PTSD Therapy in Toronto
After a traumatic experience, it’s normal to feel shaken for a while. For some people, though, the reactions don’t fade. Memories intrude without warning, sleep is disrupted, and everyday life shrinks around avoiding reminders. This may be post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and evidence-based therapy can help.
Kalm Wellness Therapy offers PTSD therapy at our North York office on Lawrence Avenue West and through secure online sessions for clients across Canada.
After a traumatic experience, it’s normal to feel shaken for a while. For some people, though, the reactions don’t fade. Memories intrude without warning, sleep is disrupted, and everyday life shrinks around avoiding reminders. This may be post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and evidence-based therapy can help.
Kalm Wellness Therapy offers PTSD therapy at our North York office on Lawrence Avenue West and through secure online sessions for clients across Canada.
Who PTSD therapy is for
PTSD can develop after directly experiencing or witnessing events such as:
- Car accidents and other motor vehicle collisions
- Physical or sexual assault
- Workplace injuries or critical incidents
- Medical emergencies, difficult births or reproductive trauma
- Abuse in a relationship, including narcissistic or antagonistic abuse
- The sudden or violent death of someone close
- Childhood abuse, ongoing violence or war and displacement
You don’t need a formal diagnosis to reach out. If something that happened still feels as if it’s happening now, it’s worth talking about.
Common signs of PTSD
- Re-experiencing: flashbacks, nightmares, intrusive memories, or intense reactions to reminders
- Avoidance: staying away from places, people, conversations or feelings linked to the event
- Changes in thoughts and mood: guilt, shame, blame, numbness, or feeling detached or unsafe
- Feeling on alert: jumpiness, irritability, trouble concentrating or difficulty sleeping
These reactions are the mind and body trying to protect you. Therapy helps them settle so you can feel more like yourself again.
Approaches we use
Our PTSD therapists use several evidence-based and trauma-informed approaches, chosen with you:
- Exposure therapy for PTSD: Prolonged Exposure, offered by Kayla Schofield, helps you gradually and safely approach trauma memories and avoided situations, so they lose some of their power.
- Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT): this approach identifies and reworks “stuck points”, the beliefs about safety, trust, blame and control that formed after the trauma.
- EMDR: reprocesses distressing memories using bilateral stimulation, including R-TEP and G-TEP protocols for more recent events.
- Polyvagal-informed therapy and DBT skills: these help settle the nervous system and manage intense emotions.
- IFS and trauma-informed care: gentle work with protective responses, especially for complex or relational trauma.
For more on EMDR and broader trauma support, see our Trauma Therapy & EMDR page.
What sessions involve
Your first sessions focus on safety and understanding: what happened (only as much as you want to share), how symptoms affect your life now, and what you’d like to be different. Your therapist will explain the treatment options and help you choose one that fits. Most PTSD therapy starts by building grounding and coping skills. Trauma-focused work happens at a pace you agree to, with regular check-ins, and you can slow down or pause at any point. Results vary from person to person, and your therapist will review progress with you along the way.
Therapists who offer PTSD therapy
- Kayla Schofield, RP (Founder): trained in Prolonged Exposure therapy for PTSD; also EMDR (including R-TEP and G-TEP), Blink and IFS for traumatic events, workplace injuries, bullying and childhood trauma; late teens and adults
- Tara Fiodorwicz, RP: Cognitive Processing Therapy and polyvagal therapy for PTSD, relational trauma, reproductive trauma, and narcissistic or antagonistic abuse; adults and couples
- Ahsen Ayan, RSW: EMDR and trauma-focused therapy for PTSD, motor vehicle accident trauma, medical trauma and adolescent trauma; teens and adults; English and Turkish
Read full profiles on Meet the Kalm Team.
In person or online
Meet at our Toronto office, see in-person therapy, or from home through virtual therapy, available across Canada. Many trauma therapies can be delivered effectively online. Your therapist can help you decide what feels safest.
How to book
Start with a free consultation to find the right therapist and approach. You can book a free consultation online, call 647-250-4308, or send a message through our contact page.
Address: 534 Lawrence Ave W, Suite 221B, Toronto (North York), above the Scotiabank.
All Kalm Wellness Therapy therapists are regulated by their respective professional colleges, such as the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO) and the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers (OCSWSSW).
If you are in crisis or at risk of harm, call or text 9-8-8 or go to your nearest emergency department.