Somatic therapy online across Ontario
Somatic work is the foundation here. Sessions stay with sensation, breath, and nervous system regulation so change becomes something you feel in your body, not only something you understand about yourself.
- Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), CRPO #22667
- Extended health receipts provided
- Trauma-informed, paced to your nervous system
Somatic Therapy at a glance
- Format
- Online video, one to one
- Session length
- 50 minutes
- Fee
- $190 per sessionSliding scale, limited
- Insurance
- Receipt providedCoverage varies by plan
- Availability
- Book onlineFree 20-min call first
- Best for
- Chronic tension, numbness, overwhelm
Does this sound familiar?
Talking about what happened can only take you so far when the bracing, numbness, or hypervigilance still lives in your nervous system.
You can't switch your mind off at night
You feel braced for something you can't name
Regulation techniques only work for about an hour
You live with chronic tension or shallow breath
You feel slightly outside yourself much of the time
Earlier therapy gave language, but not much daily change
None of that is a failure of effort. A nervous system that learned to brace does not unlearn it because you understood why it started.
That gap, between knowing and feeling, is where this work begins.
Wondering if your nervous system is stuck in overdrive? Take the 2-minute quiz.
Take the quizWhat somatic therapy actually is here
Somatic therapy is body-based psychotherapy. Alongside talking, the therapist tracks what your nervous system is doing, such as bracing, flattening, scanning or holding breath, and works with that directly, so change registers as a felt shift rather than only as a new explanation.
Somatic therapy works with what your body is already doing (bracing, flattening, scanning, holding breath) rather than treating those signals as background noise while you talk about the story. Insight can be clear and still leave the same tightness in the chest, the same evening collapse, the same sense that you understand yourself and nothing has moved.
At Silver Owl Therapy, sessions stay with sensation, pace, and relationship. We notice what happens when a memory, a relationship, or a present-day trigger enters the room, and we stay close enough to that response that your nervous system can register something different than the old pattern of pushing through or disappearing.
This is not a protocol you perform. It is a way of listening that treats the body as a primary source of information, not as an afterthought to cognition.
Your body is not an obstacle to the work. It is where the work happens.
How a somatic session usually moves
Movements, not steps to complete. Sessions rarely run in a straight line.
Arrive and orient
We begin with where you are, mood, body, what is alive this week, without forcing a topic. Orientation itself is part of the work when your system learned to skip over itself.
Track what shows up
As something meaningful enters, we notice sensation, impulse, image, or a shift in breath. The point is not to analyze it away; it is to stay with what is tolerable and real.
Stay inside a workable window
If activation rises too quickly, we slow down, widen attention, or return to something steadier. Pace is clinical, not decorative. Overwhelm is not progress.
Close with enough ground
Sessions end with enough settling that you can leave without feeling ripped open. Integration continues between sessions in ordinary life, not only in insight.
Who somatic work tends to fit
Read both lists with somatic work in mind. A mismatch here usually shows up as stalled work rather than sudden relief.
This is likely a good fit if
- You can explain your patterns clearly and still feel stuck in the same body states
- Regulation tools help briefly, then the bracing or numbness returns
- Earlier therapy gave language without much change in how you actually feel day to day
- You live with chronic tension, shallow breath, or a sense of being slightly outside yourself
- You want trauma-informed work that does not rush you into catharsis or performance
- You are open to going slowly enough that your system can stay present
This is probably not the right fit if
- You are looking for intense, cathartic processing as quickly as possible
- You need in-person sessions. This is a virtual practice with no physical office
- You are in crisis or need urgent care, which this practice is not set up to provide
If you are in crisis or thinking about suicide, call or text 9-8-8 in Canada, or call 911 in an emergency. Those services are available 24 hours a day.
What often begins to shift
Change here is gradual and individual. Nothing on this page is promised as a finish line.
People often notice they can feel a sensation without immediately fixing it, narrating it, or leaving themselves. That small capacity, staying, is where more lasting change tends to grow.
Over time, the gap between knowing and feeling can narrow. Rest may become slightly more available. Relationships may feel less like constant management. None of this arrives on a schedule, and it is not promised as a finish line.
The work aims toward a body that can register safety enough to stop running the same survival script as default, not toward a permanently calm nervous system or a perfected self.
Earlier noticing
You may catch bracing or collapse sooner, while there is still room to respond differently.
Rest that restores
Evenings and weekends may restore a little more than they used to.
Steadier contact
Being close to people may take less monitoring, and cost less effort.
Doing this work online
Somatic tracking translates well over video when the pace stays careful and the therapist is watching for subtle shifts, not only listening to words. Sessions are offered online across Ontario from this virtual practice.
Fully virtual
Sessions are offered online across Ontario from this virtual practice, on a secure online telehealth platform with nothing to download.
What you need
A private spot where you can speak freely and notice yourself without performing for the screen. Headphones help; a polished setup does not matter.
After each session
A receipt is issued showing the service and CRPO registration, for submission to your insurer.
Fees and receipts
20-minute consultation
A free 20-minute call is enough to see if this work fits. No commitment either way.
Individual session
Per 50-minute session, on a secure online telehealth platform. Payment is due on the day of the session.
Insurance
Issued after every session with the practitioner's CRPO registration. Confirm coverage for a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) with your insurer first.
The practice does not bill insurers directly. A limited number of sliding scale spots open as current clients finish; ask on your free call. Cancellation terms are on the fees page and apply to every service.
Common questions
Is somatic therapy the same as mindfulness or yoga?
No. Mindfulness and movement practices can support regulation, but somatic therapy here is clinical psychotherapy that works with trauma patterning, attachment, and present-moment nervous system responses in relationship with a therapist.
Do I have to close my eyes or do body scans?
Not as a rule. Some people track sensation with eyes open, through movement, breath, or image. We use what your system can actually tolerate, not a fixed exercise list.
I already understand my trauma. Will this still help?
Understanding is useful and often incomplete when the body still runs old survival patterns. Somatic work is specifically for that gap between insight and lived change, without guaranteeing outcomes.
Will sessions feel intense or flooded?
Intensity is not the goal. We stay inside a window where you can remain present. If something starts to overwhelm, we slow down. Flooding is not framed as deeper work.
How does this relate to NARM or expressive arts?
Somatic tracking is the foundation. NARM and expressive arts may enter when they fit the material, developmental survival patterns, or experience that will not stay in talk alone, without becoming a rigid package.
How many sessions will I need?
There is no set number, and any specific promise would be inaccurate. Most people meet weekly at first so the work has continuity, then review together. Some notice shifts after a handful of sessions; patterns rooted in early or complex trauma usually need longer, because a nervous system reads rushing as danger.
Can I claim sessions through my insurance?
A receipt is issued after every session showing the service and the practitioner's CRPO registration. Whether it is reimbursed depends on your plan: coverage for a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) varies between insurers, so confirm that wording with your provider before you book.
Where people go next
Ready to stop managing and start healing?
A free 20-minute call is enough to see if this work fits. No commitment either way.