COMMUNITY
Peer Support Groups and Online Workshops
As long-time relational therapists, we know that healing happens in relationship. This page highlights where we gather, through peer support groups, online workshops, and community education, to share stories, cultivate care, and remember we're not alone.
WELCOME
Held in Good Company
Our online therapy practice in Vancouver offers community care for those seeking nourishing connection without performance. We aim to provide gathering spaces where presence is enough and healing is shared. Whether you're feeling isolated, overwhelmed, or unsure how to move forward, you don't have to figure it out alone. These peer support groups, online workshops, and other gatherings are affirming, inclusive, and designed for those who want to navigate growth, healing, or change in a supportive community setting.
These offerings are for you if you:
PEER SUPPORT GROUPS
Gather and Be Met
Peer support groups in Vancouver and online across BC, ON, and NS offer a grounded space for shared stories, mutual care, and slow, relational healing. These aren't therapy groups, but they aren't unstructured circles either. Facilitated by experienced practitioners, each group is thoughtfully designed to hold what's hard with clarity, compassion, and care.
Some are structured and intimate, allowing trust to build over time. Others are more spacious and reflective, centred on presence and creativity. Across all formats, we prioritise connection and celebrate our shared humanity.
What to Expect
Current Offerings
Held Ground: A Group for Trans, Nonbinary, and Gender-free Adults
A monthly gathering for trans, nonbinary, and gender expansive adults navigating fear, grief, and uncertainty in difficult times. Come to rest, be witnessed, and remember that you are not alone in these rapidly shifting times. We meet on the first Thursday of each month, 10:00-11:00 a.m. PT. Send a note to us, and we'll invite you to join us for a brief intake discussion.
Still with You: Parents of Trans, Nonbinary, and Gender Expansive Youth
A monthly gathering for parents and caregivers of trans, nonbinary, gender diverse, and queer young people. Come to share experiences, ask questions, and find grounded support from others navigating similar paths. We meet on the first Wednesday of each month, 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. PT. Send a note to Laura Hoge, RSW to schedule a brief intake discussion.
What to Expect
You’ll be welcomed into a weekly 90-minute online space where presence matters most.
Together, we build self-trust and belonging through nervous system tools, creative expression, and gentle witnessing. Silence is welcome. So are your tears, laughter, and everything in between.
Current Offerings Include:
Sessions are held online via Jane App. Groups are capped at 8 participants and meet weekly. Sliding scale and payment plans available.
WORKSHOPS
Come Learn With Us
Online workshops at Clayre Sessoms Psychotherapy Inc. are immersive, relational spaces for those wanting to deepen self-awareness or bring creative arts therapy and somatic therapy practices into daily life. Each workshop blends presentations, guided exercises, collective reflection, and creative inquiry, offering something you can carry forward long after the online gathering with peers ends.
We're building our schedule now and would love to know you're interested in learning with us. Get in touch and we'll let you know as soon as a live online workshop date is confirmed for Summer 2026.
What to Expect
Current Offerings
Begin Within: A Self-Compassion Workshop for Adults
A 6-week online workshop with weekly live sessions for those wanting to soften shame, reconnect with themselves, and practice steadier, body-based compassion. Through guided exercises, relational reflection, and creative inquiry, this series offers space to learn gently at your own pace and in good company. Get in touch to be notified of the next online workshop.
WORKSHOPS
Attend a workshop
These aren’t clinical refreshers or passive webinars. Our workshops are immersive, body-aware spaces for learning and unlearning—where presence is valued more than performance, and wisdom is co-created in real time.
Whether we’re exploring nervous system rhythms, grief rituals, or the wisdom of our inner parts, every workshop blends collective insight, creative practice, and embodied integration.
What to Expect
Modalities & Frameworks We Integrate
Format & Pricing
Live via Zoom | 2–3 hours
Sliding scale with free spots available
What to Expect
Where We Begin
What’s Included
ENGAGEMENT
We'll Come to You
Our online therapy practice in Canada brings clinical depth, lived experience, and collaborative energy to your organization, training, conference, or community gathering. Whether co-facilitating a multi-day intensive or presenting at a lunch-and-learn, you can count on us to show up with the same care and rigour we bring to every client relationship.
Clayre has served as a senior co-facilitator for Dr. Janina Fisher's annual Trauma Informed Stabilization Treatment training and has partnered with local organizations to build more inclusive, affirming spaces and practices. Laura has presented at WPATH and USPATH and has contributed to gender-affirming policy development and LGBTQ+ advocacy. Both of us are Certified Sensorimotor Psychotherapists and WPATH GEI SOC8 Certified Professionals. As a team, we offer something most speakers can't: genuine co-facilitation, grounded in years of working alongside each other.
What we offer
FIT
Who we work with
Fees
RESOURCES
A Wider Circle
Community care in Canada certainly doesn't begin and end with us. There are committed people, spaces, and organizations from BC to NS showing up to support you, such as crisis lines, affirming practices, peer groups, and trusted services offering low-cost counselling and free access to care. We invite you to visit our therapy resources page.
