your way out of pain that lives in your body. And you’re not alone.

This work is gentle. It’s grounding. And it’s made for you.


 We’ll talk about where you are and what support could look like. You don’t have to carry this alone.

Schedule your 20-minute consultation here

FAQ

What is somatic therapy, exactly?

Somatic therapy is body-based trauma healing. It helps release survival responses (like freeze, fight, or shut down) stored in the nervous system. 

I like to phrase it as the way that your body remembers, and we can make stories up about – “my neck hurts, I must have slept funny last night” when although that also may be true, it could be your body’s way of saying “hi, please pay attention to me!” 

Do I have to talk about my trauma in somatic therapy?

Not necessarily. In somatic therapy, we focus more on what’s happening in the body right now than on retelling the past. You never have to share anything you don’t want to. 

What’s supportive touch?

Supportive touch is a consent-based somatic tool that can help regulate the nervous system. It’s always optional and always discussed first. 

If you’re interested in learning more about this, please reach out! 

Does somatic therapy work with complex or developmental trauma?

Yes. This work is especially helpful for people who experienced early (developmental) or ongoing trauma that cannot be tied to one incident, like a car accident.

Is this therapy talk-free?

We still may use words—but we also listen to the body’s language.

It’s a mix of felt-sense awareness, gentle tracking, and trauma-informed connection. There may be times where words are not needed or they are not available to describe what is happening. That’s okay! 

Do you work with queer, trans, and BIPOC clients?

Absolutely. Our practice is rooted in cultural humility, safety, and respect for identity and lived experiences. 

Many of these identities also have a lot of stored trauma within their bodies that has either been passed down intergenerationally or picked up by being involve in institutations that aren’t made for them. 

Are your services covered by my insurance?

If you have benefits provided through your employer that you are hoping to use, please discuss this with us prior to your first session to ensure that you will be reimbursed for the cost of the sessions. Each benefit provider is unique in the services and professional designations that they do cover.

If you do have benefits that you are hoping to use for your sessions, please note that you will be responsible for paying for the sessions yourself and submitting your receipts for reimbursement with your benefits provider directly.