Each individual has a different experience in therapy depending on their worldviews, goals, circumstance, and stressors. Generally, we will begin with addressing immediate challenges and adopt strategies to confront current discomforts. We explore past concerns and explore internal patterns that reinforce discomforts, developing mindful practices to detect and adjust patterns in our current experience. We may then spend time addressing how challenges appear within one’s life and develop skills to offer alternative ways of responding. Through a continuous practice of detecting and adjusting unhelpful responses, supplemented with explorative insight into their functions, we are able to understand ourselves, our environment, and our relationship with it. We will continue to adjust the tools, strategies, and techniques in order to reflect our optimal state of being.

I specialize in enhancing the present-moment, harnessing potential, and acting in accordance with one’s values, ambitions, and goals. This will include first connecting to our own experience, managing discomforts or challenges, and directing attention to our optimal selves. When we are acting in opposition, confrontation, or conflict with ourselves, a variety of symptoms may elicit. Specific challenges for which I have direct experience include, but are not limited to: anxiety, depression, life transitions, existential concern, stress, fear, trauma, disassociation, relationship/communication, gender and identity, borderline personality, helplessness, hopelessness, and/or sleep disturbances.

I enjoy working with all those with an open-mind, those ready to confront their behaviours, feelings, and patterns, and all those wishing to enhance their lives. I have direct experience working with, but not limited to: youth, adolescents, and young adults, the 2SLGBTQ+ community, and those who have experienced trauma. My practice is trauma-informed, gender-affirming, and faith-inclusive, providing support for all those who are searching.

I have attained a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology from Macewan University and Master of Arts Degree in Counselling Psychology from Yorkville University. I am a registered member of the British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors (BCACC), maintaining the title, ethical conduct, and standards of practice of a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC).

Please feel free to email anytime; my practice is to respond to emails as soon as possible and no longer than 2 business days (not including weekends, statutory holidays, and personal vacation).