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Trauma Therapy
Feel safer in your body and relationships
Process deep emotional wounds with support
Build resilience, clarity, and inner stability
Understanding Trauma Therapy
Childhood trauma takes many forms; physical, emotional, or relational. It can include neglect, abandonment, loss of a caregiver or home, emotional unpredictability, or early neglect of your inner world, where needs went unmet.
Even years later, this early pain can show up as anxiety, body tension, repeating patterns, difficulty trusting yourself or others, or chronic emotional overwhelm.
Trauma therapy helps you heal those deep wounds with care and presence, so your past no longer runs your present.
“Trauma is not what happened to you, but what happened inside you as a result of what happened to you.”
-Gabor Màte
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What Is Childhood Trauma in the Context of Therapy?
Childhood trauma; including abuse, neglect, or early loss; affects how your nervous system developed and how you relate to safety, connection, and vulnerability.
When your early environment was unsafe, unpredictable, or emotionally unavailable, your nervous system learned to protect you by staying alert, tuning out pain, or adapting in ways that once kept you safe.
These survival strategies can become barriers to emotional connection, self-trust, and internal steadiness in adulthood.
Trauma therapy helps your nervous system learn safety again and supports you in processing the emotional experiences that were too much to hold when you were younger.
If you are experiencing:
- Emotional overwhelm that feels familiar but hard to explain
- Difficulty trusting others or forming close relationships
- Feeling stuck in old patterns no matter how hard you try
- Anxiety, tension, or body sensations tied to memories
- Difficulty expressing your needs or saying no
- Holding fear of abandonment or loss
- Feeling numb, shut down, or dissociated at times
- Replaying old emotional hurts in adult situations
Soulful Therapy can help you feel understood, steady, and more grounded rather than replaying the pain of the past in the present.
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How Can Trauma Therapy Help?
Rather than revisiting trauma as a story only, we help your body and nervous system learn new ways of safety and regulation.
Therapy can help with:
Nervous System Regulation
Learn to calm fight-flight-freeze responses that were wired in childhood.
Emotion Processing & Integration
Process the emotional pain you couldn’t fully feel or express before.
Internal Safety & Self-Trust
Build steadiness inside so old triggers no longer hijack your reactions.
Relational Repair
Heal attachment wounding so you can relate more authentically and securely.
Identity Beyond Survival
Strengthen your sense of self beyond what you endured.
We work with compassion, respect, and attunement, not forcing change, but inviting deeper regulation, safety, and clarity.
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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 Trauma 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 Trauma 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 healing trauma 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 trauma 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.