I am a Registered Psychotherapist with 15 years of experience in mental health advocacy and support.

I work with adults and adolescents, helping clients explore their inner lives and make meaning of their experiences. I draw mainly from relational therapy in my practice. This means that I work with my clients to identify how relationships, past and present, may be contributing to emotional distress. It also means that my approach is informed by the ways power, privilege and systemic forms of oppression impact overall mental health. I believe that mutually satisfying relationships are essential to our well-being and I aim to foster this in my sessions. I believe that making meaning out of our experiences and having others bear witness to them fosters healing and growth.

About me

I have an MA in Counselling Psychology. Prior to this, my educational background includes a diploma in Child and Youth Work, a BA in International Development Studies, and graduate courses in Community Economic Development. Over the last fifteen years, I have worked with a diverse group of people: youth and families, elders, young women and trans people, as well as in broader community initiatives. I continue to be active in community organizing, mutual aid and as a board member for a not for profit. This work, and my activism has taught me much about the human experience and has helped shape me into the therapist I am today.

Approach

I operate from a feminist, anti-racist and class conscious perspective with the goal of fostering agency, accountability and well being in individuals who want to be agents of change in their lives. I strive to provide an outlet for the fear, sadness and rage that comes from bearing witness to and being the victim of injustice and violence. I recognize that systemic issues will not be remedied through individual solutions, and make space for the contradictions that exist in this work. I offer a non-pathologizing approach to mental health that considers the individual, relational, material and systemic conditions of my clients lives. I believe that people are the experts of their own lives, and strive to centre that expertise in my sessions. My goal, as a therapist, is to provide a space where healing, growth and connection can occur. I love working with clients who are seeking meaning in their lives, who want to act but don't know where to start.

Areas of interest

  • Life transitions

  • Relationship concerns (romantic, family, community)

  • Anxiety and depression

  • Professionals in care-giving roles (i.e. nurses, teachers, social workers, etc)

  • Prenatal, postpartum & parenting

  • Existential questions and concerns

  • Activists and organizers


I am a cis white woman living on the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples. This land is part of the Dish with One Spoon territory, a treaty between the Haudenosaunee Confederacy (aka. The Six Nations Confederacy), the Anishinaabek and allied nations, to peaceably share and care for this land, its waters, and all of the biodiversity in the Great Lakes region. As a settler on this land, I am striving to take responsibility for honouring this treaty. As someone who benefits from historical and current colonization & white supremacy, I am working to hold that power with integrity and accountability. I am committed to ongoing learning, organizing, and redistribution of my resources (through discounted sessions for Black, Indigenous, POC, QUEER and trans folks, and redistribution of my personal income).