Therapeutic Approaches

First and foremost, I prioritize safety and pacing in our sessions--it can take time to build trust with a therapist and with ourselves. My approach also centres co-learning, co-creating, and co-imagining. How can we travel on this healing journey together?

Theoretical Frameworks

Our sessions are grounded in the following frameworks:

• Attachment: We operate on the principle that cultivating secure relationships with other beings, as well as our bodies, culture, nature, ancestors, etc., is healing.

• Experiential: We often focus on processing past experiences using an exploration of what arises in the moment (emotions, sensations, thoughts) as our guide.

• Humanistic: You ultimately decide what resonates with you and together we’ll adapt each session to meet your needs as they evolve.

• Relational: We draw upon the dynamic of our client-therapist relationship to generate insight and experience healing.

• Somatic: We use the sensations that arise in your body as a source of information about experiences, emotions, needs, boundaries, energy levels, etc.

Therapeutic Modalities

I primarily draw from:

• Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP)

• Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)

• Mindfulness principles

• Parts work models such as Internal Family Systems (IFS)

Other Approaches that Promote Healing & Integration

I believe that therapy, mental health, and wellbeing are so much more than what Western/colonial/academic structures dictate. My approach is informed by social movements, including (but not limited to) disability justice, neurodiversity and others that prioritize SDQTBIPOC experiences.

I also welcome alternate ways of knowing and ways of processing. You are invited to bring ancestral/cultural teachings, artwork, literature, writing pieces, spirituality, and any other things that connect with you into our sessions. I will do my homework to get up to speed on topics and histories that I am unfamiliar with.