Therapy and Consultation

Being human is beautifully weird, and painfully difficult.

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Sometimes, surviving comes at the cost of feeling fully alive.

As a therapist, I work with those carrying the effects of complex trauma, religious wounding, and patterns of emotional avoidance or emotional overwhelm - all tender places where the self has often learned to disappear. Through trauma-informed therapy, we move gently towards reconnection with your body and with your emotions and, as a result, with the life that is still unfolding before you.

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I believe in being human in the room with my clients, which is why you’ll find my therapeutic approach to be warm and relaxed, with a dose of humour when appropriate. I see being a therapist as being a facilitator, gently guiding another’s body and soul to unravel the story within. As we yield to this therapeutic process, we find ourselves more deeply transformed and, therefore, more truly alive.

Services

Virtual and in-person Individual Counselling, Couples Counselling, and Consultation in Surrey and surrounding areas, BC

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Individual Counselling

I accompany my clients through complex trauma, PTSD, religious deconstruction, and the lingering effects of shame and emotional disconnection. Together, we gently collaborate to understand the patterns that once protected you, to tend to the wounds that remain, and to move towards a life that feels more whole, embodied, and free.

Rate: $150/50 minute session

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Couples Counselling

I provide couples therapy for those disentangling their relationship from the effects of religious trauma, faith deconstruction, and purity culture. Through trauma-informed exploration, we’ll create space to understand how inherited beliefs about love, sexuality, and gender have shaped your connection, and to rediscover intimacy, trust, and mutual care that feel grounded in freedom rather than fear.

Rate: $170/50 minute session

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Consultation

I offer consultation for therapists, clergy, and other helpers seeking thoughtful collaboration around complex clinical, spiritual, or relational themes in their work. These sessions provide space for reflection, integration, and perspective, supporting you while you support others.

Rate: $150/50 minute session

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Areas of Expertise

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    • Registered Clinical Counsellor with the British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors (RCC #18875)

    • Master of Education in Counselling Psychology, UBC

    • Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Psychology, TWU

Technical Approaches

  • Evidence-based attachment and relational therapies like Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) and Accelerated Experiential Psychodynamic Therapy (AEDP) facilitate the processing of stuck or overwhelming emotions, fostering healthy attachment to self and others while deepening connection with the body.

    These therapies form the foundation of the work I do and are integrated into the other therapeutic modalities I provide.

    Who its for:
    EFT and AEDP are effective therapeutic tools for building emotion tolerance, reconnecting with the self, deepening embodied connection, and reducing over-reliance on intellectualization.

  • Parts work therapies are therapeutic approaches that view our being as a complex system of multiple “parts”, instead of a single, unified self.

    Exploring these “parts” through Ego State Therapy or Internal Family Systems Therapy facilitates the compassionate transformation of inner conflict, stuck or dissociated aspects of the self, and past trauma into greater self-understanding.

    Who its for:
    Parts work is excellent for CPTSD and PTSD recovery, religious trauma, childhood trauma, attachment wounds, emotional avoidance or overwhelm, and/or anyone looking to more deeply understand themselves.

  • EMDR is an evidence-based therapy that helps the brain process and integrate distressing or traumatic experiences. Rather than focusing on retelling your story, EMDR supports the nervous system in processing it, allowing memories to feel less charged and more distant. This process can help reduce symptoms of trauma, anxiety, and emotional overwhelm, resulting in greater calm, clarity, and self-trust.

    Who its for:
    EMDR is a gold standard treatment for PTSD, CPTSD, anxiety, and depression.

  • This approach integrates the presence of a trained therapy dog into counselling sessions to support emotional regulation, connection, and comfort. Animals can help us access calm and safety in ways words sometimes can’t, reminding us that healing is not only cognitive, but relational and embodied.

    My dog, Maisie, regularly joins sessions as a therapy dog-in-training.

    Who its for:
    Doglovers, everywhere.

    • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Basic Training, 2025

    • EMDR & Parts Work for Treating Complex Trauma: Somatic Techniques to Decrease Defensiveness and Facilitate Trauma Processing, PESI, 2024

    • PTSD as a Future-Oriented Survival Strategy: The Role of Dissociation, International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation, 2023

    • 2023 Autism Symposium: What’s New & What’s Next in Treating Clients on the Spectrum, PESI, 2023

    • Comprehensive Internal Family Systems Therapy Course: A Step-by-Step Guide Through Clinical Applications of the IFS Model, PESI, 2023

    • Level 1 Clinical Training: Gottman Method Couples Therapy, Gottman Institute, 2023

    • Certified Clinical Trauma Professional: Two-Day Trauma Competency Conference, PESI, 2022

    • The 10 Principles of Effective Couples Therapy: What Science Tells Us and Beyond with Julie Schwartz Gottman and John Gottman, 2022

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“I know, you never intended to be in this world.
But you’re in it all the same.

So why not get started immediately?

I mean, belonging to it.”

Mary Oliver, The Fourth Sign of the Zodiac

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