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A Safe Space for Healing
We understand the profound impact trauma and distressing memories can have on a person’s emotional, mental, and physical well-being. That’s why we offer Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), two cutting-edge, evidence-based therapies designed to help you process trauma, reduce symptoms, and promote healing. These methods have been proven therapeutically effective in resolving a number of psychological difficulties such as complex grief, anxieties, phobias, panic, addictions/ compulsions, and depression.
“I can’t talk about it. But it’s still here.”
You carry it quietly.
Maybe no one knows.
Or maybe they do but they just don’t get it. Not really.
You’ve learned how to function with it. Pretend through it.
You’ve told yourself: “It happened a long time ago.”
Or “Other people have it so much worse.”
You continue to push it down.
But it keeps showing up in your body, your sleep, your relationships and your reactions, the way you flinch or freeze or go numb.
It’s exhausting.
And it’s lonely
Maybe no one knows.
Or maybe they do but they just don’t get it. Not really.
You’ve told yourself: “It happened a long time ago.”
Or “Other people have it so much worse.”
You continue to push it down.
But it keeps showing up in your body, your sleep, your relationships and your reactions, the way you flinch or freeze or go numb.
But here’s the truth: you don’t have to keep carrying this alone.
And you don’t need to know how to talk about it to start healing.
At Allius, we offer EMDR and Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) because not all wounds can be healed with words.
Some pain gets buried in the body's nervous system.
Some grief sits in the chest, and there are no words.
Some stories are just too tangled, too fragmented, or too painful to explain.
Some memories are too overwhelming if spoken out loud.
That’s okay. We get it. We know this is how traumatic events and emotional material can be sometimes.
We can work with that. We can offer the safety with these tools to help you to release what you've been carrying.
EMDR - gently helps your brain unstick from trauma
It’s not about retelling your story.
It’s about helping your mind and body finally finish what they didn’t get to finish back when it happened.
The fear, the shame, the helplessness, EMDR helps you process that safely, so it doesn’t keep hijacking your life in the present.
You may start to feel less reactive.
More grounded.
More yourself.
Accelerated Resolution Therapy - ART works at lightning speed, using the brain’s natural ability to process and release distress
No matter how hard you've tried to move forward, the past keeps pulling you back.
But what if you could rewrite that story?
What if, in just a few sessions, you could dissolve the weight of trauma and distress to step into a brighter, freer version of yourself?
You are gently guided through a process of rapid eye movements (similar to those in REM sleep) while helping you rewrite painful images and sensations.
It’s like hitting the "refresh" button on your brain, allowing your mind to reprocess trauma without reliving the pain.
Talking about the trauma is unnecessary with ART.
Some people come to us after years of talking without feeling better.
Some come because talking is just too overwhelming.
Some come because they’re finally ready to feel like themselves again.
Whatever brings you here, we’ll meet you with care.
- Reach out when you're ready. Not to be fixed. Just to be supported. And to heal.
ALLIUS SERVICES SERVES CLIENTS ACROSS NANAIMO, PARKSVILLE, QUALICUM BEACH, LADYSMITH, CHEMAINUS, PORT ALBERNI, Victoria, AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS.