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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.
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
Registered Psychotherapist, MA, CRPO 13240
- Adults
- Couples
- Virtual Sessions across Ontario
- Daytime and Evenings only
- Anxiety
- Relationship Issues
- Life Transitions
- 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 Psychotherapist
- Adults
- Virtual Sessions Available
- Daytime, Evenings
- Trauma
- Inner Child
- Anxiety
- Childhood Abuse and Neglect
- Chronic Illness
- Women's Health
- Parenting
- Complex and Developmental Trauma
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!
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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.
Brainspotting Therapy
Brainspotting Therapy™ is a gentle, body-based approach that uses specific eye positions, or “brainspots,” to help you access emotions and experiences that may be difficult to put into words. It can support deeper processing of trauma, stress, and other patterns held in the body and nervous system.
EMDR Therapy
EMDR Therapy can help when you know you want to move forward, but certain memories, triggers, or emotional reactions still have a strong hold on you. By helping your brain process difficult experiences in a new way, EMDR can make those experiences feel less overwhelming, so you may feel calmer, more grounded, and more able to respond to life from the present rather than from the past.
Emotions Focussed Couples Therapy
The EFT Couples Therapy Intensive is designed for couples who love each other but feel stuck in the same arguments, distance, or disconnection. Through focused, extended sessions, you can begin to understand what’s really happening underneath those patterns, feel more seen and understood by each other, and find a clearer path back to connection.
Expressive Art Therapy
Expressive Arts Therapy offers another way to explore what you’re feeling when words don’t quite capture it. Through creative expression, it can help you process difficult emotions, reconnect with yourself, build confidence, and rediscover a sense of playfulness, curiosity, and possibility.
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.
NARM Therapy
NARM Therapy can help you understand the patterns that formed when you were trying to feel safe, connected, or accepted—and gently begin to loosen their hold. Rather than reliving the past, NARM helps you reconnect with yourself in the present so you can feel more grounded, more authentic, and more free to choose how you move forward.
Nervous System RESET Therapy
Nervous System RESET Therapy helps you become more aware of how stress shows up in your body and learn gentle ways to help your system settle. Over time, you can feel more grounded, more resilient, and better able to move through life’s ups and downs with a greater sense of calm, safety, and ease.
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy helps you notice and understand the ways stress and past experiences can show up in your body—through tension, numbness, restlessness, or feeling overwhelmed. By gently working with those body-based reactions, you can build a greater sense of safety, self-trust, and calm without having to relive everything that happened.
Somatic Psychotherapy
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
Are you ready to start exploring your best self?
How To Get Started
Offering online therapy sessions to individuals across Ontario.