Intergenerational Trauma Support
Intergenerational Trauma Therapy in Vancouver
Healing the patterns passed down across generations.
Intergenerational trauma is the way pain, fear, and survival strategies travel down through families—shaping how love, safety, and belonging are expressed long after the original hardship has passed. These inherited patterns often show up in the present as anxiety, people-pleasing, perfectionism, or a quiet sense of carrying something that was never yours to begin with. At Sao Therapy, intergenerational trauma therapy offers a safe, paced, and compassionate space—especially for children of immigrant parents—to understand where these patterns come from and to begin gently rewriting them.
How Therapy Can Help
What the work can look like
Together, we gently trace the patterns, beliefs, and survival strategies passed down through your family, and notice where they still live in you today. The work is paced and collaborative: building safety first, making sense of inherited pain, and slowly creating space for new, more compassionate ways of relating to yourself. As you learn to sit with and process difficult emotions, your inner healer grows—helping you move from avoidance toward lasting change, confidence, and choice.
Meet Your Therapist
Your therapist for this
Here's the member of our team who supports clients with intergenerational trauma.
Krista Sao
Founder
MACP, RCC
Depth-oriented work around inner child healing, intergenerational trauma, and the experiences of children of immigrant parents.
Read Krista’s bioBegin Your Journey
Ready to take the first step?
Currently accepting pre-teen, adolescent, and adult clients.
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