PTSD Therapy in Ontario
Trauma-focused psychotherapy for healthcare professionals, first responders, and adults recovering from medical trauma. Virtual across Ontario.
Clinical Director and Founder Shev Collure, a Registered Social Worker provides evidence-based PTSD and trauma therapy to adults across Ontario. She specializes in helping healthcare professionals, first responders, and individuals impacted by medical trauma to reduce symptoms, process overwhelming experiences, and regain stability in daily life.
Trauma Recovery Is Possible
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and trauma-related symptoms can quietly take over daily life. You may feel constantly on edge, disconnected, emotionally numb, or exhausted from holding everything together. Sleep may be disrupted. Certain situations may trigger strong reactions. You may avoid reminders of what happened while feeling unable to fully move forward.
For many adults, trauma does not stem from a single event. It develops cumulatively through repeated exposure, high-stakes responsibility, ethical distress, or medical experiences that overwhelmed the nervous system. In these situations, what looks like burnout or stress can in fact be PTSD, cumulative trauma, or moral injury.
Recovery is possible. With structured, evidence-based trauma therapy, symptoms can decrease, and a greater sense of stability and safety can return.
Shev is a Registered Social Worker and Psychotherapist based in Ontario. She provides trauma-focused psychotherapy to adults across Ontario through secure virtual care.
Her work is focused on helping people recover from PTSD, cumulative trauma, and moral injury using evidence-based approaches. Her specialty is in trauma that develops in high-responsibility, high-stakes, or medically complex contexts, where people have been exposed to overwhelming experiences cumulatively rather than a single event.
About Shev Collure, RSW
Therapeutic Approach
Shev’s approach is structured, collaborative, and trauma focused. She uses evidence-based trauma therapies, including Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) and Prolonged Exposure (PE), selecting and pacing treatment based on each person’s history, symptoms, and readiness.
Trauma therapy is not about forcing disclosure or reliving experiences unnecessarily. It is about creating the conditions for safe processing, reducing avoidance and hypervigilance, and helping the nervous system regain flexibility and stability. Throughout our work, we prioritize clarity, consent, and a pace that feels manageable and grounded.
Experience & Professional Background
With more than 20 years of experience in the mental health field and over a decade of specialized psychotherapy practice, services are informed by extensive work with individuals experiencing complex trauma, moral injury, and the psychological impacts of high-stress professional environments.
As a Registered Social Worker (RSW), psychotherapy services are provided to individuals in Toronto, the Greater Toronto Area, and throughout Ontario in accordance with professional, ethical, and regulatory standards. Clinical practice is grounded in ongoing professional development, evidence-based approaches, and a commitment to delivering high-quality trauma-focused care.
Clinical Focus & Specialties
Areas of clinical focus include trauma related to:
including operational trauma and critical incidents.
First Responders & Emergency Service Roles
including cumulative exposure, ethical distress, and moral injury.
Medical and healthcare-related experiences
such as hospitalization, procedures, illness, or loss of bodily autonomy.