Andressa Taverna

You don’t have to keep holding everything together.

Many of the women who find their way to me have spent years caring for others, adapting, surviving, and carrying more than anyone realizes.

From the outside, they seem capable, successful, and like they have it all together.

Inside, they’re exhausted.

Sometimes they quietly wonder,

“Where did I go?”

Healing isn’t about fixing yourself.

It’s about remembering yourself.

It’s about finding a space where you no longer have to hide, perform, or carry everything alone.

My role isn’t to tell you who you should become.

My role is to help you honour the ways you’ve learned to survive, while creating space for something new – so you can come home to yourself.

My own journey

I know what it means to have lived through trauma.

Like many survivors, I learned to disconnect from myself in order to survive. What once protected me eventually became the very thing that was keeping me from fully living.

My own healing taught me that the parts we fear most are often the parts that have been waiting the longest to be met with compassion, acceptance, love.

This experience continues to shape the way I show up as a therapist today.

How I work

Growing up in the Brazilian Amazon shaped my understanding of healing long before my clinical training began. Slowing down, listening deeply, and finding safety in connection are values I still carry into every session.

Today, I integrate inner child work, EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), attachment-focused therapy, and somatic approaches. Rather than applying techniques, I tailor therapy to your unique story, helping you heal not only through insight, but through lived emotional experience.

I work especially with women navigating…

• Childhood, relational, or sexual trauma

• Immigration and rebuilding a sense of belonging

• Motherhood and changing identity

• Perimenopause and life transitions

• Grief and profound loss

• Relationship patterns rooted in attachment wounds

• Reconnecting with your inner child

If this resonates…

If this feels like a place where you can finally exhale, I’d be honoured to hold your story with care as we make sense of it together, creating a space where you can remember the person you’ve always been ♡