PTSD and Trauma Therapy Across Ontario
Structured, evidence-based therapy to help you understand what is keeping you stuck and move forward with confidence.
I'm Shev Collure, a Registered Social Worker and Psychotherapist who specializes in PTSD and trauma therapy. I provide structured, evidence-based treatment for adults across Ontario who are ready to move beyond simply coping with their symptoms and begin working toward lasting recovery.
Whether your trauma developed after a single traumatic event or years of repeated experiences, therapy should give you more than a safe place to talk. It should help you understand why PTSD develops, what is maintaining your symptoms, and provide a clear path toward meaningful change.
You May Be Coping Well and Still Feel Stuck
PTSD does not always look the way people expect.
Many of the people I work with continue going to work, caring for their families, supporting others, and meeting their responsibilities while privately struggling with nightmares, intrusive memories, irritability, anxiety, emotional numbness, or a constant feeling of being on edge.
You may have become very good at avoiding reminders of what happened, staying busy, pushing difficult thoughts away, or convincing yourself that you should simply be able to "get over it." Those strategies may have helped you survive difficult experiences, but they can also keep PTSD going long after the danger has passed.
PTSD is not a sign of weakness or personal failure. It is your brain and nervous system continuing to respond as though the trauma is still happening. Until those patterns are addressed directly, symptoms often continue despite your best efforts to cope.
Many people come to therapy wondering why they still feel this way years after the trauma. One of the first things we'll do together is make sense of those symptoms. When you understand why your mind and body are responding the way they are, recovery often begins to feel far less confusing and much more achievable.
Recovery Is Possible
One of the most common misconceptions about PTSD is that you simply have to learn to live with it.
Fortunately, that isn't true.
PTSD is one of the most researched mental health conditions, and there are highly effective treatments that have helped thousands of people recover from trauma.
Recovery does not mean forgetting what happened or pretending it never occurred. It means reducing the hold the trauma has over your daily life. It means spending less time managing symptoms and more time sleeping well, reconnecting with the people who matter to you, returning to activities you've been avoiding, and feeling more like yourself again.
The goal is not to erase your past.
The goal is to help it stop controlling your present.
Who I Work With
Although I work with adults who have experienced many different types of trauma, my practice has developed particular expertise in supporting:
How I Help
My practice is dedicated to providing structured, evidence-based PTSD treatment.
Rather than relying on open-ended supportive counselling alone, we'll work together using therapies that have been extensively researched and shown to reduce PTSD symptoms.
Treatment is collaborative, practical, and tailored to your goals. I'll help you understand the "why" behind your symptoms, explain what keeps PTSD going, and guide you through a treatment plan designed to address those patterns step by step.
Depending on your needs, treatment may include approaches such as:
Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT)
Prolonged Exposure Therapy (PE)
Written Exposure Therapy (WET)
Trauma-focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (TF-CBT)
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
These therapies are structured and purposeful. You'll understand what we're working on, why we're doing it, and how each step contributes to your recovery.
Therapy should never feel like guessing our way through the process.
Healthcare Professionals
Providing care for others can come at a personal cost. Repeated exposure to suffering, loss, critical incidents, and ethical challenges can lead to PTSD, cumulative trauma, and moral injury. Therapy provides a confidential space to process those experiences using approaches specifically designed to treat trauma.
First Responders
Police officers, firefighters, paramedics, correctional workers, and other emergency personnel are repeatedly exposed to situations most people never encounter. PTSD treatment focuses on reducing the impact of those experiences so they no longer continue to shape everyday life.
Medical Trauma
A serious illness, traumatic birth, medical emergency, intensive care admission, or frightening procedure can leave lasting psychological effects long after physical recovery. Medical trauma is real, and it responds to evidence-based trauma treatment.
Interpersonal Trauma
Trauma resulting from abuse, sexual assault, domestic violence, childhood experiences, betrayal, or coercive relationships can continue to affect trust, relationships, self-worth, and emotional safety for years. Therapy helps address both the trauma itself and the beliefs that often develop afterwards.
Meet Shev
I'm Shevanthi (Shev) Collure, a Registered Social Worker and Psychotherapist with more than 20 years of experience working in mental health and over a decade providing psychotherapy.
Today, my practice focuses almost exclusively on helping adults recover from PTSD and trauma.
Clients often tell me that one of the most helpful parts of therapy is finally understanding why they have been feeling the way they have. I believe that education is an important part of recovery. When you understand how trauma affects the brain and body, many experiences that once felt confusing begin to make sense.
My approach is warm, collaborative, and practical. I'll meet you where you are while also helping you move toward meaningful change. Trauma therapy can feel intimidating, particularly if you've been living with symptoms for a long time, but you won't be expected to navigate the process alone.
One thing you’ll probably notice fairly quickly is that I explain a lot. Not because I think you need a psychology lecture, but because understanding what’s happening often makes the path forward feel a little less overwhelming.
Together, we’ll develop a treatment plan that gives you a clear understanding of where we’re going, why we’re taking each step, and how we’ll know you’re making progress.
Is Trauma Therapy Right for You?
You don't need to have every answer before reaching out.
Many people contact me because they know something doesn't feel right, but they aren't sure whether what they're experiencing is PTSD, another trauma-related condition, or simply the effects of prolonged stress.
A free 20-minute consultation gives us an opportunity to talk about what's been happening, answer your questions, and discuss whether my approach is likely to be a good fit for your needs.
If it is, we'll create a treatment plan together.
If it isn't, I'll do my best to help you identify the next appropriate step.
Beginning therapy can feel like a significant decision. My hope is that you leave the consultation with a clearer understanding of your symptoms, your treatment options, and whether we're the right fit to work together.