Trauma and PTSD Therapists in Kemptville, ON

At the Kemptville Stress Relief Centre we provide transformative therapy for stress and trauma. We know it’s important to have a safe space for you to reconnect with yourself and access your own wisdom to help you heal.

Waitlist for new clients. Is a workplace trauma/critical incident impacting your well-being? Are you a Novice nurse looking for support as you navigate this challenging career? Are you feeling burned out and looking for change? Are you feeling isolated in your pain and loss? Are you looking for relief, support, and personal growth. Sarah works together with clients towards their goals in a caring and confidential environment. Sarah’s career as a nurse and life experience equips her well to provide support and counselling for a variety of client concerns.

As a registered Social Worker, Psychotherapist and Clinical Director, I strive to deliver compassionate and empathetic support in working with the client in finding their inner strength and abilities and expanding on those for success. I believe every individual is capable to succeed and breakthrough their past current and future challenges/struggles, whatever they might be. With the focus of the client as the expert and the clinician as supportive expert, you will have the opportunity to be guided through your own strengths and abilities in moving forward and finding happiness/success through the life course.

I am currently accepting adult clients only. I supervise two therapists who work with children 4+ years of age and are accepting new clients. I am trained to work with individuals; children (4+), preteens, teens, and adults (18+). My approach is collaborative, compassionate, and empathic. I offer a safe space for exploration and therapeutic relationship. I welcome clients struggling with anxiety, self-esteem, a history of trauma, work/life balance or burnout, relationship struggles, or just looking to grow personally. Connect with me today to set up an appointment!

Currently welcoming new clients! I strive to help and support my clients who may be facing stressors and mental health illnesses such as, relationship difficulties, infidelity, grief, life transitions, anxiety, depression, PTSD & C-PSTD. I offer services in French and English. As a former law enforcement officer, I am very passionate about helping, and am in a unique position to understand first responders from all branches who may be struggling with the stressors inherent within these professions, including PTSD, Operational Stress Injuries, moral injuries, and organizational stress.

Looking for healing, growth, or change, but unsure where to start? Or perhaps you have experienced these before and are seeking to deepen and sustain your gains. Together we can achieve your goals. As your therapist, I will provide a collaborative and compassionate space to explore your intentions. A central part of my role is to evoke your own inner wisdom, strengths, resources, and values, and support you in using these to navigate the issues you face. I work with adult individuals and couples and have expertise in the areas of: anxiety, depression, prenatal & post-partum issues, parenting, grief/loss, childhood abuse and trauma.

I practice as a compassionate, creative, and supportive psychotherapist. I provide confidential, non-judgmental individual psychotherapy sessions and work collaboratively with each client to meet their specific needs. I feel deeply honoured to have the privilege of accompanying others on their healing journey.

I believe that we are all capable of making positive changes in our lives. My role as a therapist is to facilitate that process through warmth, understanding, and insight that can help you see things in a new way. We can work together to identify meaningful and attainable goals, improve relationships and connection, develop confidence and self-esteem, and lessen feelings of sadness, anger, loneliness and hurt. After all, the more we understand about our experiences, feelings, motivations, and needs, the more we can make deliberate choices about how we want to live.

Counselling can be quite daunting, so congratulations on taking this first step. I believe our lives are shaped by countless stories. Some are pleasant, some are challenging, and some may be buried deep inside. As Maya Angelou puts it, "There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." I provide a warm and accepting place where you can be yourself -- with all your stories, whatever they might be. Together, we can explore what's going on in your life today, and how your past stories may be affecting you in the present.

I am a Registered Social Worker with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers. I have a Masters degree in Social Work from the University of Calgary and have over 20 years of experience employed in various settings across Canada. I work with a diverse adult population to provide a collaborative, structured approach in meeting the needs of my clients and I have formal training in a number of modalities including: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Prolonged Exposure Therapy for PTSD, Compassion Focused Therapy, Mindfulness Based interventions and Emotionally Focused Therapy.

Overwhelmed? Stressed out trying to balance family, work, and self-care? Perhaps memories from past hurts are affecting your present-day relationships? I love working with people who, like you, are facing challenges in life and took the brave step of inviting a therapist to journey with them. We can all cope in isolation with our stressful lives for a limited period of time, before realizing we need help. Let’s work together and identify the source of your struggles and resolve them. Along the way, we’ll get to know much more about you.

Currently welcoming new clients! I work with clients experiencing symptoms related to their recent or past trauma, including personal loss. If you are looking to make a change but may feel unsure about how to start and want to spend time reflecting on your life, learning from the past, and making present changes, I am here to help. I work primarily with adults and teens. I feel passionate about breaking stigma and shame related to past trauma or current mental health symptoms. I have experience working with complex trauma, grief, and mental health disorders such as bipolar, schizophrenia, anxiety, and depression.

We specialize in EMDR, trauma treatment, perinatal mental health and relational difficulties. We offer in-person and virtual therapy sessions to support you; your ability to feel safe and connected is our main priority.

At some point in our lives, everyone struggles with issues that feel overwhelming; sometimes we find solutions on our own, and there are times when we might need support from someone who is trained to help. If you are looking for help that is expert, confidential and tailored to your needs, contact me directly: 613-620-3642, info@chirucounselling.ca My office is based in Manotick (Ottawa South), 20-30 minutes drive from Barrhaven, Nepean, Casselman, Metcalf, Winchester, Kemptville.

I love my job and feel privileged to work with each of my clients. I appreciate the opportunity to be present and to support people as they struggle with fears, sadness, anger, bitterness, confusion and a host of other difficulties. I have experience working with trauma and PTSD. I have experience working with neurodiversity. I am also a registered provider with NIHB.

If you are an “over” person - an overthinker, overwhelmed, or overworked - then you are one of the people I work with best. You are hard on yourself, “self-care” is confusing or guilt-inducing, you can get paralyzed by intense feelings, stuck in negative thought spirals, or find yourself shutting down. You may have been wondering for a long time how to turn off negative thoughts or let go of things you can’t change. The constant weight of what you believe you “should” be doing can feel immobilizing, and the endless fight against the “what ifs” is exhausting. It may feel impossible to move on or let go of negativity or trauma.

I am accepting new clients. I have over 10 years of experience in the mental health field, from a frontline Primary Care Paramedic to a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying). My lived experiences as a first responder have instilled in me a profound understanding of operational stress injuries and mental health challenges experienced by public safety personnel. My unwavering passion is advocating for mental health awareness and supporting first responders, front-line healthcare workers, and public safety personnel professionals. I provided services to youth, adults, and couples.

The Centre for Mental and Psychological Health has been established to bring international quality psychological treatments to our clients without compromise. We are a multidisciplinary team of Psychotherapists, Psychologists, Social Workers and Psychiatrists who offer assessment, diagnostic consultation, psychotherapy and wider psychosocial care services, including liaison with other healthcare professionals. We are committed to providing you with timely access to a range of evidence-based psychotherapies including CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy), EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) and others, as determined by your need. We also provide training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapies through our partner organization, Unified CBT Academy. (https://unifiedcbt.com/)

Accepting new clients! We offer counselling and psychotherapy for individuals, couples, families, children, and youth who are dealing with mental health issues such as stress, depression, anxiety disorders, trauma and PTSD, relationships, communication, life transitions, self-knowledge, and self-esteem. We strive to increase the well-being of our communities, by welcoming each client with warmth and compassion, and working with them to help improve their emotional, psychological and mental health and to thrive in their daily lives, careers and relationships. In-person sessions at our Kemptville location; virtually across Ontario.