Recovery after injury
Brain injury and concussion psychotherapy in North York and Toronto. After a concussion, car accident, fall, sport injury, or stroke, the shifts in your focus, mood, sleep, and sense of self can feel disorienting. You will have trauma-informed support alongside your medical team.
We will talk through cost and coverage together, so it is one less thing to carry.
Understanding it
A brain injury can reach into every part of your day: concentration, memory, sleep, mood, and your sense of who you are. When people cannot see what you are living with, it is easy to feel unseen along with it.
Some injuries, like concussions, never show up on a scan at all; with others, like a stroke, the outward signs can fade long before you feel like yourself again. Either way, what you are carrying is real.
Therapy does not treat the physical injury itself, your medical team does that. What you will find support for is everything around it: the anxiety and overwhelm, the low mood and irritability, and the quiet grief of not feeling like yourself while you wait to heal.
We work at the pace your nervous system can handle, alongside your doctor, physiotherapist, or specialist, so you do not have to hold the emotional weight of recovery alone. You will find brain injury and concussion psychotherapy in person in North York and Toronto, and online across Ontario.
How we work
Paced, trauma-informed support for the emotional and cognitive side of healing, gentle on an already-taxed system.
Post-concussion symptoms keep the nervous system on high alert. Somatic, grounding work helps settle the anxiety, the wired-but-exhausted feeling, and the overwhelm.
We work with your fatigue, not against it, finding sustainable rhythms, easing the pressure to push through, and protecting the energy you do have.
For the low mood, irritability, and grief of not feeling like yourself, space to mourn what has changed and reconnect with who you are.
If the accident, fall, or medical event was frightening, EMDR and trauma-informed care can help your system process it so it stops intruding on the present.
What it can feel like
If some of this resonates, you are not imagining it, and you do not have to navigate it alone.
Thinking can feel like wading through fog, and keeping up is exhausting. Ordinary light, sound, and screens are suddenly too much. Recovery is taking far longer than anyone led you to expect.
You do not quite feel like you, and that is frightening and lonely. Emotions arrive bigger and faster than they used to. People cannot see the injury, so you feel unseen with it.
Most concussions do not appear on a scan. That does not make what you are experiencing any less real. You will be believed here.
Funding and coverage
Cost and paperwork should not stand between you and support. Let us talk through your options together.
Not sure what you are eligible for? Bring your questions to the free call, we will figure it out together.
Our approach
Recovery from a brain injury is not linear, and pushing harder rarely helps. This is space to be met where you are, to have your symptoms believed, your pace respected, and the emotional weight of it all taken seriously.
Together we calm an overstimulated system, tend to mood and identity, and, when you are ready, gently process the event that started it. We coordinate with your medical team so your care feels joined up, not scattered.
Approaches we may draw on
More about how we workWhat to expect
A steady companion through recovery, at a pace your healing brain can handle.
A gentle hello, phone or video. Share what happened and what you are struggling with, no pressure, no jargon.
We understand your injury and goals, ease the overwhelm, and sort out coverage and coordination with your team.
Calming the system, tending mood and identity, and processing the event, adjusted to your energy each week.
Reconnecting with yourself and easing back into life and the things that matter, on your own timeline.
Is this you?
Adults across Ontario living with a brain injury or neurological condition: traumatic, acquired, congenital, or genetic; recent or long carried.
Concussion, whiplash, and the anxiety that lingers after a motor vehicle accident.
A slip, a collision, a sports concussion, and a recovery that has taken its toll.
The cognitive and emotional after-effects of a stroke, bleed, or aneurysm.
Acquired brain injury from infection, a tumour, surgery, or a lack of oxygen.
Neurological or cognitive differences you were born with, or that run in the family.
Head injuries that happened on the job, and the long road back afterward.
Post-concussion symptoms that have outstayed their welcome and worn you down.
Normal scans but you do not feel right, and you are tired of not being believed.
Mourning the focus, energy, or identity you had before, and finding your way back.
Common questions
Explore more
Many people who work with us are navigating more than one of these at once. We can hold the whole picture together.
Trauma and anxiety after a motor vehicle accident.
Learn moreRacing thoughts, worry, and panic.
Learn moreEMDR and trauma-informed care.
Learn moreWork with your brain, not against it.
Learn moreExhaustion that sleep does not fix.
Learn moreLoss, change, and the chapters between.
Learn moreBook a free 15-minute call and we will see if we are a good fit, no pressure, no commitment. Free and confidential, phone or video, in person in North York or online across Ontario.