My Approach

Welcome! 

So good to meet you here.

I believe that each of us has the capacity to transform: how we relate to ourselves, how we engage with others, and how we connect to this world. Whether you are struggling in your life, seeking clarity, or wanting to come back to yourself, I am honoured to walk alongside you. I recognize that we are all complicated, contradictory beings, and I welcome all parts of you in the therapeutic space. Let us explore your inner world with compassion and curiosity.

My practice is relational, client-centered, trauma-sensitive and attachment-informed. The therapeutic relationship is at the heart of the healing work, and because of this, I emphasize that it feels like a good therapeutic fit for you.

I draw on humanistic, narrative, psychodynamic, and somatic approaches. I am committed to reflections on oppression and its impacts on oneself and experience, and stay critical of how these experiences oftentimes get misconstrued in the western colonial framework of psychology. 

I believe the therapeutic space is sacred, and recognize the immense vulnerability in showing up and sharing.

Individual Counselling: 1 hour session (50 minute) $140

My Story

I arrive in this space as a White, cis-gendered, queer settler of German, Scottish, and Irish ancestry. I am immensely grateful to live and be on unceded traditional lək̓ʷəŋən territory of the Songhees, WSÁNEĆ, & Esquimalt First Nations. 

I am a deep believer that the multiplicity of my experiences inform how I show up in my counselling practice. I understand that healing is holistic; my own healing work integrates mind/body/spirit and has been done in the context of supportive relationships, including with the non-human world. My belief is that healing is not an individual practice, and that being witnessed, and witnessing oneself, is essential. 

My own experiences in therapy remind me of the miracles that can emerge from the therapeutic process.

Areas of practice

• Stress, anxiety, overwhelm

• Relationships (including non-normative)

• Life transitions

• Depression, defeatedness

• Grief, loss

• Attachment wounds, relational trauma

• Trauma

Education & Training

• Bringing the Body into Practice, Somatic Attachment Psychotherapy 2 Year Training with Lisa Mortimore (in process)

• Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology at Yorkville University

• Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology & Sociology at Concordia University

• San'yas: Indigenous Cultural Safety Training

• ASIST Suicide First Aid

• Reiki First Degree

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS & AFFILIATIONS

• Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC # 21806) - BC Association of Clinical Counsellors

RATES

Individual Counselling

1 hour session (50 min) - $140 (Sliding rates may be available)