Trauma-informed therapy understands that experiences of trauma, chronic stress, neglect, or relational harm can change how the brain and nervous system respond to perceived threat. Therapy emphasizes safety, choice, pacing, and collaboration while helping you understand responses such as hypervigilance, avoidance, emotional overwhelm, dissociation, or shutdown as adaptations rather than personal failings.

LENS (Low Energy Neurofeedback System) Neurofeedback is a gentle, non-invasive form of neurofeedback designed to support the brain’s ability to regulate and adapt. During a session, small sensors are placed on the scalp to measure the brain’s electrical activity, while LENS provides extremely brief, low-intensity feedback based on what the brain is doing in that moment. Unlike traditional neurofeedback, there is nothing you need to consciously practice, watch, or control. The goal is to help the brain shift out of rigid or dysregulated patterns and move toward greater flexibility and balance. LENS may be used to support concerns such as ADHD, anxiety, emotional dysregulation, sleep difficulties, chronic stress, brain fog, and trauma-related symptoms.

EMDR is an evidence-based therapy designed to help the brain reprocess distressing memories and experiences that continue to feel emotionally or physically present. Using bilateral stimulation, such as guided eye movements or alternating tapping, EMDR helps reduce the intensity of traumatic memories and shift the negative beliefs, emotions, and body sensations connected to them.

IFS views the mind as naturally made up of different “parts,” such as an inner critic, perfectionist, people-pleaser, protector, or younger wounded part. Instead of trying to eliminate these parts, therapy explores when they developed, what they are trying to protect you from, and what they may need in order to take on less extreme roles.

Attachment-based therapy examines how experiences with caregivers and other important relationships shape our expectations of ourselves and others. It explores patterns around closeness, abandonment, reassurance, conflict, trust, boundaries, and vulnerability, and helps develop more secure ways of relating to yourself and the people around you.

Somatic approaches work with the connection between psychological experiences and what happens in the body. Therapy may involve noticing sensations, tension, posture, breathing, movement, impulses, or changes in activation to recognize nervous-system responses and gradually build a greater capacity to stay present with difficult emotions and experiences.

Psychoeducation uses research about the brain, nervous system, attachment, trauma, emotion, and behaviour to help you understand what is happening beneath your experiences. Rather than simply being told to “cope differently,” you learn why certain patterns occur and how that knowledge can inform practical strategies that actually fit the way your brain and nervous system work.

Feminist therapy recognizes that distress is shaped not only by individual psychology, but also by the environments and systems people live within. It considers factors such as gender roles, unequal caregiving and emotional labour, power dynamics, cultural expectations, discrimination, privilege, and systemic barriers so that understandable responses to inequitable circumstances are not automatically treated as individual pathology.