My own journey with mental/physical wellbeing, chronic pain, burnout, and balancing life/parent/step-parenthood has uncovered a great respect and love for all things mental wellness and the mind/body/soul connection. I have a diverse background of experience within the mental and physical health field, spanning crisis response, leadership, and 9+ years in community mental health as a therapist, to years of running inclusive fitness and yin yoga classes. Throughout these experiences, I am continually reminded of the healing and growth that connection, safety, and awareness can inspire. It is a joy to sit with you!
Approach to Therapy.
My approach to therapy is one that encompasses warmth, safety, authenticity, and gentle curiosity. I work in a client and compassion-centred manner that values your experience, your voice, and all parts of you, in all the ways that you show up. Shared humanity, humour, and dignity are concepts that greatly influence my practice and my life, and it is my hope to create a space that feels safe enough for you to explore your own authenticity, humanity, and healing. I believe in the transformational aspect of safe, caring, and honest relationships, where the process of gentle exploration and being seen and valued exactly as you are, inspire your own healing and growth.
I work with individuals to support, explore, and allow space to soften, rest, and heal. Working in a manner that invites choice, self-awareness, flexibility, self-compassion, and value-aligned action, while also incorporating somatic awareness, understanding, and the wisdom within. With relationships, we engage in a collaborative space that invites awareness and understanding, healing, connection, and strengthening.
Modalities
I practice in a manner that is eclectic, trauma-informed, client-centered, and authentic. I work in a strengths based and compassionate manner, that seeks to explore the unconscious narratives and patterns that may no longer serve us. I use modalities that include Acceptance & Commitment Therapy, Internal Family Systems, Polyvagal Theory and Somatic Awareness, Psychodynamic, Dialectical Behavioural Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Solution Focused, and Self-Compassion Based Therapy. I also hold a Level 1 Gottman Method certification and draw from Relational Life Therapy and Attachment Theory.
Clients
I work with ages 16+, individuals and couples/relationships of all kinds.
Couples/relationships *Grief/loss * Burnout *Chronic Stress *Helping Professionals/Therapists *Midlife *Life Transitions *Anxiety *Identify *Caregiver Stress * Emotion Regulation *Boundaries Perfectionism *Chronic Pain *Communication *Relational Trauma *Highly Sensitive Persons.
