Therapy
Where You're Met
This is somatic therapy online, genuine, grounded, and unhurried. We don't begin with an agenda or an intervention. We begin with you: what you're carrying, what your body already knows, and what needs room to surface. Our online therapy sessions in BC and throughout Canada offer presence, steadiness, and genuine attention to what's here.
Arrive
How We Begin
We start by noticing what's here. There's no right way to arrive. Maybe you come carrying grief, longing, exhaustion, or harm—or the quiet weight of a life that looks fine from the outside. Maybe you aren't sure what to say, or everything wants to come out at once. All of it is welcome.
We slow down enough to listen to your words, your body's signals, and the pauses in between. Someone is here with you—not directing, not assessing, not moving faster than you can. Some sessions mean talking; others mean sensing, creating, or sitting in quiet together. There's no template. We follow what's most alive in you, at a pace that allows real understanding to take root. What the beginning reliably offers isn't certainty. It's the sense that you're not doing this alone.
From this beginning, somatic therapy online can take many forms. Below are offerings of what that may look like for you.
INDIVIDUAL
Care That Connects
Individual therapy online offers a steady place to turn toward yourself with care. We look at what's working, what hurts, and what's been left unattended — grief, exhaustion, identity, harm, or injustice. Sessions are relational and embodied, helping you stay connected to your experience while finding words, meaning, and breath again.
We often centre trans+, queer, neurodivergent, disabled, and system-impacted adults seeking care that doesn't ask them to educate, explain, or perform. You don't have to make your pain legible before it's taken seriously. This collaboration is slow and respectful: no hidden agendas, no checkboxes, no pressure to arrive at healing on anyone else's timeline.
Partners
How We Repair
Relationship therapy online supports couples, friends, and family members who want to see one another more clearly. Many come when the same argument keeps finding them, when one person is pushing and the other is gone, or when care is present but connection keeps slipping. This work doesn't ask who's right. It asks what each person is carrying, what they're trying to protect, and what might be possible if that could be heard.
We slow down reactive patterns, create room for what's underneath the conflict, and practise repair through curiosity and presence — not resolution at any cost, but genuine understanding of how connection gets lost and what it takes to return.
People
Partners caught in cycles that care alone hasn't been able to break who are ready to tend to what's there between you.
Process
Sessions slow the pattern down rather than adjudicate it. We spend time with nervous system repair in small moments.
Practice
Grounded in experiential principles, guided by consent, and oriented toward understanding rather than verdict.
Teens (16+)
Knowing Yourself
Older teen therapy online offers space to think, feel, and figure things out without pressure to have answers yet. Many arrive with questions about identity, belonging, or the future, or simply a sense that things feel heavier than they should and they're not sure why. Some are navigating academic pressure, ecological distress, gender, sexuality, or a world that doesn't always make room for who they're becoming. Others are carrying family stress, friend group conflict, or grief they haven't had the right space to set down.
Sessions are collaborative and unhurried through conversation, creativity, and genuine curiosity about what matters to them. The goal isn't to fix or redirect. It's to help youth develop trust in their own experience, their own voice, and their own sense of direction.
ACCESS
Care Within Reach
Each year, we offer one practicum placement as part of our commitment to care that is genuinely reachable. Laith Eskandar is now seeing clients through low-cost counselling in Vancouver and online, under the supervision of Laura Hoge, RSW. His sessions carry the same relational warmth and careful attention that shapes all the work here, at a fee designed to lower the threshold rather than the quality. We intentionally mentor one 2SLGBTQIA+ therapy student each year, with the hope that what begins here ripples outward.
Access
Open to adults navigating stress, identity, relationships, life transitions, or the weight of systemic harm. Sessions are offered at a reduced fee through his supervised practicum, with full accountability and structure throughout.
Approach
Laith brings a relational, culturally responsive presence shaped by work in education, resettlement, and community. He works at a steady pace, through conversation, reflection, and genuine curiosity about what best supports you.
Mentorship
Practicum placements are intentional, not incidental. Laith receives close supervision and mentorship from Laura Hoge, RSW and Clayre Sessoms, RP, ATR-BC. The fee may be reduced, but the care, the pace, and the respect are not.
DETAILS
The Shape of Care
Online
Sessions take place online through Jane App. We invite you to book somatic therapy online through our booking site.
Rates
$225 for individuals and $250 for partners. Pay by credit card or by e-transfer to info@clayresessoms.com.
PACE
We usually collaborate weekly or bi-weekly. To keep care consistent, monthly sessions aren’t available for new clients.
Location
Clayre Sessoms, RP, ATR-BC sees clients across Canada. Laura Hoge, RSW, sees clients in Canada, plus MA, NJ, RI, and VT.
Insurance
Carefully consult your extended benefits plan to ensure it covers RPs, CCCs, or RSWs. We email you a receipt to submit.
Cancellations
Your session time is reserved for you. The session fee applies if you do not show or cancel with less than 24 hours’ notice.
INDIVIDUAL
INDIVIDUAL
Ways
In Practice Together
As experienced somatic therapists in Vancouver and online across Canada, we draw from relational, experiential, and creative approaches because different people need different ways in. What matters most is the rapport that makes the work possible. We follow your pace, your language, and what feels most alive. Each step is shaped by consent and genuine attention to what's here.
Art therapy online
Some experiences don't arrive in words and feelings. They show up as tightness, looping thoughts, or a feeling you can't quite name. Art therapy online meets you through image and metaphor, no background in art needed, just willingness to slow down.
Experiential therapy online
You can name your patterns and still feel caught in the same loops: numb when you want to feel, flooded when you want to speak, or thinking in circles that never turn to relief. Experiential therapy online begins where language alone can't reach.
Focusing Oriented Therapy online
You might talk about something clearly and still feel like you can't quite reach it. Something in you knows there is more, but it stays wordless, vague, or just out of view. Focusing Oriented Therapy, a.k.a. Experiential Psychotherapy, gently asks inside.
Gender-affirming therapy online
Gender questions can be quiet or urgent: exploring language, naming, pronouns, expression, or the felt sense of who you are. Gender-affirming therapy online offers a steady place to move toward what feels true, without pressure or gatekeeping.
Grief therapy online
Grief arrives in many forms: death, estrangement, illness, or the recognition that something you needed may never come. Grief therapy online holds room for the full range, without pressure to tidy your feelings or move on before you're ready.
Low-cost counselling in Vancouver
Reaching for therapy takes courage. When cost becomes the barrier, people often delay care, ration support, or carry everything alone. Low-cost counselling is here for that reality, without asking you to justify your pain or prove you need it.
Support for parents of trans youth
Some experiences change how you see yourself or the world. You may feel wide open, tender, inspired, or unsettled. Post-psychedelic integration therapy offers a grounded place to reflect on what happened and find your footing again, with care.
Post-psychedelic integration therapy
Some experiences change how you see yourself or the world. You may feel wide open, tender, inspired, or unsettled. Post-psychedelic integration therapy offers a grounded place to reflect on what happened and find your footing again, with care.
Relational Therapy Online
Relational therapy online is for people who want to move slowly, build something real, and understand not just what happened, but how it still lives in how you connect today.
Relationship therapy online
When a relationship starts to feel like a cycle you can’t exit, even love can begin to feel unsafe. You may find yourselves repeating conflict patterns that leave one person pushing and the other shutting down, or both of you feeling unseen, blamed, and alone.
Relationship therapy online helps you slow the pattern down, understand what each person is protecting underneath the argument, and build new ways of staying connected through stress, conflict, and change.
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
You may already understand your history and still feel your body react as if danger is nearby. Tight chest. Shallow breath. Urgency. Collapse. Numbness. Spinning thoughts that won’t let go. When insight isn’t enough, we begin with what is happening now, in the moment, in the nervous system, and in the relationship we’re building together.
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy is a body-inclusive approach that helps you understand how experience lives in sensation, breath, posture, and movement, not only in thoughts or stories. The goal isn’t catharsis or performance. It’s steadier connection to yourself, so you have more choice when your system gets pulled into overwhelm or shutdown.
Trauma-informed parts therapy
Some part of you may be functioning. Getting things done. Showing up. Holding it together. And another part of you may still be bracing, disappearing, snapping, pleasing, numbing, or collapsing under pressure. You might know, logically, that the worst has passed, and still feel your body react as if danger is close.
Trauma-informed parts therapy offers a steady, non-shaming way to understand what is happening inside you. We don’t try to overpower your survival strategies or talk you out of them. We get curious about what they have been protecting, what they are still trying to prevent, and what they might need now in order to soften, even a little.
Trauma Sensitive Yoga Therapy
When you have lived through overwhelm, chronic stress, or experiences that made your body feel less safe to live in, “just do yoga” can land like a misunderstanding. You may want movement that helps, but you do not want to be pushed, adjusted, corrected, or watched like you are performing wellness.
Trauma-sensitive yoga therapy is a Vancouver-based offering provided online across Canada. It supports you in building a different relationship with your body through choice-led movement, steady pacing, and respect for your boundaries. This is therapy-informed care, not a fitness class, and not a space where you have to get it right in order to belong.