Overcome Adversity. Reclaim Strength.
Something isn’t working, and you don’t know why
At Bright Horizon Therapies, I support adults heal, recover, and grow through EMDR, IFS-informed parts work, somatic approaches, and boundary work, combined into what I call the Integrative Trauma Recovery Model™. I’m Natalie Jovanic, a complex trauma coach and trauma counsellor with over 15 years of experience.
Whether you’re navigating childhood trauma, complex trauma, relationship wounds, grief and loss, anxiety, or other life challenges, I’m here to support you. Together, we’ll work toward healing and create a path forward that feels right for you.
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Is this you?
Feeling stuck despite efforts
You’ve tried talk therapy or self-help, but something still doesn’t click. Your mind may understand your patterns, but your body and emotions don’t seem to follow.
Persistent anxiety or overwhelm
You might struggle with anxiety that won’t lift, or feel constantly drained managing everyone else’s needs while ignoring your own.
Repeating relationship patterns
Your relationships may repeat familiar painful dynamics, leaving you frustrated, hurt, or disconnected.
Disconnected from your body or emotions
You might feel numb, foggy, or like you’re watching your life from a distance — or swing between feeling too much and feeling nothing at all.
Lingering effects of of childhood abuse or dysfunctional families
Even if you don’t identify as having “trauma,” you have a nagging sense that past experiences may still influence how you feel, relate, and show up in life.
A harsh inner critic, or a belief that something is wrong with you
Not something you did, but something you are: broken, too much, not enough. No amount of achievement seems to quiet it.
If any of this resonates, you’re looking for support that addresses your whole experience — mind, body, and emotions — so you can move forward with clarity and strength.
Services
Counselling services are available in Alberta and Western Canada. Coaching services are available Canada-wide and internationally. If a service isn’t available where you live and you are interested in it, feel free to reach out to explore your options.
Featured services for trauma recovery
If trauma or abuse are part of your story, however that shows up for you, here are three common starting points:
Relational trauma recovery
You feel like you lost yourself after living through an abusive or toxic dynamic as an adult. Feel like yourself again. Explore Relational trauma counselling.
Childhood trauma recovery
A suspicion that some of your current challenges trace back to your childhood. Reconnect with who you are beneath it. Explore childhood trauma coaching for adults.
Complex trauma recovery
Overwhelmed, broken, and therapy before didn’t reach it. A self not organized around survival. Explore complex trauma counselling.
In addition to these featured services, I also offer generic trauma counselling and EMDR.
Services for everyday struggles and grief
Not everything that shapes you has to be named “trauma” to matter. This is for grief, and for patterns that don’t come with a label.
Grief counselling
A loss others don’t fully see or acknowledge — a friendship, a pet, a miscarriage, an estrangement — and grief that feels lonelier because of it. Find your ground again. Explore Grief Counselling.
Trauma-informed counselling
A pattern you can’t quite explain and feel stuck in, even if you don’t call it “trauma.” Trust your own read of situations again. Explore trauma-informed counselling.
What makes this different
The Integrative Trauma Recovery Model™ is a framework I developed specifically for adults healing from childhood, relational, and complex trauma. Trauma affects the body, mind, relationships, and the inner organization of self.
This model does not separate EMDR, IFS-informed parts work, somatic approaches, and boundary work into fixed stages. They are interwoven: parts work focuses on inner fragmentation, patterns, and overwhelming emotions; EMDR supports inner resourcing and helps process traumatic material, including what wounded parts are carrying; somatic work supports regulation and reconnection with your body throughout the process; and boundary work builds the felt sense of where you end and someone else begins.
I work with the whole person — your strengths, adaptations, lived experience, and the systems that have shaped you — because you are not a diagnosis. You are a human being with dignity and capacity. Some clients have shared that after years of talk therapy, this was the first space where they did not feel judged or pathologized. This space allowed them to heal truly from childhood abuse and complex trauma.
Recovery unfolds in overlapping phases, not rigid steps. Early work focuses on safety, stabilization, and building capacity to support your system to be with an emotion and to reconnect with your body. From there, trauma can be processed at a pace your system can sustain. Integration is ongoing, including shifts in identity, boundaries, and relationships throughout the process, rather than only at the end.
Anti-oppressive practice is woven throughout, because for many people, systemic harm, discrimination, and intergenerational trauma shape their lives. Systemic trauma is real, and trauma recovery needs to account for this. The goal is not simply symptom reduction, but integration of your body, mind, nervous system, inner parts, and sense of self.
Meet Natalie
I’m Natalie Jovanic, a trauma counsellor and complex trauma coach with over 15 years of experience supporting adults healing from childhood trauma, complex trauma, grief, and relationship challenges. I bring clinical depth and my own lived experience of full recovery to this work.
I developed the Integrative Trauma Recovery Model™ above from that combination, shaped by anti-oppressive practice at every stage. I offer income-based variable pricing to make counselling and coaching more accessible, and I’m here to support you at your own pace.
Does this speak to you?
If this approach to healing and trauma recovery resonates with you, I’d be honoured to get to know you. I offer a free consultation, so you can explore your options in a safe, supportive space and see what feels like the right fit.
You can book directly through my secure online booking system or reach out by email at nat@brighthorizontherapies.com—whatever feels easiest for you.
Not sure where you fit? Start here.
Trauma recovery explained
General information about trauma, how it shows up, and what recovery actually involves. A good place to start if you’re not yet sure what you’re carrying.
Healing for adults with childhood trauma
For adults with childhood trauma, or who lived through sexual, physical, or emotional abuse, neglect, or growing up in a dysfunctional home.
Healing relational trauma
For adults healing from domestic violence, toxic relationships, sexual assault or workplace abuse.
Healing complex trauma
For adults whose traumatic experiences are complex, layered, inescapable, or compounded by systemic oppression.