MY APPROACH

My goal is to create an environment that is warm, open and supportive, where it feels safe enough to talk about the hardest things in your life. 

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I will work to help you recognize and celebrate your strengths and resilience, in addition to exploring the ways that you struggle. 

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I see therapy as a collaboration, with your goals, needs and experience at the centre. If you're not completely sure what direction you want to go in, we can start by taking some time to explore that. 

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I’m interested in how you feel about yourself: your self-talk, your ability to set boundaries and ask for what you want and need, and how you feel about the quality of relationships you have in your life. 

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I want to know whether you’re comfortable with how you cope. 

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I use aspects of mindfulness, cognitive approaches and narrative therapy to help you identify what has shaped your mental and emotional habits- how you think and feel- so we can start to make the kind of adjustments that result in lasting and meaningful change. 

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I think the past is relevant only in terms of how it’s affecting you now, and that conversations about trauma have to be slow, gentle, and safe. 

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I am committed to showing up in a genuine way: I am both a professional and also a real person sitting with you in the room. 

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My approach is influenced by a diverse array of psychotherapy modalities, philosophies and wisdom traditions, which include the following: 

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Relational Psychotherapy

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Narrative Therapy

Existential-Humanistic Therapy

Buddhism

Focusing

Feminist Therapy

Somatic Therapy

Attachment Theory