I work from a person-centered approach, using humor, mindfulness, and acceptance as tools of healing and transformation. I believe in the need to broaden our view from seeing individual struggles as collective, moving towards solutions that foster interdependence and equity. I approach counseling as a co-creation, and I consider my role to be an insightful companion through the process. I trust the inherent wholeness of each individual. My clinical focus includes fat liberation/anti-diet body image, grief and loss, fertility challenges/pregnancy loss, family and relationship struggles, and life transitions. I have specific training in Expressive Arts Therapy, which utilizes art-making as therapeutic. Artistic experience is not required to benefit from this type of counseling, and this is always optional. Expressive Arts uses creative expression as part of the therapy process. I am warm, approachable, and empathetic. I have experience working with adults, adolescents, and older adults. I come from a diverse background treating grief and loss, anxiety, depression, life transitions, abuse, gender and sexual minority concerns, self esteem and body image, and cancer and other long-term illness.
Qualifications: | Ottawa University |
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Academic Suffixes: | MAPC, LPC |
Expertise: | Anxiety, Body Positivity, Cancer, Coping Skills, Depression, Emotional Disturbance, Other, Grief, Infertility, Other, Life Coaching, Life Transitions, Open Relationships Non-Monogamy, Relationship Issues, Self Esteem, Self-Harming, Sex-Positive, Kink Allied, Spirituality, Stress, Transgender, Women |