Registered Clincial Counselling

“Healing does not mean the end to suffering: It means the freedom to return home, again and again, to our bodies and to one another.”  

-Valarie Kaur, 2020

Somatic Attachment Psychotherapy

After graduating, completing my internship, and starting my private practice, I realized my skills were insufficient to really help people with their deepest, most longstanding patterns of suffering. I sought out more training and happily discovered Sharon Stanley’s Somatic Transformation. This two-year training revolutionized the way I work. It taught me the importance of being present in my body while I sit with someone, and to understand the complexities of trauma. Embodiment–my own and that of my clients–now forms the foundation of my work. Complex trauma, the layering of shock trauma and attachment trauma, is the main lens I use in helping people understand their symptoms of distress. Read more about Sharon’s work here: “Coming Alive and Opening to Vitality.”

After Sharon’s course, I enrolled in Lisa Mortimore’s one-year training, Advanced Practices in Somatic Psychotherapy: Attachment, Trauma, and the Soul. This course helped me deepen my understanding of our attachment patterns and injuries, and how relational repair and healing can occur. Often our most painful experiences are caused by an absence– what didn’t happen: feeling alone in our suffering and perceiving that our suffering doesn’t matter. These moments of unintended emotional neglect can translate into a belief that we are unloveable, “too much,” and overly sensitive. My work is to help acknowledge and validate these hurts so they can be felt and processed and turned into meaning. Read more about Lisa’s work here: “Three Pillars of Somatic Attachment Psychotherapy.”

Transpersonal Psychology

I am educated and trained in transpersonal psychology, a branch of psychology that holds a very broad and multi-dimensional perspective on the human experience. From this orientation, I offer compassionate witnessing of your suffering and grounded support for your healing and evolution as a whole human being.

My aim is to help you align with your authentic self in order to heal from the past and to restore your vitality, joy, and sense of connection. Read more about Transpersonal Psychology here: “What is Transpersonal Psychology.”