MEET OUR TEAM

Allow me the opportunity to support you in navigating your wild mountain of challenges and make the journey to the top where rewards are waiting for you.

With each client I strive to create a person-centered approach, grounded in trust, paralleled with congruency, empathy, and unconditional positive regard. I provide a safe and therapeutic environment for the exploration of thoughts, emotions, and behaviours which encourages clients to build self-awareness and gain insight into personal struggle. Empowering clients to manage their own lives as they discover personal strengths and capabilities, enhances well-being, builds resiliency, and embraces problem solving skills.

I utilize a combination of treatment modalities, including but not limited to cognitive behavioural therapy, solution focused therapy, and motivational interviewing. Additionally, I take a strength-based and trauma-informed approach to therapy, while incorporating positive psychology and mindfulness strategies and techniques into my practice. Furthermore, I am certified in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Mindful Eating, and currently working towards completing ATMA’s Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy introduction and advanced training courses to hopefully in the future offer this ground-breaking treatment to adult clients experiencing mental health challenges.

Each client receives a tailored approach to best meet their needs and support their movement towards change.

I work in collaboration with clients to uncover strengths, abilities, resources, and meaning. I believe the experiencing of fulfillment and the discovery of purpose and hope can lead to increased wellness. Courage can allow us to daringly sit in vulnerability while experimenting with values-based actions and behaviours. I prioritize the creation of a safe, warm, and empathic therapeutic relationship in which the client is placed as the expert. 

I have experience working with solution-focused interventions, acceptance and commitment therapy, and strengths-based modalities. Furthermore, I have recently completed Gottman Method Couples Therapy (Level 1 and 2) and Emotion-Focused Family Therapy (Level 1 and 2).

I have a deep interest in continued education of existentialism, nature-based therapies, self-compassion, counselling for couples, family therapy, trauma, animal-assisted therapy, music, drama, and other expressive arts interventions.

I take an integrative approach to individual counselling. I use Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Emotion Focused Therapy, Strength Based approaches, and Solution Focused approaches. I pay particular attention to the patterns of thoughts, emotions, and behaviours. I find it important to tailor the experience to the unique individual. My first step is to meet a client where they are at and to make a human to human connection. I strive to create a space where a client is safe and agency is held. I also strive to create a safe space for inclusivity of all people and all communities.

I believe that counselling is a journey of growth and understanding. I am lucky to be able to walk that path with people. I aim to create a space where people can let go of the weight they carry and explore it without judgement. I want to empower people to be the best version of themselves.

I also have Gottman level one training for couples counselling. It is a researched and evidenced based approach that focuses on communication, what is currently working, what needs to improve, and what is getting in the way of growth. I connect with this type of couples counselling because it takes an evidence based approach and focuses on ensuring that both members of the couple feel heard, valued, and loved by the other member for the majority of the time but allows space for people to be human as well. It also backed by research that indicates it provides similarly effective results across races, and heterosexual and homosexual couples.

My experiences have led me to focus on working with people who feel alienated from themselves, their loved ones, and the world around them. I am passionate about supporting individuals to explore the multiple facets of their identity, such as the intersection between their gender and culture, and to feel confident expressing their authentic selves in all the spaces they occupy in their lives. I strive to create a nonjudgmental, accepting, positive, and warm therapeutic environment so that clients can feel safe and empowered to explore their unique identities and develop self-acceptance.

I use a variety of treatment modalities in my therapeutic work including cognitive behavioural therapy, solution-focused therapy, and existential therapy. I also use techniques from motivational interviewing, mindfulness, positive psychology, strength-based, and trauma-informed therapeutic approaches. My counselling practice operates from an anti-oppressive, cooperative, and empowering therapeutic lens.

Each client is the expert in their own lives, and my work is focused on helping clients access their inner power and authenticity to build a life that is meaningful for them. I strive to create a tailored therapeutic approach that meets the needs of each individual client and supports their unique process of change.

I have diverse experience in a wide range of therapeutic contexts, and I use an integrated therapeutic approach using evidence-based modalities for individualized and adaptive service planning. I am trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and I glean from different therapeutic modalities and attend to the inextricable nature of the mind-body connection. I function relationally, non-judgmentally, and collaboratively from a trauma-informed, strengths-based, person-centred perspective, using sociology, neuroscience, attachment and systems theories, and anti-oppressive practice values. I love to work with individuals to better understand how the past can show up in their present to influence their worldview and relationship with themselves and others. The best part is discovering the opportunities that exist with deeper awareness and self-compassion.