With years of experience and a genuine and compassionate approach, we strive to empower clients to overcome obstacles and thrive by providing a safe and supportive environment. Personalized therapy sessions are tailored to meet the unique needs of each individual, couple, or family, ensuring a holistic approach to mental and emotional wellness. From this holistic, unbiased, non-judgemental approach, I aim to acknowledge and eliminate power imbalances and discrepancies inside and outside of session, and help folks uncover internalized messages that have wreaked havoc on their sense of self. 

Even though it can be very helpful to some, I tend to shy away from diagnosis and using diagnostic labels within our work together as it places folks in a category of being "abnormal", "different", or classifies certain ways of being outside of the dominant cultures, often leaving the person feeling as if there is something "wrong" with them. I may use terminology like "responses", instead of "disorder"; "adaptations", instead of "symptoms"; "what has happened", instead of "what is wrong". Even if diagnosis seems helpful in certain contexts, such as education, it is potentially problematic due to the assumptions woven into the diagnosis itself. 

I feel incredibly honoured to work with the broad spectrum of people looking to heal, grow, and thrive and to hear the unique stories that each one brings into counselling. I am excited and eager to begin this journey together.

I engage in ongoing supervision with Abby Chow, RCC-ACS & Ted Leavitt M.Sc., RCC.