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into this feeling
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no beginning
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Somatic Therapy
Something Softer
Something Softer specializes in Somatic Therapy. Through this approach, you attune to and merge your body and mind’s wise signals. Whatever the challenge is that you are facing, it is worthy of support and it is possible to create change and relief.
Through online counselling and in-person appointments, we come together so you can be supported with all your emotions, habits, shadows, needs and aspirations.
Your willingness to search is evidence of your heartfelt need for support. You can acknowledge how you feel, what you need and how you can dive into deepening your self-understanding.
Therapeutic Counsellor
Sandra Stephanson (RTC)
As a registered therapeutic counsellor, Sandra draws upon 30 years of experience in mind, body and spiritual practices to support you in your emotional awareness and growth. As your compassionate support through therapy, Sandra reveals your natural capacity to move with the ever present changes and challenges of life.
After receiving her diploma in Professional Counselling, Sandra established Something Softer, which highlights holistic healing through your awareness and contemplation. It is a trauma-informed practice that combines Somatic Therapy, Mindfulness Based Practices and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
Sessions can be billable to insurance/extended medical.
"No one really saves us
in this world.
But people give us tools
so that we can transform
our own rescue."
Ocean Vuong
Somatic Therapy is an approach to counselling that combines body awareness and wise analysis to inform long-term healing and trauma recovery. (Harvard Health, 2023).
By diving deeper into your story:
- You bring your mind to the awareness of what you feel.
- You sense your feelings and integrate emotions.
- Learn how to respond to the inevitable changes of life and expand self-understanding.
This is an integrative trauma-informed therapy practice that combines Somatic Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and mindfulness practices.
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Sandra Stephanson
Registered Therapeutic Counsellor (RTC)
Sandra’s counselling practice emerged from insights into pain from illness, grief and loss. She realized that during the times of greatest stress, we have rarely learned how to be with and absorb the intelligence of our emotions and thoughts. Through life experience, studying and practicing, she learned that exploring the depths of what we think and feel can help us find an inner balance – again and again. This gives us an opportunity to accept our humanness, our unique history and create space for growth. We are the keys to open our well-being.
After earning her diploma in Professional Counselling, Sandra established Something Softer, an integrative therapy practice that combines Somatic Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, and Mindfulness Based Practices.
The Art of Understanding
“The process of discovery is the endless spring of creativity, always bright, fresh brimming with life. Where it comes from is not too important. What matters is that it’s already present in each one of us, waiting to be uncovered. Ultimately, engaging the artless arts means to see into one’s own heart and mind, and to bring to life that which is realized.”
John Daido Loori, The Zen of Creativity
