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About
Nadia Brabant
Nadia is a compassionate, calm, and intuitive therapist with 15 years of experience helping individuals and families overcome adversity and achieve greater wellness. Her approach to therapy is grounded in humanistic and anti-oppressive orientations, which seek to empower and move clients towards fulfilling their potential. Sessions may include conventional talk therapy, mindfulness, or art and play therapy depending on individual needs. She has extensive experience with attachment and trauma-informed therapies and has received formal training in Emotion Focused Therapy for Families, Brief Solution Focused therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, amongst others. Nadia offers a therapeutic space that is highly collaborative, respectful, and non-judgemental so that clients may feel at ease to explore their lives and break through what is holding them back.
Nadia holds an M.S.W. from York University, a B.S.W. from the University of Waterloo, as well as a B.F.A. from the University of Toronto where she played for the Varsity Blues Women’s hockey team. She is registered with the Ontario College of Social Workers. Nadia has been formally trained in EMDR Therapy. A lover of nature, art, and movement, her free time is invested mostly in spending quality time with her daughter, engaging in some culinary or artistic endeavour, or cycling somewhere outside of the city. Nadia is based in Toronto and offers services in French and English.
Service Overview
If you’re not sure how therapy works or which therapy service you need, you can book a 90-minute consultation to establish your needs and your goals, and to make a plan. We’ll ask questions and listen deeply and compassionately to your responses. The results may include a BPSH (biological, psychological and social history) write-up; results of clinical measures and social work diagnosis; a recommended treatment plan with me or another practitioner; and a vision for your health and healing that helps you feel empowered, not overwhelmed. We will also discuss what other advocacy and resources you’ll need, and the changes you can make in your life right away.
Many people are afraid to try therapy because of social or cultural stigmas, because they’re afraid of how they’ll feel, because they believe that their trauma is too big to overcome, or that healing might dishonour past loss. But the truth is, therapy is about working through trauma so that you can stop reliving painful experiences and instead be able to remember what happened with reverence and respect. You will gain insight, find your voice, learn to communicate in new ways and take the reins of life. In other words, you'll learn to let your negative experiences shape your life without controlling it.
Using EMDR, talk therapy, storytelling, self-compassion and forgiveness exploration among other interventions, I will help you to move from surviving to thriving by working together to define and achieve your mental health goals. We'll encourage you to step outside of your comfort zone in order to achieve results, but never outside your safety zone. You’ll move from post-traumatic stress to post-traumatic growth, giving you hope (and a plan!) for the future you deserve. No one is ever broken beyond repair.
Many people are afraid to try therapy because of social or cultural stigmas, because they’re afraid of how they’ll feel, because they believe that their trauma is too big to overcome, or that healing might dishonour past loss. But the truth is, therapy is about working through trauma so that you can stop reliving painful experiences and instead be able to remember what happened with reverence and respect. You will gain insight, find your voice, learn to communicate in new ways and take the reins of life. In other words, you'll learn to let your negative experiences shape your life without controlling it.
Using EMDR, talk therapy, storytelling, self-compassion and forgiveness exploration among other interventions, I will help you to move from surviving to thriving by working together to define and achieve your mental health goals. We'll encourage you to step outside of your comfort zone in order to achieve results, but never outside your safety zone. You’ll move from post-traumatic stress to post-traumatic growth, giving you hope (and a plan!) for the future you deserve. No one is ever broken beyond repair.
Nadia Brabant is a Certified EMDR Practitioner. Our primary goal is to guide individuals through a transformative journey of healing and recovery. With this powerful approach, we help my clients find relief from the grip of traumatic memories and distressing experiences that have held them back. EMDR therapy isn't a quick fix, but rather a transformative process that honours your unique experiences and strengths. We're honoured to walk this path with you, helping you rewrite the narrative of your life and guiding you toward a future that's marked by healing, growth, and resilience.
We also offer restorative dialogue facilitation for couples and families who aim to develop healthier relationships, peacefully close or change relationships, overcome hurts, offer apologies and achieve forgiveness. This process usually involves meeting with each individual a few times to set goals and prepare to come into safe and structured dialogue to achieve those goals, and to develop effective listening and sharing skills. Then we meet together (in person or online) on common ground, ready for productive communication.
Who can use this service:
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All ages, all genders, all backgrounds
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People with “big T” and “little T” trauma
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Survivors of crime, perpetrators of crime and families of both
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Professionals who come face-to-face with trauma in their work
My unique expertise:
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Human trafficking
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Recent and historic sexual assault and abuse
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Cult deprogramming and brainwashing/gaslighting recovery
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Justice system journeys
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Indigenous people and communities (residential school and intergenerational trauma healing)
