What Is Transversality?

A different kind of therapy starts here.

At Transversality Counselling, we believe healing doesn’t follow a straight line. It moves — across experiences, identities, relationships, and histories. It weaves. It loops. It crosses. This is what we mean by transversality.

It's a guiding idea that shapes how we work with people navigating trauma, grief, identity, relationships, and change.

What does “transversality” mean?

Transversality is a word borrowed from philosophy. It describes the way things — thoughts, emotions, experiences — can move across boundaries rather than stay fixed in one place.

In therapy, this means:

• We don’t isolate the mind from the body.

• We don’t understand the individual separate from their relationships or community.

• We honour the way your story crosses cultures, languages, and generations.

• We understand that healing moves in nonlinear ways.

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Transversality invites us to work with complexity — to hold space for both/and, not just either/or.

Therapy that meets you where you are

We all carry layers. Our histories, traumas, cultures, roles, desires, boundaries, beliefs. Transversal therapy holds all of that.

• If you're a survivor of trauma: we meet you with care and pacing.

• If you're navigating identity: we honour your lived reality, without needing to explain or translate.

• If you're in a relationship that feels stuck: we explore the spaces between you, not just the conflict itself.

• If you’re grieving or rebuilding: we follow the threads of meaning, memory, and hope.

Healing, here, is relational — not a solo task, but something that happens in connection.

Transversality in practice

Our approach blends evidence-based methods (like EMDR, EFT, narrative and somatic therapies) with a commitment to social justice, trauma-informed care, and deep listening.

We attend to:

• The psychological and the social

• The individual and the collective

• The past and the present

• The visible and the unspoken

We welcome the in-between places — where contradictions live, where insight emerges, where healing begins.

Why does this matter?

Many people come to therapy feeling fragmented — broken into parts, pulled in different directions, unsure of how it all fits. At Transversality we offer an invitation:

To reconnect.

To reclaim.

To move across what once felt like borders — between who you were, who you are, and who you’re becoming.

A space for all of you

Whether you’re carrying intergenerational pain, navigating diasporic identity, exploring queerness, rebuilding after harm, sustaining or seeking change that doesn’t erase your complexity — this is a space for all of you.

We believe therapy should not ask you to split yourself apart in order to be seen.

Here, we cross lines — gently, intentionally — toward connection, repair, and possibility.

Ready to begin?

Let’s start with a conversation! Book a free 20-minute consultation — in English or Spanish.