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Parenting & Perinatal Support
Feel more present with your children and yourself
Understand what's happening beneath the surface
Move through this season with steadiness and self-compassion.
Understanding the Parenting Experience Somatically
Parenting impacts far more than your schedule. It reaches into your nervous system, your sense of identity, your relationships, and the patterns you carry from your own childhood. You may feel stretched beyond your capacity, reactive in ways that confuse you, repeating patterns that you never thought you would, or simply depleted in a way that is hard to explain to anyone around you.
Soulful Therapy offers a space to understand what is driving your experience, not to fix what is wrong with you, but to explore what is happening in you, with curiosity and care.
"The most important work that any parent will ever do on behalf of their children is their own healing."
-Dr. Gabor MatÉ
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What is Perinatal & Parenting Therapy?
Parenting stress and perinatal struggles rarely exist in isolation. They connect to your nervous system, your history, and the relational patterns formed long before you became a parent.
Many people come to therapy focused on their children, or on a specific challenge in their parenting, and discover that the most meaningful work is understanding themselves. What is being activated in them. What they are carrying. What this season is asking of them at a deeper level.
Therapy helps you understand those layers so you can show up for your family from a more grounded place, rather than managing from depletion.
If you are experiencing:
- Overwhelm, depletion, or exhaustion that sleep doesn't resolve
- Reactivity or emotional responses that feel bigger than the moment
- Anxiety during pregnancy or in the postpartum period
- Grief after pregnancy loss, a difficult birth, or a fertility journey
- A disconnect from yourself since becoming a parent
- Guilt, shame, or the persistent feeling that you are not doing enoug
- Patterns from your own childhood showing up in how you parent
- Disconnection from your body or your emotions
- Difficulty in your relationship since having children
- The weight of being the default parent or primary caregiver
Soulful Therapy can help you feel understood, grounded, and more connected to yourself and the people you love.
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How Can Parenting & Perinatal Therapy Help?
Nervous System Regulation
Learn to recognize when your system is activated and develop tools to find steadiness, in parenting moments and beyond.
Perinatal Support
Process what fertility challenges, pregnancy, birth, or the postpartum period has brought up in your body, your identity, and your relationships.
Birth Trauma & Grief
Hold space for birth experiences that felt frightening or out of your control, and for losses that may not always be recognized by others.
Intergenerational Patterns
Understand the patterns you absorbed in your own family of origin and how they show up in who you are as a parent today.
Relational Support
Explore the impact parenting has had on your relationship with your partner, and how to navigate that with more understanding and care.
Identity & Self-Connection
Reconnect with yourself, not just as a parent, but as a whole person with your own needs, desires, and inner life.
We work at a pace that respects where you are. This is not about becoming a better parent through willpower. It is about understanding yourself more deeply so that change comes from a real place.
Meet Our Team
Meet the anxiety 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
Isabel Moriche
MSW
Registered Social Worker
- Complex Trauma
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Cognitive Change
- Grief
- Migration Stress
- Housing Insecurity
- Aging
- Crisis
- English / Spanish Speaking
Sara Hashimi
Registered Social Worker
- Adults, Teens and Youth
- Virtual Sessions Available
- Daytime, Evenings & Weekends
- Anxiety
- Childhood Trauma
- Birth Trauma
- Parenting
- Depression
- Grief
- And More!
Laura Farberman
MSW, RSW
Clinic Founder, Registered Social Worker, Psychotherapist
- Adults
- Virtual Sessions Available
- Daytime
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma Therapy
- Yoga Therapy
- And More!
Anna Kemp
M.A. Counselling Psychology, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)
- Adults, Teens and Youth
- Virtual Sessions Available
- Daytime, Evenings & Weekends
- Couples Therapy
- Communication issues
- Parenting Challenges
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Trauma
- 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.
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What We Explore Together
- Postpartum depression, anxiety, and emotional dysregulation
- Birth trauma and perinatal PTSD
- Pregnancy loss and infant death
- Fertility grief and the emotional weight of reproductive treatments
- Parenting stress, burnout, and depletion
- Intergenerational trauma and family of origin patterns
- Attachment and the parent-child relationship
- Identity shifts and the loss of self that can accompany new parenthood
- Co-parenting challenges and relationship strain
- The experience of being touched out, overstimulated, or emotionally exhausted
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How Healing Can Look With Parenting & Perinatal Therapy
Your healing moves at its own pace, as different parts of you become ready. Over time, you may notice:
- A deeper understanding of your own patterns and what drives them
- More steadiness when parenting feels hard
- A kinder relationship with yourself as a parent and as a person
- Greater capacity to be present with your children
- Healing from birth experiences or losses that have stayed with you
- A renewed sense of who you are beyond your role as a parent
- Relationships that feel more connected and less strained
Discover what it feels like to parent from a grounded, connected place
Are you ready to start exploring your best self?
How To Get Started
Whether you’re in the thick of it right now or just beginning to find the words for what you’ve been carrying, we’d be honoured to walk with you. Book a free 20-minute consultation and we’ll take the time to find the right therapist for where you are.
Offering online therapy sessions to individuals across Ontario.