Divya Gulati

My approach is trauma-informed, attachment-based, and rooted in the belief that healing happens through safety, understanding, and connection. I don’t focus solely on coping strategies or symptom management — instead, we work together to understand the why beneath your patterns, so real change becomes possible. When you come to therapy with me, we start by slowing down. You don’t have to perform, explain everything perfectly, or have it all figured out. Together, we create a space where you can exhale — where every part of you, even the ones that feel messy, are welcome. From that foundation of safety, we begin to explore the deeper emotional landscape that has shaped your life. Many of my clients come to me because they’ve already tried logic-based or behavior-focused therapies that offered short-term relief but didn’t address the root cause. I take a different approach. I help you connect with the emotional and bodily layers of your experiences — the parts that talk therapy alone can sometimes miss. I integrate several trauma-informed modalities to support this process: Internal Family Systems (IFS): Helps you identify and work compassionately with the different “parts” of yourself — the inner critic, the overachiever, the caretaker, or the fearful child within — so these parts can begin to relax and release old protective roles. Attachment-Based Therapy: Focuses on how your early relationships shaped the way you connect with others today. This helps you develop a stronger sense of safety, trust, and emotional regulation in your current relationships. Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT): Encourages you to identify, express, and process emotions that may have been suppressed or misunderstood, allowing for deeper emotional clarity and resilience. Psychodynamic Exploration: Brings insight into how unconscious patterns from childhood continue to influence your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors as an adult. My approach is gentle yet deep. I don’t believe in rushing healing; instead, I meet you where you are and help your nervous system build capacity for safety and self-regulation. We might begin by simply noticing how your body responds to certain memories or emotions — then slowly learn to bring compassion to those reactions, rather than judgment. Over time, you’ll begin to recognize how your early survival patterns — people-pleasing, overthinking, or constantly staying “on” — were once ways your younger self tried to stay safe. Together, we help those protective parts trust that they no longer need to carry that burden. As this happens, anxiety softens, burnout eases, and space opens up for peace, creativity, and authentic connection. Each session is collaborative and tailored to your needs. Sometimes the work is reflective and insight-oriented; other times, it involves gentle somatic awareness or inner dialogue. I may use guided imagery, journaling prompts, or grounding techniques to help you integrate what arises in session. Clients often tell me that therapy with me feels like coming home — a place where they can finally stop analyzing and start feeling. My goal is to help you access your own inner wisdom, rebuild self-trust, and experience what it’s like to feel emotionally safe — both with yourself and in your relationships. Healing, to me, is not about erasing your past. It’s about transforming your relationship to it — so you can move forward with greater calm, clarity, and confidence in who you are.

I have over 12 years of experience providing therapy across Canada, the United States, Singapore, and India, supporting adults from diverse cultural and relational backgrounds. My work has spanned private practice, community mental health settings, and creative therapy programs. I specialize in working with high-functioning adults navigating childhood trauma, attachment wounds, anxiety, burnout, and emotionally unavailable relationships. Currently, I run Finding Tranquility Psychotherapy, an online private practice offering trauma-informed counselling across Canada. My work integrates evidence-based modalities with warmth, cultural sensitivity, and creativity to help clients find calm, clarity, and connection.

I hold a Master of Professional Studies (MPS) in Art Therapy and Creativity Development from Pratt Institute, New York, a program grounded in both psychodynamic and creative approaches to healing. My training emphasized the integration of art, mindfulness, and relational psychotherapy to help clients express emotions that words alone cannot capture. Over the years, I have learnt: Internal Family Systems (IFS) Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) Attachment-Based and Psychodynamic Therapy Trauma-Informed and Somatic Practices My continuing education reflects my commitment to staying current with research-based and compassionate approaches to therapy. I believe learning never ends — both in the classroom and in the therapy room.