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Trauma & PTSD Support

Trauma can affect how you experience safety, trust, connection, and even your sense of self long after the experience has passed. At Sao Therapy, we offer a supportive space to understand how trauma may still be showing up in your thoughts, emotions, relationships, and body. Our goal is to help you reconnect with the present, build a greater sense of safety, and move through life with more trust, choice, and self-compassion.

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HOW CAN THERAPY HELP?

Help your mind and body recognize that the present can be different from the past:

Therapy can help you understand how trauma continues to shape your thoughts, emotions, relationships, and sense of safety. Together, we can gently process painful experiences, support the parts of you that learned to protect you, and build greater connection to the present. The goal is to help you feel more grounded, empowered, and able to move through life with greater trust in yourself.

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WHAT TREATMENT COULD LOOK LIKE

Treatment may focus on helping you understand how trauma continues to show up in your mind, body, relationships, and sense of safety. Your care will move at a pace that feels manageable, with space to build trust, grounding, and connection to the present. Explore the topics below to learn more. Some resources are available now, with more coming soon.
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Internal Family Systems (IFS)

Get to know the parts of you that learned to protect you through trauma—and help them recognize that the present may be safer now.
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Somatic Therapy

Notice how trauma is held in the body and gently build a greater sense of safety, regulation, and connection to the present.
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Narrative Therapy

Explore the stories trauma has shaped about you—and make room for a sense of self that is not defined by what happened.
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Understanding trauma responses and triggers

Understand how your mind and body learned to respond to danger—and recognize what may be activating those responses in the present.
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Processing painful memories at a tolerable pace

Make space for painful memories without pushing yourself beyond what feels safe or manageable.
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Rebuilding connection in relationships

Rebuild trust, safety, and connection in relationships after trauma has made closeness feel difficult.

You are more than what happened to you, and healing does not have to happen all at once.

We’d be happy to connect you with a clinician who can support you in rebuilding safety, trust, and connection.

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.

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