about natalia brajak
meet natalia
I work as a Registered Psychotherapist with special focus on the integration of spirituality and psychotherapy. I have served people in the wellness sector since 1999. As co-founder of Moksha Yoga (now Modo Yoga) in 2003, I ran my yoga studios in Toronto and Oakville for more than 10 years. I have diverse trainings in yoga and movement practices including Thai massage and level 3 ELDOA- which is an amazing fascial reorganizing technique born out of osteopathy.
A curious seeker of truth from early in my life, studying self, communication and healing were always what I gravitated to. My trainings and experience include Transpersonal and Spiritual psychotherapy, non-violent communication, Spiritual direction, Psychedelic enhanced therapy, Enneagram, meditation, mindfulness, Teacher plant medicine work, Reiki and Master level Unity Bubble facilitation for deep pattern release.
Life is a great and often mysterious teacher. I found it deeply supportive to have a therapist to walk certain parts of the path with me. I was given tools and insights that still have meaning today. I draw on relationship experience, single motherhood, travel and my creative passions to enrich my perspective.
I work as an Integration therapist with Dimensions Algonquin serving the Veteran population and as Clinical Lead for Atma Cena Psychedelic Assisted Therapy Clinic in London, Ontario.
I relocated to Guelph several years ago and am currently in private practice through my space – a stone’s throw from downtown. When not in session, I can be found walking my dog, spending time with my son or playing guitar in the sunshine.
my approach
I stand for truth and self love.
The unique journey that I have been on has enabled me to synthesize many modalities and teachings to work with you deeply and authentically, meeting you where you are each day. We are like the proverbial onion comprised of many layers.
To love yourself is the work of a lifetime. To know what that really even means is a deep study. To love another in the most pure and unconditional way, with depth, caring and true friendship demands that we love ourselves in this way also.
When you become intimate with who you really are, then you can begin to appreciate whoever is in front of you in each moment of your life.
Beginning therapy for the first time?
My first therapist asked me “Natalia, are you ready to take 100% responsibility for your life?” 100?! No, thank you! Why would I take responsibility for all the hurtful things that have happened to me? At the time, I had no idea what that meant, how that could even be a good thing, nor that it was even possible for me. I was too busy pointing the finger of blame outwards.
When beginning therapy for the first time, much of the work leans towards talk therapy. You can learn about yourself by simply having the freedom to share and express yourself without judgment or advice giving from me. I like to call it the emptying process. Cognitive learning, emotional awareness and psycho-education are also part of this process.
If and when you choose to move more deeply into yourself and claim more of your life; emotional work, and understanding how your past drives your present-day experiences is often the next step. I won’t say it’s a straight road, but effective therapy will always meet you where you are in the now. And there are many approaches to help you with this.
Then there is the transpersonal or spiritual component that has nothing to do with religion, but with your beingness – your destiny – your own Hero/Heroine’s journey. This process can offer you the way to regain your wholeness and live with an integrated self that operates with joy, healthy boundaries, and interdependence.
not a new kid on the therapy block but want to go deeper?
I love it when a new client arrives with lots of awareness and experience. I honour you for all the work you have courageously done. Everything you do leads you to your next destination. Reality is, until we have really gone to certain depths and integrated the learnings into our lived experience, we might still feel like we are searching for the missing pieces. It might feel like there is something missing.
I am on a mission. A mission to affirm that your therapy needs to be spiritual. If it hasn’t been, that may be why you are now drawn to working with me. Your inner compass is pointing you in a new direction to help you level up. When I say level up, I never imply “better than anyone else” – I mean being your best and most healthy self on all levels which helps everyone around you to also level up.
Maybe you feel called to explore a different wisdom teaching like the Enneagram or to work with your blossoming sense of spirituality after leaving a lifetime of religious affiliation. Perhaps you feel ready to explore what plant medicines/psychedelics have to offer you or you want to talk about experiences you have had. This is where I particularly thrive.
One critical tool that I incorporate into my work is The Unity Bubble – a spiritual technology second to none. This process I can’t say enough about. It helped me personally integrate and heal many things that still felt undone in my own life after years of really good psychotherapy, plant medicine work, training and lived experience. Synthesizing all of this has become my life’s work.
I open my vault to share this with you so that seeking outwardly becomes a thing of the past. You are your own master. Are you ready?
therapies
Natalia Brajak BA,RP
Transpersonal Psychotherapy
Transpersonal psychology enhances the study of mind-body relations, spirituality, consciousness and human transformation. We integrate spiritual tools and traditions with modern psychological thinking. It's not just the mind and body that need healing and looking after, but also your spirit itself.
Enneagram Coaching
Learn what Enneagram teachings can show you about your specific personality structure, habits of mind, inherent strengths and blind-spot challenges. This strongly complements any sort of therapeutic work.
ELDOA
ELDOA is a revolutionary, cutting edge osteopathic lengthening and strengthening technique for the spine and joints of the body. Improve your athletic performance, effectively battle back pain, maintain nervous system and organ function all at the same time. Essential for anyone suffering the effects of too much sitting, injuries, car accidents, concussions and surgery. Private and small group sessions available.
Unity Bubble
This deep healing process takes you on a journey of self exploration and enables a return to your essential wholeness like no other. I will help you transform limiting patterns at the root by accessing the Unity field for deep emotional release. You set your pace. It's designed to facilitate and accelerate smooth personal transformation so that you can live your life with more contentment, ease, acceptance, and consciousness about how you contribute to your world.
psychedelic integration therapy
Plant medicines have been used for thousands of years to help humans experiencing dis-ease on physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels. Psychedelic experiences have proven to radically improve conditions like chronic pain, depression, PTSD and anxiety. NOSC's (non-ordinary states of consciousness) can move you to experience things that are hard to explain and hard to know what to do with when you return to everyday life. Integration therapy provides a compassionate and non-judgmental space for you to explore these experiences and insights after the fact. Together we can work on incorporating the gifts from your experience into your life moving forward.
IFS
Internal Family Systems is a powerfully transformative, evidence-based model of psychotherapy. We believe the mind is naturally multiple and that is a good thing. Our inner parts contain valuable qualities and our core Self knows how to heal, allowing us to become integrated and whole. In IFS all parts are welcome.
IFS is a movement. A new, empowering paradigm for understanding and harmonizing the mind and, thereby, larger human systems. One that can help people heal and helps the world become a more compassionate place.
Spiritual Psychotherapy
My client-led approach allows you to address the most important challenges to you, at your own pace. Together, we can identify where you’ve come from, where you are now and where you want to go.
Enneagram Coaching
Learn what Enneagram teachings can show you about your specific personality structure, habits of mind, inherent strengths and blind-spot challenges. This strongly complements any sort of therapeutic work.
ELDOA
ELDOA is a revolutionary, cutting edge osteopathic lengthening and strengthening technique for the spine and joints of the body. Improve your athletic performance, effectively battle back pain, maintain nervous system and organ function all at the same time. Private and small group sessions available.
Unity Bubble
This conscious energetic, emotional release work is guided by your readiness to transform patterns at the root and at the pace you are comfortable with. It's designed to facilitate and accelerate smooth personal transformation to help you be in the world in a more authentic way - revealing the truth behind your ultimate purpose here in the greater family of life.