Therapy
Therapy that welcomes your whole self.
You don’t have to translate your experience or prove your pain. Our sessions unfold at the pace your body can hold, shaped by presence, creativity, and deep relational care. We offer space to return to yourself—without needing to justify who you are first.

HOW WE WORK TOGETHER
You’re not a problem to be solved. You’re a person to be held, witnessed, and met.
At Clayre Sessoms Psychotherapy, we offer something different: a space that listens without labeling, where what’s real is welcomed, not rushed. This isn’t a place for fixing or putting on a face. It’s a place to land.
We meet each client in the wake of what they’ve lived through—disconnection, survival, systemic harm. Many arrive after therapy that moved too fast, stayed too surface, or left them feeling unseen. Here, there is no urgency, no ideal outcome—only presence, care, and deep respect for your pace.
Our work draws on relational and somatic approaches like Focusing-Oriented Therapy, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, TIST, and, when useful, art therapy. But more than any method, it’s the way we meet you that shapes our work: with curiosity, collaboration, and attunement to what feels safe enough in the moment.
We hold complexity without rushing it. We honour silence without needing to fill it. And we trust that healing doesn’t come as a breakthrough—it returns quietly, reminding you that you were never broken.
INDIVIDUAL THERAPY
Care that meets you where you are—not where the world expects you to be.
Therapy here isn’t about fixing what’s broken. It’s about remembering what’s always been yours. One-on-one sessions are grounded, relational, and somatic—spaces where you can come home to yourself. We meet you where you are, with warmth and clarity, as you explore healing, reclaim identity, and deepen your capacity to live in truth.
Our individual therapy offerings centre trans+, queer, neurodivergent, disabled, and otherwise system-impacted adults who are ready for care that doesn’t ask them to translate, justify, or perform their pain. Rooted in deep presence and co-regulation, this work unfolds at the pace of nervous system readiness—not urgency, not agenda.
We don’t pathologize your coping or frame your complexity as a problem to fix. Instead, we make space for what’s real, relational, and alive in you. Whether you're carrying long-held grief, medical trauma, identity-based harm, or the weight of simply surviving systems that were never built for you—this is therapy that honours your pace, your truth, and your right to take up space.
Who It’s For
We may be a good fit if you:
What to Expect
We follow the thread of what’s present. That may look like talk therapy, somatic exploration, parts work, grounding, or art-based reflection. You’ll never be rushed. This work is tender and emergent.
This is not therapy that promises a polished transformation. It’s therapy that meets you in the rawness and helps you stay with yourself there—gently, and without shame. Over time, clients often describe a softening. A sense of being able to trust themselves again. A feeling of not being so alone.

SPECIALIZATIONS
Therapy is a relationship that holds steady beside you.
There’s no singular path through healing—which is why our work draws from a range of relational, somatic, and creative modalities. These aren’t tools we apply to you, but doorways we open with you. Each approach is chosen with care, meeting you where you are and moving at the pace your body can hold.
Our frameworks honour complexity, support integration, and invite your inner truth to emerge—not through efforting, but through gentle unfolding.
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
This body-based approach supports you in tracking and tending to the language of your nervous system. Through gentle, somatic awareness, we begin to notice what arises in the body—and what’s been held there. Sensorimotor Psychotherapy helps bridge the gap between insight and embodiment, inviting regulation, presence, and safety without forcing disclosure or analysis. Both Clayre & Laura are Certified Sensorimotor Psychotherapists, integrating this modality across many areas of therapeutic work.
Focusing-Oriented Therapy
Focusing invites you to slow down and tune into the quiet intelligence of your body. Rather than analyzing or over-explaining, we stay close to what is felt but not yet fully known—what Eugene Gendlin called the “felt sense.” This practice allows fresh insights and inner shifts to emerge from places that may have been held silently for years. It’s a gentle, collaborative process rooted in deep respect for your experience. Clayre is a certified Focusing-Oriented Therapy trainer and practitioner; both she and Laura integrate it across their work.
Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST)
Developed by Dr. Janina Fisher, TIST offers a compassionate, neuroscience-informed approach to trauma healing. This model helps you understand and unblend from protective parts, reduce reactivity, and cultivate a grounded sense of self. TIST supports healing not through exposure or catharsis, but through building inner stability and deepening your capacity to be with what arises. Clayre is a senior facilitator with Dr. Janina Fisher's training program and a certified practitioner. Laura also integrates TIST into her parts-based, somatic work.
Grief Therapy
Grief takes many forms—loss of people, of identity, of places we belonged or hoped to. We understand grief not as a problem to solve, but as an expression of love and meaning that deserves space. Whether you’re navigating ambiguous loss, cumulative grief, or the slow ache of systemic harm, we offer a steady presence and open-hearted support. Laura is a Certified Advanced Grief Counselling Specialist, trained in evidence-based approaches that honour the individuality of grief while helping you reconnect with purpose, memory, and what matters most.
Relational Therapy
This approach explores how our early relationships and current dynamics shape who we are, how we feel, and how we connect with others. By bringing attention to the therapeutic relationship itself, we create opportunities for new experiences of trust, repair, and mutual presence. Relational therapy helps shift long-held patterns not through fixing, but through meaningful connection. This is a foundational modality at our practice, grounding much of our work in the power of relationship.
Experiential Therapy
We believe healing lives not only in words, but also in sensation, image, and movement. Experiential therapy opens pathways for expression beyond talking, drawing on somatic practices, breathwork, art-making, and creative process. These methods help bring forward what has been felt but unspoken, held but unnamed. By allowing your full experience to be known, healing can happen in deeply embodied ways. This is a core component of our relational, expressive approach to therapy.
Gender-Affirming Mental Health Care
We provide compassionate, informed care for trans, nonbinary, and gender-diverse individuals across the lifespan. As WPATH GEI SOC8 Certified Professional Members and experienced queer therapists, we offer support that honours your identity and autonomy. Our hormone and surgical readiness assessments are completed through informal conversations, typically within one to two sessions, following an affirming, person-centred approach. As part of this work, we are also committed to building sustainable, community-rooted care where we live and practice.
Support for Parents of Trans, Nonbinary & Gender-Creative Youth
Raising a gender-diverse child can be both deeply affirming and emotionally complex. We support parents and caregivers as they navigate this journey—offering space for questions, grief, celebration, and learning. Whether you are adjusting to a recent coming out or facing systemic barriers, these sessions offer compassionate guidance grounded in allyship and care. Laura is a published expert in this area, providing families with a nonjudgmental space to show up, connect, and grow.
Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Therapy
Offered by Laura, a certified TCTSY facilitator, this yoga-based approach gently reconnects you to your body after trauma. Grounded in two decades of research, Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) is the world’s first evidence-based yoga intervention for complex trauma and PTSD. Rather than emphasizing posture or performance, this practice fosters interoceptive awareness, presence, and choice. It’s an embodied, collaborative path to healing that invites you to move at your own pace in a space of authenticity, consent, and care.
Art Therapy
Art therapy makes space for expression that goes beyond words. Clayre, a Board Certified Art Therapist (ATR-BC and RCAT), offers creative processes—drawing, painting, collage, and more—as a way to explore what might feel difficult to articulate. You don’t need to be an artist; the focus is on using visual language to access emotion, memory, and meaning. Through creative witnessing, play, and symbolism, art therapy offers a way home to yourself—without needing to explain every step.

Session Info
Online sessions are offered via Jane App. In-person walk-and-talk therapy may become available in Vancouver.
Session Fees
Payment is due at the start of each session.
$225 for 50 minutes
$360 for 80 minutes
$450 for 100 minutes
Frequency
We collaborate weekly or bi-weekly. Due to high demand, we seldom have monthly sessions.
Location
Laura sees clients across Canada and in MA, NJ, RI, and VT. Clayre sees clients across Canada.
Insurance
We email receipts for you to submit to your insurer for reimbursement. We do not directly bill insurers.
Cancellations
The full rate is charged when cancelling or rescheduling less than 24 hours before your session.
