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Intergeneration Trauma Support
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 CAN THERAPY HELP?
Explore the patterns your family carried and choose what you want to carry forward:
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.
WHAT TREATMENT COULD LOOK LIKE
Exploring family roles and expectations
Exploring culture, identity, and family history
You can honour where you come from without carrying every pattern forward.
We’d be happy to connect you with a clinician who can support you in creating something different for yourself and future generations.
We are NOT a crisis service. If you are in crisis, please call 911, go to your nearest emergency department, or dial 310-6789 in BC for urgent support.
