About Me
My Approach
I integrate approaches from various leading schools of thought into my counselling and psychotherapy work including contemporary relational and psychodynamic psychotherapies, parts/ego-state approaches, Deep Brain Reorienting, Transforming Touch and other somatic psychotherapies, EMDR, feminist, anti-oppressive, attachment and trauma-focu
I integrate approaches from various leading schools of thought into my counselling and psychotherapy work including contemporary relational and psychodynamic psychotherapies, parts/ego-state approaches, Deep Brain Reorienting, Transforming Touch and other somatic psychotherapies, EMDR, feminist, anti-oppressive, attachment and trauma-focussed approaches, hypnosis, cognitive behavioural, expressive arts approaches and mindfulness and compassion-based perspectives. My work is informed by current and emerging neuroscience and its applications for embodied clinical work. As a lifelong learner, I have and continue to pursue extensive training in support of my work with those affected by the many forms of trauma, by dissociative disorders and those facing end of life and bereavement.
I honour the lived experience of systemic oppressions that impact the lives of many individuals across a range of personal identities, and recognize my own social location in my work with clients.
My Background
I hold a undergraduate degree in English Literature and Women's Studies from McGill University, a Master’s degree in Social Work with a Certificate in Palliative and Supportive Care from the University of Toronto and a graduate diploma in Expressive Arts Therapy from CREATE (Toronto). I also spent a year at OCAD and have been a mindfulnes
I hold a undergraduate degree in English Literature and Women's Studies from McGill University, a Master’s degree in Social Work with a Certificate in Palliative and Supportive Care from the University of Toronto and a graduate diploma in Expressive Arts Therapy from CREATE (Toronto). I also spent a year at OCAD and have been a mindfulness practitioner for over two decades.
Based in Toronto, I hold two decades of experience working in both private practice and various paediatric, youth and adult health, mental health, and palliative care settings, including over a decade working as a grief and palliative care counsellor with the Dr. Jay Children's Grief Centre and six years at the Hospital for Sick Children.