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Trauma-Informed Therapy is an approach that recognizes the widespread impact of trauma and honours the need for safety, trust, and collaboration in the healing process. It’s not about reliving painful experiences—it’s about gently understanding how trauma has shaped your life and building tools to support resilience, regulation, and reconnection.

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At Wellness Counselling Centre, we take a client-centred, compassionate, and non-pathologizing approach to trauma therapy. We work with you to create a space where healing unfolds at your pace—with curiosity, care, and choice.

 

How Trauma-Informed Therapy Can Help

​This approach supports healing in the mind, body, and relationships by:

• Understanding how trauma affects the nervous system, emotions, and behaviours

• Building self-regulation tools to manage triggers, anxiety, or overwhelm

• Reducing shame and self-blame by exploring how your responses were protective

• Reconnecting with your body and sense of self

• Creating healthy boundaries in relationships

• Exploring your story safely, without being re-traumatized

You don’t need to go into detail about your trauma for this therapy to be effective—safety and emotional regulation always come first.

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Who Can Benefit from Trauma-Informed Therapy

​Trauma-informed care is helpful for:

• Adults, teens, and children who have experienced:

  • Childhood abuse, neglect, or attachment wounds

  • Interpersonal trauma, including emotional, physical, or sexual abuse

  • Spiritual or religious trauma

  • Medical trauma, accidents, or chronic stress

• Individuals struggling with anxiety, hypervigilance, dissociation, or emotional numbing

• People who have never felt “like themselves” after a distressing experience

• Those in high-stress environments or with a history of systemic oppression

Whether you’ve named your experience “trauma” or not, if life feels like it’s stuck in survival mode, trauma-informed therapy can help.

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What to Expect in Trauma-Informed Therapy

​Each session is guided by your pace and comfort level. You may:

• Learn about trauma’s impact on the brain and body

• Develop personalized tools for emotional regulation

• Use grounding strategies to create present-moment safety

• Explore identity, trust, and resilience

• Gently process trauma-related memories and emotions

• Reconnect with strengths, self-compassion, and a sense of choice

Therapy is about creating a space where you feel seen, safe, and supported.

 

Our Approach to Trauma-Informed Therapy

At Wellness Counselling Centre, trauma-informed care is integrated across all services. We may draw from:

• Internal Family Systems (IFS) – Working with protective and wounded parts with compassion

• Somatic Psychotherapy – Supporting regulation through body awareness

• Mindfulness-Based Therapy – Encouraging present-moment grounding and curiosity

• Narrative Therapy – Exploring and re-authoring your personal story

• Sensorimotor Psychotherapy & SITCAP – Especially helpful for children and youth

• CBT & DBT – Providing tools for reframing thoughts and managing distress

• Expressive Arts Therapy – Offering creative pathways for healing when words are hard to find

Our trauma-informed approach is always collaborative, respectful, and empowering—we walk alongside you, not ahead of you.

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Re-establish stability, Retelling, Reconnecting

Trauma-Informed Therapy offers a space where your story is honoured, your safety is prioritized, and your healing is supported—one step at a time.