top of page

Rebuilding Safety, Connection, and Trust — At Your Pace

Compassionate, trauma-informed support to help you restore safety, trust, and connection — at your own pace.
Trauma & PTSD

Trauma can shape how we feel, relate, and move through the world long after the original experience has passed. Many people live with the effects of trauma without realizing that what they’re experiencing — anxiety, emotional numbness, hypervigilance, shame, or relationship difficulties — are understandable responses to overwhelming events.

At Therapy Bee, we offer trauma-informed psychotherapy for adults living with the impacts of trauma and post-traumatic stress. Our work is relational, compassionate, and grounded in evidence-based care. Therapy is not about reliving what happened, but about creating safety in the present so that healing becomes possible.
Man Looking Out the Window

“Trauma is not what happens to you, but what happens inside you as a result of what happened.”
— Dr. Gabor Maté

What Trauma Can Look Like

Trauma is not defined only by what happened, but by how the nervous system was affected. Experiences that may lead someone to seek trauma therapy include:
 
  • Childhood emotional neglect, attachment wounds, or chronic invalidation
  • Abuse (emotional, psychological, physical, or sexual)
  • Sudden or life-threatening events
  • Medical trauma or invasive procedures
  • Traumatic bereavement or complicated loss
  • Experiences of control, coercion, or emotionally unsafe relationships
  • Ongoing stressors that overwhelm coping capacity
     
We also support individuals living with PTSD and complex trauma (C-PTSD), including trauma that developed over time within relationships or caregiving environments.

How Trauma Can Impact Daily Life

Trauma responses are adaptive — they develop to protect you. Over time, however, they may begin to feel limiting or confusing. Clients often seek support for:
 
  • Persistent anxiety, panic, or emotional overwhelm
  • Feeling disconnected from self or others
  • Difficulty trusting or maintaining relationships
  • Shame, self-blame, or harsh inner criticism
  • Sleep disturbances or intrusive memories
  • Emotional numbness or avoidance
  • Feeling “stuck,” guarded, or on edge
 
These responses are not signs of weakness. They reflect a nervous system that learned to survive.
​
Our Approach to Trauma Therapy

We work from a trauma-informed, relational, and nervous-system-aware lens, meaning therapy is guided by safety, choice, collaboration, and respect for your pace.

Sessions may integrate approaches such as:
​
  • Trauma-focused CBT (TF-CBT) and CPT
  • Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
  • Internal Family Systems (IFS)
  • Narrative Therapy
  • Attachment-based and relational approaches
 
Interventions are always tailored to your history, goals, and capacity. We pay close attention to stabilization, regulation, and consent — ensuring therapy feels supportive rather than overwhelming.

What Healing Can Mean

Trauma therapy is not about erasing the past. It’s about restoring a sense of agency, choice, and connection in the present.

Clients often describe therapy as helping them:
​
 
  • Feel safer in their bodies and relationships
  • Respond rather than react
  • Develop self-compassion and understanding
  • Strengthen boundaries and emotional resilience
  • Reclaim parts of themselves that felt lost or muted
  • Healing happens in relationship — and it unfolds over time.
Taking the Next Step
Reaching out for grief support can feel vulnerable, especially if you’re used to carrying things on your own. You don’t need to have the right words or know exactly what you need to begin.
​

You don’t need to have the “right words” to begin.
 
All therapy is offered virtually across Ontario.
bottom of page