Serenne Romanycia, M.C., R.C.C.
Hello! I’m Serenne (she/her), a relationship therapist and Registered Clinical Counsellor. I’m also a mom; a partner; a friend; a sister, and a daughter. Things that make my heart happy are connecting with my loved ones, adventuring in nature, curling up with a good book, deep conversations, and writing. You can read my latest writing blog post here.
I am honoured to be able to care for people and to accompany folks on their healing journey as we navigate the full spectrum of life’s experiences together. Being human is not easy, especially in a world that has prioritized the external. Too often our internal landscape - our hearts, our vulnerabilities, the whispers of our soul, the often confusing and contradictory parts of ourselves - don’t get the time, space and attention they need to grow and flourish.
Healing starts with bringing safety, care and attention to this internal world; to understanding all the parts of ourselves in a deeper way, and with looking at old patterns of thoughts, emotions, and survival responses, with compassion and curiosity. Together, we process old pain and fear, and orient towards new ways of being that encompass strength, groundedness and stability.
I have a focus on the neuroscience of safety, and how our nervous systems interprets safety or danger. The somatic aspect of my work involves understanding survival responses in the body and mind and repatterning these responses from a safer foundation and a position of strength. I love helping clients nurture a strong sense of self; reparenting young parts of themselves that need support and development; helping clients create healthy and happy relationships; and also making lifestyle changes that are in alignment with greater wellbeing and capacity.
In individual work: I specialize in healing complex trauma, relational and attachment trauma; and supporting adult children of emotionally undeveloped parents and/or traumatized parents. I support my clients in caring for anxiety and depression, healing a strong Inner Critic, wounded self worth, healing boundary ruptures, and having healthy relationships with self and others. Learn more here.
In couples work: I specialize in helping partners learn healthy communication, nurture intimacy, heal broken trust, learn to be a strong emotional team, navigate life changes, premarital coaching, navigating family planning, and more. I also help healing disconnection, boundary issues, trust ruptures, unresolved conflict and trauma, and ineffective or damaging communication patterns. Learn more here.
I have a Masters in Clinical Counselling Psychology, I’ve been a Registered Clinical Counsellor with the BCACC for the past 9 years, and have over a decade of training and learning in various modalities, such as the Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy, the Developmental Model of Couples Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy, Somatic Therapy, Trauma Therapy, Internal Family Systems, Mindful Self Compassion, Buddhist Psychology and meditation. I integrate my personal journey of healing complex trauma and intergenerational trauma into my work. My background is Korean and French Canadian, and my lived experience of family’s history of immigrant trauma has also strongly informed my therapeutic work.
I offer online sessions only at this time.