Trauma and PTSD therapists in Saint John's, NL
Find experienced trauma and PTSD therapists in Saint John's, Newfoundland And Labrador, Canada who provide testing, evidence-based treatment for trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder, and related challenges such as anxiety, depression, and stress. Compare detailed therapist profiles and connect with a provider that’s right for you.
PTSD/Trauma
Joel Mayer
Registered Psychotherapist, MDiv
Trauma often involves feelings of stuckness, shame, and lacking control. Together, we will look at how the past is impacting your present, offer compassion and understanding to you now (remembering that you and your situation may now be different), and explore ways to help you feel less stuck and more present in your life today.
8 Years Experience
Online in Saint John's, NL
PTSD/Trauma
Molly McBride
Counsellor/Therapist, MSc, RCC, RTC
When the nervous system is chronically overactivated because of trauma, it can feel like your mind has become programmed to constantly react to danger. Even if you know the danger has past, the body and nervous system may need more convincing. Together in counselling, we’ll work to process trauma, reduce the impact of triggers, and rebuild a sense of safety and balance. Using techniques like EMDR, Internal Family Systems therapy, and hypnotherapy, we’ll focus on building nervous system regulation, emotional resilience, and empowering you to move forward with greater peace.
6 Years Experience
Online in Saint John's, NL
PTSD/Trauma
Mariya Garnet
Therapist, Registered Psychotherapist ( Qualifying)
work with complex trauma through the lens of NARM, the NeuroAffective Relational Model. NARM understands trauma not as a single event but as the way early relational environments shaped your relationship to yourself, your needs, your boundaries, and your capacity for connection. We work with what is alive in you right now, the patterns your nervous system is still running, rather than asking you to retell or relive the past. This is present-focused, body-informed, and relational at its core.
16 Years Experience
Online in Saint John's, NL (Online Only)
PTSD/Trauma
Lincoln Stoller
Counsellor/Therapist, PhD, CHt, CCPCP
If you have read these descriptions, then you will appreciate I focus on solutions and not symptoms. I feel all symptoms relate to a problem that has a solution. It is only in the rare situation where your problem is out of your control, that I will grudgingly admit you may be struggling with an internal dysfunction. But even in that case, I look toward the mind and body's natural healing abilities to regain balance and control.
Trauma and PTSD should be considered as two parts to the same thing. Trauma may be acute and PTSD may be chronic, but any acute trauma will leave post traumatic scars if it is not resolved in the present. We all have post traumatic scars from traumas we've ignored. We have grown around these in the way that a tree's trunk grows around barbed wire. And like the wire and the tree, these may seem minor at the time we encounter them. Small traumas embed themselves when we fail to resolve their pernicious effect. Many disturbing childhood experiences are of this sort.
Acute trauma needs to be reframed quickly. It's like a breached birth; an event that's stuck in the birth canal. It needs to be rotated and its truth released. All trauma has a truth which may or may not be part of you. Acute trauma can be re-experienced, but it does not have to be re-experienced literally or accurately. Such trauma is most effectively re-experienced in a dream-like manner because in dreams, unlike in waking life, you can build new realities. For this, dreamwork, hypnosis, entheogens (psychedelics), and brain training build resilience and insight. Each of these are a tool, not a pill, palliative, or solution. They are part of a healing program.
To deal with PTSD, building resilience and revising memories is important, but your thoughts also play a role. Talking helps when it's cathartic. Aim to recreate the situation without being the center of it. Watch it from a safe distance. You do this in spirit.
You are a survivor and a victim, but also a perpetrator. This is important: in some sense you put yourself in this situation and you have gained a unique experience where others have not lived to tell the tale. Somewhere in your history you made decisions that brought you to these ends. If you are not to blame, then you can examine your decisions and reframe your thoughts for the future. If you are to blame, then the lesson is easy: don't do this again! This may result in your feeling fearful, regretful, paranoid, angry, or guilty. You can use all of those feeling to your advantage because they are yours to create, direct, evaluate, accept, or reject, but first you must feel them. It is for this that you most need a protector who understands the process.
I play the role of the protector, but I will not be comfortable in guiding you into territories in which I sense you are in danger. Dealing with trauma with the help of a counselor requires both trust and a shared foundation. The effective counselor will be a role model and an ally. We venture to confront your dragons, and these dragons are real. I accompany you in the reconstructed experience. Much like a shaman, I present you with a mirror in which to see your true self as a warrior, fool, survivor, and hero.
21 Years Experience
Online in Saint John's, NL
PTSD/Trauma
Vanessa Gear
Registered Psychotherapist, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)
I support people who have been through difficult or traumatic experiences. In a safe and judgment-free space, we work on understanding how those experiences affect you, finding healthy ways to cope, and gently processing what happened at your own pace. My goal is to help you feel more in control, regain a sense of safety, and move toward healing and strength.
0 Years Experience
Online in Saint John's, NL
Trauma and PTSD therapists in Saint John's, NL Statistics
Trauma and PTSD therapists in Saint John's, NL average 10 years of experience and charge around $166 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The top treatment approaches are Internal Family Systems (IFS) (65%), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) (62%), and Existential / Humanistic Therapy (57%).
Average years in practice
10 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$166
Accept insurance
78%
Offer sliding scale
65%
Gender ID
| 74% |
Female |
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| 20% |
Male |
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| 3% |
Gender Fluid |
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| 3% |
Non-Binary |
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Session Type
| 63% |
In Person and Online |
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| 37% |
Online Only |
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Top Treatment Approaches
| 65% | Internal Family Systems (IFS) |
| 62% | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) |
| 57% | Existential / Humanistic Therapy |
| 53% | Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) |
| 53% | Somatic Therapy |
| 46% | Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) |
| 46% | Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) |
Ages Served
| 100% | Adult |
| 76% | Young Adult |
| 65% | Senior |
| 56% | Teen |
| 13% | Children |
Client Focus
| 69% | Women |
| 53% | LGBTQ+ |
| 53% | Men |
| 51% | Persons with Disabilities |
| 38% | Christian |