My Approach

I help you to hear and be comfortable with your own voice, and I believe that you are the expert on your own life. I provide a respectful, comfortable, non-judgmental, and supportive environment in which to tell your story. As we work together to make connections between the many different parts of your story, the process of collaborative discovery can help you to gain better understanding of your own experiences, and the ways in which past experiences are affecting your present-day life.

I believe that everyone possesses a set of strengths and gifts. Sometimes life can make it difficult for us to use or even see those strengths and gifts.  Through this process of discovery, I help you to tap into and utilize strengths that you already possess in order to find the answers you seek.

I operate with a social justice perspective, and I utilize elements of a variety of counselling orientations – Cognitive Behavioural, Relational Cultural, Strengths-Based, and  Person-Centered, among others – to help clients develop a set of tools with which to work through life’s challenges.

I work to understand your primary goals for your counselling sessions, and regularly check in as we progress so that we can continually ensure that things are moving in the right direction.

Qualifications and Experience

I am a Registered Psychotherapist (RP) with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario, and am also a member of the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association. I have a BA with an Honours Specialization in Psychology. After obtaining my B.Ed. and working in the field of education, I returned to school to earn my M.Ed. Counselling Psychology. I have experience working with adolescent and adult clients.

Topics which may be addressed through counselling include:

• adjustment to major life changes

• anxiety

• depression

• stress

• addiction

• self-esteem concerns

• faith and spirituality

• trauma

• questions surrounding identity and purpose

• family concerns

• relationship difficulties