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Explore Your Strength.
Find Your Balance.

Trauma, Complex Trauma and
DBT Therapy for Emotional Resilience

Helping You Navigate The Impact of Trauma and Emotional Challenges

Pathfinders offer a confidential and supportive space to navigate past and present emotional and psychological challenges. Whether you're carrying the weight of early life adversities, managing the relentless stress of your career or personal life, or struggling with relationships, therapy can help you gain clarity, resilience, and balance. Prioritizing your well-being isn’t just for you; it creates a positive ripple effect in every aspect of your life.

How Therapy Can Guide Your Journey

Therapy is a regulated health service that helps you navigate emotional and psychological challenges. With the support of a licensed therapist, you can gain clarity, build resilience, and develop healthier ways to cope that can support lasting personal growth and well-being. This can help you create meaningful change that will improve your life.

Many employee benefit plans provide coverage for therapy, making it easier to prioritize your mental health and start your journey toward lasting transformation.

Areas We Specialize

At Pathfinders, we support adolescents (16+) and adults navigating trauma, complex and developmental trauma, and emotional challenges that can arise at any stage of life. Whether you’re healing from past experiences or struggling with intense emotions, anxiety, depression, or patterns of disconnection, your path forward matters.

We offer a steady, compassionate space to help you find direction, build resilience, and create meaningful change. Our work focuses on understanding the roots of your struggles, enhancing emotional regulation and coping skills, and helping you reconnect with your Wise Mind — the balanced, intuitive part of you that integrates reason and emotion. Grounded in trauma-focused, evidence-informed care, our approach supports deep healing, growth, and reconnection.

Fees

Therapy at Pathfinders is an investment in lasting healing and growth.
Individual sessions are $150 for 50 minutes, combining trauma-focused and DBT-informed approaches to support emotional regulation, resilience, and connection.

Payment is collected at each session, and receipts are provided for insurance reimbursement under social work or psychotherapy services. We do not direct bill insurance companies.

Sessions are offered in person in Waterloo and virtually across Ontario, giving you flexibility as you travel your path forward.

CONTACT

Considering Next Steps: Let's Explore What’s Possible Together

Taking the next step in your wellness journey is a courageous choice, especially if you are used to handling everything on your own. Finding the right support is essential, which is why we offer a free 15-minute consultation to explore whether this approach aligns with your needs.

During this conversation, we will talk about what brought you here, the challenges you are facing, and your goals for emotional and psychological well-being. Together, we will determine whether this approach is the right fit and begin outlining a personalized path forward.

This is also your opportunity to ask questions, gain insight into the therapeutic process, and understand the expert support available to help you find balance, resilience, clarity and growth.

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