Adult Therapy

Your system deserves space.

• Maybe you may have been carrying a lot, and for a long time.

• Or maybe you have been working on yourself and feel like it's time to try something different.

• Perhaps something happened recently that clicked for you and now it's "your time" to do this. ​

 

Whatever you are bringing you are welcome here!

 

We specialize in trauma therapy and relationship therapy. Our caring team is here to support you with life’s hardest moments, past or present, with warmth and expertise. And we work collaboratively with you to find the approach that feels most safe, effective and aligned for your system.

 

Why Therapy?

Adult therapy offers a space where you don’t have to “perform” resilience. A space where you can relax into curiosity, honesty and healing.

 

Rooted in trauma science, attachment, and the wisdom of the nervous system, our approaches are relational, body-based and always paced with consent and care.

 

What We Help With

Our team works with adults across a wide range of concerns, including:

• Trauma and Complex PTSD

• Childhood abuse, neglect, or parentification

• Sexual harm or boundary violations

• Anxiety, panic attacks, and chronic stress

• Depression, burnout, and emotional numbness

• Low self-worth and inner criticism

• Reconnecting with your body

• Regulating your nervous system

• Navigating a personality disorder diagnosis

• Relationship issues, infidelity, or betrayal trauma

• Neurodivergence - including late diagnosis

• Parenting pressures

• Identity, life transitions, and self-discovery

• People-pleasing, fawning, and codependency

• Family dynamics, enmeshment, or estrangement

• Navigating divorce, separation

• Grief, loss

• and more...

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Why Choose Making Space Psychotherapy?

Our clinic is rooted in trauma-informed, relational and anti-oppressive approaches. We centre safety, consent and your unique story. Our therapists bring deep clinical knowledge, lived experience and a heartfelt commitment to supporting you (and in a personalized way). 

 

How We Work

We use trauma, attachment and mind-body approaches so that healing isn’t just about “thinking your way through” but also feeling your way back into yourself to find true healing.

 

Some of the modalities our adult therapy team may draw from include:

• Internal Family Systems (IFS) -- meet your inner world with compassion and honour how you cope

• EMDR & Attachment-Focused (AF-EMDR) -- processing trauma and stuck memories while anchored safely in the present

• Brainspotting -- using eye positions and body awareness to access and release deeper layers of trauma and emotion

• Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) -- supporting safer emotional connection, particularly in how you relate to others and yourself

• Sensorimotor Psychotherapy -- tracking body impulses, movement and nervous system activation to complete survival responses

• Trauma Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST) -- combining parts-work and somatic awareness specifically for complex trauma and dissociation

• Somatic Therapy & Polyvagal-Informed Work -- helping your body shift from survival states into greater safety and regulation

• Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)–Informed Skills -- building emotional regulation, distress tolerance and safer coping tools

• Adult Play Therapy -- re-awakening creativity, emotional expression and relational repair through safe, imaginative exploration.

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What to Expect

You deserve to be held in your pain. You deserve to be met with curiosity, not judgment. And you deserve support that sees your wholeness, not just your symptoms.

 

At Making Space Psychotherapy, we believe healing isn’t just about surviving, it’s about returning to yourself, reclaiming your voice and learning to feel safe, soft and strong all at once. 

Together, let’s make space for your healing.
 

Therapy for adults in Hamilton, Burlington, and online across Ontario (and Canada, just ask!).