I see a human
October 15, 2022
I see a human being standing in front of me. What do you see? The routine of getting ready for work takes daily effort and
Larisa serves young people, adults and families who have experienced intergenerational, developmental, pre-verbal and birth trauma and as a result are experiencing significant challenges with daily living. Larisa also serves professionals in service to others fields and SEP students through personal sessions at the beginning level.
Larisa completed the Somatic Experiencing Program in April 2024. She is currently a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. She completed the Tao of Trauma (TOT)program in September 2025. These trainings provided Larisa with a therapeutic framework to support the adults, families and young people she serves to heal/resolve the patterns of trauma and grief in their body. These patterns of trauma and grief often create significant challenges in daily living. Anxiety, addiction, significant relationship struggles, depression, thoughts of dying by suicide, hoarding, isolation, chronic illness are some of the challenges the people Larisa serves face. She understands that the people she serves are experts on who they are and what it is like to be who they are. She also understands that the people she serves will teach her how to best support them. She believes in the body's natural ability to heal from trauma. Larisa has supported people who have experienced pre-verbal, relational, intergenerational and developmental trauma throughout her entire professional career. She has completed and continues to complete training programs that have given her the knowledge and expertise needed to walk with people as they resolve the trauma and grief patterns in their bodies.
Many of the people Larisa serves have difficulty meeting in an office. Early in her career Larisa learned that being with people she serves in nature provides something different then the conventional model of office based therapeutic practice. The impact of nature on humans is restorative, compassionate, wild, energizing, inspiring, enduring....Nature provides healing, fun, joy, introspection, fitness, nurture, food, well-being, stress reduction, oxygen, support for all of our senses, light and dark. I would imagine you could find your own list of the impact nature has on you?! For this reason, Larisa uses forest hikes, cross country skiing, sitting on a bench with tea, forest bathing and outdoor play in her counselling sessions. Enjoy a hike, tea and watching a stream, a ski or a nature activity you find helpful during a counselling session. Larisa weaves together nature's natural support and somatic practices. She understands Earth's classroom is a gift worth experiencing. A gift that can heal and soothe patterns of pain.
The word soma means body. This form of counselling, somatic, helps individuals to learn to listen to their body by understanding their physiological responses and nervous system and in listening provides a persons body the ability to renegotiate patterns of trauma. To support this process of listening to one's body, Larisa uses mindfulness practices, counselling methodology, reiki, hikes in nature, meditation, Quigong, Yoga and a program called Somatic Experiencing. Larisa completed the Somatic Experiencing program in April 2024. She is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. She completed the Tao of Trauma program in September 2025. These certifications and somatic practices help the people she serves experience themselves in a new way and yet familiar way and help their body to heal and resolve patterns of trauma. Larisa provides somatic experiencing, nature based counselling and counselling therapy to young people 12-18, to adults, to families, to SEP students through personal sessions at the beginning level and to service to others professionals. She supports people who have experienced developmental trauma, relational trauma, pre-verbal trauma and/or intergenerational trauma. Larisa believes in a client centred, relational approach. She hikes with the people she serves, offers yoga postures, reiki and mindfulness strategies, somatic experiencing as a way to support learning and the resolution of patterns of pain and re-discover themselves. Larisa believes in the bodies natural ability to heal and resolves patterns of trauma and grief.
Larisa has had extensive experience working with children, youth and families who have experienced events in their lives that were too much, happened to quickly and didn't have adequate support. Larisa invites people who have experienced relational, developmental, intergenerational or pre-verbal trauma, people who struggle with hoarding, people who have experienced acts of violence and hate, people who have experienced religious or spiritual abuse, people who find somatic and spiritual practices helpful and would like to use their spirituality in their healing and she invites professionals who serve other people to reach out, plan a consultation and possibly try a counselling session. Larisa believes in the people she serves and understands a human beings natural ability to heal from trauma.
I see a human being standing in front of me. What do you see? The routine of getting ready for work takes daily effort and
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