In-Person Relationship Trauma Therapy

Service Description

This office has beautiful views and soundproofed rooms. It's a very calming place to heal. A relationship counselling appointment with Dr. Jem Tosh (they/she), a Chartered Member of the British Psychological Society, a Full Member of the Canadian Psychological Association, and a Registered Clinical Counsellor in British Columbia, Canada. Jem is a Doctor of Psychology, a therapist, an educator, consultant, and an award-winning researcher and author. Jem provides therapies that she has personally encountered during her own healing journey. They combine this knowledge from direct lived experience with an extensive career in research and years of working in a variety of clinical settings, to provide a deep and comprehensive understanding of violence, abuse, s*xual abuse, trauma, and healing. During relationship trauma counselling we explore how each partner's trauma is impacting on the relationship, and process it together using a combination of EMDR and OEI therapies. Reducing trauma triggers, emotional intensity, and transference, can help with communication, intimacy, emotional connectedness, and more. Diverse relationship structures (e.g. polyamory), queer relationships, and platonic relationships (e.g. friendships) welcome. Relationship counselling can also be combined with individual trauma therapy. Jem uses a non-pathologising, anti-oppressive, and affirming approach that is trauma-centred. She analyses trauma responses as functional behaviours developed for survival, and works with clients to adapt or reduce responses that have become difficult or harmful over time. Available to adult residents of British Columbia, Canada only.