New Song Psychotherapy

08/07/2025

✨Are you a student or recent graduate interested in social work, psychotherapy, or the mental health field?

🤔Want to gain real-world experience in a supportive, client-centered group private practice?

🌿New Song Psychotherapy is looking for an intern to join us for 5 hours per week. This is a remote position and offers the opportunity to learn the behind-the-scenes of running a therapy practice—from administration to marketing research and idea generation to understanding how a trauma-informed, compassionate care model is lived out in real time.

You’ll be working alongside Sharon Snooks, Registered Social Worker and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, gaining insight into the day-to-day flow of group private practice, as well as exposure to the broader mental health landscape.

💡 Ideal for someone who is:
Interested in social work, psychotherapy, or mental health

🖥️ Organized, curious, and a self-starter

🎓Looking to gain experience before or during formal education

💭This is a non-clinical role, but it’s rich with opportunities for mentorship, observation, and learning.

✨ An asset if you have:
Prior administrative or marketing experience. 

📍This is a remote position based in Southwestern Ontario.

📩 Interested? Send us a message or email sharon@newsongpsychotherapy.com with your attached resume!

06/17/2025

Meet Nancy, our newest therapist at New Song Psychotherapy!

Nancy is a Registered Social Worker with over 15 years of experience walking alongside individuals navigating life’s most challenging moments, including trauma, addiction, grief, and mental health concerns.

She holds an Honours Bachelor of Indigenous Social Work degree and a Social Service Worker Diploma, blending formal education with extensive frontline experience.

🌿 Nancy brings a trauma-informed, culturally-grounded, and holistic lens to her work—one that honours the interconnection between mind, body, and spirit.

She is deeply committed to creating a space that feels safe, empowering, and rooted in trust.

Nancy is thrilled to be joining the New Song Psychotherapy team!

🎯 Nancy is passionate about supporting:
🧠 individuals navigating trauma, grief, and addiction
💬 those facing anxiety and emotional overwhelm
💔 people working through relationship challenges
⚖️ folks involved in or impacted by the justice system
🤝 anyone needing a compassionate, strength-based approach to healing

Swipe to learn more about Nancy’s fun facts and her therapy style 👉
To connect with Nancy or book a free 20-minute consult, see link in bio 🫶🏻

05/31/2025

What’s it like to work with Sharon Snooks?

We asked her to describe her therapy style in just three words. She chose:

✨ Safe
✨ Compassionate
✨ Relational

Sharon supports individuals who are ready to explore the challenges that keep them stuck and reconnect them with their body’s innate capacity to heal.

She works with people navigating the impact of trauma, including developmental and relational wounds that shape how they show up in the world.

💬 Sharon describes her style as warm, grounded, and attuned to how emotions and experiences are held and expressed in the body.

She believes healing happens in relationship — and that creating a sense of deep safety is essential to the healing process. Her approach prioritizes self-compassion and the power of being gently witnessed in your pain.

With a strong foundation in somatic and relational therapies, Sharon creates space for people to slow down, listen inward, and rediscover their capacity to heal.

🧡 Curious to learn more or book a free 20-min consult with Sharon? Click the link in our bio!

05/13/2025

What’s it like to work with Mikaela Courchesne?

We asked her to describe her therapy style in just three words. She chose:

✨ Empowering
✨ Attuned
✨ Curious

Mikaela specializes in supporting ambitious, connection-driven individuals who feel overwhelmed, stuck, or like every day is just about survival.

She especially loves working with young professionals and recent post-secondary or master-level graduates as they navigate transitioning into their careers and adult lives.

💬 Mikaela understands how isolating it can feel when your emotions seem to take over, when you feel disconnected from your goals, and when no one truly “gets” where you’re at. You know you’re capable of more, but getting through the day already feels like a mountain.

With a deep focus on complex and developmental trauma, Mikaela works through an attachment and nervous system lens, primarily using Internal Family Systems (IFS), Somatic Experiencing, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).

Her approach helps clients move from simply surviving to building lives where they can truly thrive.

🧡 Curious to learn more or book a free 20-min consult with Mikaela? Click on the link in our bio!

05/06/2025

04/26/2025

What’s it like to work with Ramona Walmsley?

We asked her to describe her therapy style in just three words. She chose:

✨ Supportive
✨ Collaborative
✨ Empathic

As a marriage and family therapist, Ramona brings a calm, grounded presence into the room.

💬 Clients often want to know if she’s married, has kids, or how long she’s been doing this work, and the truth is, Ramona’s second career as a therapist is part of what makes her so relatable and real in the therapy space.

Her life experience informs her clinical work in meaningful ways, and if you’re looking for a therapist who truly gets it, Ramona would be a great fit.

🧡 Curious to learn more or book a free 20-min consult with Ramona? Click on the link in our bio!

04/21/2025

Trauma can feel like a force that fractures us—disrupting our sense of safety, identity, and connection. But within that very disruption lies a powerful potential: the opportunity for transformation.

Healing isn’t about erasing what happened; it’s about engaging with it, gently and intentionally, through the body. As we work with the nervous system—through regulation, co-regulation, and somatic support—we begin to shift from survival to vitality.

This is the resurrection Peter Levine speaks of: the emergence of a more connected, resilient, and alive self. It’s the soft strength of spring after a long winter. 🌷✨

Transformation after trauma is possible. Growth is possible. A renewed relationship with yourself is possible.
We would love to walk alongside you in that journey.

Book a free 20-min consult with one of our trauma-informed therapists through the link in our bio 🌿 🫶🏻

08/06/2024

Do you tend to avoid your difficult emotions?

Have you noticed what your go-to distractions are for avoiding your emotions?

Common ones are:

📲scrolling
🤓intellectualizing
📺binge watching shows
🧑‍💼overworking
🙄criticizing
🍸drinking

& even adopting beliefs that support avoiding our emotions 🤯

We can get very creative in the ways we avoid our emotions & it makes sense because we haven’t learned how to feel them in a supportive and productive way.

They feel too big & overwhelming.

It doesn’t feel safe to feel them.

Having a therapist to support you in moving through your emotions is a powerful way to expand your capacity to be with your emotions.

Connect with one of our therapists today here: https://newsongpsychotherapy.janeapp.com/ #/consulting 🪴

In the meantime, try out these reframes when you find yourself criticizing, comparing, questioning, & feeling overwhelmed by your emotions.

Which reframe lands the most for you? Let us know in the comments 👇🏼

07/13/2024

Did you know that we offer premarital counselling?!

Premarital counselling is a great opportunity to:

💸 talk about harder things like expectations in marriage, and other topics you are hesitant to bring up with your partner
😣 learn healthier communication patterns with your partner
👁️ have another set of eyes (& ears!) on your relationship to help identify blind spots

It is a safe space to explore:

😨 fears or concerns you might have about entering a long term relationship
🤔 doubts you are having about marriage or your partner
☁️ your hopes & goals of how you want your relationship to be

➡️ Those in long-term relationships – did you do premarital counseling? What did you find most helpful about it? Share your experience in the comments!

➡️ If you are considering premarital counseling but are feeling unsure about it – drop your questions in the comments & those with experience with it can respond!

Book a free 20-min consult if you want to explore how premarital or relationship counseling could benefit you here: https://newsongpsychotherapy.janeapp.com/ #/staff_member/4 🪴

07/03/2024

Have you experienced post-traumatic growth? 🌱

The analogies for this abound. Whether it’s the butterfly emerging from its cocoon, the flowers that follow rain, or the gold formed in fire, we understand on a cognitive level that good can come from adversity. 🦋🌷

The reason healing from trauma is so transformative is that it requires an embodied experience. Trauma happens in our nervous systems, in our bodies. 🫁Thus trauma healing leads us to reconnecting with our bodies, where our joy and aliveness live.

And while the trauma healing process can feel long and much more like a zigzag than a straight line, we come out with greater capacity for all of life’s difficulties and joy. We rediscover ourselves and our purpose. We regain our ability to connect with others in a more meaningful way. 😌

We would love the opportunity to support you in processing your trauma so you can have relief from trauma symptoms and experience post-traumatic growth.

Book a free 20-min consult with one of our trauma therapists at here: https://newsongpsychotherapy.janeapp.com/ #/staff_member/2 🪴

06/23/2024

Has this ever happened in your household? 🫧

There are 9 steps to working through conflict in EFT, in this post we share the first 3 with an example most couples can relate to 😅

Swipe for the 3 steps with a play-by-play example 👉

Stay tuned for part 2 as step 4 brings you from feeling like you’re fighting each other to fighting on the same team for your relationship

If you think you and your partner might benefit from couples therapy, book a FREE 20 min consult with our couples therapist Ramona here: https://newsongpsychotherapy.janeapp.com/ #/staff_member/4

06/12/2024

We often invite our clients to notice what is happening in their body during therapy sessions 🛋️

🧘 How is their body responding to the topic they are sharing about? Are they tensing up? Leaning back? Feet tapping on the floor?

😢 How does their body experience the emotion of sadness or anger?

We live in a culture that has encouraged us to disconnect from our bodies and live in our minds.

Yet our bodies hold SO much wisdom.

Often we know how we are feeling – that we are feeling off or sad or tired or even happy or excited but we’ve never paused to notice how we know we feel that way.

Consider these questions in regard to whatever you are feeling right now.

(this could even be a feeling of confusion or skepticism at this exercise 😅)

➡️How do you know that you feel ______?

➡️What tells you that you feel ______?


Some ideas of what you might notice 👇

Heart rate speeds up
Shallow breathing
Tingling in your fingers or toes
Warmth in your chest
Tightness in your chest
A pit in your stomach

Once you’ve noticed what you are feeling in your body, take a moment to acknowledge it & let it know you see it & care.

This might look like placing a hand on the spot or saying to it, ouff yes I see you, this feels hard.

Want more tips like this!? Let us know in the comments Y/N

Looking for support in connecting with your body’s experience and processing your emotions?

Book a free 20-min consult with us here: https://newsongpsychotherapy.janeapp.com/ #/list 🌾