INDIVIDUAL THERAPY
Individual therapy is a non-judgmental space for every person who wants to intentionally engage their life story, overcome their specific challenges and move toward healing.
Because every person is unique, I will connect and collaborate with you to create an Initial Treatment Plan during our initial sessions based on your specific symptoms, strengths, needs and goals. I see therapy as the art of co-creating a new chapter with my clients so they can experience restoration and wholeness while they can be free to discover the direction they want their life to take.
I have over 9 years of experience in supporting adults, teens, couples and families. I’m a licensed Psychotherapist with CRPO and hold additional certification in trauma-informed therapy. I work with clients who may be struggling with trauma, relationship issues, anxiety, depression, grief, life transitions, spiritual abuse and faith.
I incorporate several different therapeutic approaches, for example, Psychodynamic & Attachment-Based Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), and Narrative Therapy. I also work from a client centered, trauma-informed and anti-oppressive perspective.
COUPLES THERAPY
Most couples inevitably experience times of conflict, disconnection, and discouragement. However, for those who desire to see their relationship as a path to growth, joy and meaning, this is often where to begin to work together in therapy.
I welcome couples from all backgrounds to help them to gain skills to heal past and present emotional injuries.
I am committed to helping couples to create a new way to relate to each other by breaking their negative patterns of interaction, resolving conflict, and expressing their profound longings and needs from an authentic place of themselves.
My approach to couples therapy integrates wisdom and knowledge from different modalities:
Gottman Therapy: I have completed Level 1 and 2 Training in Gottman Method Couples Therapy to facilitate couples practising strategies for enhancing their friendship, managing conflicts, and co-creating new meaning in their relationship.
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT): an experiential journey in identifying each partner’s contribution to the creation of a distressful way to communicate that usually have made them feeling stuck and restoring a safe foundation that enable partners to reconnect in a more profound and compassionate way.
Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS): a specific process on inviting couples to embrace a ‘U-turn’ and bring compassion and healing to their wounded inner parts trapped in the past so they can access their true Self and their inherent ability to re-turn to their partner in the here and now of the therapeutic space.
FAMILY THERAPY
Family is where our story starts. It is also where we tend to find support, unconditional love, and advice.
We cannot be fully understood and known in isolation but rather in relationship to those we love. However, a difficult period or a major transition can disrupt family cohesion.
Together, we will explore family dynamics, conflicts between parents and children, and other communication issues to restore mutual understanding and allowing personal growth within the family.
ADOLESCENT THERAPY 11-18 yrs
Our teenage years can be an adventurous and enjoyable journey into adulthood but they can also be among the most difficult periods of our life.
At times, family and friends are not enough to navigate complex emotions, doubts and concerns related to self-esteem, identity, sexuality, and relationships.
I provide safe and beneficial support for youth who want to learn new coping skills to better address those challenges and flourish at home, school/work, and within their relationships and communities.
CLINICAL SUPERVISION
If you are a student or a new therapist who has recently graduated from University and require supervision hours, I can support your professional growth.
My overarching approach to clinical supervision is to empower and inspire new psychotherapists in discovering their unique identity and style as professionals called to help their clients in navigating the complexity of the human existence.
In order to do so, I approach supervision from a Developmental, Person of the Therapist, and Integrative framework to build your confidence and competence both clinically and professionally in this field.
I enjoy working with therapists who are motivated to grow, gain a deeper introspection and reflection of their identity as a therapist.
I encourage my supervisees to become aware of what shows up and impacts the therapeutic process and relationship with their clients such as transference, countertransference, SEUS, self-disclosure, and intersectionality.
Our work will be a collaborative process in which we will engage in case consultations, review video/tape recordings, conceptualize cases through therapeutic theories that resonate with you, explore how to conduct proper assessments and treatment plans, work on developing your own unique approach to therapy led by specific modalities of your choice, and implements psychotherapy skills/interventions/techniques to support meaningful change.
I meet the following criteria set out by the CRPO:
- I am a member in good standing of a regulatory college whose registrants may practise psychotherapy.
- I have 5+ years’ extensive clinical experience.
- I meet CRPO’s “independent practice” requirement (completion of 1000 direct client contact hours and 150 hours of clinical supervision).
- I have completed 30 hours of directed learning in providing clinical supervision with The American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT)
- I understand CRPO’s definitions of clinical supervision, clinical supervisor, and the scope of practice of psychotherapy.