Virtual Therapy in Ontario
Anjana Iyer, Registered Psychotherapist — trauma therapy in Ontario
Life’s challenges can sometimes feel overwhelming especially when emotions, past experiences, or transitions leave us feeling uncertain or stuck. As a psychotherapist, I see therapy as a collaborative and meaningful process, one that supports you in making sense of your experiences and moving toward greater clarity, resilience, and self-understanding.
I began my practice in 2013 and have since trained in a range of trauma-informed and integrative approaches, including EMDR and Integral Somatic Psychology. My work is grounded in the understanding that our thoughts, emotions, and bodily experiences are deeply interconnected. Alongside trauma-focused therapies, I draw from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), mindfulness-based practices, and expressive modalities such as art, movement, and body-based approaches.
I became a psychotherapist because I’ve always been deeply drawn to understanding people, their stories, emotions, relationships, and the invisible experiences that shape how we move through the world. Over time, I’ve come to believe that healing isn’t about becoming a different person. It’s about reconnecting with yourself with more compassion, awareness, and safety.
My approach to trauma therapy
Most of my work is trauma therapy, and my approach centres on the connection between the mind and the body. I believe stress, anxiety, trauma and emotional pain are not just "in our heads", they often live in the body too. Together, we can gently explore your experiences, patterns, emotions and nervous system responses in a way that feels supportive and grounded.
I work with individuals navigating anxiety, trauma, emotional overwhelm, life transitions, relationship challenges, self-worth struggles, and the pressure of constantly having to “keep it together.” In our work together, you don’t need to have the “right words” or have everything figured out.
You’re welcome exactly as you are.
M.A. Counselling Psychology
Registered Psychotherapist · CRPO #17275
In the mental health field since 2013
Trained in EMDR · Integral Somatic Psychology · Cognitive Behavioural Therapy · mindfulness-based approaches
Practising online across Ontario
Who I work with
Where most of my work sits
- Trauma and PTSD, including trauma that began in childhood
- Complex PTSD and the patterns that come with it
- Anxiety, panic attacks and health anxiety
- Burnout, and the pressure of constantly having to keep it together
- Emotional overwhelm and difficulty with regulation
- Self-worth, boundaries, and relationships that have eroded both
Also frequently
- Depression and mood-related concerns
- ADHD, OCD and attention-related challenges
- Relationship difficulties, including infidelity
- Grief and bereavement
- Life transitions and decision-making
- Workplace and academic pressure
- Sleep difficulties
- Postpartum concerns
- Experiences of discrimination and isolation
Training and qualifications
Master of Arts, Counselling Psychology — the foundation of how I think about assessment, formulation and the therapeutic relationship.
Registered Psychotherapist, CRPO #17275 — regulated practice in Ontario, with the accountability and continuing-education requirements that come with it.
EMDR — Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing, a structured protocol for processing traumatic memory with a substantial evidence base behind it.
Integral Somatic Psychology — working with emotion as it is held and expressed in the body, so that feeling is embodied rather than only discussed.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy — for the parts of a difficulty that respond to changing what you do and how you interpret it.
Mindfulness-based approaches — attention training that makes everything else in the list more usable between sessions.
Expressive modalities — art, movement and body-based practice, for the material that will not go into sentences.