Trauma Informed Emotion Focused Therapy in Ottawa
EFT Therapy to feel more connected to yourself, your relationships, and the life you want to build.
Are you feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, or stuck in patterns that no longer serve you?
At Felt Sense Psychotherapy, we provide compassionate, trauma-informed psychotherapy and counselling for individuals, couples, and families in Ottawa’s west end and virtually across Ontario.
Our team supports clients navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship challenges, neurodivergence, grief, burnout, addictions, life transitions, and other experiences that can make it difficult to feel grounded, connected, or fully yourself.
Together, we will create a safe, supportive, and collaborative space where you can deepen self-awareness, cultivate self-compassion, and reconnect with your authentic self. Healing is about more than understanding your patterns intellectually. Lasting change happens through new experiences that are felt in the body and within the safety of a trusting therapeutic relationship.
As we gently explore your emotions, physical sensations, and inner wisdom, you will learn to listen to your body’s felt sense and discover new ways of relating to yourself and others. These experiences can help soften long standing patterns, build greater resilience, and create meaningful shifts that feel authentic and sustainable. Over time, you can develop relationships that are more connected, grounded, and fulfilling while feeling more at home within yourself.
You may understand why you feel this way and still struggle to change it.
Many people come to therapy with a great deal of insight. You may already recognize your patterns, understand where they began, and know what you would like to do differently.
But knowing why something is happening does not always make it easier to change.
Lasting healing often requires more than talking about your experiences. It happens as your thoughts, emotions, body, relationships, and nervous system begin to work together in new ways.
At Felt Sense Psychotherapy, our work is relational, emotion-focused, and trauma-informed and culturally responsive. We help you move beyond intellectual understanding so you can safely experience, process, and respond to emotions and experiences differently.
Together, we create the conditions for meaningful and lasting change.
Psychotherapy for Individuals, Couples, and Families
Individual psychotherapy can help you understand long-standing patterns, process difficult experiences, strengthen emotional regulation, and build a more compassionate relationship with yourself.
Our therapists support teens (13+) & adults navigating concerns such as anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, perfectionism, burnout, neurodivergence, addictions, body image, self-esteem, identity changes, and major life transitions.
Couples therapy provides a supportive space to understand recurring conflicts, strengthen emotional connection, communicate more openly, and respond to one another with greater empathy.
We help couples explore the emotions, attachment needs, protective reactions, and relationship patterns beneath the conflicts they experience.
Family therapy can help family members better understand one another, work through conflict, navigate transitions, and create healthier patterns of communication and connection.
Our therapists provide a collaborative space where each person’s experiences and needs can be explored with care.
Areas We Support
Our psychotherapy team works with clients navigating:
- Trauma and complex trauma
- Anxiety and depression
- ADHD and autism
- Relationship challenges and attachment wounds
- Grief and loss
- Perfectionism and burnout
- Eating disorders and body image concerns
- Substance use and addiction
- Emotional regulation difficulties
- Chronic stress and emotional overwhelm
- Military and Veteran mental health
- First responder stress and operational trauma
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women’s mental health concerns
- Life transitions and identity changes
We Are Not a Quick-Fix Therapy Clinic
Healing takes courage, curiosity, compassion, and time.
Our therapists can help you develop practical strategies, but our work does not stop at symptom management. We also explore the emotions, experiences, relationships, and protective patterns beneath what you are experiencing.
If you are ready to understand yourself more deeply, process what you have been carrying, and create change that reaches beyond the surface, we would be honoured to walk alongside you.
Because therapy is not about fixing what is broken.
It is about creating the conditions where healing can naturally unfold.
We’ll match you with the best therapist for you.
Beginning therapy can feel vulnerable, especially when you are not sure where to start or which therapist to choose.
We will help make the first step easier.
Tell us what you are looking for, and we will match you with a Felt Sense therapist whose experience, approach, availability, and personality may be the right fit for you.