Clinical Foundations & Training
The learning behind the work
I genuinely love learning about psychotherapy. Over the years, my training has tended to follow the questions I keep finding myself curious about: How do we heal in relationship? How do our experiences live in the body? What helps us understand ourselves with more compassion? And how do we build lives that feel meaningful and genuinely our own?
Those questions have led me toward relational, experiential, somatic, attachment-based, existential, and neurodivergent-affirming approaches. The sections below offer a little more about the training, education, and clinical experiences that continue to shape how I work.
What shapes my work
A closer look at the approaches, experiences, and training that continue to inform my practice.
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I’m drawn to approaches that understand healing as something that happens in relationship — not only through insight, but through new emotional experiences. This work helps us pay attention to what is happening in the moment: in our emotions, our relationships, and the ways we protect ourselves when connection feels vulnerable.
Training includes:
Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) — Levels 1 & 2
Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) — Level 1
Gottman Method Couples Therapy — Level 1
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Our experiences aren't held only in the stories we tell about them. I’m interested in how stress, attachment, and past experiences can also show up in the body — and in approaches that help us work with these experiences gently, with curiosity and respect for each person's pace.
Training includes:
Somatic Attachment Psychotherapy — Bringing the Body into Practice
Observed & Experiential Integration (OEI) — Level 1
Lifespan Integration — Level 1
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Some of the questions that bring us to therapy don't have simple answers: Who am I becoming? What matters to me now? How do I make choices when there is no perfect answer? Existential work creates room for these bigger questions and for exploring what it means to build a life that feels meaningful, authentic, and genuinely our own.
Training includes:
Existential Analysis — three-year postgraduate training
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I’m interested in helping neurodivergent people understand themselves with greater curiosity and less judgment — especially those who have spent years feeling different, overwhelmed, misunderstood, or unsure of where they fit. Rather than asking someone to become more "typical," I'm interested in understanding how they experience the world, what helps them thrive, and where they may have learned to mask or work against themselves in order to fit.
Training includes:
Advanced training in supporting autistic and ADHD clients — two intensive two-day workshops with Dr. Juliane Dmyterko
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My clinical work is grounded in graduate education in counselling psychology, ongoing postgraduate learning, and years of clinical practice. I also hold advanced certification in clinical supervision and support developing therapists as they grow in skill, confidence, and their own way of being with clients.
Education & credentials:
Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC) — Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association
Canadian Certified Supervisor (CCS) — Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association
Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology — Trinity Western University
Bachelor of Physical & Health Education — Queen's University
Bachelor of Arts in Health Studies — Queen's University