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I integrate multiple approaches in my practice. Approaches may involve learning practical skills and strategies, experiencing avoided emotions, evaluating and challenging negative thought patterns, processing trauma, or resolving internal conflicts. Treatment types may evolve and shift, and progress is monitored to ensure that your goals are being met.

I have extensive experience providing evidence-based treatment for trauma and emotional dysregulation, offered exclusively through secure virtual care. In our work together, I focus on teaching you practical psychological skills that you can use in everyday life—tools to calm overwhelming emotions, manage stress, and build healthier, more stable relationships. I also draw on proven approaches such as trauma-focused therapy, EMDR, and skills training from DBT. These methods are highly effective online, offering the same benefits as traditional in-person treatment.

Psychotherapy happens when the right conditions are met that support the psyche to heal and come into congruence. The relationship with the therapist is authentic, meaningful and changes both the therapist and the client. The focus is on emergence of your true self and healing from the confusion, shame and trauma that has caused so much damage to your whole self.

I employ an integrative counselling approach, drawing from my diverse background and skills to create a therapeutic experience tailored to your needs and counselling goals.  My primary therapeutic approach revolves around the following cognitive therapies: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) and Narrative Therapy. Looking at the relationship between your thoughts, feelings and behaviours helps you view challenging situations more clearly and respond to them in a more helpful ways.

Accessing therapy can be scary and overwhelming, whether it is your first time or you are looking for someone who is a better fit for you! Free consultations are a great way to "dip your toe in"- you can determine if we connect, and also try out the online therapy platform so it is less scary for a full session in the future. Common concerns clients come to me with include trauma, anxiety, depression, sleep concerns, relationship problems, work stressors, family conflict and more. If you are not sure what to say, ask, or how to start the session, do not worry! That is my job, all you have to do is show up!

What Is Accelerated Resolution Therapy? Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) is a relatively new form of therapy with roots in existing evidence-based therapies but shown to achieve benefits much more rapidly (usually within 3-5 sessions). ART is a combination of bilateral stimulation, prolonged exposure and visualizations. ART looks at processing negative psychological symptoms within the body and the brain. ART has shown to offer improvements to clients’ symptoms within 1 or 2 sessions. While initially a trauma therapy, ART appears to be beneficial for several psychological concerns. More detailed information on this approach can be found here.

Psychotherapy can help when an individual feels life is awfully difficult. Moreover, psychotherapy can also make a straight life even better . Psychotherapy is suggested whenever a person is grappling with problems in life for example relationship issues, anxiety, anger or other mental health concerns, and these issues are creating the individual lots of hurt or upset for longer than a week. There may be exceptions to this common rule, but for the most of the cases, there is no harm in going into psychotherapy even if someone is not entirely confident that it would benefit from the counseling. I have vast experience working with marginalized and diverse ethnic, racial backgrounds people. My area of expertise includes Stress, Anger, depression,...(view profile to read more)

Sometimes the angst we feel doesn’t have a definable problem, we just know that life feels off, and long for it to feel better. Through talking with a therapist insights into yourself, and compassion for your pain emerges. Through this process you learn to see your past and yourself differently and a new way of being in the world emerges. Old unhelpful ways of living erode and are replaced with healthier more hopeful perspectives.

My approach is integrative, person-centred, and grounded in compassion. I believe that therapy is most effective when it’s collaborative and tailored to your unique needs, goals, and values. I draw from evidence-based modalities such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT), and mindfulness-based practices. Together, we’ll explore the patterns, beliefs, and emotions that may be keeping you stuck and work to develop practical tools for change. I aim to provide a safe, non-judgmental space where you can build self-awareness, strengthen emotional resilience, and foster self-compassion.

Psychotherapy usually means longer more in depth treatment of issues. There is a an understanding that there is value in seeing a therapist on a regular basis as it give time for trust to develop and also allows the client the time to explore more deeply. It is also a recognition that somethings take longer to treat. One can meet weekly or bi-weekly or however frequently is appropriate. The practice of psychotherapy takes more skill and experience and usually means the therapist has had their own psychotherapy.

Psychotherapy is a process of gaining an awareness of one's issues which leads to improving the understanding of one's issues. Following this, the process of psychotherapy is to follow through with some form of therapeutic action to either improve the awareness, increase one's understanding or resolve the issues that one originally came in to psychotherapy for.

Patterns of self-sabotaging behavioural, disorganized thinking and overwhelming emotion make life very difficult. How can we move forward when our bodies seem to betray us and we just need a break from the buzzing anxiety or the numbing of depression? What you may not know is all these symptoms are the imprint of our unfinished business, stuck in the body and just begging to be seen, cared for and accepted. Working with me means looking with curiosity, compassion and an educated-eye at how old wounds of betrayal, abandonment and rejection show up to block living your best life. You are not alone and there is hope.

Often we know what we need to do differently, it's not that we don't have the wisdom, it's that it can be hard to apply! Doing Psychotherapy with me is a gentle and compassionate process of uncovering and tending to the old wounds and patterns that can be steering our behaviour and leading us astray. This frees up the space to live in the present with mindfulness, and create the future that we dream of!