Trauma Therapy Ontario
Online Trauma Therapy Across Ontario
Trauma can affect how we think, feel, relate to others, and experience the world around us. Whether your experiences stem from childhood, relationships or a specific event, trauma therapy can help you better understand your patterns, process difficult experiences, and move toward healing.
At Risework Therapy, our registered therapists provide online trauma therapy throughout Ontario. We offer compassionate, trauma-informed support to help clients feel safer, more connected, and better equipped to navigate life's challenges.
What Is Trauma?
We become traumatized when we experience a deeply distressing event (or series of events) that is too intense for the nervous system to handle. This leads to traumatic events being stored differently than other memories. The result is that trauma can affect us for a long time and can look like a tangled web of emotions, physical sensations, thoughts, images and reactions.
Trauma can make us feel stuck, struggling to make sense of our experiences or move forward.
Together, with the support of our registered therapists, we can untangle those knots, and rewrite your story from one of survival to one of thriving. Let's take that first step together.
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Keep in mind that when doing trauma work, patience with yourself is key; be kind to yourself through this process as it doesn’t always follow a linear path. This is brave, what you’re choosing to do, to face life’s hardest moments and work to move through them in pursuit of freedom from their impact on you.
Symptoms of Trauma Include:
Insomnia
Flashbacks
Nightmares
Panic attacks
Negative beliefs about self
Physical sensations
Feeling unsafe
Dysregulated emotions
Alcohol and substance abuse (self-medicating or numbing)
Evidence-based modalities that we use to treat trauma:
Our trauma-therapists prioritize your empowerment, ensuring that each session fosters a sense of collaboration, safety, choice, and trust.
(EMDR) Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
Somatic
Prolonged Exposure Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Mindfulness
Deep Brain Reorienting
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT)
Polyvagal
Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET)