Sheena McRae

Therapy for Attachment Wounds, Relational Trauma & Unhealthy Relationship Patterns

EMDR & Nervous System-Focused Therapy for Women

Sheena specializes in supporting Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents and women navigating attachment wounds, relational trauma, unhealthy relationships, chronic stress, and nervous system overwhelm. Her work helps clients understand how early relational experiences can create patterns that continue into adulthood—shaping relationships, self-worth, emotional regulation, people-pleasing, and the ways we respond when we feel unsafe or disconnected.

Using EMDR, attachment-focused therapy, and nervous system-informed approaches, Sheena helps clients explore not only where these patterns came from, but how they are still held and activated by the nervous system—and how they can begin to shift. She is also trained and certified in Dr. Lindsay Gibson’s Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents (ACEIP) model, bringing specialized insight into the lasting impact of emotionally immature family systems on adult relationships, self-trust, and identity.

Who Sheena Supports

Sheena works with women who may understand their patterns intellectually but still find themselves repeating them—in relationships, family dynamics, boundaries, or the ways they respond under stress. Her clients often include:

• Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: Trained and certified in Dr. Lindsay Gibson’s ACEIP model, Sheena helps women understand how emotionally immature caregiving can shape self-trust, boundaries, people-pleasing, emotional regulation, and adult relationships.
• Women Navigating Unhealthy or High-Conflict Relationships: Support for relational trauma, narcissistic relationship dynamics, separation or divorce, and patterns that can make it difficult to trust your own experience, needs, or decisions.
• Adult Survivors of Childhood & Relational Trauma: Working with attachment wounds, emotional neglect, complex trauma, and early relational experiences that continue to affect the nervous system, self-worth, and relationships in adulthood.
• First Responders & Frontline Professionals: EMDR and trauma-focused support for PTSD, cumulative stress, vicarious trauma, and the impact of repeated exposure to high-stress or traumatic situations.
• Mothers & Caregivers: Support for maternal mental health, chronic stress, parenting patterns, and the ways our own attachment histories can become activated through parenting and caregiving.
• Educators: Support for chronic stress, burnout, emotional exhaustion, and the cumulative demands of working in high-responsibility helping roles.

Behind the Bio: The Human Behind the Therapist

(Because yes, therapists are humans too—coffee-loving, podcast-bingeing, deep-feeling humans!)

Comfort Food Favourite: Pizza—especially when it’s loaded with cheese!

A Highly Recommended Read: What Happened to You by Bruce Perry is a must for mental health insights. For fiction, The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah is a favourite, and there’s always room for a bit of romantasy—Sarah J. Maas never disappoints!

A Go-To Way to Unwind: Nothing beats a good book, a warm cup of tea, and the company of sweet pups after a long day.

Articles By Sheena McRae

Sheena writes on how attachment and the nervous system shape our relationships with others and ourselves.

Most Read Articles:

→ What is a Toxic Relationship?

→ When Your Parent Only Sees Their Version of Reality

→ Why It's So Hard To Leave When You Know You Should

→ EMDR Therapy for Anxiety and Emotional Numbness

→ Trauma Bonding In Narcissistic Abuse: Why It Feels Impossible To Let Go

→ Is My Partner Emotionally Immature? 10 Signs You May Be Feeling Alone in Relationship

→ Nothing Bad Happened...So Why Am I So Affected By My Childhood?

→ Why Do I Apologize For Everything?

 →What is an Attachment Injury?