Therapy

Where You're Met

This is somatic therapy online, genuine, grounded, and unhurried. We don't begin with an agenda or an intervention. We begin with you: what you're carrying, what your body already knows, and what needs room to surface. Our online therapy sessions in BC and throughout Canada offer presence, steadiness, and genuine attention to what's here.

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Arrive

How We Begin

We start by noticing what's here. There's no right way to arrive. Maybe you come carrying grief, longing, exhaustion, or harm — or the quiet weight of a life that looks fine from the outside. Maybe you aren't sure what to say, or everything wants to come out at once. All of it is welcome.

We slow down enough to listen to your words, your body's signals, and the pauses in between. Some sessions mean talking; others mean sensing, creating, or sitting in quiet together. There's no template. We follow what's most alive in you, at a pace that allows real understanding to take root.

From this beginning, sensorimotor therapy online can take many forms. Below are offerings of what that may look like for you.

INDIVIDUAL

Care That Connects

Individual therapy online offers a steady place to turn toward yourself with care. We look at what’s working, what hurts, and what’s been left unattended—grief, exhaustion, identity, harm, or injustice. Sessions are relational and embodied, helping you stay connected to your experience while finding words, meaning, and breath again. We often centre trans+, queer, neurodivergent, disabled, and system-impacted adults seeking care that doesn’t ask them to educate, explain, or perform. This collaboration is slow and respectful: no hidden agendas, checkboxes, or pressure to be healed. In time, may you feel more grounded, sure, and connected.

PEOPLE
For adults and older teens seeking grounded, human therapy amid change or uncertainty—a place to understand yourself more deeply.
PROCESS
Each individual therapy session begins with what’s here. We follow conversation or sensation, letting meaning unfold naturally.
PRACTICE
We stay rooted in therapeutic rapport and the living practice of consent. We're guided by curiosity, connection, and deep care.
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Partners

How We Repair

Relationship therapy online supports couples, friends, and family members who want to see one another more clearly. We slow down reactive patterns, explore what each person is protecting, and practise repair through curiosity and presence. Rather than deciding who’s right, this work invites a shared understanding of how connection gets lost and how it might return.

People

For partners, friends, or family members seeking honest dialogue and steadier connection.

Process

Sessions focus on communication, nervous-system awareness, and moments of repair, not on assigning blame.

Practice

Guided by consent and compassion; grounded in relational and somatic principles.

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Teens

Knowing Yourself

Experiential therapy for teens (16+) offers space to think, feel, and grow without judgment. Many come with questions about identity, belonging, friendship, or the future—and sometimes just a sense that things feel harder than they should. Sessions unfold at your pace, through conversation, creativity, and curiosity. We focus on what’s real for you right now while helping you build trust in your own voice and direction.

PEOPLE
For teens ready to explore who they are becoming, how they relate to others, and what matters most to them.
PROCESS
Sessions are collaborative and grounded in safety, curiosity, and respect for your growing independence.
PRACTICE
Integrates relational and creative approaches that help you name what you feel, understand it, and find steadier ground.
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Ways

In Practice Together

More than the modalities themselves, what matters most is the rapport that makes therapy possible. We draw from relational, experiential, and creative care, using whatever language aids our collaboration. Each step is thoughtful, paced by consent, and responsive to what feels most alive within you.

Trauma-sensitive yoga therapy

When you have lived through overwhelm, chronic stress, or experiences that made your body feel less safe to live in, “just do yoga” can land like a misunderstanding. You may want movement that helps, but you do not want to be pushed, adjusted, corrected, or watched like you are performing wellness.

Trauma-sensitive yoga therapy is a Vancouver-based offering provided online across Canada. It supports you in building a different relationship with your body through choice-led movement, steady pacing, and respect for your boundaries. This is therapy-informed care, not a fitness class, and not a space where you have to get it right in order to belong.

Trauma-informed parts therapy

Some part of you may be functioning. Getting things done. Showing up. Holding it together. And another part of you may still be bracing, disappearing, snapping, pleasing, numbing, or collapsing under pressure. You might know, logically, that the worst has passed, and still feel your body react as if danger is close.

Trauma-informed parts therapy offers a steady, non-shaming way to understand what is happening inside you. We don’t try to overpower your survival strategies or talk you out of them. We get curious about what they have been protecting, what they are still trying to prevent, and what they might need now in order to soften, even a little.

Relationship therapy online

When a relationship starts to feel like a cycle you can’t exit, even love can begin to feel unsafe. You may find yourselves repeating conflict patterns that leave one person pushing and the other shutting down, or both of you feeling unseen, blamed, and alone.

Relationship therapy online helps you slow the pattern down, understand what each person is protecting underneath the argument, and build new ways of staying connected through stress, conflict, and change.

Post-psychedelic integration therapy

Some experiences change how you see yourself, your relationships, or the world. You may feel wide open, tender, inspired, confused, or unsettled. Psychedelic integration therapy Canada offers a grounded place to reflect on what happened and to translate what emerged into daily life, slowly and with care.

This is Vancouver-based support offered through virtual sessions. We do not provide psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, facilitate substance use, advise on medication or substances, or guide medicine sessions. Our role is integration support before or after a non-ordinary experience, focused on meaning-making, nervous system steadiness, and real-life follow-through. When other care is needed, we support thoughtful referral and collaboration.

Therapy for parents of trans youth

You may love your child fiercely and still feel unsure what to say, how to respond, or how to stay grounded when the stakes feel high. Parenting a trans or nonbinary young person can bring pride, fear, uncertainty, and tenderness all at once.

Therapy for parents of trans youth offers a private place to slow down, process what you’re carrying, and build the kind of support your child can actually feel. We move at a pace that protects relationship, repair, and steady advocacy, not perfection.

Low-cost counselling

Reaching for therapy can take courage. When cost becomes the barrier, people often end up delaying care, rationing support, or trying to carry everything alone. Low-cost counselling is here for the reality of that, without making you justify your pain or prove that you’re “struggling enough” to deserve help.

This is reduced-fee support offered through a supervised practicum model, with clear structure and accountability. You will be met with steadiness, cultural humility, and real attention. The fee is reduced, not the respect, the pace, or the care.

Grief therapy online

Grief can arrive after death, estrangement, illness, caregiving, or the slow recognition that something you needed may never be available. In grief therapy online, we move slowly enough to tell the truth about what hurts, without pressure to “move on,” tidy your feelings, or make meaning before you’re ready.

This is Vancouver-based care offered through virtual sessions, with room for the full range of grief, including numbness, anger, relief, love, regret, and the disorientation of who you are now. If you’re looking for grief counselling in Vancouver, we can also support you online across Canada.

Gender-affirming therapy online

Gender questions can be quiet or urgent. You might be exploring language, naming, pronouns, expression, or the felt sense of who you are. You might be considering social transition, HRT, surgery, or none of the above. Gender-affirming therapy online offers a steady place to explore what feels true, what feels possible, and what you need in order to move with self-trust rather than pressure.

This is Vancouver-based care offered through virtual counselling sessions, supporting adults across BC and Canada. We can support gender exploration, transition decision-making, emotional wellbeing, relationship impact, and access-related documentation when requested by medical providers as part of referral pathways—provided without a gatekeeping stance.

Focusing-oriented therapy online

You might be able to talk about something clearly and still feel like you cannot quite reach it. Something in you knows there is more, but it stays vague, wordless, guarded, or just out of view. In this work, we don’t push past that. We slow down and ask inside, with care.

Focusing-oriented therapy online is an experiential approach that helps you develop a felt sense: a bodily felt knowing of a whole situation, not just an emotion or a thought. When that “something” is met with steadiness and company, it can begin to shift, carry forward, and reveal what it needs.

Experiential therapy online

Sometimes you can explain what happened, name your patterns, and understand the “why,” and still feel stuck in the same loops. You might feel numb when you want to feel, flooded when you want to speak, or caught in a kind of overthinking that never turns into relief. Experiential therapy online is for those moments, when language alone keeps sliding off the surface of what is true.

This approach helps us slow down and stay close to lived experience in the present, with room for sensation, emotion, image, metaphor, and the small, honest details that carry real meaning. You do not need to be articulate to be real. We can begin with what is here, and build enough steadiness for something new to form.

Art therapy online

Some experiences don’t arrive in clean sentences. They show up as tightness, looping thoughts, numbness, images you can’t shake, or a feeling you can’t quite explain. Art therapy online is for adults who want support that does not require you to have the perfect words first, and who are ready for therapy that can meet you through image, metaphor, and lived experience.

This is Vancouver-based care offered online across Canada, led by a board-certified art therapist (ATR-BC). You do not need to consider yourself “creative.” You only need a willingness to slow down and let what’s true take shape, at a pace that respects your nervous system and your life.

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy

You may already understand your history and still feel your body react as if danger is nearby. Tight chest. Shallow breath. Urgency. Collapse. Numbness. Spinning thoughts that won’t let go. When insight isn’t enough, we begin with what is happening now, in the moment, in the nervous system, and in the relationship we’re building together.

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy is a body-inclusive approach that helps you understand how experience lives in sensation, breath, posture, and movement, not only in thoughts or stories. The goal isn’t catharsis or performance. It’s steadier connection to yourself, so you have more choice when your system gets pulled into overwhelm or shutdown.

Our ways of working follow you, not the other way around.
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DETAILS

The Shape of Care

Online

Sessions take place through Jane App telehealth. You're invited to book therapy online, join Clayre's waitlist, or join Laura's waitlist.

Rates

Pay sessions by credit card or in advance by e-transfer.
$225
for 50 minutes
$360 for 80 minutes

PACE

We usually collaborate weekly or bi-weekly. To keep care consistent, monthly sessions aren’t available for new clients.

Location

Clayre Sessoms, RP, CCC, ATR-BC sees clients across Canada. Laura Hoge, RSW, sees clients in Canada, plus MA, NJ, RI, and VT.

Insurance

Carefully consult your extended benefits plan to ensure it covers RPs, CCCs, or RSWs. We email a receipt for you to submit.

Cancellations

Your session time is reserved just for you. The session fee applies if you do not show or cancel with less than 24 hours’ notice.

The steady rhythm of care allows the deeper work to unfold.
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INDIVIDUAL

INDIVIDUAL

Accessible Therapy

Care Within Reach

Each year, we offer one primary-site practicum student placement as part of our commitment to accessible and sustainable mental health care. Starting this May—in less than six weeks—Laith will offer reduced-fee, low-barrier therapy under the supervision of Laura Hoge, RSW. These sessions expand access to our warm, relational approach while allowing us to support one exceptional therapist at a time. We intentionally mentor one 2SLGBTQIA+ therapy student each year, with the hope that this care ripples outward — nurturing the kind of online therapist in Vancouver, BC, Canada who can offer others steadiness, dignity, and real care.

Access

Reduced-fee, low-barrier therapy is available with Laith for adults and older teens seeking more accessible mental health care. Offered through his supervised practicum with our practice, these sessions provide lower-cost support for stress, identity questions, relationships, life transitions, and systemic harm.

Approach

Laith offers a relational and culturally responsive approach shaped by his work in education, refugee resettlement services, and community care. Sessions move at a steady pace and focus on thoughtful conversation, reflection, and collaboration. Together, you can shape what support might look like.

Mentorship

Each student receives close supervision and steady mentorship throughout their training. We support students in building confidence, deepening their clinical voice, and growing into the therapist they are becoming. This approach helps strengthen relational mental health care in our communities.

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