My practice

What to expect when working with me

My practice is relational, heart-centred, trauma-sensitive, and attachment-informed. I integrate somatic, humanistic, narrative, and psychodynamic approaches, drawing on interpersonal neurobiology, and returning to body’s deep knowing.

I honour 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 curiosity and care.

In our work together, I remain conscious of the social, historical, cultural, and ancestral contexts that inform one’s experiences, and I stay critical to how these experiences can oftentimes be pathologized in the western framework of psychology. 

I hold the therapeutic space as sacred, and recognize the immense vulnerability in showing up and sharing.

I am heartfully grateful to all of my teachers and mentors, professional, familial, personal, and ancestral, who have and who continue to support me through my personal and professional work.

"[W]hen we meet in the field of deep connection, we are collaborating with our system’s neurobiologically implanted process of healing."

Bonnie Badenoch

The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships

Some concerns I support individuals with include:

  • Stress, burnout

  • Anxiety, overwhelm

  • Attachment wounds, relational trauma

  • Depression, defeatedness

  • People-pleasing, fawning

  • Life transitions

  • Identity struggles and exploration

  • Relationship and interpersonal challenges

  • Tauma

  • Complex trauma, adverse childhood experiences

  • Bringing the Body in to Practice, Somatic Attachment Psychotherapy Advanced Practice: Love, Regulation, Disruption & Repair with Lisa Mortimore (in process)

  • Bringing the Body in to Practice, Somatic Attachment Psychotherapy 2 Year Training with Lisa Mortimore (2024 - 2025)

  • Trauma Treatment Certification Training (CCTP) with Janina Fisher (2025)

  • San'yas: Indigenous Cultural Safety Training (2024)

  • Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology at Yorkville University (2023)

  • Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology & Sociology at Concordia University (2014)

Beyond the listed above, I have engaged in workshops, webinars and trainings on topics including but not limited to: somatics and somatic psychotherapy, trauma, complex trauma, dissociation, substance use, narrative therapy, harm reduction, DBT, decolonizing practice, and Queering Mental Health (Our Landing Place). 

I am member in good standing with the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors (BCACC)

Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC # 21806)

Trainings and education