My Approach

Starting the process of self-discovery and healing can be lonely, messy, and daunting at times. I would love the opportunity to walk alongside you with care and curiosity as you start to take steps towards understanding the roots of what has been keeping you feeling stuck and uncover the strengths, wisdom, and inner peace that have always been inside of you.

My goal is to create a safe space where you can explore the difficult feelings, thoughts, and experiences that have maybe been too hard to discuss with other people in your life. We often carry around painful, limiting stories about ourselves, others, or the world that have come from our life experiences and social conditioning. Along the way, we also develop coping strategies that at one point helped us get through tremendous challenges and pain, but that may no longer be as helpful because they have the potential to keep us in a state of survival and self-protection rather than in connection. Together, we can work on helping you have more freedom from the weight of these old stories and conditioning, as well as support you in knowing and trusting yourself more fully and developing more effective ways of coping and relating to yourself and others. 

My therapy process is experiential, strengths-based, and trauma-informed. Most importantly, I value the process of working together in a way that honours you as the expert in your own life. To complement your expertise, I will bring in my experience and knowledge of ways to help you navigate the challenges you are dealing with. Together, we are a team, and we each hold an important piece of the map on how to best support you. I don’t believe in a one-size-fits-all model when it comes to supporting you on this journey, and I will tailor what’s in my toolbox to suit your needs.

My therapeutic approach is grounded in a deep appreciation for the wisdom of our bodies and the innate capacity of our neurobiology to move toward healing and growth with the right conditions and support. I use therapeutic interventions that emphasize “bottom-up” processing, such as EMDR, emotion-focused therapy, internal parts work, and AEDP. These approaches are intended to facilitate emotional processing in an embodied way and support rewiring pathways in the brain that can lead to more stable growth and change over time. They offer compassionate and non-pathologizing ways for us to help you integrate what's most meaningful to you, help you live in your authentic self, and tolerate life’s ups and downs with more confidence.