My approach to therapy is empathetic, experiential, and collaborative. We work together to understand which approaches are most supportive of your healing journey. 

Parts Work

Much of my work draws from parts work, as it’s taught by Janina Fisher in her Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST) trainings.  TIST supports clients in building more self-awareness around their wounds and developing a path forward. We work collaboratively to understand how histories and past experiences continue to impact your present.

Psychodynamic 

I draw from psychodynamic therapies and feminist psychoanalytic theories to support my clients in deepening their understandings of themselves - their feelings, their thoughts and their actions. In other words, we work towards the "why?" -- why I feel this way, or perhaps, why do I return to these thoughts and behaviours, again and again.

Somatic

I am an ongoing student of body-oriented healing, which has taught me much about harnessing the wisdom of our bodies to ground, heal and grow. I continue to learn from my own body, the cultural traditions I have arrived from, those I am in community with and politicized practitioners. My somatic practice is most informed by my training in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and Linda Thai’s Somatic Embodiment and Regulation Strategies.

Creative 

For some clients, arts-based approaches can provide a gentle way to deepen into an experience and gather more insight. Arts-based approaches require no skills.

Political 

I believe that our identities, our lived experiences and the systems we live within matter - inside and outside therapeutic spaces. My work is deeply rooted in my values, which include but are not limited to: decolonization; anti-racism; disability justice; harm reduction; and queer and trans liberation. I see my therapeutic work as part of my broader dream of collective liberation.