Where You're Met

Here, we invite mindful study to notices how experience lives in the body—what tightens, what softens, what asks for care. Through gentle accompaniment, we follow the cues of your nervous system, allowing connection to begin from the inside out. Rather than analysing or pushing for insight, we focus on what feels most alive in the moment. Over time, this process invites steadier regulation and a felt sense of care that grows naturally through awareness and choice. Both Clayre and Laura are Certified Sensorimotor Psychotherapists.

Focusing invites you to listen inwardly—to the subtle, not-yet-words place inside that already knows something important. Together we slow down, sense what wants expression, and give it shape through language or image. This practice connects thought, emotion, and body so that new understanding can unfold without force. You learn to stay with what arises, building trust in your own inner wisdom. Clayre is a certified Focusing-Oriented Therapy practitioner and educator, and our team integrates Focusing in our sessions.

Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST) offers a compassionate, neuroscience-backed way of working with trauma and protective parts. It helps you understand reactivity and build inner stability without re-experiencing pain. Rather than eliminating parts, we focus on connection and collaboration, allowing healing to unfold through safety and self-understanding. Clayre is one of Dr. Janina Fisher's Senior Facilitators and a Certified TIST Practitioner, and Laura integrates this approach within her parts-based work.

Grief therapy provides room to explore loss in all its forms—loss of people, identity, belonging, or the imagined future. We approach grief as an ongoing relationship, not a stage to complete. Together we make space for sorrow, love, and the meaning they hold, allowing each to move at its own pace. Sessions invite reflection, ritual, and remembrance, helping you reclaim with what matters to you. Laura is a Certified Advanced Grief Counselling Specialist, offering guidance that balances evidence-based care with compassionate presence.

Relational therapy explores how patterns of connection—past and present—shape how you experience yourself and others. By paying close attention to what happens between us in session, we create moments of real-time repair and understanding. These small, lived experiences of trust and recognition gradually replace old expectations of disconnection. Over time, you begin to sense that relationships, including the one with yourself, can feel safer, more mutual, and more alive. Relational care is woven through all we do.

Growth, healing, change, or reclamation often begins when experience is felt, not just described. Experiential therapy opens new ways of knowing through movement, imagery, and creative process. You might draw, breathe, or sense into an emotion to see what it needs, staying close to the body’s natural wisdom. Each session meets you where words end and awareness begins. This slow, often mindful approach helps what was once frozen in habit or story begin to move again—making space for deeper connection, choice, and presence.

Gender-affirming care supports you in exploring, celebrating, and living your best life with authenticity. Our conversations about social adjustment and medical transition unfold through dialogue, not evaluation, honouring your goals and pace. We hold space for the felt sense of identity, expression, and belonging within systems that can be unsupportive or harmful. Clayre and Laura are WPATH GEI SOC8 Certified Professional Members and long-time providers of gender affirming care that centres each client’s truth and process.

Parenting a gender-diverse older teens often brings both love and uncertainty. We offer a place to ask questions, express emotion, and learn alongside your teen. These sessions focus on strengthening connection, navigating systems, and finding ways to affirm your child while caring for yourself. You are not expected to have all the answers—just the willingness to keep showing up. Laura’s experience as a published expert in this area informs her supportive, collaborative approach with families, especially parents and older teens.

Trauma-Sensitive Yoga invites movement as a pathway to safety and presence. Rather than focusing on posture, we emphasize choice and interoception—your capacity to feel and respond from within. Each practice is guided by curiosity and consent, helping you reconnect with the body at a pace that feels right. This evidence-based method supports trauma recovery by restoring agency and trust in your body’s signals. Laura is a certified TCTSY facilitator and integrates this approach within her broader therapeutic work.

Art therapy offers a way to express what words cannot reach. Through drawing, painting, collage, or simple mark-making, you can explore emotion, memory, and story with support. The focus isn’t on creating art, but on how the process helps you understand and tend to your inner experience. Images often hold meaning that emerges gently over time. Clayre, a Board Certified Art Therapist (ATR-BC) and Registered Canadian Art Therapist (RCAT), invites use of imagination as one of many pathways toward self-understanding and reconnection.

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