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In my Psychotherapy practice, I provide a safe and non-judgmental space where clients can explore their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in depth. My approach is client-centered, blending various therapeutic modalities like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Gestalt Therapy, and Trauma-Informed Care, allowing me to tailor each session to the individual’s needs. Through our work together, clients gain insight into their challenges, develop healthier coping strategies, and build resilience. The goal is to empower clients to heal, grow, and create lasting positive change in their lives.

[I OFFER VIDEO SESSIONS THROUGHOUT ALBERTA AND ONTARIO]. I have been a psychologist since 1986. I have expertise in several approaches. My main approaches include cognitive behaviour therapy, psychodynamic therapy, person-centred therapy, and existential therapy. If you want to see someone with extensive training and experience in psychotherapy, book a time by visiting https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=14249112

Psychotherapy offers a safe, collaborative space to explore your thoughts, emotions, and behaviours, and to work toward meaningful change. My approach is client-centred and tailored to your unique needs, drawing on evidence-based methods such as EFT, CBT, and trauma-informed care. Together, we identify patterns that may be holding you back, develop practical coping strategies, and build on your strengths to improve emotional well-being, relationships, and overall quality of life. Whether you’re facing stress, anxiety, depression, life transitions, or a desire for deeper self-understanding, psychotherapy can help you gain clarity, heal, and create a more balanced, fulfilling life.

Psychotherapy is talk therapy. I can an eclectic approach drawing on several modalities including psychodynamic, narrative, dialectical behavioural and solution- focused. The way we approach your healing will be specific to you and your needs. Our work together will be collaborative as we engage in an ongoing dialogue aimed toward your healing and growth, ensuring that you feel heard, respected and validated. Reach out for a free consultation; I look forward to talking with you.

In psychotherapy, I provide a safe and supportive environment where you can explore your thoughts, emotions, and experiences without judgment. My approach is collaborative, meaning we work together to understand your concerns, uncover patterns, and identify new ways of coping. Drawing from evidence-based techniques and a compassionate presence, I aim to help you build resilience, improve relationships, and foster personal growth. Clients often leave feeling more self-aware, empowered, and equipped to navigate life’s challenges.

Clients benefit from psychotherapy by gaining a powerful space to bring forward their desires, hopes, and dreams while addressing challenges and barriers that may hold them back from becoming their best selves. As a clinician, I serve as a guide, counselor, and supportive ally—working collaboratively with clients to set meaningful goals that encourage motivation and foster a healthy, fulfilling life.

Talk therapy provides an opportunity to learn skills that will keep the emotional "trash can" empty and help develop a healthy self. Healthy emotions stimulate the human fueling system promoting positive growth, strength to create solutions and manage life challenges. Maintaining a healthy emotional/spiritual system is as important to life as sustaining a healthy heart. The emotional, physcial and spiritual persons are team players in the "game of life". Each player has a specific position in the game of life and is dependant on the other players to score health and wellness. Ignoring any one of these players for too long will affect their ability to score life goals: happiness, peace.

I believe that working from a client-centred approach is essential in fostering lasting change. As such, I view each client as an expert in their own lives and integrate their goals in the therapeutic process. My approach draws on Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Interpersonal Therapy (therapy through relationship), Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, and neurophysiological research. I specialize in mental health, addictions, trauma, ABI, depression, anxiety, and other emotion and attention regulation difficulties. I offer short-term counselling and long-term psychotherapy to youth, adults, and couples in groups and individually.

If therapy were to be successful for you, what would be different in your life? How would you know that this process was a good use of your time and money? - How you answer those questions is very important, those answers set the (initial) destination as we set out on this journey together. Client directed therapy means that your goals are the compass that guides our work, and we will regularly check in to assess what is working and not working in helping you reach those goals. Every client is different, and our work will be built on proven modalities and techniques, while also being specific to you.

Life is a journey and we are presented with various challenges along the way. Sometimes we find a path forward and sometimes we get stuck and need guidance and support. Psychotherapy can be an opportunity for you to connect with a trained professional to explore the challenges you are experiencing and to discover new tools and perspectives. As a psychotherapist, I support you on your journey by creating a relationship with you that’s built on safety, openness, and trust. I also help you to discover the resilience that you hold and I support you in strengthening or re-defining the relationships within your life. Contact me or book a free consultation if you wish to learn more.

Therapy is where change begins. If you feel like you are simply getting by, managing the best you can, and showing up, but something isn't working anymore, therapy is a step in the right direction. The goal is to work alongside you, helping you navigate the changes you experience in your mid-later life. Together, we address your concerns and set realistic goals using a combination of therapeutic techniques, compassionate listening and conversation to support your healing journey. We work at a pace that honours your experiences. You don't have to have it all figured out to start. Many people arrive without certainty or a diagnosis. I work with adult individuals and couples navigating change.

There are many things which cause us distress and prevent us from achieving our preferred quality of life. These can include a variety of feelings, thoughts, beliefs, reactions, confusion, past or present situations, etc. You can more easily think about, and choose, your preferred ways of living, by getting clear about what's going on, how you're being affected, and your usual responses. I delight to help in this kind of process: it can be a way of making things which are invisible, visible; things which are unspoken, clear; even things which were un-thought of, possible.

I provide a safe, confidential, and compassionate space for individual psychotherapy where you can explore your thoughts, emotions, and life challenges without judgment. Using an integrative approach that includes CBT, ACT, mindfulness, IFS, and relational therapy, I help clients gain deeper self-understanding, develop healthier coping strategies, reduce emotional distress, and move toward greater clarity, resilience, and overall well-being.