What to Expect

The therapeutic relationship has been consistently shown to be key in the effectiveness of therapy and that people tend to stay in therapy when they feel:

• heard

• understood

• helped

• a sense of direction and purpose with therapy

• a fit with the therapist's approaches

A healthy and helpful therapeutic relationship, like any relationship, demonstrates and offers:​

• an avid interest in knowing who you are and how you are doing

• room for self-exploration and self-discovery

• an objective, specialized way of interacting

• maturity and growth-oriented evolution over time, including positive and stuck moments to work through

• encouragement with what is and re-direction where needed to sustain healthy effective practices

• encouragement to navigate life in new ways which can be felt and noticed

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You'll meet with my energy, curiosity, kind honesty, strong sense of intuition, high sensitivity, life experience, and work and training experience.  These help position me to offer attentive and pointed listening, deep reflective questions, an assistance with getting to your internal experience, like thoughts and feelings which need attention. I offer psychoeducation for essential and deeper understanding, skill-building, guidance, regular check-ins on satisfaction and alignment of your goals and progress, and opportunities in between sessions to apply tools and skills. I stay interested in you by asking how life is going, what has worked and not worked, your barriers, what tools and practices were experimented with and tried, and what you wish and need to move forward with and towards.

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Not every therapist will fit with every person given the beautiful complexity of being human, and not everyone is ready to engage in the therapeutic process. Lack of fit or readiness or high discomfort are in and of themselves not a negative sign: these feelings are valuable, insightful and a form of movement.  To have an introductory call with a therapist can help you sense your fit, readiness, and clarify if and how they can help you.

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My Experience

I feel privileged to have worked with a diversity of people and ages from varied and distinctive backgrounds including: youth, women, men, queer, sexuality and gender fluid, of multiple ethnicities and cultures, and who live with the impacts of their neurodiversity, physical and medical related issues and disabilities.  I value and recognize the impact of intersectionality on someone and their experience--who they are and how they have become--including with their close ones and with others within their community, within the mainstream culture, within the workplace, and within the context of working with me in therapy.  I have worked in clinical, community rehabilitation, hospital, post-secondary education and corporate settings.  I also feel strongly about promoting wholistic care for my clients, having consulted and worked with many health providers including family doctors, social workers, psychiatrists, and case workers as part of an integrated treatment plan where needed.

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I am a Registered Counselling Psychologist based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. I am here to walk alongside you through life’s difficult and uncomfortable moments, guiding through Trauma Informed Care and Treatment, an Anti-Oppressive Lens insightful and aware of intrinsic bias, Cultural, Gender--Human Affirming support, using the best-suited integrative, evidence-based and outcomes-based approaches and techniques.

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My wish and hope is we learn to live with ourselves and others in safer interconnection within our relationships, in a complex world, with more understanding, kindness and compassion in the face of difficulty, and to live with greater meaning.