Sara Coyle MSW, RSW

01/21/2025

🌈Are you a Psychotherapist, Social Worker, or Psychologist looking to rent a shared office space to see your clients?

Check out my new space!

Ideal for practitioners who see children and youth and practice sandtray therapy. Also great space for seeing adults!

🌍1390 Prince of Wales Drive, Ottawa
🧩Availability Friday - Monday full days; Tuesday - Thursday half days
⭐Accessible via elevator and stairs, located on 1st floor
🚗Free parking included

💻E-mail me at [email protected] to find out more!

01/02/2025

It’s moving day!! I’m super excited to open my new office at 1390 Prince of Wales Drive 🥳 Reminder: if you have any in-Person sessions booked, they will be here from now on! More pics to come as I get all set up 😊😊

12/05/2024

Applications for Camp Erin close on January 6th!

Camp Erin Toronto is a free, weekend bereavement camp for youth who are grieving the death of a significant person in their lives. Children and teens ages 6 to 17 attend a weekend camp experience that combines grief education and emotional support with fun, traditional camp activities.

Camp Erin Toronto will be held from Friday June 6, 2025 to Sunday June 8, 2025 at Camp Manitou in McKellar Ontario. All children and teens (aged 6-17) who have experienced a significant death are welcome to apply. Campers can apply from anywhere, as long as the camper can get to the bus drop off in the GTA or to Camp Manitou.

Apply for the young people in your life to go to camp here:
https://camperincampers.softr.app/

11/25/2024

✨There is still time to register for our workshop tomorrow (Tuesday) evening!! Here are a few things we will be discussing, plus much more. Hope to see you there 🙋‍♀️

11/04/2024

🍃Play Therapist, Taylor Nelson MSW, RSW and I are excited to share another workshop with you!

This workshop is for:
✨All parents and caregivers of children and youth
🧠Those that want to learn brain-based, attachment informed strategies to support their children and youth through the tough moments of parenting
🙋‍♀️This workshop is great for developmental trauma, but good for all

📆 November 26th at 7PM
🕖 7-9PM
💻Zoom
💲40

📧 Email Sara and send e-transfer to [email protected] to register. Please include first and last name of each participant. -trauma

10/21/2024

🧘‍♀️Started my Yoga Teacher Training program this weekend! Yoga has helped me find balance in my life, especially during those times when life happens and everything feels like a lot. It’s helped me find a space to “just be”, to quiet my mind, and to slow down in this fast paced, task oriented life. It’s not always easy, in fact, sometimes it’s really really hard and it always takes me deeper in to my own healing. Along with deepening my own yoga practice, I will be discovering how to integrate yoga into trauma work in my psychotherapy practice. I’m so excited to be able to share all that yoga has brought me with others!❤️

10/12/2024

Thanks to everyone who attended our workshop on Tuesday! If you have any requests for future workshops or want to be notified of what’s next, please email us! You can also sign up for updates on my website at www.saracoylemsw.com 👩‍💻

09/12/2024

🍃Play Therapist Taylor Nelson, MSW, RSW and I are excited to offer this important workshop!

This workshops is for:
🧑‍🧑‍🧒The incredible adults who are caring for kids that have a history of hurt
💖Parents or caregivers who want to learn more about developmental trauma
💦Adults who feel they are in the deep end of parenting after adversity

🗓️October 8th 2024
🕖7-9PM
💻Zoom
💲40

📧Email me at [email protected] to register. Please include names of each participant.

08/14/2024

For the next two weeks, you will find me at Camp Huronda as the D Session Social Worker! ☀️⛺️🌻

Camp Huronda is a camp for children and youth living with Type 1 Diabetes run by . At Camp Huronda, kids get to just be kids and parent gets a break too! This is an amazing place with an incredibly supportive, caring and energetic staff team to support the kids!

Living with Type 1 Diabetes myself, I am feeling all the feels here seeing the kids connect with others who just “get it”. They are making lifelong diabesties! So excited to be here ❤️

05/13/2024

Folks often ask me how they know if their therapy is working. Are they making progress? Are they making change in their life?

The truth is, this is sometimes not obvious right away. Change and progress is usually quite subtle, happens over time, and is unique to each individual. And, this is okay! Too much, too fast can be overwhelming to our nervous system and may result in our systems moving in to a shut down state not allowing for further progress and change. In therapy, we are looking for these subtle changes that grow our capacity for more over time.

Credit: Thanks to Dea Parsanishi, SEP for this helpful discussion about progress and change!

04/15/2024

Somatic Experiencing is a body-centered, bottom-up approach to healing symptoms of stress and trauma. The SE approach supports individuals with creating new experiences in their bodies that are different from the tension and overwhelm that may be symptoms of trauma and stress (ie. anxiety, depression, panic, sleep difficulties, etc.). Underneath these symptoms is a dysregulated nervous system that is stuck in fight, flight or freeze responses. When we begin to organize our nervous systems, letting our bodies know we are safe, we can come out of fight, flight or freeze, and begin to heal.

To find out more about SE visit: https://traumahealing.org

To book a free 15 minute consultation with me email me at [email protected] or check out my website at: https://www.saracoylemsw.com

03/13/2024

My amazing friend and colleague, Play Therapist Taylor Nelson MSW, RSW is opening her own private practice space this spring! Go check out her page to learn more and stayed tuned for updates as she builds her beautiful space 🎉👏

So excited!!! And nervous. And joyful. And just a little terrified.

I will be opening a new child-centered therapy office in this beautiful & bright space in Quinte West.
255 Glen Miller Road in the Riverview Plaza right off the 401.
Stay tuned!

03/11/2024

What is the process of Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP)?

03/04/2024

DDP is a therapy approach that focuses on the caregiver-child relationships and attachment. DDP focuses on creating a safe environment for children and youth to explore and heal from past experiences using attunement, playfulness, acceptance, curiosity and empathy.

When practicing DDP, I start with meeting parents or caregivers first. We will get to know more about your child or youth, their past experiences and attachment patterns and how this is impacting them today and in relationships both with you and others. We will also learn more about you in context of your attachment patterns with your child or youth. I will support you with learning the DDP parenting approach before we bring your child or youth in to session.

To find out more connect with me via email: [email protected]

You can also learn more about the DDP approach at: www.ddpnetwork.org/about-ddp

02/21/2024

Excited to be offering consultation and supervision in my practice! Send me a message or email to find out more or set up a time to discuss.