Trauma and PTSD therapists in Smiths Falls, Ontario ON, Canada CA
Trauma and PTSD
Melanie Fuller
Registered Psychotherapist, Psychotherapist (Qualifying)
Traumatic experiences are common yet unique to each person. While each person possesses unique resources and skills, trauma responses (fight, flight, freeze, fawn) can throw one off balance from their consistent, preferred way of living. I will collaborate with you to form a treatment plan to forge a treatment plan that meets your preferred way of living.
5 Years Experience
Trauma and PTSD
Ivan Pityk
Registered Psychotherapist, MA, RP
Trauma can be either an accumulation of experiences or a specific traumatic event in a person's life that can make them feel stuck in that distressing experience. Traumatic events such as war, natural disasters, and violence can create long lasting effects. There can also be accumulated trauma from years of abuse, neglect, and dysfunctional relationships that can continue to affect us years after the abuse has ceased.
These traumatic events can undermine our perception of ourselves and others, making it difficult to trust the world as safe and yourself as competent and worthy of love. Additionally, flashbacks can involve all five senses, and can cause anxiety, panic attacks, and a generalized stress response.
However, with therapy, the journey to healing the past, understanding the present, and building a more meaningful future can begin.
2 Years Experience
Trauma and PTSD
Heal The Centre for Wellness
Registered Psychotherapist, RP
Trauma and PTSD doesn't have to be a catastrophic event to be seen as real, impeding, difficult, and paralyzing (although it also can be). Trauma can be found in the deepest depths of our subconscious. Regardless of the situation, everyone's trauma is valid and serious from strict parenting styles, to abuse, to a car accident, and so much more.
5 Years Experience
Trauma and PTSD
Scott Page
Registered Psychotherapist
When the past keeps breaking in to the present and leading you to live in ways that might have worked before but certainly do not work now, that is the place for us to work together. I am here to help you identify how trauma breaks into your life and find ways to keep the past from controlling your present.
10 Years Experience
Trauma and PTSD
Sarah Elizabeth McMillan
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, MA, MSW, RSW
Mental health support for physical illness, pain and uncertainty. We know that anxiety, depression and chronic stress often occur in tandem with physical illness but can be overlooked or we may fear addressing these mental health challenges directly. During a health crisis we are often required to put much of our lives on hold and may not have a chance to grieve or attend to other areas of our life. PTSD and medical trauma may be the result of a sudden health crisis, medical intervention, or from repeated interactions with the healthcare system. The effects of ableism, discrimination and systemic oppression can feel heavy and lasting.
6 Years Experience