My Qualifications
I am a Registered Psychotherapist with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO) and have a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology. Clients come to me with a wide range of counselling issues (anxiety, depression, grief and loss, relationship challenges, life transitions, and so on). Areas of focus include the effects of trauma, peripartum mental health, and LGBTQ+ clients.
Before I became a therapist, I completed the Midwifery Education Program (a Bachelor of Health Sciences.) I love working with people through their pregnancy and postpartum while they navigate huge transitions and changes to identity, celebrate joys, grieve losses. The process of midwifery school also helped me find my true calling, and I switched gears to focus on mental and emotional health. This background particularly helps me to support clients with experiences of infertility, pregnancy loss, birth trauma, postpartum adjustment, and other perinatal issues.
Before that, I earned a Bachelor of Arts Honours in History (focusing on gender, sexuality and social history), and worked in non-profits on a range of social issues.
My practice is guided by the Ethical Codes of the CRPO. I am a member of the Ontario Association of Mental Health Professionals. I love learning from my clients, from current research, and from ongoing professional development.
My Approach
I work from a client-centred approach and I want to work together as a team. It is important to me to provide a safe and welcoming space, where clients can explore and gain insight into their learning, growth and healing. I draw from an anti-oppressive, trauma-informed perspective and use techniques from narrative therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), dialectical behavioural therapy (DBT), mindfulness and others. Services are tailored to your individual goals on an ongoing basis and in consultation with you. I have experience working with people of many orientations, gender identities and relationship/family configurations. Everyone is welcome!