Individual Therapy - 1:1 online or telephone therapy focused on the most important things to you. Your therapist will work with you to figure out the best way to support you and help you to start feeling better.

Relationship Therapy (coming soon) - online therapy for anyone needing support in navigating a relationship.

Couples, family members, and even platonic friendships may all benefit from this type of work.

While I am poly-affirming, my current training and skill level allows me to offer relationship counselling to dyads (two people) only at this time.

We might be a good fit if:

• You’re stuck in a perpetual loop and it feels like there’s no way out.

• You know what you need to do but can't seem to make yourself do it.

• You’ve been told some version of “why can’t you just…” for so long that this now feels automatic.

• You’ve survived by taking care of everyone else.

• You’re carrying experiences from childhood, from your family, from past relationships, and from the world around you that shape how you move through life.

• You've spent a long time feeling like you’re somehow doing life wrong.

• You somehow feel like you are too much and not enough all at once.

• You want to feel more connected to yourself but don’t even know where to start.

• You’ve spent a lot of time wondering why things that seem easy for everyone else feel so hard for you.

• You’ve learned how to adapt. Now you’re wondering what it would feel like not to have to.

Many of my clients are neurodivergent, 2SLGBTQIA+, racialized, or marginalized individuals whose identities and experiences have shaped how they see themselves and how they show up in life.

You don't need to arrive knowing exactly what's wrong.

You just need to know that something isn't working anymore.

This area will continue to evolve as I expand my knowledge and skills (both as a therapist and as a human).

For now, my practice integrates experiential approaches with psychological theory to help you:

1. Focus on resolving issues at their “root,”

2. Build self-exploration skills to increase understanding and awareness of defenses, and

3. Improve clarity and tolerance to support long-term emotional wellness and regulation.

If you’re someone who appreciates therapeutic jargon, you might recognize the following theories and approaches:

• Psychodynamic psychotherapy - exploring the “whole” you and how past experiences may still be shaping your life today.

• Somatic work - integrating body awareness to help release stored stress and trauma.

• Parts work (Internal Family Systems) - getting to know our inner defenses (ex. the people pleaser, the inner critic, the escape artist, the lonely inner child, just to name a few) and unburdening them from their roles.

• Attachment theory - understanding how the bonds we formed as infants with our primary caregivers continue to influence our adult relationships.

• Psychoeducation - incorporating relevant, educational information from peer-reviewed research and/or psychological theory to make sense of what’s going on.

Your feedback and input really matters to me, so I’ll check in with you often to make sure what we’re doing feels okay for you.

I’m not here to be the expert on you. Despite continuous learning and always adding new skills to my therapist “toolbox,” I’ll be the first to admit that I won’t always get things right.

With that in mind, my goal is to create a space where we can get curious about what’s happening and figure things out together, especially when something doesn’t quite land the way it was intended. Together, we can build the tools to navigate when things get hard.

The first session

We usually start with what I call “the legal shmegal.” We’ll review topics like consent, confidentiality, policies, etc., so that you have a clear idea of how your information is managed, what my responsibilities are, and what to expect from our work together.

How do we begin?

Sessions typically begin with a brief check-in in case there’s something on your mind that you’d like to prioritize.

Once I get an idea of what might feel helpful to you, we can either allow the conversation to flow freely, incorporate some structured approaches, or (more commonly) find some combination of structure and flow that feels comfortable.

Finding our groove together can sometimes happen quickly, though more often than not may take some time to establish, and almost always needs to be recalibrated throughout our work together.

What if I don’t know what to say?

It’s super common freeze up, feel a bit lost, or forget what you wanted to talk about, and that’s okay! I’m happy to guide us through the tricky parts.

What if I have nothing pressing to talk about?

Honestly? That can actually be a GREAT time to come to therapy.

Without a crisis demanding our attention, we have more room to slow down, get curious, and look at what’s happening underneath the surface.

Sometimes the most useful work starts with, “I don’t really know what I want to talk about today.”

Things I WON’T do as your therapist:

• Try to “fix” you.

• Give you advice.

• Tell you what to do.

• Pretend I know more about you than you do.

• Pretend I know more about anything than I actually do.

• Assume I know what is best for you.

• Have all the answers.

• Get upset if things don’t go a certain way.

• Make the hard stuff go away. (Sorry...)

What I WILL do instead:

• Remind you that you’re in charge of the directions we take in sessions.

• Listen with the aim to really understand you.

• Ask questions, provide feedback, offer information, suggest experiments, and help build useful skills.

• Support you in figuring things out.

• Acknowledge that I don’t know it all.

• Respect your wishes and boundaries.

• Apologize when I make mistakes.

• Celebrate your wins.

• Hopefully help the make the hard stuff easier to manage.

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