Ritu Verma

People who carry shame they didn’t earn, grief they were never allowed to name, or the quiet exhaustion of holding themselves together under enormous cultural and relational pressure — these are the people Ritu Verma is here for. Working online across British Columbia, she offers a warm, unhurried space where nothing needs to be performed and no feeling needs to be explained away. Her work centres those healing from emotional abuse, coercive control, burnout rooted in chronic people-pleasing, and the identity fractures that come with complex cultural transitions across generations.

Ritu’s practice, Veda Somatics Psychotherapy and Wellness, draws on both modern Western psychotherapy and Eastern healing traditions. Her sessions are trauma-focused, culturally sensitive, Indigenous-informed, and LGBTQ+ affirming. She works with individuals across a wide age range — from teenagers through to older adults — and her specialties include anxiety, somatoform presentations, family conflict, and recovery from various forms of abuse and neglect. Holding dual master’s degrees in Counselling Psychology and Engineering, she brings over 1,500 hours of somatic training to her work, weaving in approaches such as EMDR, Internal Family Systems, and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy. For clients whose nervous systems are overwhelmed by constant input and little recovery time, somatic tools offer a way back into the body’s own steadying intelligence.

Ritu’s practice moves at the client’s pace, with intentional pauses built into sessions so that depth surfaces naturally rather than on demand. A free 15-minute consultation is available for those wondering whether this might be the right fit.