Founder & Registered Provisional Psychologist (Alberta) and Canadian Certified Counsellor (Outside of AB)

“When birth, fertility, loss, or medical care becomes traumatic, it doesn’t just live in your memory, it lives in your body, your relationships, and your sense of self.” (Dr. Teela Tomassetti, PsyD)

Meet Teela! A Registered Provisional Psychologist through the College of Alberta Psychologists and a Canadian Certified Counsellor through the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association. Teela received her Doctorate (Psy.D) and completed her doctoral research at California Southern University. Her research consisted of a qualitative study utilizing semi-structured interviews with therapists' experiences supporting birth trauma, the fawn trauma response and mistreatment by providers. It is currently in the process of publication.

Teela has been a therapist since 2005, supporting those with sexual assault, domestic violence, tragic losses and addiction concerns before becoming a registered provisional psychologist in 2021. For the last five years, Teela has specialized in birth trauma and identifies as a birth trauma survivor by way of an excessive postpartum hemorrhage that threatened her life, with another one to follow at six weeks postpartum due to a retained placenta. She knows on a personal level what it is like to navigate trauma while also beginning your journey as a parent.

Teela shares that she helps people untangle what they’ve been carrying, restore safety in their nervous systems, and reclaim their lives and identity after experiences that unexpectedly changed them. She works from a feminist perspective and a trauma-informed lens, walking alongside her clients, and her approach aims to empower them while providing a warm, safe, and compassionate space.

Teela’s approach blends Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Compassion-Focused Therapy and Narrative Therapy to help you process what happened, rebuild safety, and move forward without leaving parts of yourself behind. Teela is additionally trained in Advanced EMDR, Somatic EMDR and Fertility EMDR. Teela has also acquired her Perinatal Mental Health training through Postpartum Support International and the Postpartum Stress Centre. She has also sought out additional training and expertise on fertility struggles, endometriosis, PCOS, pregnancy and infant loss.

Teela is a social justice advocate and international conference speaker, and has offered in-person and online workshops to providers on incorporating trauma-informed care into their roles and systems. She is also a published author of chapters on birth trauma from “The Pain Mothers Must Never Expose” and “Gone Feral: The Undoing of Normative Feminity.”

Teela is also a Trauma-Informed Care Consultant, leading the way internationally in how we deliver trauma-informed care and in challenging what it has become and the direction it needs to go. She offers training, workshops, and presentations on this around the globe, and you can read testimonials from medical professionals who have attended them about how she uses a practical framework with innovative concepts and connections to drive home how we can change systems and improve care.

Teela offers support to those struggling with fertility, IUD trauma, pregnancy and infant loss, paternal mental health, endometriosis, PCOS, and perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. She also feels passionately about “helping the helper” and loves supporting nurses and doulas in managing the stress and demands for their lives. She offers individual therapy in person and online support for all of Alberta as well as professional consultation across the world.

You can follow her @theteaonbirthtrauma, where she has worked hard to build a safe community for over 45,000 birth trauma survivors.

*As of January 2026, Teela will be offering therapy online across Canada as a Canadian Certified Counsellor! When booking with Teela, if you are in Alberta, you will be billed as a Registered Provisional Psychologist. When you book with Teela outside of Alberta, in Canada, you will be billed as a Canadian Certified Counsellor.