Trauma Therapy in Victoria, BC

If unresolved experiences are keeping you stuck in survival responses—hypervigilance, shutdown, or feeling disconnected from yourself—you're not broken. Your nervous system is doing exactly what it learned to do. We can work with that.

What You're Experiencing vs. What's Driving It

You might be dealing with intrusive memories, flashbacks, or nightmares.

Or maybe it's not that obvious—maybe you just feel numb, disconnected, or like you're watching your life from the outside. Maybe you're hypervigilant, always scanning for danger. Maybe certain situations trigger intense reactions that feel out of proportion. Maybe you avoid anything that reminds you of what happened.

Trauma isn't just about what happened to you. It's about what got stuck in your nervous system as a result.

What's often driving trauma responses:

Unresolved survival responses—your nervous system went into fight, flight, or freeze during the traumatic experience and never fully came out of it.
Incomplete processing—the experience wasn't fully integrated, so your nervous system still treats it as a present threat rather than a past event.
Beliefs formed during trauma—"I'm not safe," "I can't trust anyone," "It was my fault"—that got encoded at a visceral level.
Disconnection from your body—you learned to disconnect from physical sensations as a way to survive, and now you can't fully feel present.

These aren't symptoms you can think your way out of. They're physiological responses stuck in your nervous system. That's why understanding what happened doesn't make the reactions stop.

How Experiential Therapy Works for Trauma

Traditional trauma therapy often focuses on exposure—retelling the story until it loses its charge. That can work for some people, but it can also retraumatize. Other approaches focus on managing symptoms without addressing what's stuck.

I use experiential and somatic methods that work with trauma at the level of your nervous system. We don't just talk about what happened. We work with what's still happening in your body.

This looks like tracking sensations and emotions as they arise, helping your nervous system complete the survival responses that got interrupted. Working with fragmented memories in ways that allow integration without overwhelm. Identifying and updating the beliefs that formed during trauma. Helping you reconnect with your body in a way that feels safe.

The methods I use—AEDP, Coherence Therapy, somatic work, parts work (IFS)—all share this: they engage your body and emotional memory directly. We work at a pace that feels manageable. The goal isn't to relive trauma. It's to help your nervous system recognize that the danger is over.

You won't just understand what happened. You'll feel different in your body. That's what allows you to move forward.

This Approach Works Best If:

✓ You've done talk therapy about trauma without relief

✓ You understand what happened but still feel stuck in your body

✓ You're dealing with hypervigilance, shutdown, or dissociation

✓ You want to work with trauma at the nervous system level

✓ You're ready to reconnect with your body and emotions

✓ You're stable enough for depth work (not currently in crisis)

This May Not Be Right If:

– You're currently in an unsafe situation that needs to be addressed first

– You need immediate crisis intervention or stabilization

– You want to stay at the cognitive level rather than work somatically

– You're not ready to engage with difficult emotions or sensations

Ready to Start?

If you recognize yourself in what you've read here and want to work at this level, get in touch.

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Fees:

Individual therapy: $175/session

$5 discount when paying by e-transfer

Insurance: As an RCC and CCC, my services are covered by most extended health plans in Canada.

I provide receipts for insurance reimbursement.

Limited sliding scale available for financial need.