Painful or distressing experiences can leave you feeling stuck, pulled back toward the past, even as part of you longs to move toward a different way of living. You may understand why you feel the way you do and still find yourself repeating the same patterns. Parts of you may carry shame, grief, guilt, anger, or worthlessness that shape how you relate to yourself and others. You may feel overwhelmed by your emotions, disconnected from yourself, or frustrated that insight alone hasn’t been enough to create lasting change.
I work with individuals who have experienced messy childhoods, complex trauma, emotional dysregulation, and traumatic grief, who are ready to engage deeply with their journey towards health.
My clients are often thoughtful and self-aware. Many have already spent considerable time trying to understand themselves. They aren’t looking only for strategies to feel better in the moment or for someone to tell them that everything is okay. They want to understand what is happening beneath the surface. They are willing to get curious about the ways they have learned to survive, face uncomfortable truths, take responsibility for the patterns that are now theirs to change, and build a different relationship with themselves, others, and their story.
Our work is about more than coping. It is about your return to yourself and a reclamation of the aliveness, clarity, security, and self-respect that may have been lost along the way.
I believe that safety in your authentic self is not something you have to earn or perform your way into. It is your birthright.
My approach goes beyond insight. Together, we work at the root: tending to early wounds, processing experiences that remain unresolved, supporting embodied nervous system regulation, and creating new internal blueprints for secure, healthy living. This is not about becoming a different person. It is about discovering who you are beneath the protective patterns that once helped you survive, and building the capacity to live from that place with greater freedom.
In our work, you can expect both compassion and challenge. I will meet your pain with warmth and respect, while also inviting you to notice what you may be avoiding, where old patterns are keeping you stuck, and what might be required of you for something to genuinely change. We will move at a pace that honours your readiness, boundaries, and agency without losing sight of where you want to go.
Therapy can ask a great deal of us. It can also give us back parts of ourselves we thought were gone.
Change is possible. I have had the privilege of witnessing people move from surviving their lives to inhabiting them more fully, with greater steadiness, freedom, connection, and self-trust. It is an honour to walk alongside my clients as they undertake that work.
I am a Registered Psychotherapist with a Masters degree in Clinical Counselling from Tyndale University. I also hold a B.Sc. in Psychology from Queen’s University and have training working with incarcerated and traumatized individuals. I am an EMDR certified therapist. My previous professional experience includes crisis telephone line work with over six years of experience conducting psychological research with individuals with MDD and other psychiatric disorders. In addition to this, I also bring experience as an educator and curriculum designer in diversity and inclusion as well as adult learning in corporate spaces.
Outside the therapy room, I love hosting dinner parties, getting lost in a good book, and spending time outdoors, whether hiking a trail or out on the water. I’m always curious and eager to keep learning, and I treasure time at home with my pets.
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