PranaCare  ·  Edmonton, Alberta

Trauma Counselling & Somatic Therapy in Edmonton

Trauma-informed, body-based support for adults in Edmonton and across Alberta who want to feel more steady, more connected, and more at home in themselves. This work integrates somatic therapy, nervous system understanding, and culturally intelligent care.

What Trauma Really Is

Trauma is not only about the event. It is about what your nervous system had to do to survive it.

When something feels too overwhelming, too sudden, too repeated, or too unsupported, the body adapts. Trauma can live on as activation, shutdown, disconnection, vigilance, or a persistent sense that you are never fully at ease.

Sometimes trauma shows up as a body that stays braced — trouble relaxing, sleeping lightly, overthinking, scanning for danger, or feeling wired even when life looks calm on the outside.
Other times it appears as numbness, collapse, irritability, panic, emotional flooding, or reactions that feel bigger than the moment. These are not character flaws. They are intelligent survival responses.
Trauma can also be shaped by culture, migration, racism, family pressure, identity conflict, belonging wounds, and the strain of living between worlds. What hurts is not only what happened, but how alone, unseen, or unsupported you had to be with it.

What your body learned in order to cope can be understood with care — and worked with gently.

What Somatic Work Helps You Do

Help your system find more safety, regulation, and room to breathe.

  • regulate your nervous system with more consistency
  • notice stress responses earlier and respond more skillfully
  • reduce anxiety, overwhelm, and internal pressure
  • release held tension and come back into your body
  • build emotional steadiness without forcing disclosure
  • strengthen grounding, resilience, and self-trust
  • feel more culturally seen, respected, and attuned to
Body-based trauma work is not about pushing your story before your system is ready. It is about working with the body, emotions, and nervous system in a paced way so healing feels possible, grounded, and sustainable.
Somatic Tools Used

Body-based tools that are gentle, precise, and grounded in trauma-informed practice.

breath regulation and paced breathing
grounding for nervous system stabilization
interoceptive and body-based awareness
guided imagery for safety and orientation
nervous system mapping and pattern tracking
cultural and identity attunement
trauma-informed conversation with somatic pacing
Who This Is For

Support for the real ways trauma and stress shape daily life.

Trauma-informed somatic counselling may be a fit if these patterns feel familiar.

anxiety, vigilance, or always feeling "on"
burnout, depletion, or chronic over-functioning
a trauma history that still lives in the body
emotional overwhelm, shutdown, or rapid reactivity
cultural pressure, family expectations, or identity strain
chronic stress that never seems to fully switch off
grief, loss, rupture, or difficult life transitions
feeling disconnected from your body, needs, or sense of self
Why Work With Me

Experienced, trauma-informed support that is grounded, culturally fluent, and clinically clear.

Nimir Raval
Trauma-informed, body-based, culturally intelligent counselling
I offer care that is structured and human at the same time — support that respects your nervous system, your lived experience, and the cultural context that shapes how pain, strength, and healing are carried. My approach integrates trauma counselling, somatic therapy, and practical clarity so sessions feel grounded and useful.
MSW
Clinical training in social work with depth in trauma, systems, and relational care
RSW
Registered Social Worker offering ethical, evidence-informed counselling in Alberta
MA Leadership
Leadership-level insight that supports discernment, communication, and real-life change
ACC (ICF)
Coaching-informed structure that helps translate insight into grounded action
Trauma-Informed Somatic Practice
Paced, body-aware support that prioritizes regulation, safety, and integration
Cultural Fluency
Identity-aware, migration-aware, context-sensitive care that does not separate the person from their world
Multilingual Support
Sessions and support available in English, Hindi, and Gujarati.
What Sessions Feel Like

Steady, respectful care that helps your body feel less alone.

Sessions often feel:
  • • calm
  • • grounded
  • • gently structured
  • • emotionally safe
  • • culturally aware
  • • attentive to the body

We move at a pace your nervous system can work with. There is space to pause, orient, notice sensations, breathe, and make sense of what is happening without being rushed past your own capacity.

The goal is not to intensify what hurts. The goal is to help you become more resourced, more connected, and more able to stay with yourself in ways that feel safe, clear, and sustainable.

Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing for trauma-informed somatic counselling.

50 Minutes

Trauma & Somatic Session

$200
focused, paced support for regulation, insight, and body-based healing
Book Session
90 Minutes

Extended Session

$250
more spacious support when deeper pacing, processing, or integration is needed
Book Extended Session
Insurance receipts provided.
Direct billing available for select plans.
Client Stories

What this work has made possible for clients.

I feel less hijacked by stress now. There is more space between what I feel and how I respond, and my body no longer feels like it is carrying everything alone.

Client  ·  Edmonton

For the first time, I felt understood in the full context of my life — not just my symptoms, but my culture, my family patterns, and the pressure I had been carrying for years.

Client  ·  Alberta

This did not feel rushed or overwhelming. It felt steady. I learned how to notice myself earlier, calm my system, and move through hard moments with more trust.

Client  ·  Calgary

I came in feeling disconnected from myself. I am leaving with more grounding, more clarity, and a way of relating to my body that feels kinder and more workable in real life.

Client  ·  Virtual
Begin

You do not have to force healing. You can begin with steadiness.

If you are looking for trauma counselling in Edmonton or somatic therapy in Alberta, this can be a grounded place to start. We can move one step at a time, with care for your body, your story, and the context that shaped both.

PranaCare Ltd  ·  Edmonton  ·  In-person & Virtual