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Meet Lucie Ritchie
Traumatology Specialization — deep-brain reorienting, Neurofeedback, and Depth Therapy
Bilingual services
English - Français
Lucie works with adults who feel stuck in survival identities and helps them shift toward authenticity. She is a trauma therapist who takes a holistic, non-judgmental approach with her clients. She uses the latest evidence-based neuroscientific methods for processing trauma at the root.
Unlock the potential of your brain, and you unlock the potential of your life.
Meet
Lucie Ritchie, RP:
Deep-Brain Reorienting (DBR), Neurofeedback, and NARM Therapy
RP | MA | NARM | Certified Clinical Traumatologist | Doctoral (EdD) candidate | FR/EN
Lucie Ritchie is a Registered Psychotherapist and the founder of Heal Psychotherapy Inc. She holds a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology degree, a Clinical Traumatologist Certificate, and a Professional Post-Graduate Trauma Certification. Lucie is also a Doctoral Candidate (Ed.D) in Community Care and Counselling, specializing in Traumaology. She is a certified NARM, DBR, and Neurofeedback Therapist who works with clients from a neuroscience-informed lens.
Lucie works with adults and children who have experienced trauma, have attention deficit challenges and anxiety, and experience reactivity in schools, relationships, or in the workplace. Lucie assists her clients (families, children, and adults) by lowering reactivity, anxiety, depression, addiction, symptoms of PTSD, etc., while also balancing their nervous systems and increasing focus, performance, and overall brain functioning.
Through supportive therapy and Neurofeedback, Lucie supports her clients in reconnecting to their authentic self and overall potential.
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Trauma
Lucie works with adults who have complex, shock, or vicarious traumas or symptoms thereof. Symptoms of complex trauma include: social connection challenges, negative self-concept, emotional dysregulation, re-experiencing the trauma (consciously and/or unconsciously), avoiding triggers, and experiencing a persistent sense of threat.
Those with complex trauma, or symptoms thereof, often have concerns with identity because they are stuck in dysregulated survival states and therefore relate to themselves and others through subconscious survival strategies. They usually feel like they move through the world with inauthentic personas and experience high sensitivity to triggers, which can evoke unprocessed traumatic emotions like intense rage, guilt, and/or shame.
With her empathetic, nonjudgmental approach, Lucie can work with you to help heal the brain and the body by processing the impacts of trauma at the root. She works with individuals who struggle with inauthentic self-expressions, which is often due to prolonged childhood maltreatment or long-term nervous system dysregulation.
Therapeutic Approaches
Lucie uses:
- Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR) is her primary, sensorimotor method of processing what the conscious mind cannot.
- NeuroAffective Relational Model® (NARM) to help clients shift from their adaptation self into authenticity.
- Somatic Experiencing® (SE) techniques and Polyvagal Theory principles to track her clients’ nervous systems, as well as her own, while in session.
- Schema Therapy to work with attachment ruptures and painful beliefs.
- Neurofeedback! through FDA-cleared, medical-grade EEG technology, to facilitate neuroplastic change in real-time (for trauma, addictions, insomnia, ADD/ADHD, anxiety, depression, and so much more).
These modalities assist in exploring cognitive, emotional, and physiological processes that could be keeping clients stuck in emotionally painful and reactive states/patterns of the past. They also assist in rebalancing the nervous system with the intention of healing the impacts of prolonged trauma at the root. Overall, Lucie operates from a neuroscience, relational, ego-states, sensorimotor, psychodynamic, and attachment lens.
About Lucie
Passionate. Knowledgeable. Caring. She is on your side!
Lucie’s mission, and that of the company’s, is to further neuroscientific methods that create real and lasting change!
On a personal level, Lucie loves spending time with her two sons. Lucie is a proud “sports mom” who also enjoys biking, yoga, and weightlifting. Lucie also believes in the healing power of clean eating, restful sleep, prayer, and self-development.
Education
- Doctor of Education in Community Care and Counselling, Traumatology Specialization, candidate
- Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology
- Professional Trauma Certification
- Clinical Traumatologist Certificate
- Infra Low Frequency (ILF) Neurofeedback (The Othmer Method)
- Mastering Infralow Frequency Neurofeedback
- Low-Energy Neurofeedback System (LENS)
- Trauma-Informed Neurofeedback Certification
- Bachelor of General Studies in Social Sciences
- Diploma in Early Childhood Education
Certificates and Courses
- Deep Brain Reorienting Certification
- NeuroAffective Relational Model® Therapist Certification— The NARM Training Institute
- Somatic Experiencing® (course) — Somatic Experiencing® International
- Schema Therapy Certification
- Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD, Certification
- Brené Brown’s Dare to Lead™ Training, Certificate
- Labour Studies (various courses): Laurentian University
- Integrative Life Coaching, Certificate
- Emotion-Focused Couples Therapy, Certificate — ICEEFT
- Working with Abandonment, Certificate
- Polyvagal Theory for Trauma Survivors, Certificate
- Working with Shame, Certificate
- Sexual Health and the Trauma Survivor, Certificate
Populations Served
Children 2 years old+, Adults 18+; Families, Individuals, Athletes, Schools-Aged Children.
Services Offered
Trauma psychotherapy, Neurofeedback, and Psychoeducational Workshops/Groups
Lucie’s Areas of Focus
Complex Trauma (C-PTSD), Acute Trauma (PTSD), Identity Shifting, Attachment Ruptures, Transformational Change.
Languages Spoken
English and French
Session Fee per Hour
- Individual Therapy/Neurofeedback: $190
*As of June 20th, 2024, the federal government removed taxes for psychotherapy services! Any psychotherapy fee is now tax-free!
* Partial or full coverage by most insurance providers
(kindly check with your benefits company)
Consultation Offered
Yes, Lucie offers a free 20-minute phone or Zoom consultation.