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A Safe Space for Healing
EMDR & Accelerated Resolution Therapy - For the pain you don’t have words for.
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.
“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 don’t get it. Not really.
You’ve learned how to function with it. Smile through it.
You’ve told yourself: “It happened a long time ago.”
Or “Other people have it worse.”
You push it down.
But it keeps showing up in your body, your sleep, your relationships, 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 don’t get it. Not really.
You’ve told yourself: “It happened a long time ago.”
Or “Other people have it worse.”
You push it down.
But it keeps showing up in your body, your sleep, your relationships, 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 Art Therapy because not all wounds are verbal.
Some pain gets buried in the nervous system.
Some grief sits in the chest, not the mouth.
Some stories are too tangled — or too painful — to explain.
That’s okay.
We work with that.
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 then.
The fear, the shame, the helplessness — EMDR helps you process that safely, so it doesn’t keep hijacking your present.
You may start to feel less reactive.
More grounded.
More yourself.
Art Therapy - gives you a different kind of voice — one that doesn’t need to be fluent in feelings.
You don’t need to “be creative.”
You don’t need to explain what you’re making.
Sometimes your hands will draw something you didn’t know you were holding.
Sometimes that’s where the healing starts.
It’s not about pretty pictures.
It’s about creating a space where your inner world can breathe.
Some people come to us after years of talking without feeling better.
Some come because talking is too much.
Some come because they’re finally ready to feel again.
Whatever brings you here — we’ll meet you with care, not pressure.
We go at your pace.
We listen.
We hold space for what hurts — and what hopes.
- Reach out when you're ready. Not to be fixed. Just to be held. And slowly, to heal
ALLIUS SERVICES SERVES CLIENTS ACROSS NANAIMO, PARKSVILLE, QUALICUM BEACH, LADYSMITH, CHEMAINUS, PORT ALBERNI, Victoria, AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS.