I help people recover from trauma using Somatic Experiencing and adapted Internal Family Systems. I work with people who are plural or systems, Autistic, or survivors of religious, medical, or sexual violence. I prioritize transgender, 2S, and nonbinary survivors.
From a Somatic Experiencing perspective, trauma is energy trapped in the nervous system caused by incomplete protective responses. Sensations are the language of the nervous system. I will guide you to notice and listen to your body's sensations so that you can regulate your nervous system and grow your capacity to feel presence, joy, and relief.
From adapted Internal Family Systems, all people have parts, all parts are good, and all parts are equally important and valuable leaders. We can support your headmates to communicate with each other and to access what each needs to be more comfortable. I help people experience harmony and functional multiplicity, including non-traumagenic systems.
ABOUT
CLYDE MASON
I am a white settler and a transsexual man with disabilities who uses he, him, and his pronouns. In my life, I have personal lived experience of border security officer violence, religious extremism, family estrangement, intimate partner abuse, community organizing, police brutality, substance use, dissociation, and grief. My worldview is informed by Black trans feminism. In my personal spiritual practice, I pray to my trans ancestors and I seek to follow the leadership of Black and Indigenous transgender abolitionists, including in The Black Trans Prayer Book.
QUALIFICATION
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Registered Social Worker (RSW) in good standing with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers (OCSWSSW). Registration number: 837706
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Ontario Associate of Social Workers (OASW) membership number: 20458
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X University, Master of Social Work (MSW)
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University of Portland, Bachelor of Social Work (BSW)
EXPERIENCE
I carry over 15 years of experience in harm reduction and 4 years in private practice. In 2010, I began collaborating with people recovering from trauma in harm reduction settings, including: in emergency shelters for survivors of domestic violence, stalking, and sexual assault; on crisis lines, help lines, and peer support lines for 2S, transgender, and queer youth; in low-barrier drop-ins for people who are homeless or living outside; in arts-based therapy groups for survivors of sexual violence; and in individual psychotherapeutic relationships with homeless nonbinary and transgender people. In 2021, I began offering my work through private practice. I collaborate very closely with an Autistic supervisor who is a Somatic Experiencing practitioner.
SPECIALTIES
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Trauma recovery (PTSD, C-PTSD, OSDD, DID, and OCD)
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Honouring parts, alters, and systems (including non-traumagenic systems)
- Grief, including suicide grief
- Self-harm
- Physical symptoms of anxiety
- Dissociative experiences
- Autistic and AuDHD lived experiences
- Dysphoria
- Addiction
- Eating disorders
- Abusive relationships
- Transgender spirituality
- Responding to religious violence
- Responding to medical violence
- Responding to anti-fatness
- Harm reduction approach
- Somatic Experiencing therapy
- Internal Family Systems therapy (adapted for plural systems)
- Narrative therapy
- Emotion Focused therapy
- Attachment-based therapy
CONTACT ME
Please email me with any questions or to introduce yourself! I offer a free 30 minute phone consultation. If you feel safe enough with me, our relationship can be life-changing.
LOCATION​
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Land currently stolen by "ontario"
All of my sessions are offered virtually by video or by phone, unless we make a plan to travel and meet in person. I live and work in Anishinaabe territory, on land cared for by the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation. The land I live on is governed by the Williams Treaties, signed in 1923, by seven First Nations of the Chippewa of Lake Simcoe, the Mississauga of the North Shore of Lake Ontario, and settlers. The land is stolen.
RATES
$200 per 60 minute session
Sliding scale rate is $150
Inuit and First Nations NIHB clients do not pay me directly.
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