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I understand that the accumulation of traumatic life events can lead to unfulfilling relationships, disempowering career paths, anxiety, and depression.
I enjoy helping people like you heal from developmental trauma, grief, and anxiety and I believe everyone deserves to experience fulfilment, joy, and safety.
My own healing journey wasn’t straightforward. I experienced complex childhood trauma, and was surrounded by communities that reinforced shame. I went through most of life being made to feel that I was the problem for not simply getting over my past and moving on. And believe me… I tried!
What I didn’t know was that all the things I felt made sense. Feeling social anxiety in groups, feeling lonely and detached even when I was in relationships, and wanting connection but not knowing how to let people in.
These were all products of intergenerational trauma, racism, and oppression and being able to safely explore these feelings at my own pace with knowledgeable therapists helped me learn to love and trust myself, find new meaning in my faith, and cultivate supportive relationships.
Healing my own trauma has helped me understand the unique ways that anxiety, grief, loss, spiritual crises, trauma, and burnout all overlap. My abilities to support others in feeling inner security, fulfilment, and joy are informed by my lived experience as a trauma survivor, and a lifelong commitment to spiritual and meditative practice.
I started my career as a lawyer, working in private practice and later for non-profits. But truthfully, I felt stuck.
I went to law school wanting to help others. Yet, so many of the people I saw were struggling with the impacts of trauma. Even worse, they were surrounded by people that didn’t understand how anxiety, depression, shame and loss can make life feel hopeless.
From the outside, it can look like you have your sh*t together, but on the inside everything is falling apart.
Experiencing my own burnout taught me what wasn’t working. More importantly, it also became the spark that started my own journey of trauma healing.
Giving up a successful career to become a trauma-informed therapist was more than a career change. It was a calling to a life of service.
I understand that as humans, we always aspire to become better. But when our past is a burden and the memories are painful, it can feel like we can never outrun ourselves.
We often carry a sense of shame, and even though we try to change, it can feel like we are always stuck. Stuck with the same people, the same problems, and the same cycles of anxiety and depression.
I want to help you see that you deserve to feel fulfilled, understood, and accepted.
I want to show you that meaningful and empowering decisions are available to you.
I want you to discover the joy and freedom of supportive, authentic relationships.
Most of my clients have experienced trauma in some form – oppressive family upbringings, dysfunctional family and work environments, racial discrimination, harassment, abuse, and violence.
Many of my clients may not have experienced trauma, but seek out my support to help with anxiety, depression, grief, loss of community, and relationship issues. They are individuals and couples dealing with life changes, communication issues, lack of intimacy, and relationship breakdown.
I also have special interests in supporting:
If you think we might be a good fit, I would love to hear from you.
Therapy doesn’t have to feel cold, analytical or like a to-do-list item.
Perhaps you’ve seen the therapists in films and movies who are distant and act like the expert in the room. I don’t believe in that approach.
I believe that therapy works when you are empowered to discover your own unique healing process, and learn to trust your inner wisdom.
Rather than offer a band-aid solution to your problems, I get down in the hole with you. I step into your world so that we can understand how the problems formed, but more importantly, how to heal.
You’ve had too many people put you down. You’ve encountered too many obstacles to happiness. You deserve to be treated with dignity, respect, and care.
I specialize in spiritually-integrated psychotherapy counselling services focusing on high achieving / performing professional anxiety, trauma, depression, grief & grieving, purpose, belonging, identity & more.
Online & in-person sessions are available.
Stressed out and depleted? Psychotherapy to help you ditch the anxious inner critic and find calm.
Journeying with you to help process and cope with losses of loved ones, identity, belonging and more.
Integrative somatic trauma therapy to help break the cycle of feeling anxious, depressed, and triggered.
Helping you understand your most authentic self, and live in conscious alignment with your purpose.
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