I received my PhD in Counselling Psychology from the University of Alberta, Master’s in Education (Counselling) from Acadia University, and Bachelor of Science, Honours in Psychology, from Mount Saint Vincent University. I am a soft-spoken, empathic mental health clinician who offers professional, non-judgemental, and compassionate counselling to adults (25-64 years) and couples from diverse backgrounds. I use a variety of strength-based interventions and approaches in my practice such as person-centred therapy, emotion focused therapy (EFT), eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT), internal family systems (IFS), feminism, body-centred therapies (somatics) and logo synthesis.

 

I have both research and clinical experience working with people who have suffered traumatic events and who are enduring common responses as a result, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD). I have worked extensively with sexual assault survivors, as well as survivors of intimate partner and family violence, veterans, and veteran family members. I employ an integrative approach to ensure survivors feel safe and heard, with the goal of facilitating trauma recovery.

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In addition to trauma therapy, I counsel individuals and couples experiencing sexual problems (e.g., sexual issues related to desire, arousal, pain, orgasm, and sexual well-being). A large part of my clinical practice includes sexual recovery after trauma. I take a sex-positive approach when working with all genders encountering sexual concerns that includes sex education and evidence-based sexual health strategies to help achieve a satisfying sex life.