Whole Again Foundations Program
A guided healing program to help you understand your inner world, build emotional steadiness, and reconnect with yourself.
Whole Again Foundations is a structured group therapy program offered through Collingwood Psychotherapy and Yoga Centre. In collaboration with Sass Dempsey from the Sanctuary in Creemore.
This program is designed for people who are ready to move beyond coping and begin building the internal resources needed for deeper healing. Through relational, experiential, and trauma-informed support, you will begin to understand your patterns, strengthen your connection to yourself, and create more steadiness from the inside out.
Why We Created Whole Again Foundations
Healing can feel scattered when therapy, yoga, learning, and personal growth all happen in separate places.
Whole Again Foundations brings these pieces together through a guided, trauma-informed program that helps you understand your inner world, build emotional steadiness, and create the internal resources needed for deeper healing.
This work is not about fixing what is broken. It is about restoring connection to yourself and the parts of you that need care, safety, and support.
Healing is not about fixing yourself. It is about restoring connection to the parts of you that need presence, care, and support.
What You’ll Experience With Whole Again Foundations
A unified approach to deeper healing
Whole Again Foundations brings together relational psychotherapy, yoga therapy, trauma-informed education, and the Comprehensive Resource Model ™ to support healing in a more connected way.
Rather than working with the mind, body, emotions, and nervous system separately, this program helps you understand how these parts of you relate to one another, and how they can begin to work together with more steadiness and care.
You’ll begin to explore:
- how your thoughts, emotions, body, energy system, and relationships are connected
- how protective patterns and trauma responses may be shaping your life
- how to build internal resources that support internal safety, stability, and self-trust
- how embodied practice can support deeper therapeutic work
- how to prepare for individual therapy, group work, or intensive healing experiences with more grounding
Who Is This Program For?
This program may be a fit if you are:
- feeling fragmented despite managing work, relationships, or responsibilities
- struggling with anxiety, depression, overwhelm, numbness, fatigue, or irritability
- carrying trauma, attachment wounds, grief, or painful life experiences
- noticing the same patterns repeating in your relationships or inner world
- ready to take a more grounded, embodied step forward in your healing
Nervous system dysregulation
Feeling constantly on edge, shut down, reactive, or unable to fully settle
Disconnection from yourself or others
Feeling numb, distant, uncertain of what you need, or unable to feel close in relationships.
Coping that no longer feels helpful
Staying busy, using substances, over-functioning, avoiding feelings, or pushing through to get by.
Loss of direction or meaning
Feeling unsure of who you are, what matters now, or how to move forward after grief, transition, or change.
Whole Again Foundations is for people who are ready to understand themselves more deeply and begin building the internal steadiness needed for meaningful healing.
Structure & Philosophy
Whole Again Foundations is built on the understanding that healing is not only cognitive. It is emotional, relational, embodied, and deeply connected to how your nervous system has learned to protect you.
This program brings together trauma-informed education, embodied practice, relational insight, and internal resourcing to help you create a stronger foundation for deeper healing.
The Pañca Maya
Explore the layers of self, including body, energy, mind, wisdom, and spirit, and begin understanding what it means to return to wholeness.
How Stress Shapes You
Learn how stress, emotional wounds, trauma, and past experiences can shape your nervous system, relationships, and daily responses.
Embodied Resourcing
Build internal resources through breath, body awareness, grounding, and presence, so you can feel more steady from the inside out.
Memory Reconsolidation
Understand how emotional imprints and relational wounds can shift significantly and permanently when they are met with safety, compassion, and new experience.
Unconscious Patterns
Begin to recognize the protective patterns and inner blocks that keep you stuck, and learn how to meet them with curiosity instead of shame.
Presence & Practice
Move from intellectual understanding into embodied change through reflection, practice, and supported integration.
Program Details
$555 CAD
Location
The Sanctuary 1 Caroline Street West, Creemore, ON L0M 1G0
Dates
TBD - new session in the fall/winter 2026
Structure
Each session includes yoga therapy, resourcing practices, psychoeducation, reflection, and sound healing.
Materials
Participants receive the Whole Again Workbook for reflection, integration, and continued practice between sessions.
Insurance and Payment Plans
Insurance Support
We can provide pre-determination letters for insurance companies as needed.
Coverage Questions
Some past participants have submitted Whole Again program costs through Medavie Blue Cross and Sun Life Insurance. Please check directly with your insurance provider to confirm your own coverage.
Receipts Available
Individualized insurance receipts are available upon request.
Flexible Payment Plans
Flexible payment plans are available, and we are happy to work with you.
A Foundation, Not A Quick Fix
Whole Again Foundations is designed to support real integration over time. Through yoga therapy, experiential group work, resourcing practices, and trauma-informed education, you begin learning how to stay present with what is difficult instead of disconnecting, pushing through, or becoming overwhelmed.
This program unfolds through continuity, practice, and return. Each session builds on the last, creating space for reflection, embodiment, and the kind of healing that can actually take root.
Your Facilitators
Tara McGee
MSW, RSW, Psychotherapist, Certified Yoga Therapist (IAYT)
Founder of Collingwood Psychotherapy & Yoga Centre, Tara is an intuitive relational psychotherapist with over 20 years of full-time clinical experience. She integrates depth psychology, yoga therapy, and relational practice into work that is warm, clear, and unflinching.
MSW (University of Toronto), Diploma in Relational Psychotherapy (TIRP), advanced Yoga Therapist (Yoga Therapy Toronto), with extensive trauma-informed and depth psychology training.
Sass Dempsey
BEd, BSc, BPHE, Certified Yoga Therapist (IAYT)
Founder of The Sanctuary in Creemore, Sass has been teaching yoga in Canada since 2005, with years of study in India, Nepal, and Taiwan. Grounded and deeply attuned, she works with clients across a wide spectrum — from elite athletes to people living with chronic illness.
Her therapeutic approach weaves breath, pranayama, and sound healing, helping clients regulate the nervous system and discover new pathways of healing.
How the Program Can Help
Builds Continuity and Stability in Healing
Reduces Overwhelm During Deeper Healing
Supports Emotional Regulation
Helps You Understand Your Inner World
Strengthens Integration Between Sessions
Prepares You for Deeper Therapy Work
“Whole Again Foundations is not about becoming someone new. It is about gathering the parts of yourself that have been scattered, protected, or forgotten, and learning how to meet them with steadiness and care.”
Collingwood Psychotherapy and Yoga Centre
What You Can Gain From the Program
A clearer understanding of yourself
Begin to make sense of your inner world, protective patterns, emotional responses, and the parts of you that have been asking for care.
More steadiness in your body and nervous system
Build practical resourcing tools that help you feel more grounded, present, and able to stay with what is difficult.
Greater connection between insight and lived change
Move beyond understanding things intellectually and begin integrating change through reflection, embodiment, and practice.
A stronger foundation for deeper healing
Develop the internal support needed for individual therapy, group therapy, or intensive healing work to become more effective and sustainable.
Ready To Begin Your Whole Again Journey?
Healing starts with a conversation. If you’re curious whether this program is the right fit, we’d love to connect, answer your questions, and help you understand whether Whole Again Foundations is a supportive next step for you.
