Cynthia Routhier

If you have been carrying something for a long time…

A relationship that feels stuck. A trauma you have never been able to fully tell — maybe because you weren’t sure how, or because there was no one to tell it to in the language it actually happened in. A pattern that keeps repeating no matter how much you understand it. The sense that your emotions are too big, too inconvenient, or too far underneath to reach.

Therapy can give that weight somewhere to go.

I work with adults and couples across British Columbia using EMDR, attachment-focused, and somatic approaches. Sessions are available in English and French, in whatever blend works for you — sometimes one language, sometimes both in the same hour.

For many of my francophone clients, this is the first time they’ve done therapy in the language their emotions are actually in. The work goes faster, deeper, and feels less like translation.

How I work:

Individual therapy

If you have done talk therapy before and felt like nothing really changed, it may be that the work needed to happen at a level words alone can’t reach. I use EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) to help your brain reprocess what’s still stuck, alongside somatic and attachment-focused approaches that work with the body and nervous system, not just the story. We move at your pace.

Couple's therapy

Many couples reach me after trying a few sessions elsewhere and not seeing change. Often that’s because the conflict you are stuck in isn’t just about communication skills — it’s about attachment, old trauma, and the nervous system patterns each of you brought into the relationship.

I integrate Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), the Gottman Method, and the Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy (PACT).