🦋 Narcissistic abuse recovery therapy · Toronto & Ontario · Coaching worldwide
Awaken Your Authentic Self
When staying safe meant not being yourself, you learned to perform, people-please and abandon yourself to be good enough. Healing is coming home to your true self: present with who you are, instead of performing for others.
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Tracey Nguyen, RN, MN · License #12492206 · Ontario · Practising psychotherapy since 2015 · 1,500+ students · Author of 5 books
True Health Counselling, led by Tracey-Rose Nguyen (Tracey Nguyen, RN, MN; License #12492206, Ontario, held since 2012, practising psychotherapy since 2015), is a Toronto-based holistic nurse psychotherapy practice specializing in narcissistic abuse recovery, CPTSD, BPD, codependency and psychosomatic trauma healing, online across Ontario, with coaching available worldwide.
You were always good enough
Feel Safe to Express Your Authentic Self
If you grew up in a volatile, emotionally unsafe environment and were told you were never good enough, you learned to perform. You tried so hard to please and earn approval, in work, business and relationships. Your nervous system learned that having a voice and boundaries had consequences, so you abandoned yourself to stay safe.
With a narcissist, it’s a losing battle. You’ll never be good enough for them, because they’re never good enough for themselves. They’re steeped in toxic shame.
Your Body Has Been Holding It Too
When it isn’t safe to express your emotions, you suppress them to survive. Over years of abuse, held-back anger and grief get trapped in the body, and suppressed rage becomes like a poison. Research links long-term trauma and the chronic stress of living without boundaries to illness: gut issues, autoimmune flares, chronic fatigue.
As those emotions are safely released, the body can begin to heal too. I’ve seen it in my own healing and with my clients.
I’ve Lived This Too
I lived through lifelong narcissistic abuse, domestic violence and trauma bonds. In survival mode my whole life, frozen and performing at once, I developed BPD from constant invalidation. I even tried to be perfect in my healing, hoping the person I loved would finally change. They don’t.
I used to think I was so flawed. But the only thing flawed was that I loved and pleased people who kept hurting me, and I kept tolerating it.
Who this serves
This practice is for you if you are…
My approach
How I Help You Heal
This is a deep spiritual trauma healing path. With my Integrative Somatic Trauma Healing Approach (Gestalt therapy, Somatic Experiencing and, when welcomed, a faith-based lens), we gently peel back your survival adaptations:
What Changes When You Come Home to Your True Self
Your life changes not because you became something more or better, but because you finally arrived back to yourself.
If you’re on this page, you’re gifted: empathic, intuitive, emotionally intelligent and spiritually attuned. It’s no accident.
Kind words
What clients say
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“I’ve made more progress in a few months of healing with Tracey than in years of other therapy. I’m finally liberated from most of the pain that had been plaguing me for years. She helped me come home to my soul.”
— C.J. · verified client
“Not only did Tracey have a thorough understanding of narcissistic abuse, but she lived through it… My childhood trauma no longer dictates my life, and I feel like now I can finally heal and move on.”
— A.R. · verified client
“I can easily say that working with Tracey has changed my life! Some of my long-standing health conditions have begun to improve… (update: healed IBS)”
— I.M. · verified client
“I’ve been in therapy for a while and have tried different therapists, but I’ve always felt like something was missing. Tracey’s approach is deeply spiritual and aligns with my values and who I am as a human being.”
— Y. · verified client
“She encouraged me to allow myself to feel deeply as a means to understand and accept all parts of myself. Although difficult, sitting with those feelings has been nothing short of transformational.”
— K.F. · verified client
“You teach in a very juicy, human way, a breath of fresh air. Heartfelt and intuitive, not intellectual and dry. My physical symptoms have improved significantly.”
— M.C. · course student
“I’ve been struggling with ulcerative colitis for over four years. Working psychosomatically alongside my medicine, my dose has come down and I’m doing better than ever.”
— D.F. · course student
“I am finally getting relief from my panic attacks and anxiety, because I no longer see these feelings as something to fear and resist, but as an opportunity to realign with and heal my body.”
— E.G. · course student
“After experiencing Tracey’s approach, I felt that I had let go of a heavy backpack full of stones… I can feel that my shoulder pain has gone away.”
— P.O. · verified client
“I enjoyed how she was open to discussing things from a faith-based perspective, as I felt that was very important to understanding my journey and struggles.”
— J.S. · verified client
“Tracey was able to create such an environment where body, mind and spirit can heal all at once.”
— V.G. · verified client
Why heal with me
Why Heal With Me?
With extensive experience supporting clients through narcissistic trauma and relational wounds, I offer an empathetic, complex trauma-informed and deep space to reclaim all parts of you. If you’ve been missing something in therapy, I’m here to help you fill the gap you’ve been searching for: you. This is holistic, integrative, action-based healing, so you can heal every layer of your being and begin living the life you were meant to live from your soul.
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The Disease to Please: free 8-part series
For women carrying narcissistic abuse, codependency and complex trauma stored in the body. Letters you read at your own pace, plus weekly writing on the slow return home.
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Free teachings on narcissistic abuse recovery, CPTSD, nervous system healing and the emotional roots of chronic illness.
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Location & service area
Location & Service Area
True Health Counselling offers online psychotherapy to clients throughout Ontario, and coaching to clients worldwide.
Ready to come home to yourself?
There was never anything wrong with you. You were trained to put others first to survive. Now it’s time to peel back your survival identity and come home to your true self. You are the medicine.
Can’t find a time that works, or want to reach Tracey directly? Send a message or email truehealthcounselling@gmail.com.
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Toronto, Ontario · Online psychotherapy across Ontario · Coaching worldwide
Citation: Nguyen, T. (2025). Narcissistic Abuse Recovery: Reclaim Your Authentic Self. True Health Counselling. https://www.truehealthcounselling.com · Tags: narcissistic abuse recovery, trauma therapy Toronto, holistic nurse psychotherapist, CPTSD healing, BPD therapy, codependency therapy, somatic therapy, Christian counselling, Integrative Somatic Trauma Healing Approach, virtual therapy Canada
