Domestic Abuse therapists in Dorchester, Ontario ON, Canada CA
Domestic Abuse or Violence
Randi Elizabeth O’Hare
Registered Social Worker, MA, BSW, RSW
I have extensive experience working with survivors of domestic abuse --including male survivors-- and I can help you gain the skills and confidence to rebuild your life and sense of dignity after an abusive relationship.
11 Years Experience
Domestic Abuse or Violence
Gibson & Associates: Psychotherapy, Counselling + Consulting
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, MSW, RSW
Have you experienced violence within a relationship? Have you experienced a random act of violence? This can be a single assault to experiencing years of abuse at the hands of a loved one. It can be abuse by a romantic partner, child, parent, friend, or stranger. Physical violence shocks our system and its sense of safety in the world creating long term consequences and contributing to ongoing stress. We can help to provide you a safe space to discuss your story while also increasing your sense of safety and trust. We can work to ensure your body and mind feel safe moving forward and do not carry the scars of this violence. Please contact us to begin this work and schedule your first appointment.
13 Years Experience
Domestic Abuse or Violence
Lorna Barnes, Oak Tree Counselling
Licensed Professional Counsellor, CT, CPC
Counselling can help if clients are experiencing domestic abuse or violence. It is often difficult to seek help because we start believing we deserve it, or we are afraid to stand up for ourselves, we're afraid the abuser will get worse, or we don't know how we'll survive financially. There is help out there and support from trained professionals who have often experienced domestic abuse themselves. Safety is the number one concern. Clients will experience relief when they are able to get help because they'll learn there is life outside of abuse. It is possible to heal and thrive after abuse.
21 Years Experience
Domestic Abuse or Violence
Your Story Counselling Services
Registered Psychotherapist, MSc, CCC, RMFT, RSW, RP
All of us go through the winding footpaths of life and at one point in time experience moments that create long lasting impacts and changes in ourselves, our environment, and in the trajectory of our lives. Sometimes those experience can be positive, and sometimes they are negative. These negative experiences are we we define as traumatic events. Domestic Abuse and Violence are absolutely considered traumatic. Our therapists can help you identify the roots of your struggles and create a custom treatment plan to overcome them. Head over to our website to learn more!
The experience of trauma and traumatic events can be painful and excruciating. Sometimes these experiences leave us at more than just at a loss, but can continue to cause us pain and fear. These experiences can alter the way your mind works. Creating physical and emotional responses to triggers that remind you of your trauma. Even when you are unaware of these triggers, you can be left feeling overactive and hyper-vigilant to certain moments and interactions. The post traumatic consequences (often known as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD) of these triggers is that you can feel like you are on constant alert to prevent future danger and pain; even when there is none to be presently found. If left untreated it can lead to one feeling loss and overwhelmed and increase rates of risky or dangerous behaviours (i.e. increased aggression and violence, increased substance use, increased physical and mental distress).
Our goal is help you heal. We offer a safe space and environment to begin the process of talking about your pain as a means to start processing what had happened to you. Talking about trauma doesn't always mean retelling your story. We work with each individual uniquely in order to find the path of healing that is more effective for them. We utilize a variety of techniques including a highly effective form of trauma therapy called EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) to help folks through this process in order to help you rediscover hope and empowerment. Understanding our past gives us an ability to take control what we want our future to look like. We believe that all people deserve to live a life free from fear and pain, all of us deserve a little help along the way.
8 Years Experience
Domestic Abuse or Violence
Stacey Stemplowski
Registered Psychotherapist, BA, RP, CCPA, OAMHP
Supporting you, hearing you, creating healthier changes.
7 Years Experience