Therapeutic Approaches

What you can expect to happen during sessions

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, time etc., is healing. (This decolonial perspective on attachment is based on Linda Thai’s teachings.)

  • 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:

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.