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Hi, I'm Elysia — a counsellor living with ME/CFS, fibromyalgia, SUNA, autonomic dysfunction, and MCAS
I run The Woods Counselling, an online practice for people navigating chronic illness, chronic pain, and the trauma that comes with them. I'm a Registered Clinical Counsellor (MA, RCC) and Interprofessional Co-Chair of the Canadian Pain Society — but what shapes my work most is a decade in this myself, across multiple diagnoses, a lot of failed treatments, and a healthcare system that wasn't built for us.
My approach starts in the body, not in your head. I'm not here to suggest your symptoms are psychological or that mindset will turn things around. I take a body-up approach — walking through what's actually happening physiologically, patient to patient. I know what a PEM crash feels like. I know how MCAS layers onto everything else, how autonomic dysfunction misfires, how rare diagnoses get dismissed. That shapes every session.
Making sense of what your body is doing tends to reduce the fear that makes everything harder. It won't fix your illness — but it changes your relationship with it.
From there we work on what piles on: grief, medical trauma, relational toll, identity shift, and the anxiety that builds when your body keeps surprising you. Pacing is built into everything — adapted to your actual capacity, not a healthy person's idea of it.
Online, Canada-wide. Small caseload, on purpose.
Free 20-minute call to see if it's a fit — no pressure to go further.
🌐 thewoodscounselling.com
▶️ Elysia Bronson - The Chronic Pain Therapist
I run The Woods Counselling, an online practice for people navigating chronic illness, chronic pain, and the trauma that comes with them. I'm a Registered Clinical Counsellor (MA, RCC) and Interprofessional Co-Chair of the Canadian Pain Society — but what shapes my work most is a decade in this myself, across multiple diagnoses, a lot of failed treatments, and a healthcare system that wasn't built for us.
My approach starts in the body, not in your head. I'm not here to suggest your symptoms are psychological or that mindset will turn things around. I take a body-up approach — walking through what's actually happening physiologically, patient to patient. I know what a PEM crash feels like. I know how MCAS layers onto everything else, how autonomic dysfunction misfires, how rare diagnoses get dismissed. That shapes every session.
Making sense of what your body is doing tends to reduce the fear that makes everything harder. It won't fix your illness — but it changes your relationship with it.
From there we work on what piles on: grief, medical trauma, relational toll, identity shift, and the anxiety that builds when your body keeps surprising you. Pacing is built into everything — adapted to your actual capacity, not a healthy person's idea of it.
Online, Canada-wide. Small caseload, on purpose.
Free 20-minute call to see if it's a fit — no pressure to go further.
🌐 thewoodscounselling.com
▶️ Elysia Bronson - The Chronic Pain Therapist
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