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Therapy for Chronic Stress
Reduce overwhelm and reactivity
Calm your nervous system
Feel steady instead of constantly on edge
Understanding Chronic Stress Somatically
Chronic stress isn’t just a busy season. It’s what happens when your nervous system rarely gets a break.
You may feel tense, wired, emotionally reactive, or completely drained. Even when things look “fine” from the outside, your body may feel like it’s always bracing for the next demand.
Soulful Therapy can help you slow down the stress response, understand what’s driving it, and build a more regulated and sustainable way of living.
“People often underestimate how much stress and emotional tension they live with until they begin to breathe into it with mindful awareness.”
- Tara Brach
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What Is Chronic Stress?
Chronic stress develops when your body stays in fight, flight, or freeze for extended periods of time.
This might be due to:
- Workplace pressure
- Caregiving responsibilities
- Relationship strain
- Past trauma
- High personal expectations
- Long-term emotional suppression
- Difficulty with resting
- Challenges with saying no and setting boundaries
Over time, your nervous system can lose its ability to fully reset. You may feel constantly on edge, quick to react, mentally foggy, or physically depleted. Chronic stress affects sleep, mood, concentration, digestion, and immune function. It can also quietly impact your relationships and sense of self. Soulful Therapy can help you find healing and relief.
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How Can Chronic Stress Therapy Help?
At Soulful Therapy, we use a trauma-informed
and somatic approach to stress recovery.
Rather than simply managing stress,
we help regulate the nervous system that’s
generating it.
Nervous System Regulation
Learn tools that calm fight-or-flight responses and restore internal balance.
Emotional Processing
Explore the deeper pressures, expectations, or experiences driving chronic stress.
Boundary Strengthening
Reduce overextension and build clearer limits around your time and energy.
Burnout Prevention
Develop sustainable patterns that protect your mental and emotional well-being.
Mind-Body Awareness
Reconnect with early stress signals before they escalate.
We move at a pace that respects your capacity. The goal is not to eliminate responsibility — it’s to increase resilience and internal steadiness.
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At Soulful Therapy, we facilitate healing using the following approaches:
Compassionate Inquiry
Compassionate Inquiry is a sacred journey in healing, integration, and personal growth. It invites you to explore your emotions, beliefs, and past experiences with curiosity and empathy, free from judgment. We help you identify the root of your challenges, guiding you toward self-discovery, self-acceptance, and a deeper understanding of your true self.
Inner Child Integration
Inner Child Integration is a powerful way to reconnect with and reparent the parts of you that are often triggered. This method gently guides you to feel your childhood emotions and experiences with all of your adult capacities. By doing this, you can integrate the earliest times when your needs went unmet, which continue to impact your current-day reactions, behaviours, and patterns. We offer a kind and safe place for you to accept yourself with compassion, and a peaceful way to attend to your inner child when you are triggered.
Inner Critic Healing
Inner Critic Healing is a nurturing process that helps you understand and calm the critical voice inside your head. This inner critic often stems from past experiences, societal pressures, or early caregivers’ influence. In this approach, we help you listen to this voice with kindness and understand where it comes from, usually from old fears or past experiences. By recognizing that this critical voice is trying to protect you in its own way, you can start to change how you respond to it.
Family of Origin Therapy
Somatic Pscyhotherapy
Somatic psychotherapy honours the deep connection between your mind and body and acknowledges that traumatic experiences can be held in the body, not just in thoughts or emotions. As you become more aware of these sensations in the body, you can attend to the needs that they are expressing and heal the physical and emotional impacts of your experiences. Through breathwork, body scanning, movement, focusing, and mindfulness, we integrate your bodily experiences with your emotional and mental processing, allowing you to release tension and gain profound insights, restoring balance and overall well-being.
Laura Farberman
Clinic Owner & Founder | RSW, MSW
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Why Work With Soulful Therapy
MIND-BODY CONNECTION ARE NOT JUST WORDS – THEY ARE THE SOLUTION TO HEALING
Our Unique Approach Offers:
Safe
At Soulful Therapy, we want you to feel safe to explore your authentic self, be able to set boundaries that ensure your needs are met, and nurture the connection between your mind, body, and heart.
Present
Through cultivating a sense of presence, we are able to help you take what you have learned in the session outside and use it in your day-to-day life with a mindful spirit.
Soulful
Compassionate Inquiry gently helps you gain an acceptance of past experiences and foster a sense of self compassion. We encourage you to share and feel your true emotions at a deeper level, so you can live more joyfully.
Soulful Therapy Is Built On:
- AUTHENTICITY
- WARMTH
- COMPASSION
- EMPATHY
- RELATIONSHIP
OUR APPROACH
How Our Somatic Chronic Stress Therapy Works
Working at a pace that is comfortable for you, each session is a gentle cycle of grounding, exploring, and fostering change that supports your journey.
1
Grounding &
Intention Setting
We begin by letting go of distractions and focusing on the parts of you that need attention. Together, we clarify your intention for our time together.
2
Exploration &
Understanding
We explore your feelings, thoughts, triggers, tension, and patterns with curiosity to identify and understand your core beliefs and their impacts on your body and life. This often reveals the origins of your anxiety and the triggers your body remembers.
3
Progress &
Lasting Change
We practice tools to calm your nervous system, allowing you to relate to your emotions and tensions more compassionately. You will move towards healing, inner freedom, and authenticity.
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How Healing Can Look With Somatic Chronic Stress Therapy
Your healing journey is unique and happens at your own pace. Changes come as different parts of you are ready for healing. Over time, you’ll develop a kinder relationship with yourself, experiencing growth and self-compassion. While we can’t predict exact outcomes or timelines, each session aims to provide something meaningful for you.
- Navigate chronic stress with a deep sense of inner strength and resilience.
- Develop a deeper understanding of your inner self.
- Foster heartfelt connections with those around you.
- Cultivate self-love and acceptance that reflects your true self.
- Develop coping strategies that encompass your mind, body, and soul.
- Discover inner freedom and thrive with joy and love.
Discover inner freedom and thrive with joy and love
Meet Our Team
Meet the somatic chronic stress therapists at Soulful Therapy.
Virtual appointments available across Ontario.
Breanne Benson
Registered psychotherapist (Qualifying)
PhD Doctoral Student, Transpersonal Psychology
- Trauma
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction
- Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
Laura Farberman
MSW, RSW
Clinic Founder, Registered Social Worker, Psychotherapist
- Adults
- Virtual Sessions Available
- Daytime
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma Therapy
- Yoga Therapy
- And More!
Isabel Moriche
MSW
Registered Social Worker
- Complex Trauma
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Cognitive Change
- Grief
- Migration Stress
- Housing Insecurity
- Aging
- Crisis
- English / Spanish Speaking
Shane Pokroy
MA, RP
Registered Psychotherapist
- Adults
- Virtual and Phone Sessions Available
- Daytime, Evenings, and Weekends
- Relationships
- Emotional Regulation
- Mindfulness
- And More!
Mariya Garnet
Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)
- Adults
- Virtual Sessions Available
- Trauma
- Daytime, Evenings & Weekends
- Developmental/pre-verbal trauma
- Emotional Neglect
- Emotional disconnect
- And More!
Chantelle McEwen
Registered Psychologist
- Adults
- Virtual Sessions Available
- Daytime, Evenings & Weekends
- Trauma
- Inner Child
- Anxiety
- Chronic Stress
- Chronic Illness
- Women's Health
- Parenting
Lisa Cipparone
Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), Somatic Therapist, Brainspotting Therapist
- Adults 18+
- Virtual Sessions Available
- Days, Evenings and Weekends
- Soul Work
- Spiritual Journey
- Chronic Illness
- Inner Child Work
- And More!
Are you ready to start exploring your best self?
How To Get Started
Offering online therapy sessions to individuals across Ontario.