(she/her)
Registered Psychotherapist
RP, CTP Dipl
inner alignment
My work as a therapist is to meet you as a whole being — body, history, voice, longing — and to help you find your way back to yourself. Whether you’re navigating burnout, anxiety, grief, perinatal stress, racial trauma, relationship struggles, or a life transition, together we’ll work toward the clarity you need, name the beliefs that limit you, and grow your inner alignment.
when therapy helps
Therapy can help when you feel overwhelmed, disconnected from yourself, stuck, or unable to cope. These feelings are often the body’s response to real challenges — relationship strain, loss in its many forms, the demands of work and life, or the slow work of figuring out who you are at this stage. Sometimes, what brings someone to therapy is simply the desire to understand themselves more deeply.
engaging with all parts of yourself
Whatever brings you here, the act of entering therapy is an act of engaging with yourself. It’s an act of hope — an invitation for new possibilities to emerge within a relationship of care. Stepping into the psychotherapeutic relationship can be profound, healing, and quietly transformative.
a holistic approach
In our work together, we’ll pay attention to all of it — your thoughts and words, yes, but also your sensations, your physicality, your voice. These are all the ways you experience and express your life. Together we’ll learn to ask the questions that matter most, and to listen for what your body has been trying to say.
authenticity is everything
It’s my privilege to hold space for this work. The practice of setting judgment aside and coaxing out your truth is brave; it asks something of you. But on the other side of that bravery is more aliveness, more steadiness, and a deeper alignment between who you are and how you move through your life. Your authentic self deserves room to breathe.
beginning
If you feel ready to begin — or even just curious about what beginning might look like — I’d love to hear from you. We can start with a conversation.
When you’d like to begin, you can book a free consultation here: https://aws-portal.owlpractice.ca/dhw
Or, if it feels easier, write to me: dharini.woollcombe@gmail.com
growing self awareness
My practice centers on a collaborative focus on your thoughts, words, feelings, physicality, sensory experiences, and voice — because these are how you’ve metabolized your life so far, and how you create the life you’re living now. This requires a great deal of listening on my part, and the offering of questions for us to explore together.
holistic body-centred work
As we work, we’ll pay attention to the words you use, the thoughts you return to, your physiological responses, how you eat, how you rest, how you entertain yourself, how you move, how you speak, how you breathe. These details both shape and mirror how you relate to yourself and to the people around you.
finding words and building tools
Keeping body, mind, personal history, and present-day life at the center of our work gives us a rich field to draw from. As we build a shared language for these aspects of you, we can begin to consider what still serves you, what no longer does, and what new tools might help you meet what’s in front of you. This is how you mindfully create the life you want to live.
move forward with ease
I believe you already carry much of what you need. Our work is to uncover what’s there, deepen your connection to your authentic self, and help you move forward with more ease.
areas of focus
Grief & Bereavement. Compassionate support through loss in its many forms — pregnancy and infant loss, terminal illness, end-of-life transitions, and grief at any stage of its long arc.
Racial Identity & Racialized Trauma. Healing from experiences of racism, exploring racial identity, and processing the anger, grief, and complexity that come with discrimination and marginalization. Held with care, cultural humility, and recognition of what these experiences actually cost.
Life Transitions & Major Changes. Support through significant change — career shifts, relationship changes, relocation, aging, and identity exploration.
Relationships & Sexuality. Exploring sexuality, intimacy, and relational patterns, both within yourself and within partnership. Approached with openness and without judgment.
Caregiver Support. Support for those caring for loved ones through illness, aging, or other challenges, while staying connected to your own wellbeing.
Perinatal Mental Health & Birth Trauma. I hold additional training and certification in perinatal mental health, offering specialized support for fertility challenges, pregnancy loss, anxiety during pregnancy, birth trauma, postpartum depression, and the broader work of postpartum adjustment and early parenting.
how I work
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. Exploring unconscious patterns, early experiences, and how they shape your present-day life and relationships.
Polyvagal-Informed & Somatic Work. Attending to how emotions and experiences live in your body and nervous system, integrating physical awareness and regulation into the healing process.
Mindfulness-Based Therapy. Developing awareness of thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations to create space for choice and change.
The questions that brought me here are simple but persistent: why do we do what we do, and why is it so often at odds with what we say we want?
I first met these questions as an artist. Years of working in theatre, film, and writing meant asking them of the characters I played and the stories I told — but they wouldn’t stay confined to the page or the stage. My drive to understand myself, others, and the patterns we find ourselves caught in eventually landed me in psychotherapy training. It still feels like the right place to be.
Years of living abroad and training in language, movement, vocal performance, and presentation shaped the way I work now. They are the root of my conviction that mind and body, though they can struggle against each other, can — with the right attunement — inform and support one another beautifully.
My clinical education is rooted in the Centre for Training in Psychotherapy in Toronto, a program that offers a strong academic foundation alongside deep immersion in psychodynamic and experiential traditions. Because the training itself is highly experiential, I have spent years in my own personal and group therapy. I think this is why I so deeply respect what it asks of someone to reach out, enter into, and stay the course in self-development — whether that work happens in talk therapy or in other forms of healing.
My hope is to help you find your inner alignment, and through it, more ease within yourself and your daily life.
when you’re ready
Initial Consultation
I offer a 30-minute video consultation, free of charge. We’ll begin with a conversation about what brings you to therapy and what you’re hoping for, and together we’ll see whether we’re a good fit to continue the work.
About Sessions
Book a free consultation here: https://aws-portal.owlpractice.ca/dhw
Or Email me at any time dharini.woollcombe@gmail.com