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, and deep conversations.
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 looking at old patterns of thoughts, emotions, and survival responses, together 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.
There are so many more possibilities inside us than we’ve been taught to believe; there are so many more versions of ourselves that are awaiting us to create. I love helping clients nurture their most grounded, truest sense of self; helping them build healthy and happy relationships; and to care for old wounds that need a deeper approach to heal.
In individual work: I specialize in healing complex trauma, relational and attachment trauma; and supporting adult children of 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, learn to be a strong emotional team, navigate life changes, premarital coaching, 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.