YOU’VE BEEN BRACING FOR TOO LONG
YOUR BODY WASN’T MEANT TO HOLD IT ALL IN
You deserve more than just coping skills. You deserve real change.
oNLINE THERAPY in Toronto and ACROSS ONTARIO FOR women whose bodies have been holding tension for years - AND FOR COUPLES REBUILDING TRUST AFTER BETRAYAL.
let’s be honest.
You might call it stress.
Hyper-independence.
Being responsible.
Always being prepared.
Keeping it together.
You’ve been the steady one.
The capable one.
The one who doesn’t fall apart.
So you override the tight chest.
Push through the fatigue.
Minimize the headaches.
Call it “just a busy time.”
But when you’ve been bracing for years, it doesn’t just live in your thoughts.
It settles in your shoulders.
Shows up in your jaw.
Keeps your breathing shallow.
And eventually, you stop noticing you’re still bracing.
You don’t have to keep pushing yourself aside.
Bracing helped you survive what you had to survive.
It doesn’t have to live in your body anymore.
This is where therapy shifts from coping to understanding.
When you understand why you brace, your body can begin to exhale.
maybe you’re…
The one everyone relies on
- AND you’re not sure when your body last felt completely at ease.
Tired of managing your stress, your reactions, and your relationships
- AND ready to understand why you’ve been bracing for so long.
Capable and composed on the outside
- while privately feeling tense or exhausted in a way that rest doesn’t seem to fix.
If any of this sounds familiar, therapy here focus on real change - not just coping through it.
Hi, I’M Jennifer.
You don’t have to keep pushing yourself aside.
For years, you may have learned to stay composed, capable, and prepared - even when it meant ignoring what you were feeling.
As an Emotionally Focused Therapist, I work with high-functioning women who are ready to understand the patterns they’ve carried for a long time — not to criticize themselves for them, but to finally shift them.
This isn’t about quick fixes or adding more strategies.
It’s steady, thoughtful work that helps your body learn it doesn’t have to keep holding everything in.
This is thoughtful, supportive work focused on real change - not quick fixes or surface-level strategies.
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It probably didn’t start with burnout.
It started with needing to stay steady.
To stay prepared.
To stay composed.Over time, your body learned to tighten before anything even happened.
Not because you’re anxious.
Not because you’re broken.
But because bracing once made sense.In our work together, we slow that pattern down.
We help your body learn that it doesn’t have to stay on guard anymore.
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When trust breaks, something shifts in your body.
You replay conversations.
You scan for changes in tone.
You question what’s real and what isn’t.You might feel angry.
Or devastated.
Or strangely numb.For some couples, betrayal creates explosive conflict.
For others, it creates distance — a quiet bracing against getting hurt again.
In our work together, we slow things down.
We look at how the relationship got here — not to assign blame, but to understand the patterns that made disconnection possible.
Rebuilding trust isn’t about quick forgiveness.
It’s about creating enough safety that both of you can show up honestly again.
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You used to have clearer reactions.
Now, it’s harder to tell what’s going on inside.
You say “I don’t know” a lot.
You feel flat. Or blank.
Or like you’re watching your life instead of fully in it.For some women, bracing shows up as tension.
For others, it shows up as shutting things down.
If you’ve learned to stay steady by disconnecting from what you feel, we gently begin there.
This work isn’t about forcing emotion.
It’s about creating enough safety that feeling becomes possible again.
Here’s how I can help:
Let’s make therapy simple.
1
Reach out
It starts with a simple step.
Book a 15-minute call to talk about what’s been costing you - and whether this feels like the right place to begin.
2
Get to work
We start by creating enough safety to look at what’s been hard to face. From there, we make sense of what’s happening underneath the composure.
3
See change
As you begin to understand why you’ve been bracing, your body doesn’t have to stay on guard in the same way. You start to feel steadier - without having to hold everything together.
Ready to DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY?
Ready to stop pushing yourself aside?
BOOK A FREE 15-MIN CONSULT
BOOK A FREE 15-MIN CONSULT
What happens next?
After you book, you’ll receive a confirmation email with everything you need.
You don’t need to have the right words.
You don’t need to be fully clear about what you’re feeling.
Our first call is simply a conversation to see if this feels like a good fit.