Online in 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
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Ontario, Quebec (Online Only)
My work is rooted in a deep interest in how early relational and emotional experience shapes our capacity for self-regulation, connection, desire, and meaning throughout life. I am particularly interested in 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.
Many of the individuals I work with are thoughtful, capable, and outwardly composed, yet internally experience anxiety, low mood, chronic tension or pain, self-criticism, or a sense that something essential is blocked, muted, or inaccessible. These struggles may show up in mood, behavior, the body, or in relationships-including sexuality and intimacy-but they are rarely limited to any one area. Rather, they reflect deeper emotional and relational patterns formed early in life, often before words, that continue to shape how a person approaches closeness, vulnerability, agency, pleasure, and self-expression.
My work integrates psychoanalytic psychotherapy, hypnosis, somatic awareness, and clinical sexology within a reflective, depth-oriented process. Hypnosis is used as a central clinical tool to support deeper internal contact and to access emotional, bodily, and unconscious material that can be difficult to reach through conversation alone.
I am interested not only in relieving symptoms-such as anxiety, depression, chronic pain, or behavioral patterns-but in helping people develop a more coherent and compassionate relationship with their inner life: their sensations, emotions, impulses, and desires. This work is oriented toward lasting psychological change and greater freedom in how one relates to oneself, one’s body, and one’s capacity for connection, authenticity, and vitality.
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 and is 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.
Rather than focusing only on symptoms, behaviors, or surface change, our work explores 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 and developing a more coherent relationship with their inner life-their emotions, bodies, impulses, and desires—and with their capacity for connection, agency, creativity, and pleasure.
Education & Credentials
Dr. Stéphanie Gamache, PhD PhD
- Female
- Practicing Since 2019
Finances
Insurance
- Out of Network
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. Rather than focusing solely on symptom management, the work explores the emotional, relational, and bodily patterns that shape how a person experiences themselves, their body, and their relationships.
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 therapeutic 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.