Christy Rostek

Christy is a Clinical Social Worker and Trauma Therapist in full-time private practice. She brings authenticity, compassion, depth, and creativity to each and every session. With a keen eye for getting to the heart of the matter, Christy’s therapeutic lens is deeply woven in attachment theory (how our early experiences with our caregivers and in our childhood go on to shape how we move and feel in the world in adulthood). It is also steeped in Emotion Focused Theory (Dr Sue Johnson) and Somatic Experiencing (Dr Peter Levine).  Somatic Experiencing works with the Nervous System and the body to renegotiate traumatic experiences such as car accidents, medical procedures, assault, developmental trauma and more (see http://traumahealing.com).  She has additional training in other modalities such as CBT, DBT, and IFS.  She understands the complexity of humans and will adjust and customize your therapy to what works best for you. Christy has been a social worker for the past 24 years. Her background as a mental health and addictions clinician with adolescents in both outpatient and inpatient settings, as a child protection and adoption social worker overseas, as a crisis counsellor, addictions rehabilitation counsellor, and as a university counsellor has led her to be passionate about working with young adults as they navigate their 20’s. She is also passionate about working with the LGBTQ+ and BIPOC community. Christy is a Mental Health First Aid Instructor and offers group training throughout the year. She has spent the past three years completing her Somatic Experience Practitioner Training and has advanced level certification. She is a mom and step-mom, and in her spare time enjoys spending time with her friends and family, exercising, camping, hiking, reading, running, her pets, reffing (and badly playing) volleyball and ongoing learning and development in therapeutic work. Session fees are $125. She offers direct billing with Blue Cross, Greenshield and NIHB. Accepting clients ages 16+