Kayla Chambers (she/her) Registered Pyschotherapist (Qualifying), ExAT, SEP® (in training), MA, BMus : Psychotherapy
I am available for Friday appointments at this time. For a complimentary phone or zoom consultation, please contact me at:
Email: kc.somaticartstherapy@gmail.com
Telephone: 1-647-872-4480
Website: www.kchambers.ca
Affordable Therapy Network Listing: https://bit.ly/3Idp9n2
Psychology Today Listing: https://bit.ly/3RPwNHO
Hi there! My name is Kayla (she/her). I am a psychotherapist who helps folks transform trauma in order to deepen experiences of presence and connection. My practice uses an experiential approach drawn from somatic, expressive arts, and relational psychotherapies.
I am passionate about this work because I believe fully in our embodied potential for healing through creative connection. Within my own life, and throughout my career I have witnessed how attending to our bodies through the arts can ease symptoms of trauma and open up space for co-creating safe-enough and vibrant relationships.
While our world is full of incredible beauty, it is also full of big and small forms of trauma. Trauma emerges from our body’s protective responses during overwhelming events, and also from internalizing patterns of survival within the inequities (and many embedded “isms”) of a colonial-capitalist society.
I offer somatic expressive arts therapy as an imaginative and experiential way of “being-with” in a therapeutic relationship. Through a relational “low-skill, high-sensitivity” engagement with the arts process (experimenting together with visual art, sound, voice, movement, writing, storytelling, and other art forms) we can access our rich creative resources, support our somatic aliveness, and reshape patterns of connecting with ourselves and others. No previous body- or arts-based experience is required, only a spark of curiosity to try a new way of doing therapy together.
In Spring/Summer 2023 I am excited to add outdoors/eco-therapy to my offerings, integrating
I am available for Friday appointments at this time. For a complimentary phone or zoom consultation, please contact me at:
Email: kc.somaticartstherapy@gmail.com
Telephone: 1-647-872-4480
Website: www.kchambers.ca
Affordable Therapy Network Listing: https://bit.ly/3Idp9n2
Psychology Today Listing: https://bit.ly/3RPwNHO
Hi there! My name is Kayla (she/her). I am a psychotherapist who helps folks transform trauma in order to deepen experiences of presence and connection. My practice uses an experiential approach drawn from somatic, expressive arts, and relational psychotherapies.
I am passionate about this work because I believe fully in our embodied potential for healing through creative connection. Within my own life, and throughout my career I have witnessed how attending to our bodies through the arts can ease symptoms of trauma and open up space for co-creating safe-enough and vibrant relationships.
While our world is full of incredible beauty, it is also full of big and small forms of trauma. Trauma emerges from our body’s protective responses during overwhelming events, and also from internalizing patterns of survival within the inequities (and many embedded “isms”) of a colonial-capitalist society.
I offer somatic expressive arts therapy as an imaginative and experiential way of “being-with” in a therapeutic relationship. Through a relational “low-skill, high-sensitivity” engagement with the arts process (experimenting together with visual art, sound, voice, movement, writing, storytelling, and other art forms) we can access our rich creative resources, support our somatic aliveness, and reshape patterns of connecting with ourselves and others. No previous body- or arts-based experience is required, only a spark of curiosity to try a new way of doing therapy together.
In Spring/Summer 2023 I am excited to add outdoors/eco-therapy to my offerings, integrating
somatic and expressive arts approaches alongside therapeutic connection with the natural world.
- Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) - College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario
- Diploma in Expressive Arts Therapy (3 Year Graduate-Level Training) - The CREATE Institute
- Somatic Experiencing Professional Training (Intermediate Level student - 2 years completed out of 3 year training program)
- Additional Courses in Walk-And-Talk Ecotherapy, Motivational Interviewing, Suicide Prevention (ASIST, SafeTalk), Non-Violent Crisis Intervention (CPI), Mental Health First Aid, Anti-Oppression, Anti-Racism, Harm Reduction
- 12+ years of community-based counselling, group facilitation, and crisis intervention experience.