Services

Areas of Specialization

Complex Trauma and Childhood Experiences
I work extensively with people who have experienced childhood abuse, emotional neglect, sexual assault, domestic violence, religious trauma, cross-cultural childhood experiences (including Third Culture Kids), and other forms of trauma. Early experiences can have lasting effects on our sense of self, relationships, and ability to regulate emotions, contributing to anxiety, depression, harsh self-criticism, and patterns that seem impossible to change.

These difficulties can persist even when life appears successful from the outside or after years of counselling and personal reflection.

Using Trauma Integrating Flow Therapy (TIFT), I help clients process emotional experiences that have remained unresolved, often because the connection and support they needed were unavailable at the time. This work goes beyond understanding the past, creating opportunities for longstanding emotional and relational patterns to shift.

Attachment and Relationship Patterns
Your earliest relationships shape how you experience closeness, conflict, rejection, and emotional needs. You may find yourself repeating painful relationship patterns, struggling with boundaries, feeling responsible for others, or longing for connection while finding it difficult to trust.

These responses often developed as ways of protecting yourself or maintaining important relationships. Rather than simply changing behaviours, my counselling approach supports exploring what lies beneath these patterns and experience connection differently, allowing greater freedom in how you relate to yourself and others.

Neurodivergence and Neurodivergent Families
I work with neurodivergent individuals and families, particularly those navigating ADHD, autism, giftedness, learning differences, and twice-exceptionality (2e), where giftedness coexists with a disability or learning difference.

My interest is both professional and personal. My research, funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), explored self-compassion among parents of twice-exceptional children, and I have lived experience raising neurodivergent children.

I understand the challenges of navigating school systems, advocating for children, and managing family life while also appreciating the creativity and unique strengths within neurodivergent families. My work supports parents and individuals in their own emotional growth while recognizing the impact of living in a world that does not always understand or accommodate neurodivergence.

Perimenopause and Midlife Transitions
Perimenopause can bring significant emotional and physical changes, including increased anxiety, disrupted sleep, mood shifts, fatigue, and difficulties with concentration. It can also bring longstanding emotional patterns, relationship difficulties, and questions about identity into sharper focus.

Drawing on professional and lived experience, I support women navigating these changes and exploring the opportunities for growth that can emerge during midlife. This stage can offer a chance to revisit earlier experiences, reconsider familiar roles, and connect more deeply with what matters.

Disability, Chronic Illness, and Changing Abilities
I work with people adapting to physical illness, injury, disability, neurodivergence, and changes in cognitive or emotional functioning. These experiences can affect identity, relationships, independence, and expectations for the future.

I also recognize the impact that disability and chronic illness can have on family members, including siblings who may have grown up with their own emotional needs receiving less attention.

My approach creates space for grief, frustration, changing identities, and personal growth while acknowledging the additional challenges created by ableism, discrimination, and inaccessible environments.