About
My experience and interests give me a unique understanding of:
- How to navigate and develop mastery in the face of huge emotions, triggers, emptiness, and relational fears
- Learn to fill yourself up and develop the peace of sustainable unconditional self-love, self-trust, and self-worth
- Go from a scarcity mindset aimed at trying to get needs met to an abundance mindset that feels the fulfilment of sharing with and elevating others
- Develop sustainable confidence and trust that isn't conditional on outside circumstances
Expertise
Trauma
Anxiety
Self-esteem/self-work/self-love
Anxious attachment patterns
Emotional mastery
Spiritual purpose
Insurance & Benefits Coverage
Coverage depends on the insurance plan. Check with your insurance provider to see if your plan covers one of the listed designations:
Coaching, consulting, or education. Some insurance companies offer a flex-type coverage that cover our sessions, but most of my clients pay out of pocket.
Therapeutic Frameworks & Approach
I’m a coach with a PhD in Clinical Psychology, training in somatics, and more than 15 years of full-time professional practice. To date, I’ve worked with hundreds of clients in over 7,000 hours of sessions.
My work is rooted in mindfulness, somatic awareness, and compassionate acceptance of what is. I have been deeply influenced by my trainings in Internal Family Systems, Emotion Focused Therapy, and Emotional-Release.
I developed a focus in working with adults on the impacts of childhood trauma, particularly the kind of trauma resulting from chronically unmet emotional needs in childhood.
In private practice, I developed additional focuses on working with attachment anxiety, navigating relationships, and developing self-worth, self-trust, and self-love.
I offer a safe, non-judgmental space where you can welcome every part of yourself. Together, we begin with your direct, felt experience to access the wisdom of your body, exploring what works and what doesn’t.
For those who wish, spiritual elements can be integrated. Alongside deep presence, I also provide clear tools and strategies and can provide a highly directive approach (if you're open to it), offering step-by-step guidance to help you create the transformation you desire in a way that feels embodied, authentic, sustainable, and self-empowering.
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Education
Concordia University - PhD in Clinical Psychology 2020;
Concordia University - MA in Clinical Psychology 2010;
University of Ottawa - B.A. Honours in Psychology, 2007
OTHER TRAINING:
Studied Somatics with Body Mind Centering - 2019
Many other workshops and trainings in everything from clinical therapeutic methodology, spirituality, somatics, shamanism, Kabbalah student
COACHING EXPERIENCE:
Full time Private Practice: 2021 - present
Coach at Resilience Psychotherapy 2021 - 2022 (part time)
Supervised Psychotherapist and Coach at Mindspace - 2019- 2022
Supervised Psychotherapist at St. Mary's Psychology Department (part time) - 2018
Counsellor at Queen's University counselling services (part time) - 2016-18
SUPERVISED CLINICAL TRAINING:
Full time Residency in Neurodevelopmental Assessment at RARC, Queens University (adults and children) - 2015-17
Part time Residency in counselling at Queen's University counselling services (part time) - 2015-17 - ran workshops, individual therapy
Internships at Saint Mary's Hospital Center - ran workshops, individual therapygroup therapy, assessment (full time), trained in EFT, Psychodynamic Approaches for personality disorders, Part work for dissociative identity disorder, specialized in work with cPTSD - 2015-16
Psychotherapy at the APC, Concordia University, Trained in CBT, EFT, Humanistic approaches, 2013-2014
Psychotherapy at PEPP, Douglas Hospital Institute, CBT 2012-2013
Assessment with the Learning Associates of Montreal (LAM), Montreal 2012
Psychotherapy and Assessment, Adult Depressive Disorder Clinic, Douglas Hospital Institute, trained in CBASP, 2009
Language(s)
English