****Please note that as of November 2025, I am no longer accepting new clients in preparation for maternity leave beginning January 2026.

If you would like to be notified of when my practice reopens and I am accepting new clients Therapy Sessions, please send an email to hi@mckenzietaylor.ca to join the waitlist for therapy.****

Informed by Gestalt Psychotherapy and Somatic Experiencing, this is a form of therapy that focuses on supporting all parts of a person — body, mind, emotions, and ways of being in relationship with the world. It’s built on the belief that humans are inherently designed with the propensity to heal and move their life in a full & fluid way.

However, when faced with overwhelming experiences, we can become stuck and lose access to all parts of our selves — resulting in fixated patterns, thoughts, or nervous system adaptations. Whether or not they’re how we’d hope to cope, all of these responses are our best way to tolerate what feels intolerable in the moment and often happen automatically and out of conscious awareness.

As a therapist, I see my task as working with you to help broaden your awareness of how this stuckness manifests in your life and to support the possibility of experiencing it differently.

To do so, we'll explore what happens for you in the here-and-now as a a result of what was experienced there-and-then. We'll get curious about the felt side of your story, the meanings you make, places you feel stuck, and ways of actively engaging with your thoughts, feelings, and behaviours to support the possibility of feeling something in a new way.

****Please note that as of November 2025, I am no longer accepting new clients in preparation for maternity leave beginning January 2026.

If you would like to be notified of when my practice reopens and I am accepting new clients for SEI Personal Sessions, please send an email to hi@mckenzietaylor.ca to join the waitlist.****

For students pursuing professional training with Somatic Experiencing International, founded by Dr. Peter Levine, I’m an approved to offer Personal Sessions at the Beginning Level and am an Intermediate-Level Assistant in the SE™ Professional Training Program.

****Please note that as of November 2025, I am no longer accepting new clients in preparation for maternity leave beginning January 2026.

If you would like to be notified of when my practice reopens and I am accepting new clients for Somatic Skills Coaching, please send an email to hi@mckenzietaylor.ca to join the waitlist.****

Somatic Skills Coaching is a body-based approach that aims to foster personal, embodied development and renegotiate the symptoms of acute stress and trauma that result in nervous system dysregulation. It integrates tools from Somatic Experiencing and trauma-informed movement practices.

Acute stress or trauma often causes the body to get stuck in a blend of fight, flight, freeze, or fawn responses. Somatic Skills Coaching works by guiding clients to gently explore their physical sensations and reconnect with their bodies in a safe and controlled way, helping the nervous system complete its natural processing of overwhelming experiences. This includes slowly guiding clients to develop increasing tolerance for difficult bodily sensations and suppressed emotions by working at the level of the nervous system and working with:

· Body awareness
· Pendulation
· Titration
· Resourcing

Please note that these sessions are outside of the scope of psychotherapy and are not psychotherapeutic in nature. They are not designed to serve as a replacement for therapy, but can be a supportive supplement for those actively engaged in psychotherapy with a licensed mental health professional.