A place to begin
Online Therapy in BC
You've been carrying this for a long time, but you don't have to carry it alone. Here you'll work with Clayre Sessoms, RP, ATR-BC and Laura Hoge, RSW who work alongside individuals, partners, and therapists. Meet our trauma-informed team or book a consult.
presence
Return to Yourself
Come back to what is true for you, beneath all the ways you have learned to cope and the stories that once helped you get through hard times. Many people come here after years of talk or behaviour therapy that scratched the surface, focusing on problems and solutions. Others arrive after experiences where they did not feel fully seen or respected for who they are and what they've endured.
When feelings are ignored, silenced, or unmet, shame grows and connection frays. Coping alone can't mend the weight of systems that constrain, obscure, and exhaust us. What begins to heal is connection that's real, attuned, and human. Here, we know that connection itself is the therapy. Together, we move slowly enough to notice what's happening within you, between us, and in the world around you. Through steady presence, safe connection, and shared curiosity, change takes root as reclamation of your own truth and vitality.
As we work together in virtual counselling, you may find yourself:
Context
You Make Sense
Life asks so much of you. Maybe you're here because you've survived demands, losses, and systems of care that didn't meet you. You may have pushed through, made yourself small, stayed watchful, or stepped back from community. Those responses kept you safe, secure, or alive.
Over time, numbness, exhaustion, grief, and burnout can grow heavy. You might have done so much already—structured therapies, skills-based programs, retreats meant to help you reset—and still feel unseen, unheard, or unsupported. Maybe the care you received focused on changing behavioural patterns but couldn't reach the pain beneath or name the systems and relationships that shaped it.
Your responses to harm make sense. Systems that asked so much of you deserve examination. Nothing in you needs fixing, only understanding and the dignity of being met as you are.
When you're ready, we're here. We'll work with your experience, not around it, never without you.
Together
Ways We Work
Therapy for Adults
Community Events
Therapist Support
Clayre sessoms (SHE/THEY)
Roots
Care We Deserve
Hi, I'm Clayre (she/they). I'm a girlflux, queer, blind, and neurodivergent parent, partner, and treehugger. Here at this online therapy practice in BC, I'm also a registered psychotherapist and a board-certified art therapist. I've spent my life learning to live my truths in a world that never made that easy. I've known what it's like to be unmet by systems that promise care. I've found my way back. This practice grew from a wish that others wouldn't have to fight for support that meets them where they're at.
Here, we don't have to translate ourselves or leave parts of ourselves behind. We can arrive as we are, with every breath, belly laugh, experience, and part welcome. This practice is both personal and collective, shaped by what I've longed for, what I've lived, and what I've found. At the start of this path, I was a bodyworker and a gentle yoga teacher. Over time, I've come to understand that therapy isn't a fix. It's an accompaniment.
With me is Laura Hoge, a relational and experiential therapist, a fellow former yoga teacher and bodyworker, and a longtime friend. We've warmly welcomed Laith Eskandar to provide low-cost counselling in Vancouver as a practicum student therapist. The three of us offer affirming therapy, community, and mentorship rooted in body, justice, and relationship.
Our profile images are hand-drawn illustrations with flowers and Pride sparkle. A deliberate choice. We believe you can do deep, meaningful work and still laugh until something shifts. Lightness belongs here too.
When you're ready, we invite you to book a free 15-minute consult with us.
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