Online in United Kingdom, Multiple States
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Ontario, Quebec (Online Only)
Something in you knows that what you're carrying runs deeper than the presenting problem.
Many of the people I work with are thoughtful, capable, and outwardly composed-yet internally they live with anxiety, depression, chronic tension or pain, relentless self-criticism, or a sense that something essential is blocked, muted, or just out of reach. These struggles may surface in mood, in the body, in behavior, or in relationships-including sexuality and intimacy-but they are rarely contained to any one area. They tend to reflect deeper emotional and relational patterns formed early in life, often before language, that continue to shape how a person approaches closeness, vulnerability, agency, pleasure, and self-expression.
My work centers on how early experience shapes the capacity for self-regulation, desire, connection, and meaning throughout life-and particularly on how people come to know what they need and want, how they learn to express or inhibit those impulses, and what happens when these capacities become conflicted, constricted, or difficult to sustain.
I integrate psychoanalytic hypnotherapy, somatic awareness, and clinical sexology within a reflective, depth-oriented process. Hypnosis functions as a central clinical tool-creating conditions for deeper internal contact with emotional, bodily, and unconscious experience that can be difficult to reach through conversation alone. The aim is not only relief from symptoms, but the development of a more coherent and compassionate relationship with one's inner life: sensations, emotions, impulses, and desires.
This work is oriented toward lasting psychological change-and toward greater freedom in how one relates to oneself, one's body, and one's capacity for connection, authenticity, and vitality. It is best suited to those ready to move beyond symptom management toward something more fundamental.
Client Focus
Session Format: Couple, Individual sessions.
Age Specialty: Adult, Senior, Young Adult
Demographic Expertise: Asian, Buddhist, Christian, Hispanic / Latino, Jewish, LGBTQ+, Men, Military / Veterans, Native American, Pacific Islander, Women clients.
Treatment Approach
- Contemplative Psychotherapy Combines mindfulness and meditation practices with modern psychology. It encourages awareness and compassion as part of the healing process.
- Developmental Therapy Looks at how childhood and developmental experiences affect current challenges. It aims to repair unmet needs and foster healthy growth.
- Eclectic Therapy Draws from different therapeutic methods based on what fits each client best. It is flexible and personalized rather than following one single model.
- Existential / Humanistic Therapy Encourages people to explore meaning, freedom, and authenticity in their lives. It focuses on personal growth and living in alignment with one’s values.
- Experiential Therapy Involves hands-on activities to bring emotions into the present moment. It helps clients process feelings more deeply than through conversation alone.
- Hypnotherapy Uses guided relaxation and focus to access the subconscious mind. It is often used for habits, anxiety, and pain management.
- Integrative Therapy Combines techniques from multiple approaches into a customized plan. It adapts to each client’s unique situation and needs.
- Intersubjective Therapy Explores the shared emotional experience between therapist and client. It emphasizes connection and mutual understanding.
- Object Relations Therapy Focuses on how early caregiver relationships shape current relationships. It aims to improve patterns of attachment and trust.
- Psychoanalytic Therapy Based on Freud’s theories, it explores unconscious conflicts and past experiences. It seeks to bring hidden issues into awareness.
- Psychodynamic Therapy Explores unconscious thoughts and patterns that influence current behavior. It builds insight into how the past impacts the present.
- Psychoeducational Therapy Provides education and coping tools about mental health conditions. It empowers clients with knowledge and practical skills.
- Relational Psychotherapy Emphasizes the healing power of the therapist-client relationship. It uses trust and safety as a foundation for change.
- Somatic Therapy Helps clients notice how emotions are stored in the body. It uses breath, movement, and awareness for healing trauma and stress.
Approach Description: My work is grounded in psychoanalytic and relational theory, centered in psychoanalytic hypnotherapy-integrating hypnosis with psychodynamic understanding, somatic awareness, and clinical sexology within a thoughtful, depth-oriented process. I approach emotional, relational, and bodily concerns as meaningful expressions of a person's inner life, shaped through early experience and carried forward in patterns of affect regulation, attachment, desire, intimacy, and self-expression.
The work moves beneath symptoms, behaviors, and surface change to explore the emotional, bodily, and relational dynamics that operate beneath conscious awareness. Sessions move at a reflective pace, allowing space for sensation, imagery, feeling, and unconscious material to emerge. Hypnosis is used as a central clinical modality to support deeper internal contact and to access layers of experience that are often difficult to reach through conversation alone-particularly in work with anxiety, depression, chronic pain, psychosomatic symptoms, and entrenched emotional or behavioral patterns.
This is collaborative, exploratory work for adults who are interested in understanding themselves more fully. The aim is a more coherent relationship with one's inner life-emotions, body, impulses, and desires-and with one's capacity for connection, agency, creativity, and pleasure.
Fees & Insurance
Insurance
- Out of Network
Education & Credentials
Dr. Stéphanie Gamache, PhD PhD
- Female
- Practicing Since 2019
Dr. Stéphanie Gamache, PhD Practice Details
Therapy Sessions
- Available Online for residents of United Kingdom, Multiple States Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Northern Mariana Islands, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Washington, D.C., West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming , Ontario, Quebec
I offer private-pay online services as a psychoanalytic hypnotherapist and clinical sexologist, working with adults seeking a depth-oriented approach to psychological and emotional change. My work is grounded primarily in psychoanalytic hypnotherapy, integrating hypnosis with psychodynamic understanding, somatic awareness, and clinical sexology.
I work with individuals experiencing a range of concerns, including anxiety, depression, chronic pain, stress-related and psychosomatic symptoms, behavioral patterns, emotional regulation difficulties, and issues related to intimacy, desire, and relational connection. The work explores the emotional, relational, and bodily patterns that shape how a person experiences themselves, their body, and their relationships-moving beneath symptoms toward what underlies them.
Hypnosis is used as a central clinical tool to support deeper internal contact, allowing access to layers of experience that are often difficult to reach through conversation alone. Sessions move at a reflective pace and may involve imagery, bodily awareness, emotional exploration, and unconscious material, creating space for insight, integration, and meaningful psychological change.
While sexuality and intimacy are an important part of my clinical work, they are approached within a broader understanding of the person as a whole -mind, body, and relational life. This is not quick-fix or symptom-only treatment, but a serious, exploratory process designed to support lasting shifts in how one relates to oneself, one's body, and one's capacity for connection, agency, creativity, and pleasure.