My work as a counsellor is an extension of me as a person. I approach each relationship from the heart with warmth, openness, and care, with a conversational, creative, and collaborative style.

In our sessions we will work together to weave my professional offerings with the wisdom you carry about your own life. This collaboration allows us to co-construct a secure place for you to explore your experiences, choices, relationships, and inner world. Throughout this process, I aim to open up space for you to appreciate your innate dignity as well as the ways in which you skillfully enact your agency in the world.

Individual and collective wellbeing

Therapeutic relationships can allow for something truly profound to occur when two people sit together with the respectful intention of attending, specifically, to the client’s inner world—witnessing and responding to the needs that surface. This is one of the aspects of counselling that I deeply appreciate. I also hold to be true that the well-being and transformation of individuals, social systems, and land are closely intertwined. A person’s suffering cannot be fully understood or addressed by examining the individual alone. Discontinuing harm and enacting reparation must happen at every level of society, from individual relationships to governing institutions and social structures.

Interpersonal, experiential, & anti-oppressive

My approach is rooted in interpersonal connection, experiential transformation, and anti-oppressive principles. This means I maintain awareness of how power structures impact clients’ lives and that these dynamics can echo in the counselling relationship. I endeavour not to take myself too seriously and to embrace open communication, client feedback, and enacting repair as part of a healthy therapeutic process.

I uphold the dignity of clients through careful attunement and ally-ship. I will sometimes challenge and encourage you to explore and reflect on your assumptions, and will do so from a place of openness, non-judgment, and with careful attention to the broader contexts I point to above and in alignment with your therapeutic priorities.

Therapeutic models

If you are looking for a specific kind of therapy, the following are some of the main therapies and philosophies that influence my work. If you do not have a specific therapy type in mind, you do not need to know what any of this means to begin therapy: