Areas of Practice
Individual and Couples Therapy
Issues I often work with include:
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People-pleasing & fawning: Noticing what’s happening in your body, setting boundaries without guilt, rewriting old scripts.
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Relationship patterns: Navigating conflict, deepening intimacy, enhancing communication, and presenting authentically.
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Identity & belonging: Exploring sexuality, gender, values, and life transitions, living a life that matches who you are.
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Anxiety & overwhelm: Calming the nervous system, grounding, and breaking free from intrusive or looping thoughts.
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Creative blocks: Using expressive tools and playful experiments to reconnect with self and restore natural flow.
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Disordered eating & body image: Healing the emotions underneath and building a kinder relationship with food and self.
EMDR & Trauma Recovery
Trauma can leave a lasting impact on how we feel, think, and relate to ourselves and others. EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is an evidence-based therapy that helps your brain process distressing memories and experiences safely, so that you can fully experience life in the present.
EMDR facilitates our brain's innate healing abilities by removing blocks to information processing – blocks that occur when we experience adverse events that overwhelm the mind and body's nervous system.
Through EMDR, you can:
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Reduce the intensity of painful memories and triggers
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Break patterns of anxiety, fear, or self-doubt rooted in past experiences
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Build resilience and a stronger sense of safety in daily life
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Reconnect with your strengths, creativity, and joy
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I guide clients through this process at a pace that feels safe and manageable, combining EMDR with tools for grounding, emotional regulation, and self-compassion. The goal is not just to survive your past, but to reclaim your present and move toward a life that feels more integrated and whole.
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Visit www.emdria.org or send me a message via the button below to learn more about EMDR.
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For details on session costs, extended health coverage, and more, please see my Fees & FAQ page.
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About Me
I'm a Registered Clinical Counsellor (#14856) and a Professional Canadian Art Therapist. My educational background includes visual arts, psychology, counselling, and art therapy.
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I take a warm, direct, and collaborative approach to therapy, helping clients uncover barriers, understand patterns, and find ways to live more freely and authentically. I integrate EMDR, somatic interventions, practical, evidence-based modalities like CBT and DBT, with mindfulness and expressive arts, tailoring therapy to each client's unique needs. Sessions with me combine reflection, insight, and skill-building with humour, play, and thoughtful exploration of grief and challenges. Together, we work to help you reconnect with your strengths, creativity, and sense of self.
I bring both professional expertise and lived experience to my work. Having navigated childhood trauma, disordered eating, anxiety, divorce, and depression, I understand and empathize with how complex and difficult but life-changing recovery can be. This perspective informs my approach and helps me meet clients with empathy, insight, practical and (hopefully!) meaningful support.
I respectfully acknowledge that I live and work as a visitor on the unceded ancestral territory of the lÉ™k̓ʷəŋən (Songhees), Wyomilth (Esquimalt), and W̱SÁNEĆ (Saanich) peoples of the Coast Salish Nation. As a white settler of Northern Irish, English, and Scottish ancestry, I recognize my place of privilege and strive to approach my work with humility, respect, and awareness of the ongoing impacts of colonialism.
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I'm deeply grateful to all my clients who entrust me with their stories and their healing.
