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Online EMDR & Trauma Psychotherapy in Ontario
Virtual therapy across Ontario, Newfoundland & Labrador, Ireland & the United Kingdom.
Trauma-informed, neurodivergent-affirming & mind-body psychotherapy integrating EMDR therapy, Internal Family Systems, & nervous-system approaches.
For deeper healing - that lasts.
Meet Charlie,
EMDR Therapist & Registered Psychotherapist | Trauma, ADHD & Autism-Informed Therapy for Adults
I’m Charlie, a Registered Psychotherapist and EMDRIA-Approved/Trained EMDR therapist offering online therapy for adults.
I specialize in trauma-informed, neurodiversity-affirming therapy, with a particular focus on supporting adults with ADHD and Autism, alongside trauma, anxiety, burnout, and emotional regulation.
My approach integrates EMDR with nervous-system and body-based therapies to help you understand what’s happening beneath the surface and create meaningful change.
Trauma-informed therapy for anxiety, burnout, ADHD & Autism, and more: with a nervous-system-informed approach.
Virtual Therapy means you can access therapy without the added commute time, hassle and cost - and join from wherever is most comfortable or convenient for you!
What can we work on together?
Affirming & Compassionate Care:
ADHD
Autism
Anxiety
Burnout
Chronic Pain & Fatigue
Coping Skills
Disability Allied
Gender
Grief
Life Transitions
Neurodivergence
Physical Symptoms
Regulation
Relationship Issues
Self Esteem
Spirituality
Sports Performance
Stress
Trauma
Women's Issues
Queer Allied
Racial Justice Allied
What kinds of therapy can we work with?
Primary Therapy Modalities:
Other Integrated Approaches:
Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR)
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Attachment
Nervous-
System Regulation (Polyvagal)
Breathwork
Compassion Focused
Culturally Sensitive
Emotionally-Focused Therapy
DBT Skills
Mindfulness-Based
Multicultural
Nature & Eco-Therapy
Social Justice Centered
Somatics
Strength-Based
The mind and body are deeply interconnected.
Our thoughts, emotions, memories, and experiences can influence the body and nervous system, while what happens in our bodies can also affect how we think, feel, and respond.
This is why I take a mind-body approach to therapy, integrating EMDR, IFS, somatic therapy, and nervous-system regulation.
We explore what may be happening beneath the surface while developing practical tools to understand your patterns, regulate your nervous system, and feel more grounded.
How I work:
Outside of therapy, I'm a passionate freediver and instructor.
Freediving has taught me firsthand how closely the mind and body are connected - and how much our nervous system influences what we believe we're capable of.
Learning to stay calm, regulate fear, and remain present in challenging situations has shaped how I understand nervous-system regulation in my own life and in my work with clients.
I love freediving because it requires something that also matters deeply in therapy: learning to listen to your body, notice what your nervous system is doing, and find calm without forcing it.
Complementary Skills & Experience:
Therapeutic Approaches & Modalities
Virtual Therapy Sessions, Locations & Fees
Free Virtual Consultation
No cost, 15 minutes.
Book a free 15-minute video consultation to see if you think our work together would fit your needs.
Full Online Therapy Session
Sessions are Virtual
Standard or EMDR Therapy session
50 minutes, $170
(no tax added. Canadian Fee)
I offer online psychotherapy sessions to therapy participants who are in Canada, Ireland or the UK
Extended EMDR Therapy Session
EMDR Virtual Therapy
Optional Extended EMDR Therapy
Intensive Session
80 minutes, $240
(no tax added. Canadian fee)
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More About Your Therapist:
Welcome to this space where we make room for what lies beneath the surface.
As a Registered Psychotherapist I specialize in working with adults experiencing anxiety, trauma, burnout, emotional dysregulation & overwhelm, and the many ways stress can affect the body and mind. I also specialize in and offer neurodivergent-affirming psychotherapy for adults with suspected or diagnosed ADHD or Autism.
We go beyond talk therapy. I integrate EMDR therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), nervous-system regulation (polyvagal), attachment-focused therapy, mindfulness, breathwork, and somatic approaches.
My approach is collaborative, trauma-informed, and rooted in the understanding that your experiences, body, nervous system, relationships, and environment are interconnected.
Together, we explore what may be happening beneath the surface while developing practical tools to help you regulate, cope with challenges, and feel more grounded and connected to yourself.
Therapy is not about fitting you into a particular approach. We work collaboratively to find what works for you. I will offer tools to support you through the challenges you are facing while also making room for you to discover and connect with the wisdom, strengths, and capacity you already carry within you.
My practice often supports people experiencing anxiety, chronic stress, burnout, exhaustion, emotional dysregulation, relationship struggles, low self-esteem, muscle tension, headaches, IBS and digestive concerns, chronic pain, and other physical or emotional experiences that may be related to or intensified by stress and trauma.
I believe therapy should be accessible, compassionate, socially just, culturally responsive, racially allied, neurodivergent-affirming, and affirming of diverse sexual and gender identities. I have 15 years experience in humanitarian and social work that feeds into my psychotherapy practice. My practice is rooted in trauma-informed, anti-oppressive, and pro-liberation principles, including ongoing efforts to decolonize psychotherapy. I remain open to accountability and continued learning in this work.
I will help you find your breath, find your grounding, and develop tools to support the goals that matter to you.
We meet online, making virtual psychotherapy accessible wherever you are.
CLICK HERE to book a FREE 15-Minute Virtual Consultation if you would like to see if we are a good fit to work together on whatever it is you are looking for support with.
I look forward to meeting you.
Charlie (Carolyn) Gray, she/her
Registered Psychotherapist, College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO)
Canadian Certified Counsellor, Canadian Counselling & Psychotherapy Association (CCPA)
EMDR Canada Member, Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing International Association (EMDRIA)
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Land Acknowledgement
Affirming, Culturally Responsive & Anti-Oppressive Care
"The trees act not as individuals, but somehow as a collective. Exactly how they do this, we don’t yet know. But what we see is the power of unity. What happens to one happens to us all. We can starve together or feast together.”
― Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer, Potawatomi
"Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect."
― Chief Seattle, Duwamish
No one lives in a vacuum, and neither does our mental health... In the west, we tend to still be entrenched in cultural worldviews that understand humans to exist as individuals without much mutual impact to one another or their environments. More and more western scientific research understands this to be false, while traditional ways of knowing have understood the interconnectedness – the wholeness – of all things for a very long time. As we cannot understand our mental health by only looking at our brain and must include the interwovenness of the whole bodily system, we also cannot understand our health as an individuals without considering our lives within the living organisms of the collective, of our natural world. This includes systems of oppression, our intersections of identities, our relationships, our ansestors and collective traumas and triumphs. I am a caucasian (mixed European heritage), neurodivergent, cis-gendered, queer, able-bodied woman, and was born, raised, educated, and have worked on the traditional Turtle Island territories (aka Canada) of the Anishinaabe, Wyandot, Haudenosaunee, Attiwonderonk, and Mississaugas of the Credit First Nations peoples, under the treaties of Treaty 3, 13A, 19, The Haldimand Treaty, and the Williams Treaty. I currently work primarily online, based between the traditional territories of the Muzziena Bedouin Tribe of South Sinai, and the Irish lands of the Republic of Ireland with longstanding Indigenous roots. As a practitioner, I recognize the vital importance of land and its history for therapy participants, my communities, and my own life. As a therapist, I often incorporate nature-based practices. As an ally I have a responsibility to honour the stories, peoples, and creatures of the lands we occupy, our interconnectedness within the natural world. I welcome my duty to continuously self-reflect and maintain relationship and ongoing education in efforts to seek less harm in the ever-present impacts of capitalism and white supremacy. My practice seeks to be trauma-informed, socially just, accessible, culturally responsive, rooted in efforts to decolonize the practice of psychotherapy. I am open to accountability in these efforts. Resources: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/17465709 Indigenous Healing: Exploring Traditional Paths, Rupert Ross https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/392410/indigenous-healing-by-rupert-ross/9780143191100 Decolonizing Therapy, Dr. Jennifer Mullan https://www.decolonizingtherapy.com/ Territory Acknowledgement https://native-land.ca/resources/territory-acknowledgement/
