About Esther
Esther Doucette, MSW, RSW
Registered Social Worker | Therapeutic Yoga Instructor
Esther holds a Master of Social Work from the University of Calgary and a Bachelor of Social Work from Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), with a generalist foundation in family counselling, group work, and social policy. Her approach is deeply informed by her extensive post graduate training, including Trauma-Informed Somatic Movement Training (Liberty Movement, Toronto), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy, and Mindfulness-Based Symptom Management. Esther is also a certified Yoga Teacher with specialization in therapeutic and somatic movement and breathwork.
Esther brings a trauma-informed, mind-body perspective to her clinical work. She integrates mindfulness, somatic practices, and movement-based modalities to help clients access deeper healing. This approach recognizes that the body holds the lived experience of stress, trauma, and pain. Her sessions create a safe, attuned space in which clients are truly heard, and in which physical limitations, chronic pain, and life experiences are understood as part of a whole person. Esther uses mindfulness, movement, and mind-body modalities to help clients recover movement patterns, release old habits held in the body, and reconnect with a sense of ease. Therapeutic yoga and somatic practices are woven naturally into her individual sessions where appropriate, supporting both physical and emotional recovery.
Esther's clinical interests include chronic pain, trauma, somatic healing, stress and burnout, life transitions, and supporting clients through serious illness and recovery. She has spent her career working in some of Ottawa's most respected health institutions, including the University of Ottawa Heart Institute and the Ottawa Hospital Cancer Centre and Wellness Centre, where she led therapeutic yoga programs, stress management groups, supported health care practitioners and teams and provided psychosocial support to patients and their families navigating complex health journeys.
Esther regularly sees clients dealing with chronic stress, burnout, and overwhelm; those living with chronic pain or recovering from illness or surgery; individuals feeling disconnected from their body; and people navigating significant life transitions such as menopause, cancer recovery, cardiac rehabilitation, or returning to work.
Esther is bilingual in English and French. She embraces a collaborative, interdisciplinary approach working alongside the team at Ottawa Osteopathy & Sports Therapy to support shared patients on their path to recovery and well-being.
Esther Doucette is a Registered Social Worker, not a medical doctor.
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