Let’s get to the bottom of it.

You’re feeling lost. Stuck. Off-course. Spinning. Spiralling.

You suspect that you deserve to be feeling more free, more alive, and less burdened by stresses than you are now. Let’s follow that hunch, build on your own intuition, and try a new approach that goes beyond the surface-level “coping strategies” that don’t seem to make the difference that they did before. By finding clarity in what truly matters to you, and making intentional decisions aligned with those priorities, we can chart a more fulfilling path for you.

As your counsellor, you’ll find that I’m easy to talk to, very interested in your ideas and extremely open-minded. Clients have shared that I have a warm personality and a non-judgemental kind of curiosity which creates lots of room in our conversations for hard, embarrassing, guilt-ridden, worrisome topics to really unfold and reveal themselves to us. I’m not nervous or skittish around emotions, crying, nose-blowing or even silence, if that’s what needs to happen. I aim to create a comfortable and accessible environment where you feel accepted just as you are.

I came to mental health support work originally through being a peer supporter, someone who shares personal experience and understanding of hard things. I’ve long been a client of mental health services myself. Through 10 years of training and skill-building, I’ve added some letters and credentials to my name which give me the tools I need to support lasting change in people’s lives. My therapeutic approach comes from Narrative Therapy blended in with Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy, all woven together with my trauma-focused understandings of responses to harm and injustices. I see you as the expert of your own experiences, I see me as being responsible for respecting that, and us both as working together to create a shared understanding of what’s going on for you.

I’ll guide you through finding some balance in the place between your mind (your logic, reason and problem-solving control panel) and your body (your deep well of gut feelings, hopes, pains and intuition). This process will give your wheels some traction in the mud, so when you push the gas, you’ve got grip and won’t spin your tires and dig yourself deeper down. That sense of forward drive will be our north star, even if we don’t know the landscape or territory too well. Sometimes doing counselling involves building the map as you go, taking cues from where you’ve already been and setting your sights on the terrain ahead. 

I look forward to joining your team and seeking that new horizon with you. We can bring it within reach.