Sometimes what is affecting us most today has a history.

I work with adolescents and adults experiencing anxiety, depression, emotional and relational difficulties, borderline personality disorder (BPD), dissociation, trauma-related difficulties, and significant life stress. My trauma work includes acute trauma, operational trauma and stress, complex and developmental trauma, PTSD, and complex PTSD. I also have extensive experience working with people who lived the story of childhood sexual abuse, sexual violence, and other significant early life adversities.

My approach begins with what is happening now while remaining curious about what came before. Earlier experiences can intersect with later relationships, losses, occupational exposures, and traumatic or stressful events in ways that shape how we understand ourselves, connect with others, and respond when life becomes difficult. Understanding that history, when it is relevant, can help make sense of what is happening today and create greater possibility for change.

I also work with first responders, public safety personnel, military members and veterans, helping professionals, and their families. My connection to this community is both professional and personal. My husband served in the Canadian Armed Forces, and our early family life was spent at CFB Petawawa, where I also worked as a civilian employee. I understand something of the demands of service, separation and homecoming, and how work that asks much of one person can reach into relationships and family life.

My approach to therapy is integrative and collaborative, informed by Trauma-Centered Psychotherapy, DBT, CBT, schema therapy, relational and psychodynamic approaches, mindfulness, and somatic work. Therapy is tailored to the person rather than asking the person to fit the therapy.

Alongside my professional education, training, and clinical experience, I bring personal lived experience of trauma that has been meaningfully integrated into how I understand this work. I know there is a difference between understanding trauma professionally and knowing something of it personally. I don't assume that my experience tells me what yours is like. Rather, it brings another dimension to my understanding of the complexity of trauma, adaptation, and change, and has deepened the curiosity, compassion, humility, and respect I bring to the therapeutic relationship.

For me, therapy is about understanding the whole person: what has shaped you, what matters to you, the strengths you already carry, and what you need now. Together, we can make sense of how you got here while creating greater choice in how you move forward, in your relationship with yourself, with others, and with the life you want to build.