therapeutic approach
I am a trauma-informed counsellor who works from a relational and body-based lens. My approach blends presence and practicality — offering a space where you can slow down, reconnect with yourself, and gently shift patterns that no longer serve you.
Rooted in the science of therapy, I incorporate psychoeducation to help you understand how small, intentional shifts can reshape the brain, calm the body, and create meaningful change over time.
In our work together, we explore not just what's happening, but what it means. I gently help illuminate the "choice points," those moments when you find yourself doing things you never thought you would, and invite curiosity about what deeper parts of you are seeking to be known. If you're craving more ease in your relationships, clarity in your boundaries, or a deeper understanding of who you are, I would be honoured to walk alongside you.
I believe growth often comes wrapped in messy or unexpected packaging, and it’s in the messy middle, where old stories begin to shift and more honest versions of you can emerge.
Therapeutic Approaches
The approaches I draw from are evidence-based and rooted in the wisdom of the mind, body, and nervous system. Together, we find what meets you where you are.
EMDR.
Some experiences don’t fully process at the time they happen. They stay lodged in the body and nervous system, shaping how we feel, react, and see ourselves long after. EMDR uses gentle bilateral stimulation to help the brain finish what it couldn’t finish before, so old memories, beliefs, and sensations begin to loosen their grip.
Attachment-Based.
The ways we learned to love and protect ourselves began long before we had words for any of it. Those early patterns quietly shape the relationships we find ourselves in now — including the one we have with ourselves.
Attachment-based work looks at these patterns with care, not to assign blame, but to understand. When we see how we came to be the way we are, something begins to soften.
Parts Work/IFS.
We are not just one voice inside. There is the part that strives, the part that protects, the part that still carries something from long ago. Internal Family Systems invites us to meet these inner parts with curiosity rather than judgment — so the calm, wise Self at your core can lead.
Somatic.
So much of what we carry lives below language, in the tension of the shoulders, the tightness of the breath, the quiet pull of wanting to stay or leave.
Somatic work invites the body into the conversation. We slow down enough to feel what is already here, and let the nervous system begin to soften.
Trauma-Informed.
Trauma-informed care is less a technique than a way of being in the room. It means pacing the work to your nervous system, not a protocol, and trusting that the body knows when it's ready to go deeper.