About
Welcome to Embodied Relational Healing
This online therapy practice grew from a simple truth: we heal through connection. Not in performance or perfection, but in the presence of care that meets us as we are.
Clayre and Laura co-create a space with you to reclaim yourself: your voice, your pace, and your capacity for growth, healing, and change. We sit with what’s here, listening to the wisdom within you as we hold the stories that shaped your life. We trace a path back to what feels most alive in you, and we explore ways of living from that aliveness in how you relate, create, rest, resist, and take up space in this unjust world.
Our work is collaborative, present, and deeply human. There’s plenty of room for your grief, your longing, and your whole self, here.
APPROACH
The Heart of Our Work
Healing unfolds through presence, not prescription, through harmony, not homework. In this collaborative work, we move slowly enough to notice what’s happening within you: your sensations, memories, and emotions as they surface in real time. Therapy here is relational, experiential, and imaginative, honouring your own pacing and the wisdom already living in your system.
We draw from Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST), trauma-sensitive yoga, parts work, grief work, and art therapy to support healing that integrates mind, body, and story. We meet rather than manage your experience.
Our online therapy practice is shaped by lived experience and deep attunement. We offer identity-affirming, neurotype-a-squirming, and justice-centred care for those whose minds, bodies, and lives have been marked by harm, exclusion, or erasure.
We do not rush or direct. We don't ask you to do more. We simply offers space to be with what is and sense what’s ready to shift.
PRactice Ethos
Where Connection Meets Transformation
Healing isn’t a method or a set of steps to follow. Therapy here is a relational way of working together—especially in times of collective uncertainty and ecological grief—that makes space for your full humanity. These four threads run through all that we do.
Consent and Pace
Context in the Room
Many Languages of Knowing
Care as Craft
Through these threads, we practise returning—to your pace, your body, and your voice—and letting change take root from there.
Clayre Sessoms
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She/They
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RP, RCAT, CCC, ATR-BC
Therapeutic Modalities
MEET YOUR THERAPIST
Clayre Sessoms
Registered Psychotherapist
Clayre Sessoms (she/they) is a queer, trans-feminine psychotherapist, art therapist, educator, and lifelong student of embodied healing. She brings decades of lived experience, somatic wisdom, and intuitive presence to her work with clients—meeting each person not as a problem to solve, but as a human worthy of softness, clarity, and care.
She is a Registered Psychotherapist (RP), Registered Counselling Therapist (RCT), Registered Canadian Art Therapist (RCAT), Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC), and Board Certified Art Therapist (ATR-BC). Her practice is rooted in justice, reclamation, and the belief that healing is not about fixing what’s broken—it’s about returning to what’s always been yours.
With more than twenty years in body-based and relational healing roles—from yoga and massage to trauma-focused psychotherapy—Clayre brings a wide-ranging foundation of care to her work. Today, she supports Two Spirit, trans, nonbinary, gender expansive, queer, disabled, neurodivergent, and other marginalized older teens and adults who are navigating trauma, identity shifts, grief, chronic stress, and disconnection. Many of her clients arrive feeling untethered or overwhelmed. Together, they begin again—slowly, gently, and in relationship.
A certified practitioner and senior facilitator of Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST), Clayre also draws from Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Focusing-Oriented Therapy, parts work, and art therapy. Her sessions are somatic, creative, and co-regulated. Clients often say she listens with her whole body, offering a presence that is both grounding and quietly transformative.
As someone who has had to reclaim her joy, her body, and her voice in a world not designed for her thriving, Clayre understands the sheer tenacity it often takes to simply be—and she understands this with deep care for the world around her. Her work honours this path. She shows up not with answers, but with steady companionship—and a belief that healing doesn’t have to be loud to be revolutionary.
Beyond the therapy room, Clayre is building a collective care model rooted in belonging, accessibility, and relational repair. She is currently writing a book about embodied healing and resistance, and co-hosts Where We Begin, a podcast about healing, politics, & remembering what still matters.
Where to Find Clayre
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Laura Hoge
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LCSW, LICSW, RSW
Therapeutic Modalities
MEET YOUR THERAPIST
Laura Hoge
Registered Social Worker
Laura Hoge (she/her) is a deeply attuned therapist, educator, and activist with more than two decades of experience supporting individuals and families in navigating trauma, addiction, dissociation, identity, and connection. She is a Registered Social Worker in British Columbia and Nova Scotia, and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
Laura’s work is grounded in a somatic and relational approach that honours the wisdom of the nervous system and centers each person’s inherent capacity for healing. Known for her warmth, steadiness, and presence, she creates spaces where clients can reconnect with themselves and move toward healing at a pace that feels safe and sustainable.
A Certified Sensorimotor Psychotherapist, Laura brings advanced training in Trauma-Informed Yoga Therapy, Mindfulness, Motivational Interviewing, and parts-based approaches to her work with adults experiencing complex PTSD, substance use disorders, disconnection, and the long-reaching impacts of systemic harm. Her sessions offer embodied presence, co-regulation, and space to be with what’s true—with curiosity, compassion, and care.
As a queer partner and parent, Laura holds a particular commitment to supporting parents of trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive youth. She helps families move through fear, grief, or uncertainty toward clarity, connection, and affirmation—especially in the face of anti-trans rhetoric, religious trauma, or community rejection. For Laura, this work is both personal and political, rooted in a belief that relational healing is an essential part of justice.
Over the years, Laura has taught at Rutgers University and Montclair State University, facilitated peer support groups through Spectrum Health & Wellness, and presented at USPATH on integrating trauma-sensitive yoga in therapy. As a WPATH member, she continues to advocate for care that is accessible, affirming, and rooted in community.
Laura joins Clayre Sessoms Psychotherapy with a shared commitment to anti-oppressive practice, collective healing, and individual liberation. She invites clients into a process that is spacious, embodied, and grounded in trust—where healing unfolds not through fixing, but through remembering what is already whole.
