A place to begin
Online Therapy in Canada
You’ve been carrying this for a long time, but you don’t have to face it by yourself. Our online therapy practice in Canada is here for individuals, partners, and therapists. Get to know our trauma-informed therapists and 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 patterns but couldn't reach the pain beneath or the systems and relationships that shaped it.
And yet here you are still looking, still reaching toward something real.
Your responses to struggle and harm make sense. You make sense. Nothing in you needs rescuing. Only understanding, and the dignity of being met as you are.
You've adapted long enough. Let's meet your experience — not manage it — and never without you.
Together
Ways We Work
Therapy for Adults
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Clayre sessoms (SHE/THEY)
Roots
Care We Deserve
Hi, I'm Clayre (she/they). I'm a registered psychotherapist and board certified art therapist who has spent my life learning how to live authentically in a world that didn't always make that easy. I've known what it's like to be unmet by systems that promise care, and I've found my way back. This practice grew from that path — a wish that others wouldn't have to fight so hard to reach support that actually sees them.
Here, we don't have to translate ourselves or leave parts of ourselves behind. We can arrive as we are, with every breath, movement, feeling, and story welcome. This Vancouver-based online therapy practice is both personal and collective, shaped by what I've studied, what I've felt, and what I've lived. Before this work, I was a massage therapist, a yoga teacher, and a writer. Today, this practice includes experiential therapy, parts work, and creative arts alongside Focusing Oriented Therapy, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, and TIST. It reflects the idea that therapy isn't a fix. It's an accompaniment.
Alongside me are Laura Hoge, RSW and Laith Eskandar, our trusted practicum student therapist joining us through December 2026. Together we bring care that is grounded, justice-informed, and genuinely relational.
You'll notice our profiles are illustrations: flowers, seasonal whimsy, and a little colour. Not a disguise. A reminder that play and presence belong here, and that not everything has to be serious to be real.
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