I am here to validate your concerns and provide a safe and therapeutic environment to explore any issues that you may be concerned about. I offer individual sessions to adults who are concerned about their child and are in need if guidance and support to address any parenting concerns. My specialty is working with children and adolescents. Children and adolescents respond to my treatment approach. They understand that I am their advocate and I will fight for them to ensure that their needs are being met. It's important for parents who are seeking my services to understand that sessions are confidential. However parents are very much n integral part of the treatment process as well.

Psychotherapy is the use of psychological methods to help a person change behavior and overcome problems in a positive manner. Its aim is to help people understand the thoughts behind feeling anxious or depressed and addressing these thinking patterns. Psychotherapy will help you change behaviors and habits that are limiting you, to experiencing your fullest potential.

My approach is holistic, and consists of an eclectic combination of modalities - but is most importantly based on a Humanistic model, which has its foundation in respect for the individual and the belief that all human beings have the right to reach their full potential. By talking through various life situations, emotional responses, beliefs and behaviours, I assist my clients in identifying patterns that have been holding them back, and cultivating tools to address these patterns and heal the wounds that are at the root of them. Building upon inherent strengths and wisdom are also key components of my practice - a combination which provides the support to move forward with confidence.

I bring authenticity, curiosity, and playfulness to the process of therapy. I value the strengths of my clients and empower them to make changes so they can live the life they want. My training in body based-trauma informed therapy, mindfulness and Gestalt therapy mean that I work with client's as whole people, exploring their thoughts, emotions and embodied experience. Science is showing us that the way to create change most effectively is not simply to have a cognitive insight but to have an experience that comes to life in our mind and that we feel deeply, through our emotions and body. I support my client's to experience in session and in their lives, new perspectives and understandings

In my view, most clients seek therapy when they feel alone in the face of overwhelming life challenges. Regardless of the approach, effective psychotherapy requires the therapist to understand and tune into what is therapeutically needed for the client to thrive. Sometimes clients need to expand their awareness of their inner experiences & life circumstances or develop greater emotional competence in coping with emotional distress (i.e. anxiety, shame, anger). Other times they need to find safety and resilience in facing a traumatic life event or find courage to bond deeply in an intimate relationship. An important part of therapy is to learn what's needed & help client achieve that goal.

Psychotherapy is the use of psychological methods to help a person change behavior and overcome problems in a positive manner. Its aim is to help people understand the thoughts behind feeling anxious or depressed and addressing these thinking patterns. Psychotherapy will help you change behaviors and habits that are limiting you, to experiencing your fullest potential.

Psychotherapy is a process of facilitated self-discovery and healing. It is facilitated by a trained professional in a safe and confidential environment. Much emphasis in psychotherapy is put on creating a trusting relationship with your therapist so that you can feel safe "opening up". With this deep level of support, you'll be able to face the sometimes difficult parts of your emotions and experiences in order to emerge stronger, with a deeper sense of connection and purpose. In my practice, this is achieved through "talk therapy", art making or some combination of the two.

Psychotherapy is a mutual discovery process between you and myself. We explore your patterns of behaviour that are not serving your wishes. These patterns are formed in early developmental years created in response to perceived needs at that time. They remain as part of your way of being until you can recognize why they developed in that manner. Then you can reduce that pattern to be more effective in the present. It helps to have someone who can guide you to safely explore the less known parts of yourself to reach your current goals.Therapy doesn't change you - you create the tools for change. You learn to come to terms with what you can't change using the time for reflection. I am committed to provide you with a warm authentic relationship to have the space to express yourself.

Psychotherapy is defined as "Treatment, by means of psychotherapy technique, delivered through a therapeutic relationship, an individual's serious disorder of thought, cognition, mood, emotional regulation, perception or memory that may seriously impair the individual's judgment, insight, behaviour, communication or social functioning." Psychotherapy is a Controlled Act in the province of Ontario which means it is a healthcare activity that is restricted to certain professions. Psychologists are one of a handful of professions that can conduct psychotherapy. and are uniquely suited to perform this important service with a high level of expertise, professional ethics, and regulation.

I am trained in the Contemplative Psychotherapy practices such as mindfulness and compassion studies, and integrate this work in all of our sessions. Using grounding exercises such as breath work, visualization and others, we will work towards creating skills that you can use outside the session. Please feel open to ask me more about these practices when we meet.

The late James Hillman described therapy as the place of the small. My patients benefit from my psychotherapeutic approach because together we create room for what is most precious in our lives and allow what we discover to integrate and form a whole. It is only with this inner marriage that we can thrive and reach our fullest capacity to experience joy. I offer support through psychotherapy to help protect and restore energy to where it is needed most.

A psychodynamic approach to counselling focuses on patterns of relationship, often helpful in understanding how early experiences might be affecting you in the present. Especially helpful for untangling ‘baggage’ which may be holding you back in your current relationships and attitudes to others. Understanding how your current attitudes and ways of interacting with others are caught up in old hurts can free you to choose more constructive ways forward.

The process of therapy helps people step back, and look at things through the lens of an objective observer. In this way, individuals start to see strengths within themselves. As they see these strengths, with a therapist's help, people begin to make gradual changes in their lives. Adults, adolescents, & children see me in my practice in downtown Toronto for individual, couples, and family counseling. Their problems include anxiety, stress, depression, parent-child conflict, marital distress, trauma, and grief & bereavement.