Training and Clinical Foundations

Our experiences are not 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 — in our sensations, impulses, emotions, and ways of responding when something feels overwhelming or unsafe.

Somatic and trauma-focused approaches help me work with these experiences gently and at a pace that respects each person’s capacity, while supporting greater connection to the body, emotions, and sense of self.

My training in this area includes:

• Somatic Attachment Psychotherapy — Bringing the Body into Practice

• Observed & Experiential Integration (OEI) — Level 1

• Lifespan Integration — Level 1

Some of the questions that bring people to therapy don’t have simple solutions: Who am I becoming? What matters to me now? How do I make choices when there is no perfect answer? How do I live with uncertainty, loss, responsibility, and change?

My training in Existential Analysis has deepened my interest in these questions and in helping people find ways of living that feel more authentic, meaningful, and genuinely their own. Rather than offering answers, existential work creates space to explore what matters, what feels true, and how we want to meet the lives we are actually living.

My training in this area includes:

• Existential Analysis — three-year postgraduate basic training

I’m increasingly interested in helping neurodivergent people understand themselves with greater curiosity and less judgment — particularly those who may have spent years feeling different, misunderstood, overwhelmed, or unsure of where they fit.

Neurodivergent-affirming practice invites us to look beyond simply managing symptoms and instead become curious about how a person experiences the world, what helps them thrive, and where they may have learned to mask, adapt, or work against themselves in order to fit expectations that were never designed with them in mind.

My training in this area includes:

• Supporting Neurodivergent Clients: ADHD & Autism — two intensive two-day workshops with Dr. Juliane Dmyterko

Much of my clinical work has taken place in post-secondary settings, where I’ve had the privilege of sitting alongside people during a particularly formative season of life. These years can hold so much at once — questions about identity and belonging, relationships, career and purpose, independence, neurodivergence, family expectations, and the sometimes messy process of figuring out who you are becoming.

Working with students has given me a deep appreciation for the developmental context surrounding these struggles. I try not to see uncertainty, questioning, or feeling a little lost as something that necessarily needs to be fixed. Sometimes these experiences are part of the work of becoming more fully ourselves.

Alongside ongoing postgraduate training, my work is grounded in formal education in counselling psychology and many years of clinical practice. I also hold advanced certification in clinical supervision and enjoy supporting developing therapists as they grow in confidence, skill, and their own way of being with clients.

My education and professional credentials include:

• 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