Trauma & PTSD
Trauma & PTSD Therapy New Westminster
If you’re here, it’s because something inside you hurts deeply. Quietly. Constantly.
Your story matters
Maybe you’re tired of holding everything together on your own. Maybe you’ve been distancing yourself just to survive. Maybe the past shows up at the wrong times, in the wrong ways, no matter how hard you try to push it aside.
You’re not imagining it. You’re not weak. You’re not alone. Your feelings are valid. Your story matters. Your pain is real and worthy of support.
How we help
A space where you don’t have to hide.
Trauma therapy gives you a space where you don’t have to minimize, you don’t have to justify, and you don’t have to hide. Here, every part of you is met with compassion, respect, and safety.
We move at your pace. We go where you feel ready to go. We focus on what feels safest and most supportive.
Trauma impacts everything: your sense of safety, your confidence, your relationships, your ability to trust yourself. Healing is possible.
Healing is possible
Living with what happened, in a way that brings peace.
Healing isn’t pretending the past never happened. It isn’t forcing yourself to move on. It isn’t forgetting. Healing is learning to live with what happened in a way that brings you peace.
In therapy, you’ll learn tools to manage the waves of emotion, rebuild trust, and feel safe again, both in your body, your relationships, and your life.
Reaching out takes courage. You’ve already taken the first step by being here.
You deserve support. You deserve understanding. You deserve a way forward.
Let’s walk this path of healing together. Book a free consultation today.
Go only as far as you feel ready.
A free, no-pressure consultation lets you ask questions and see if we’re the right fit, at your pace.
How It Works
Four steps, at your pace.
Book a free consultation
A relaxed, no-pressure call to see if we are the right fit.
Meet your counsellor
A first session focused on safety, comfort, and what feels right to share.
Move at your pace
Trauma-informed work that goes only as far as you feel ready to go.
Reclaim your voice
Steady tools to manage emotion, rebuild trust, and feel safe in your body again.
Meet Your Counsellors
You’d be working with Alisa or Darren.
Alisa Farina
Registered Clinical Counsellor · RCC · BCACC
I’ve spent over 30 years walking alongside people through trauma, anxiety, and life’s hardest moments. As an EMDR-certified counsellor, I bring proven, trauma-informed approaches that go only as far as you feel ready to go.
Here, you don’t have to relive every detail or talk through every moment. We move at your pace, with safety, respect, and compassion first.
Darren Dyal
Canadian Certified Counsellor · MA Counselling Psychology
English · Hindi · Punjabi
I walk alongside people through anxiety, depression, stress, and life transitions, meeting you where you are rather than where you think you should be.
Together we build practical, evidence-based skills, grounded in CBT and DBT, to help you feel steady and in control again.
You don’t have to do this alone.
Book a free, no-pressure consultation and take the next step at your own pace.