Online Trauma Counselling

Online trauma counselling is therapy provided through secure video sessions that helps people process painful experiences, reduce trauma-related symptoms, and rebuild a sense of safety in mind and body. It offers meaningful, trauma-informed support with the same depth as in-person therapy, while allowing clients to access care from the comfort and privacy of home.

Online Trauma Counselling

Online sessions allow you to access trauma therapy from the comfort and privacy of your own space, which can help create a greater sense of safety and control during the healing process.

Many people find that being at home makes it easier to stay grounded, move at their own pace, and engage in deeper therapeutic work without the added stress of travel.

Sessions are held securely through Zoom and typically last 50 minutes.

Who Might Benefit From This Work

Online trauma counselling may be a good fit if you:

  • feel impacted by past experiences in ways that still show up day to day

  • notice emotional shutdown, hypervigilance, or intense reactions to certain situations

  • find it hard to trust others, relax, or feel fully safe in your body

  • experience recurring memories, triggers, or patterns rooted in earlier life events

  • want to process trauma with support that is paced, collaborative, and trauma-informed

How Can Counselling Help Trauma?

Trauma often lives beyond conscious thought. It can shape the way the nervous system responds to cues of danger, influence emotional reactions, and create protective patterns that continue long after the original experience has passed.

In working together, we might look at:

  • how past experiences continue to affect present-day thoughts, emotions, and relationships

  • the body’s responses to threat, overwhelm, or shutdown

  • triggers, protective strategies, and survival responses that no longer feel helpful

  • patterns of disconnection, hypervigilance, or difficulty trusting

  • ways to restore a greater sense of safety, stability, and choice

Therapy can support the gradual processing of traumatic experiences while helping you build more capacity for connection, regulation, and ease in everyday life.

 

My Approach

Beginning trauma therapy online can feel vulnerable, especially if safety and trust have been disrupted by past experiences. There is no expectation to move quickly. We start by creating a space where your system can feel supported enough to slow down and stay present.

In our sessions, we pay close attention to what helps you feel more grounded and what brings up activation, shutdown, or overwhelm. This may involve working gently with body awareness, noticing triggers, and building resources that support steadiness before moving into deeper processing.

The pace of the work is always collaborative. You are never pushed to revisit experiences before you feel ready, and your boundaries are respected throughout the process.

As therapy unfolds, online trauma counselling can help you feel more connected to yourself, less driven by survival responses, and better able to move through life with a greater sense of safety and choice.

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Do You Have Trauma?

Many people live with the effects of trauma without immediately recognizing it. Trauma doesn’t always involve vivid memories or obvious flashbacks. Sometimes it shows up through the way your body reacts, the way you relate to others, or the sense that certain situations feel disproportionately overwhelming.

You may notice that past experiences still influence your present-day reactions, even when you logically know you are safe. This can create patterns that feel confusing, frustrating, or hard to control.

Signs that trauma may still be affecting you include:

  • feeling constantly on guard or easily startled

  • shutting down, going numb, or disconnecting under stress

  • strong reactions to certain people, places, or situations

  • difficulty trusting others or feeling safe in relationships

  • body tension, fear, shame, or overwhelm that seems to arise suddenly

Online trauma counselling offers a space to gently explore these responses, understand where they come from, and begin healing the patterns that no longer serve you.

I offer online counselling for adults experiencing trauma, PTSD symptoms, and related concerns. Sessions are held securely via Zoom and are available to clients located in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Newfoundland and Labrador.

“Trauma is not what happens to you but what happens inside you.”

— Dr. Gabor Maté, The Myth of Normal

Beginning Online Trauma Counselling

If you’re considering online trauma counselling, the first step is to schedule a free 15-minute introductory call.

This session allows us to connect in a low-pressure setting, discuss what you’re experiencing, address any questions, and determine whether this approach feels safe and supportive for you.

You can learn more about my approach to counseling here, or hit the button below to book your intro call.

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Online Anxiety Counselling Frequently Asked Questions

  • If past experiences continue to affect your emotions, relationships, or daily functioning, online trauma counselling may help. You don’t need to have flashbacks or a formal PTSD diagnosis—any patterns of hypervigilance, overwhelm, or disconnection can benefit from trauma-focused support.

  • Yes. Privacy and safety are a priority. Sessions are confidential, and you are never pressured to revisit experiences before you’re ready. Techniques focus on grounding, regulation, and building a sense of control and stability.

  • What if I feel triggered during a session?Trauma therapy is paced to your needs. If strong emotions or memories arise, we focus on grounding and regulation techniques to help you feel safe. You maintain control over what and how much is explored at any time.

  • Signs can include hypervigilance, emotional shutdown, flashbacks, anxiety, body tension, or difficulty feeling safe in relationships.

  • The first session is an opportunity to explore your story, what’s happening for you currently and what you’d like to change. We’ll move at a pace that feels comfortable, and there’s no expectation that you need to have everything figured out before starting.

  • Sessions take place through a secure Zoom video and typically last about 50 minutes. All you need is a private space, a stable internet connection, and a device with a camera and microphone.

  • Because therapists are licensed at the provincial level, I’m only able to provide counselling to clients who are physically located in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Newfoundland and Labrador during sessions.