Rennet Wong-Gates is a trauma therapist, registered clinical social worker, registered psychotherapist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, and organizational consultant with over 20 years of experience supporting individuals, families, groups, and frontline organizations through complex trauma, relational wounds, grief, burnout, and nervous-system dysregulation.
Her clinical work integrates EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, Brainspotting, Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment, Internal Family Systems-informed parts work, Compassionate Inquiry, Polyvagal-informed practice, mindfulness, and anti-oppressive approaches. She specializes in helping clients understand the protective wisdom beneath symptoms, including emotional eating, binge eating, dissociation, shame, attachment wounds, chronic stress, and trauma-related survival responses.
Rennet’s approach is compassionate, body-based, relational, and deeply trauma-informed. She believes healing begins when people are supported to understand their nervous system, honour protective parts, reduce shame, and reconnect with choice, dignity, and self-trust.
In addition to her clinical practice, Rennet provides trauma-informed consultation, supervision, and resilience training for organizations working in high-intensity helping fields, including domestic violence, human trafficking, sexual exploitation, social services, healthcare, and community-based care. Her organizational work focuses on vicarious trauma, burnout prevention, psychological safety, conflict repair, leadership stabilization, and anti-oppressive practice.
Rennet is the founder of Rennet Wong-Gates Psychotherapy and Social Work Services, where she develops trauma-informed therapeutic programs, group curricula, facilitator manuals, and organizational trainings. Her work is grounded in the belief that symptoms often carry stories of survival — and that healing becomes possible when those stories are met with compassion, skill, and respect.
Supporting mental health and providing holistic care to our clients and the community
Building on strengths in a supportive environment as a key towards enhanced mental health and connection
Empowerment Respect Compassion Confidentiality Collaborative Non-judgemental Client-Centered Service
My presence as a therapist is to be a key facilitator to help guide my clients to use their courage and commitment to repair life ruptures, to reestablish or support emerging awareness of your body, mind, and spirit. I also hope that you’ll gain the knowledge and the ability to push yourself to new limits within a context of change and support.
Years of formal education and training in evidence-based therapies add to my innate style of connecting with others. People say they find my style of rapport comforting, insightful, non-judgmental, and supportive. We can all benefit from quiet reminders every now and then. We all need to find a sense of connection with others and develop environments where we feel validated. Part of therapy is learning strategies and skills to understand intergenerational patterns of relating to others that may have resulted in ways of coping that no longer meet our needs.
I am here to walk beside and behind you to support you in your journey.
