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Trauma & PTSD
Support for distressing memories, triggers, hypervigilance, emotional numbness, and trauma-related patterns.
MEET YOUR THERAPIST
Hi, I'm Charlie.
Carolyn (Charlie) Gray, MA · RP · CCC
Move beyond coping. Find your way back to yourself.
I offer virtual psychotherapy to adults across Ontario, integrating EMDR, attachment-informed, parts-based, somatic, and mindfulness approaches. My work includes trauma, ADHD, neurodivergence, emotional regulation, and experiences that leave us feeling stuck or disconnected.
You may understand why you feel the way you do, yet still find yourself reacting, shutting down, or struggling to feel safe. Together, we can explore what your mind and body have learned to carry—and find ways forward that fit you.
A space to breathe, reconnect, and grow.
Registered Psychotherapist ✦ Virtual Across Ontario ✦ EMDR & Trauma ✦ ADHD & Neurodivergent-Affirming Care
DOES THIS SOUND FAMILIAR?
You've done so much to cope. But something still feels stuck.
You don't need to have the perfect words for what you're experiencing. Sometimes therapy begins with noticing that the ways you've learned to survive aren't giving you the life you want.
✓ You understand your patterns intellectually, but knowing why hasn't changed how you feel.
✓ Your body feels constantly on alert, overwhelmed, shut down, or unable to rest.
✓ ADHD or neurodivergence makes everyday expectations exhausting or difficult to navigate.
✓ Past experiences continue to influence your relationships, confidence, or sense of safety.
AREAS OF FOCUS
What we can work on together.
Therapy isn't one-size-fits-all. We can explore what brings you here and shape our work around your needs and goals.
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ADHD & Neurodivergence
Affirming support for executive functioning, masking, overwhelm, burnout, and self-understanding.
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Nervous-System Regulation
Explore stress responses such as tension, shutdown, panic, restlessness, or disconnection.
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Stress & Burnout
Make sense of exhaustion, perfectionism, people-pleasing, and the difficulty of slowing down.
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Relationships & Attachment
Explore boundaries, conflict, fear of rejection, withdrawal, and patterns of connection.
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Identity & Life Transitions
Space for questions about identity, belonging, cultural expectations, and meaningful change.
EMDR & TRAUMA THERAPY
Sometimes understanding isn't the same as healing.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a structured psychotherapy approach used to help people process distressing memories and trauma-related experiences.
I completed EMDRIA-approved basic training in 2025 and further training in neurodiversity-informed EMDR in 2026. I incorporate EMDR when clinically appropriate, with attention to preparation, pacing, stabilization, and your individual needs. Together, we can decide whether and when trauma processing feels right for you.
The goal isn't to erase your past. It's to help you relate to those experiences differently so they have less power over your present.
Learn more about EMDR →
ADHD & NEURODIVERGENT-AFFIRMING THERAPY
Therapy that works with your brain, not against it.
If you have ADHD, you've likely heard plenty of advice about discipline, productivity, planners, and trying harder.
Sometimes the challenge isn't knowing what to do. It's understanding how attention, emotion, energy, and executive functioning interact.
My approach is collaborative and neurodivergent-affirming. We can explore strategies that fit your brain while making space for the emotional impact of feeling misunderstood.
We might explore:
- ✓ Executive functioning and task initiation
- ✓ Procrastination and overwhelm
- ✓ Emotional regulation
- ✓ Rejection sensitivity and self-criticism
- ✓ Masking and people-pleasing
- ✓ Burnout and relationships
- ✓ Practical, personalized strategies
MY PHILOSOPHY
“I often describe our work like tending a garden with an invasive plant taking root. Top-down work is trimming what's visible—the coping tools. Bottom-up work is digging out the roots. We do both, so the garden has room to breathe and bloom again.”
A thoughtful balance of practical tools, deeper exploration, and mind-body awareness.
HOW I WORK
An integrative, collaborative approach.
I draw from different therapeutic frameworks depending on your goals, needs, and readiness.
EMDR Therapy
A structured approach to trauma processing, with individualized preparation and pacing.
Internal Family Systems
Exploring protective responses and different parts of yourself with curiosity and compassion.
Somatic Approaches
Attending to bodily sensations, stress responses, and the mind-body connection.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Understanding how past relationships can shape connection, trust, and emotional safety.
Nervous-System-Informed Care
Exploring activation, shutdown, regulation, and your body's response to stress.
Neurodivergent-Affirming Care
Adapting therapy to your identity, sensory needs, and ways of experiencing the world.
EXPERIENCE THAT SHAPES MY WORK
Care informed by people, communities, and lived realities.
Before and alongside my psychotherapy practice, I worked across humanitarian relief, community support, education, and crisis-response settings. Those experiences continue to inform my attention to context, culture, safety, and the systems affecting wellbeing.
HUMANITARIAN WORK
Relief & crisis response
Coordinated humanitarian aid initiatives and supported refugee-response work through Canadian and international nonprofit organizations.
COMMUNITY SUPPORT
Working across difference
Experience with refugees, people facing homelessness, neurodivergent communities, and individuals with developmental or physical support needs.
YOUTH & EDUCATION
Teaching & connection
More than a decade of involvement in child and youth programming, education, and support, informing an attentive and adaptable way of relating.
WHAT THERAPY CAN LOOK LIKE
We begin where you are.
You do not need to know which therapeutic approach you need before our first conversation. We can decide together what is useful and adjust as we go.
01 / CONNECT
Understand your story
Explore what is happening now, what has shaped your responses, and what you hope might change.
02 / PREPARE
Build steadiness
Develop regulation, grounding, and practical strategies, especially when deeper trauma work is part of your goals.
03 / EXPLORE
Make room for change
Work with patterns, memories, relationships, and the mind-body connection at a collaborative pace.
EDUCATION & TRAINING
Grounded in learning. Open to curiosity.
Credentials & education
Registered Psychotherapist (RP)
College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario
Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC)
Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association
Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology
Yorkville University, 2023
Post-Graduate Diploma in Creative Writing
Humber, 2019
Honours BA in International Development and NGO Studies
Wilfrid Laurier University, 2012
Selected professional development
Neurodiversity-Informed EMDR Therapy
2026
EMDRIA-Approved EMDR Basic Training, Parts 1 & 2
2025
IFS & EFT continuing education
2024
Polyvagal training
2023
Working with Trauma Certificate
2017
Mental Health First Aid
2017
Training in an approach is not the same as advanced certification in that modality; treatment is tailored to individual clinical needs.
AFFIRMING & INDIVIDUALIZED CARE
A space where your identity is respected.
Charlie offers LGBTQ+ affirming psychotherapy, approaching each person with curiosity, respect, and an understanding that identity, relationships, and lived experience can shape how we move through the world.
Whether you are exploring identity, navigating relationships, processing trauma, or seeking support for ADHD, neurodivergence, chronic pain, or burnout, therapy can make room for your experiences without treating who you are as something to change.
WORK WITH CHARLIE
Ways to work with Charlie.
Whether you're exploring therapy for the first time or looking for more focused support, we can begin with a conversation. All appointments are virtual and available to adults across Ontario.
A GOOD PLACE TO START
Free Consultation
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15 minutes · Virtual
Meet Charlie, share a little about what brings you to therapy, ask questions, and explore whether working together feels like a good fit.
Book Free Consultation →PERSONALIZED SUPPORT
Individual Psychotherapy
$185
50 minutes · Virtual · Adults
Personalized psychotherapy for concerns including ADHD, emotional regulation, trauma, relationships, stress, burnout, and life transitions.
Book Individual Therapy →TRAUMA-FOCUSED CARE
EMDR Psychotherapy
$200
50 minutes · Virtual · Individual
Trauma-focused psychotherapy incorporating EMDR when clinically appropriate, with attention to preparation, stabilization, and your individual pace.
Book EMDR Therapy →BEYOND THE THERAPY ROOM
A little more about me.
My journey into psychotherapy has been shaped by eight years of work in international and Canadian humanitarian organizations, mental health programs, and social services. My experience includes refugee support, community-based programs, humanitarian crisis response, and work alongside people navigating displacement, hardship, and social barriers.
Before becoming a psychotherapist, I also worked as a freediving instructor and completed a nature-based ecotherapy practicum. Teaching breath awareness and relaxation underwater deepened my interest in how we respond to stress and develop regulation skills.
Outside of sessions, I enjoy hiking, camping, climbing, swimming, travelling, and spending time outdoors.
I aim to offer a compassionate, culturally responsive, LGBTQIA+ affirming, and neurodivergent-affirming space where we can work together with openness and respect.
A SPACE FOR YOU
Your context matters here.
I aim to offer culturally responsive, LGBTQIA+ affirming, and neurodivergent-affirming care. Therapy can make room for your identities, relationships, community, and experiences of systems—not only what happens inside you.
COMMON QUESTIONS
A few things you might be wondering.
Does Charlie offer online therapy across Ontario?+
Yes. Charlie offers virtual psychotherapy to adults located across Ontario, so you can attend sessions from a private, suitable space.
Does Charlie offer EMDR therapy online?+
Yes. Charlie offers virtual individual EMDR psychotherapy. Whether EMDR is suitable is considered collaboratively, with attention to readiness, stabilization, and treatment goals.
Can I see Charlie for ADHD-related concerns?+
Yes. Charlie offers neurodivergent-affirming psychotherapy for concerns including executive functioning, overwhelm, emotional regulation, burnout, and self-esteem. A formal diagnosis is not required to discuss these experiences in therapy.
How much do sessions cost?+
Charlie's 15-minute virtual consultation is free. Virtual individual psychotherapy is $185 per 50-minute session, and virtual EMDR psychotherapy is $200 per 50-minute session.
Will I have to talk about everything right away?+
No. Therapy is collaborative, and the pace of exploration can be adapted to your needs, readiness, and goals.
FEES & PAYMENT
Clear information before you begin.
Consultations are complimentary. Individual psychotherapy is $185 per 50-minute session; EMDR psychotherapy is $200 per 50-minute session. Sessions are virtual. If you plan to use extended health benefits, check your plan's coverage for services provided by a Registered Psychotherapist.
TAKE THE NEXT STEP
You don't have to figure everything out before reaching out.
If you're looking for online trauma therapy, EMDR, ADHD support, or a more connected relationship with yourself, we can begin with a free 15-minute consultation to explore whether working together feels like a good fit.
Book Your Free Consultation With Charlie →Virtual psychotherapy for adults across Ontario
