Person-Centred

I am passionate about working together to co-create a plan based on your specific needs, goals, and strengths. In practical terms, this looks a little like a choose your own adventure book where you pick the destination and then I lay out multiple paths for how we get there. The therapies I use are designed to empower and focuses on overcoming the stigma and blame that can be placed on us when we suffer and struggle in our mental health.

Integrative

I approach therapy from a holistic perspective, drawing on the best of evidence-based counselling techniques and theories such as:

• Neuroscience
• Attachment Theory
• Intersectionality
• Anti-Oppression
• Internal Family Systems
• Observe & Experiential Integration
• Narrative Therapy
• Somatic Therapy
• Dialectical Behavioural Therapy
• Self-Compassion
• Mindfulness

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Complex Trauma-Informed

Talk therapy is a top-down approach that focuses on changing our thoughts and behaviours in order to influence our feelings and body. Trauma therapies take a bottom-up approach—connecting us to and processing our body and emotions allows our thoughts and behaviours to transform and integrate. Complex trauma approaches recognize that the trauma is not just the big danger events like a car accident but also the slow drip of long-term relational/emotional danger and requires an more complex approach focused on relational safety in the here & now with the counsellor and our early life caretakers.

I believe that healing trauma involves at least three components: 

1) Helping our nervous system to find it’s calm, grounded and social state.

2) Helping our brain integrate disturbing memories. 

3) Finding compassion for the self-sabotaging ways we adopted survive.