Welcome, I’m glad you are here. I offer a warm and compassionate space for you to experience more belonging and connection with yourself and others, to ease distress, overwhelm and low-mood and to find more joy, meaning and well-being. I have an anti-oppressive and feminist counselling approach.
I offer online individual and group counselling in BC for:
- anxiety and worries
- low-mood
- grief and loss
- relationships and attachment
- gender and sexual identities (2SLGBTQIA+)
- navigating interpersonal boundaries
- personal/systemic trauma responses
- internal conflict and decision-making
- discrimination and oppression
- living with chronic health conditions
- feeling blocked and stuck
In addition, I offer counselling to parents and caregivers using Emotionally-Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) and SPACE. EFFT helps to deepen our skills and capacity to support the mental health and well-being of loved ones. SPACE is an empowering parent intervention for treating childhood anxiety and OCD.
Anti-oppressive Practices
I continue to learn and work towards anti-oppressive counselling practices. Anti-oppressive counselling includes:
- using an intersectional lens to recognize how systemic oppression and injustice impacts people’s mental health and well-being
- recognizing the power dynamic in the counsellor/client relationship
- working collaboratively with people, centering their lived experience and knowledge
- asking for consent about counselling modalities and practices I use
- critically reflecting on my assumptions and bias and how I occupy positions of power and privilege
- supporting and resourcing myself through counselling, embodied exercises and parts work
- engaging in social justice work and advocacy