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Hi, I am Aurela — Ela for short. I show up to this work as a therapist, yes — but also as a fellow human who knows what it is to carry something heavy, to not have it all figured out, and to keep finding my way nonetheless. I am a becoming human — made and remade, in the making and remaking still. In those colors I live, and it is from that place that I meet you.

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What I have come to know is this: healing doesn't happen through insight alone. It happens in the body, in the nervous system, in the warmth and presence of another — in the moments when what has been long held begins to emerge, to soften, to be felt. What has been carried alone can now be witnessed, and slowly, a new map can emerge — one that opens the door to connection, ease, rest, flexibility, wonder, choice, power, support.

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As a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP), the body is at the core of my work. I also draw from Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT) and AEDP — learning how to be with core feelings again, to let them move, process, and complete — and from Touch Skills training, which has deepened my understanding of how much our bones, muscles, and organs hold, and how much care that calls for.

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I was born and raised in Albania and came to Canada as a teenager. I know firsthand what it is to navigate belonging, to carry roots from one place into another, and to slowly find new ways to feel at home in myself and in community. I bring to this work not only professional training, but a lived understanding of what it means to carry what is heavy — and to find your way through.